FAITH AND FEAR

God has asked me to do things this year that I knew almost everyone in my life would not believe God told me to do…

Sell all my real estate… Sell all my crypto… Move my family… Leave the church I was raised in…

Many more, and some yet to be finished.

Every single time... I would feel the peace that comes with clarity and faith.

…… FOLLOWED BY MASSIVE FEAR.

It would wake me up at 2am, sit with me all day, and be on my mind throughout every conversation of my day.

Can I do this? Am I hearing this right? What if I'm wrong? Am I losing my mind? Who am I to think God is talking to me?

There's a story in the Bible that has come up a few times for me this year…

A king named Jehoshaphat... massive enemy army coming straight for him. No way out.

In his desperate prayers, God tells him, don't fight. Just stay where you are. (basically says, dont try and win this, let ME win it for you)

So Jehoshaphat puts the choir at the front of the army.

The singers, not the soldiers.

I can only imagine the response of his generals and his counselors.

I know for sure he was both full of faith, and yet SCARED out of his mind.

In the end, before a single weapon is raised... God delivers the victory.

God keeps asking me to send the choir out first. To trust HIM to deliver wins instead of doing it myself. Which makes no sense at all.

Even when I KNOW it is the right thing, the fear doesn't just leave...

People say fear and faith can't exist together. And maybe not in the exact same breath...

But in the scriptures, we rarely see faith as the absence of fear. To me, faith is the decision to move while the fear is still present.

I confused faith with absolute confidence for a long time. But God always has shown up when I take the step scared... having FAITH it will workout.

The miracles have come AFTER I take the step, not before.

Stay in the fire and never stop progressing. — Braven Grant