I was asked the other day what my biggest fear is. I thought for a minute and realized, I do have fears, but with Jesus and living a life in RELATIONSHIP with him, my fear has diminished. As I thought, I looked at this young girl and I said, ‘my biggest fear is people not knowing what I stand for, what I believe.’
I used to have the same fear she said, abandonment. And yeah, sometimes the enemy tries to bring that back up...BUT GOD will never abandon me.
I sometimes fear that I’m not good enough or that I’ll be alone (single) forever…but I have a God who will always be with me and says that I am more than enough.
I sometimes think that I’m not seen but Jesus knows how many hairs I have on my head…now that’s being seen!
There are so many other things that the enemy continually tries to put in front of me to cause fear...but God doesn’t cause us to fear. He calls us to TRUST.
I trust that He will never abandon me.
I trust that He is forever with me.
I trust that no matter what I do, I am always enough for Him.
I trust that He sees me.
We all have fears…but so many times those fears are simply stupid lies from the enemy. He creeps in to try to pry our focus off Jesus and get us to a place where we’re ineffective for the Kingdom.
[But did you know, Satan has NO NEW TRICKS. He uses the same filthy, stupid things to try to deter us from a life of hope, truth and relationship with Jesus.]
Jesus is about the new…’the old has gone, the new has come’. Satan is stuck in the past, using the things that he has seen work to take us away from intimacy with the Lord…but he doesn’t know us, that’s why he can’t come up with anything new!
God KNOWS YOU DEEPLY.
He is a God of the NEW. He is a God who desires for us to have a new life! He is a God who uses our fears and our testimony for GOOD and not for evil like that stupid devil.
I want everyone to know of the hope, the truth, the new life I have in Jesus. It doesn’t matter what your story is or how ‘messed up’ you think you are…you can be NEW in Jesus and He will use your ‘mess’ to change lives.
Don’t let fears from past wounds take you farther from Jesus. Let Jesus make your past wounds a TESTIMONY that will change not only your life, but the lives of those around you.
Ever since returning to the states, my passion for evangelism has grown to something so big that I can’t seem to shut up about Jesus! I hope and pray that I can cultivate a ministry that will help people see the truth of the Bible and my Jesus. I pray that my life will reflect Jesus and that I will be known as a CHRIST FOLLOWER…even when people think I’m crazy.
Call me crazy, call me nutty — I’m a follower of Jesus and NOTHING is going to stop me from proclaiming the truth and hope I find in Him and Him alone.
