| | | | | your past experiences that faith is strengthened to |
| | | | overcome the fears of tomorrow. Eliminating fear |
| Today let’s talk about fear and the devastating | | | | brings about a enlighten, buoyant hope of |
| effect it has on people. Fear is the great enemy of | | | | accomplishment and joyful expectation as well as the |
| man. It paralyzes the mind and results in reactive | | | | natural enthusiasm and zest of living. As passion |
| thinking. Everyone experiences anxiety at some time in | | | | replaces fear, success becomes common practice |
| their life and that’s to be expected. The fear we | | | | and the joy life is accomplished. |
| speak of is gripping fear, the type of fear that | | | | Turn yesterday into a deliverance |
| devitalizes us mentally, emotionally and physically. This | | | | Yesterday is forever past, we cannot relive it no |
| type of fear robs us of all rationality as it grips our | | | | matter how much we regret a wrong decision or |
| inner being. | | | | harmful word spoken. It is impossible to experience |
| Gripping fears steal confidence | | | | exactly the same events over again. Those |
| Gripping fears must be managed or gotten rid of while | | | | experiences, good or bad have become the |
| ordinary cautions that are necessary to intelligent living | | | | expatiations of tomorrow. Some bad decisions can be |
| are maintained on a healthy level. For instance, a | | | | corrected while some good decisions become your |
| person standing on a street corner would naturally | | | | strengths of character but all serve a purpose in |
| exercise the caution of not stepping into moving traffic. | | | | learning and advancing. |
| But if he/she had such a fear of traffic that he/she | | | | And tomorrow into a Challenge |
| could not control an overwhelming urge to run from it, | | | | You must recognize and anticipate coming events. |
| then he/she has a gripping fear of traffic. Sometimes | | | | Hope and faith will give you the strength to face any |
| the reasons why are clear and sometimes it takes | | | | challenges put before you while determination will carry |
| deep therapy to overcome the fear. | | | | you through to the end. Fight the good fight and put |
| In all cases of fear, there is overwhelming evidence of | | | | fear behind you. Forgive those who trespass against |
| lack of faith. The Holy Scriptures tell us that we should | | | | you and hold no hatred in your heart because hate |
| not fear tomorrow because tomorrow will take care | | | | can fester into doubt and fear. There is not a God of |
| of itself. To fear the future is to have no faith in your | | | | vengeance, no Devine power that will or wish harm |
| ability to face its possibilities; for what is a new | | | | toward anyone or restrict you if you fail to recognize |
| dawning but a presentation of new and exciting | | | | its power over you. This great psychological myth |
| possibilities? | | | | must be expelled as the great crime of the ages. |
| And turn tomorrow into terror | | | | For Truth sets the stage |
| Tomorrow is only another today, as is today and was | | | | The truth is, you are part of God’s creation and are |
| yesterday and as it shall be throughout all eternity. | | | | His adopted offspring. Fear and intolerance has no |
| Your relationship with it is to take advantage of the | | | | place in your life. There is nothing in the Universe |
| opportunities afforded you. Opportunity will not come | | | | seeking to harm you, why do you fear? It really is man |
| to a person who fears the very dawning of its | | | | woman against themselves, but we have come to |
| creation. All opportunity is born in today’s actions | | | | interpret it as though it were God operating against us |
| which extended into tomorrows successes. | | | | – as though it were the Creator seeking to destroy |
| A disturbed mind has no rest, no peace, no vision | | | | that which He has created. |
| where derangements become norms and norms | | | | And fear is dispelled |
| become derangements. Confusion clutters the mind | | | | Fearful thoughts come and go but there is no deific |
| and the hours of the day become distasteful and | | | | power that is always testing us to see how much we |
| trying. The present day is robbed of all peace and joy, | | | | can stand. We are a product of our own doing, that |
| and becomes a torture chamber sandwiched | | | | which we fear is our own alter ego. Since fear cannot |
| between yesterday and tomorrow. The mind | | | | come from any Devine being, it must come from |
| becomes so disturbed restful sleep becomes | | | | within. Satan cannot harm you, his only authority is that |
| impossible. | | | | which you allow. If God is with you, what is there to |
| Escape and set yourself free | | | | fear? |
| You must live without fear today or you will dread | | | | You must learn to forgive yourself, simply and directly |
| tomorrow, for each day will become as a prison with | | | | and also to believe God eternally forgives. Finally come |
| no chance of escape. Don’t make the mistake of | | | | to a place where you know that the Divine is for you |
| carrying your fears like a smothering blanket that | | | | and not against you. Strive for a place where you |
| extinguishes the fires of passion. Those who live in the | | | | know, without doubt that love is the great reality. |
| dread of tomorrow generally live in the gripping | | | | From he/she who believes |
| thoughts of what happened yesterday. You cannot | | | | Break down your fears into simple doubts. Cast your |
| look forward to or live in yesterday. Yesterday is past, | | | | doubts to the wind for it’s on the wind they shall fly |
| a memory of experiences gone. All to often people | | | | away. Get rid of your fears through cultivating a strong |
| who are confronted with a bad experience insist on | | | | faith, a faith founded on the though that God is in all |
| reliving them over and over until they become the | | | | and is all. Learn to see God in people, circumstances, |
| fears of tomorrow. | | | | trials, opportunities, and most of all yourself. |
| To build on tomorrow | | | | Build confidence in all you do and depth of character in |
| Yesterday provides the building blocks for tomorrow | | | | you associations with others. Be pleasant and forgiving |
| and also provides an avenue of escaping the bounds | | | | and listen when God whisper in your ear. |
| of fear, by replacing it with hope and faith. It is through | | | | |