My Question

God do you know that I am fearful?  I heard a message on this today and it really opened my eyes to how I need to handle when these times are to come!  Things will happen.  When these questions invade our hearts, we often try to control our surroundings.  We are trusting ourselves no in the Lord.  We do whatever it takes to try and keep our fears from becoming real!

When I get fearful I find I am in the room of "What If's".  Dark shadows are hiding in the corners but I have to remember not many of my fears are real.  I have to tell them God is in control, He is already where I am going to be and where I am and where I have been.  Jeremiah 17:5-6 says "Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the Lord.  He is like a shrub in the desert and shall not see any good come.  He shall dwell in the parched place of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land.  When we put our trust in things they will NOT sustain us!

Isaiah 43:16 says the Lord will clothe us in garments of salvation and righteousness.  When I feel fearful I have to ask myself am I wearing my cloak of control and fear or am I covering myself in God's cloak that will sustain and protect me?  I must choose to trust in the Lord.

Jeremiah 17:7-8 Blessed is he whose trust is the Lord.  He is like a stream planted by water that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes for its leaves remain green and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit.  When a storm in life comes am I planted deep like the tree by the river or am I more like a potted plant whose roots do not go very deep and is easily ripped up.  It is just as important that I am deeply rooted not only in life's storms but also in the daily things like what I am getting accomplished for the day, or finding the right Halloween costume, or having enough money for things I think I need.  I am learning to trust in all things!

Psalm 91:4 is a beautiful verse of how "He will cover you with his feathers and under his wings will you find refuge."  I must choose to remember like in Psalm 77:11  "...the deeds of the Lord , yes I will remember your miracles of long ago.  I will ponder all your mighty work and meditate on your mighty deeds."  It so easy to forget and to take all of it for granted!

I am trying to learn to say God what are you trying to teach me through this trial, because if I am controlling than how can I trust?

P.S. I can not take credit for all of this post.  Notes and things the speaker said and my reaction to that...