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“It's important to realize that fear and faith often go hand in hand.”

A thought by Andy Stanley from his book, Fields of Gold (Kindle Locations 98-99). Kindle Edition.

Fear is always where faith is. 

When we had the opportunity to step out in faith and move from Long Island to Florida I had many days of unrest.  It wasn’t so much the moving but the buying of a home.  If you are renting and you don’t like it you just wait out the year and then move.  But I thought owning was so permanent and I had some fear in that.  For many people it takes great faith to risk but for me the fact that I was saying this was it had some anxiety attached to it. 

The day the peace came was a day that I was at Jones Beach on Long Island praying my anxieties out to God and He let me know that He wanted me to come to Florida to be near my mother and we stepped out in faith and made the move.  I had been seeing in His word that we as God’s children are to take care of the poor and the widows and God reinforced in me that this was my time to do that with my mother who is a widow.

Now because anxiety is just a thought away from me each day it is imperative for me to start in the Bible every day.  God gives us the Bible to reinforce the fact that He is in control and that He loves us.  I need that realization every day.  I also read from writers who reinforce this same fact.  Some of you say, “but I don’t have time to do that” so I ask you how much TV do you watch?  That is one of the great vehicles in our life of building fear and tearing down faith.  We are what we put into our life. I also love to watch TV but I also have to counteract it with truth.  What we feed on is what we become.

Thank you for reading this blog today.  God gives us so many different ways to reinforce our faith.  I am striving to show people some writers out here who will help you in your growing faith. 

Make sure you find a good church that builds your faith not reinforces your fears and there are many churches that do that. Be careful.  Satan uses many different means to tear down your faith. 

Remember, fear and faith goes together but what you feed is what you live by.  I highly recommend faith.  The Bible says, the just live by faith and that is what I want to be and it also says, without faith it is impossible to please Him and He is who I want to please..

How about you?
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