God has blessings and new opportunities in store for us. To receive them we must take steps of Faith.  That often means doing things we don’t feel like doing or in our own minds don’t even think will work but our trust and reverence for God must be greater than what we personally want to think or feel for God’s sake to purposely expand His kingdom in this life.

Any time trouble comes, ‘Fear’ is usually the first thing we feel. Satan injects “what if” thoughts into our heart and we often begin to see the worst possible outcome. We should set ourselves to seek God until we know we have the emotional and mental victory over the spirit of fear.  As we seek God in prayer, we are focusing on Him instead of our fears.  

We see a perfect example of this in Luke 5: 5. Peter and other disciples of Jesus have been fishing all night. They had caught nothing, they were tired. Peter explained that they were exhausted; they had caught nothing but at his word they cast  their  nets again and caught many fish. 

This is the kind of attitude the Lord wants us to have. We may not feel like doing something we don’t want to, we may not think it’s a good idea, we may feel fearful that none of it will work…but we should be willing to obey God our Father rather than our fears and feelings.

We worship Him for who He is and express our appreciation to Him for the good He has done through His cross offering the matter into His nail pierced hand with His resurrection.

The devil will try to use fear in its many different forms like the Moabites and  Ammonites who were troublemakers for God’s people to keep us and even children in shallow waters, but even though we may feel fear, we need to focus our attention on God and His word.

Fear and doubt go together as in John 14: 1. The fearful-doubtful attitude Jesus himself comforts by saying “come unto me” and not ‘letting their hearts be troubled’.