fear.

another sunday in a new city calls for another adventure to another church. this time i was alone & nervous when i walked in the [what seemed] GIGANTIC church. holy mess. i was getting lost in the sea of chairs of where to sit. i forgot my glasses, [dork] so i preceded to head to the front of the [again] GIGANTIC room [:)]. sitting alone, i read one of my favorite Psalms, Psalm 27, to really get in tune for the reason i was there. it was great. really a place where i would like to get plugged in. there's so many great things happening at this church that i am deeply thrilled about. it's a church that truly pushes the Gospel. & that is what i got ladies & gents.

the message was incredible. i was completely convicted&forgiven on the spot. the series is called homewreckers & it is talking about the things that can really put a barrier between relationships. however, it totally goes for single people too, because boyyy did i get a lesson. guess what it was on? how ironic: FEAR. women run loose with their imaginations. every single woman does it. so, if you are a woman & you say you don't, you do. in some way, you do. we can be upset about something we make up in our minds. & that is SO TRUE. we "fear" things because we are not connected with the perfect love of God. 1 John 4:18 says, "There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love." fearing/worrying is a sin because we are separating ourselves from God out of fear because we are not trusting Him with our "stuff." we fear that we aren't good enough, pretty enough, we won't get a job, we won't be smart enough, etc. once we stop fearing the WRONG things & start fearing the RIGHT thing, that is when all the WRONG things we fear about will go away. we should fear the Lord because he holds all of those things in our future that we are so worried about & trying to control out the window. we are scared so we try to control our lives to try to pass by that fear. & it ends up happening over&over because we are trying to control what only GOD CAN CONTROL. fear not is listed in the Bible 366 times. 366 TIMES. & still we bask in fear of what may happen. the Lord will be there with us when any trial comes our way. so, stop making things trials out of fear when they are actually blessings.

find yourself fearing the Lord. it is funny that i was reading Psalm 27 before the service because i come back to this same Psalm & read it differently than before hearing this sermon. the very first verse of Psalm 27: "The Lord is my light & my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; whom shall I be afraid?"

because what can man do to you?

but, if i died without Jesus, i am nothing.

in His Love--