Win Your War Against FearSample

Day One – In The Midst of Crisis

We were spending our family vacation tucked away in a remote cabin surrounded by barren dirt hills and jagged rocks where we could breathe fresh air, splash in a lake, and do our best to grab some family time.

But our time away was actually the most intense point of our life and ministry. Crisis-level problems hit every day. Our phones buzzed constantly. We took calls out in the car. We didn’t want our kids looking on. We didn’t want them to overhear hard conversations or be overcome with fear. We wanted them to feel like life was normal even though we were in a war.

It was one of the worst seasons of our life. We felt as if an avalanche hit us. And we experienced great fear. Some of the concern was legitimate—based on actual negative things happening in the present that we needed to deal with. Some of the concern was illegitimate—based on possible negative things in the future, many of which did not happen.

Fear is one of the major topics of the Bible. Guilty of sin and hiding from God and his wife, Adam said, “I was afraid.”

Fear can divert our life energy from investing in real people and things and wasting it on a mirage. God creates faith, and Satan counteracts that faith with his counterfeit of fear.