Tuesday... We must face our fears and deal with them.

Hebrews 2:15 (NIRV), "Jesus set people free who were afraid of death. All their lives they were held slaves by that fear."

Tuesday... We must face our fears to deal with them.

I have found in life that in dealing with something I fear I must come up with a solution for the worst part of what I fear. And in doing that I will deal with a lot of fears along the way.

I am 78 and death is an unknown to me personally. I've never experienced it except with others. It will be definitely a new experience. But there can be a fear about an unknown.

Now it is very important for us to realize that death was not God's plan. He gets a lot of blame for it but it wasn't his plan. Yes it was a consequence if people didn't follow him but it wasn't his idea so when Adam and Eve were disobedient then death come into the world. Now it is important to know that God started the solution the moment that death come into existence. And it had to do with God's Son.

Hebrews 2:14 (NLT) says, "Because God's children are human beings - made of flesh and blood - the Son also became flesh and blood. For only as a human being could he die, and only by dying could he break the power of the devil, who had the power of death." So if I am afraid of death I go to the one who takes care of death.

It is important to see that when Jesus, God's Son came to this earth people found that he could heal. And that took so much time away from his telling about why he came. We are still into healing, into health, into whatever we can do to handle our fear of death but anything we do apart from what Jesus really came to earth to share with us is not the solution. Healing is only a temporary way of dealing with this fear.

Verses 15 (NIRV) says, "Jesus set people free who were afraid of death. All their lives they were held as slaves by that fear." And that is true of us.

Verse 14 in the New International Reader's Version of the Bible says it this way, "Those children have bodies made out of flesh and blood. So Jesus became human like them in order to die for them. By doing this, he could break the power of the devil." Yes he could heal. That was great but this was the reason why he came to earth. He had to die as a sacrifice and be resurrected three days later. And he kept telling this to his disciples but they didn't really get what he was talking about until he left and went back to heaven. Then they got it. And no longer were they afraid of death. All of the Apostles were killed for what they believed. All of them escept John. It is said that Peter was crucified on a cross like Jesus but he did it upside down because he didn't feel worthy to be killed like Jesus.They all had death covered because they knew that something better was coming.

No I don't want to die right now. It was ould be so hard on my family but I am not afraid. I have it covered.

Yes, we must face our fears and deal with them. "Jesus set people free who were afraid of death." John 3:16 is so important for us to know and do, "God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, Anyone who believes in him will not die but will have eternal life." Jesus is the solution! He is the One who will take care of our fear of death! Yes, believe in him! Give him you fear, your life! Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

Monday... He did it by Himself

Isaiah 44:24b (AMP), "I am the Lord, Maker of all things. Who alone stretches out the heavens, Who spreads out the earth by Myself." Monday... He did it by Himself. Many have a tendency to think very highly of themselves and what they can do. Oh we do have great ability but we are not the source. Yes it is important to have self-confidence but we are limited. The prophet Isaiah in 44:9-10 (NLT) says, "How foolish are those who manufacture idols. These prized objects are really worthless. The people who worship idols don't know this, so they are all put to shame. Who but a fool would make his own god - an idol that cannot help him one bit?" Now later in verse 24 (AMP) he writes, "For the Lord, your Redeemer, and He who formed you from the womb says, 'I am the Lord, Maker of all things, Who alone stretches out the heavens, Who spreads out the earth by Myself.'" I love that. "By Myself." Now we do need confidence but we are foolish to ma...

Friday... We have this hope of expectancy.

Psalm 5:3 (NLT), "Listen to my voice in the morning Lord. Each morning I bring my requests to you and wait expectantly." Friday... We have this hope of expectancy. Now David found a great way to start his day. He says in Psalm 5:1-3 (NLT), "O LORD, hear me as I pray." And that is a great place to start. It really is. Morning sunrise He goes on, "Listen to my cry for help, my King, my God, for I pray to no one but you." And that is so important. We don't try to pump ourselves up by ourself. No, we pray to no one but you, God, my LORD, my King. Now this relationship with God is so, so very important. And then David says, "Listen to my voice in the morning, LORD. Each morning I bring my requests to you" And that is so great. And then he says, "and wait expectantly." Yes, we have this hope of expectancy. We are experienced. That is what a relationship with God and a moment by moment connection does. It makes a difference in our daily wa...

Friday... Yes, we can know this to be true.

Psalm 12:6 (NLT), "The Lord's promises are pure, like silver refined in a furnace, purified seven times over." Friday... Yes, we can know this to be true. Maybe this is what you want to say in this day in which we live. Psalm 12:1-2 (MSG) says, "Quick, I need your helping hand! The last decent person just went down, all the friends I depend on gone. Everyone talks in lie language; lies slide off their oily lips. They doubletalk with forked tongues." Do you ever feel that way?" Have you found that to be true? Well David the writer of this Psalm continues and says in verse 6 something to encourage us, to lift us up, to give us hope. Psalm 12:6 (NLT) says, "The Lord's promises are pure, like silver refined in a furnace, purified seven times over." The Message Paraphrase says verses 6-8 this way, "God's words are pure words, pure silver words refined seven times in the fires of his word-kiln, pure on earth as well as in heaven, God, keep ...

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