By Nathele Graham<\/p>\n
It seems that everyone is upset today. No matter where you turn you hear political mumbo-jumbo, pandemic scares, anger in the streets, evil inflicted upon babies, ungodly lifestyles, and much more. Sin is rampant. That\u2019s all we hear\u2026sin, hate, chaos. Godly values are vilified while satanic ways are embraced. All of this evil can begin to wear away at people and fear can cause many sleepless nights. What\u2019s wrong with that picture? The fear that is generated by the news media should have no effect upon Christians. The media can talk all they want, but none of their doom and gloom should shatter our hope and faith in Jesus Christ. Maybe the trouble is that we have a hearing problem\u2026instead of hearing God\u2019s voice we only hear Satan\u2019s voice speaking through worldly people doing worldly things. Brothers and sisters, we need to openly speak of our faith in order to calm fear and encourage each other.\u00a0\u201cSo then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.\u201d Romans 10:17<\/em>. To hear the voice of the Lord, pray, study Scripture, and fellowship with other Christians. When you hear God\u2019s truth, you\u2019ll reinforce your faith and will block the fear-mongers of this Satanic world from discouraging you. When others hear your faith in these troubled times, you will be an influence on them.<\/p>\n The news media jabbers on 24\/7 and we listen. There\u2019s a frenzy of misinformation. In trying to be the first to break news to the world, they throw out \u201cfacts\u201d as fast as the speed of the internet. Then, when the \u201cfacts\u201d change, they retract their first fable and throw out other \u201cfacts\u201d, which will change before the day is over. It\u2019s all liberal lies. It all creates confusion, which leads to fear. On the other hand, if we listen to Christians standing upon God\u2019s word, our fear is quelled.\u00a0\u201cFor God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.\u201d 1 Corinthians 14:33.<\/em>\u00a0Who do you listen to? If you only hear the chaotic voice of Satan then your fear will rise. Hearing God\u2019s voice will calm your fears and build your faith. We need to share our faith with non-believers in order to bring them to the saving grace found only through Jesus. We also need to share with fellow Christians. When we share our faith with other believers, we encourage each other to be strong in the Lord. I use prophecy a lot when speaking with fellow believers, because God is in control and prophecy proves He knows exactly what\u2019s happening because He told us it would happen. It\u2019s easy to be afraid when you\u2019re alone, but knowing there are others near you who have rock-solid faith in Jesus Christ can allow our fear to fade. Don\u2019t stop fellowshipping with other Christians. We need each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Nathele Graham It seems that everyone is upset today. No matter where you turn you hear political mumbo-jumbo, pandemic scares, anger in the streets, evil inflicted upon babies, ungodly lifestyles, and much more. Sin is rampant. That\u2019s all we hear\u2026sin, hate, chaos. Godly values are vilified while satanic ways are embraced. All of this … Continue reading “17.l. “Faith or Fear?””<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105731"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105734,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105731\/revisions\/105734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}