I used to hate fear.

I could feel it coming.

I knew when it arrived.

I allowed it to enter my entire being. Mostly it would marinate through my thought processes.

It loved to control me and make me waste time, energy, effort and steal all my joy, worse it stole my belief system.

No it didn’t steal it, it blocked it.

It makes me feel entirely helpless, like I am paralyzed, drowning.

Until one day…

I woke up and decided that I wasn’t going to let it control me anymore and not only that, I was going to use it for good.

So now when fear comes a knockin’, I’m like “oh hey, there you are again. Cool.” “So I guess I need to do something here.”

(It’s kinda like when your boss calls.)

When I am aware that fear is suddenly present I now know that I have 3 choices.

1. I can STAY right where I am (and let it build build build and take more power and control of me.)

2. It’s time for me to TAKE an action.

3. It’s time for me to STOP an action.

(Either way 2 and 3 are actions.)

For me, I immediately go to prayer first.

It’s taken me years but I have practiced this enough to know that number 1 is not an option anymore!

However, I’m not smart enough to know exactly what action I’m being called to take in order to grow through this fear.

-So obviously I’m human and I don’t always follow this exact process and there are times when I certainly stay in fear much longer than I’d like to.

-And of course I have to admit there are moments when fear comes in with the big guns and I completely lose it!

(That’s when I need help, counsel, direction, prayer, belief.)

But no matter what , even in those times, He has never left me there!

I want to encourage you because I know a long time ago I took option one every chance I got.

And yet still…

Taking option 1 won’t necessarily kill you, it just prolongs your freedom and blessing.

The greatest blessing is that He has given us free will, each one of us!

Our own free will!

We get to choose!

We have a choice!

We will never get it right all of the time but we can make great, these moments we are given!

Because I always have to usually add some sort of physical analogy, Muscle Memory is a thing! -If we keep doing the same thing we will get the same result.

Doing something different produces a different outcome! And the reverse is true! If we use a new muscle over and over it will grow stronger and be more active and easier to use!

Sometimes obedience is simply not living in fear. He wants to reward that!

Press on my loves! One toenail in the water is one toenail in the water!

Go and do your thing!

DO NOT LET FEAR STAND IN YOUR WAY BUT RENDER IT TO BE THE LIASON TO YOUR FREEDOM!