TriVita -- Life may be difficult, but God is still in control

TriVita -- Life may be difficult, but God is still in control

Staying “faith-filled” when situations scream “FEAR!”
by Chaplain Gene Henderson

“Gas prices at an all time high”

“Food prices soar”

“Jalapenos are taken off the shelves in salmonella scare”

“The stock market takes a tumble”

“Unemployment rates skyrocket”

Sound familiar?  If you’ve read a newspaper or turned on a television set lately, you’ve heard one or all of these statements.  What’s the first thing that runs through your mind?  If you’re not careful, fear rears its ugly head, and it’s easy to get stressed or even become panicky.  “How will I take care of my family?”  “What if I get laid off from my job?”  These questions rush through your mind, and your blood pressure rises.

It is true that we are experiencing difficult times, and even those of strong faith may find themselves allowing fear and doubt to creep in.  How do we get rid of that fear?  The Bible tells us that the opposite of fear is faith.

What is faith?
Hebrews 11:1 (NIV) says: “Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.”  Some people talk about how others seem to have more faith than they have themselves.  However, faith is like a muscle, and needs to be exercised.  We all have equal amounts of those “spiritual muscles” called faith but many people don’t work out those muscles and they lie there soft and dormant, waiting to be stepped on by fear and what life encounters.  Strengthening your faith comes from reading and hearing God’s Word.

Think back on other difficult times when God came through
Rather than dwelling on the challenges that we’re all facing and worrying about the “what ifs,” it helps to think back on times when God came through for you.  We all have times where we struggled and didn’t have the answer within us as to what our future held.  Write down those times when God answered your prayers – keep a praise journal.  Read it often when you feel anxious about the future.

Try not to worry
These scriptures in Matthew 6 sum it up:
25“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes?  26Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them.  Are you not much more valuable than they?  27Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?”  28“And why do you worry about clothes?  See how the lilies of the field grow.  They do not labor or spin.  29Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these.  30If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?  31So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’  32For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.  33But seek first His kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.  34Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.  Each day has enough trouble of its own.”

Posted by:
Terry L. Allison, Sr.
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