Do Not Fear
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What are you afraid of? What causes you to fear? What empowers and emboldens you?
Uncertainties in this life can cause us to fear. We can feel paralyzed by what we fear. We can be tempted to doubt and to sin because of our uncertainties and phobias.
In his final words to his young disciple Timothy, the Apostle Paul wrote, “God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.” (2 Timothy 1:7 ESV).
God’s Spirit helps us to not be afraid. God’s Spirit gives us God’s power. God’s Spirit lavishes us with the love of God. God’s Spirit gives us God’s control and resolve.
May we experience the courage, boldness, empowerment, love, and control of God as we put our trust in him.
A Prayer in Times of Social Conflict or Unrest: “Increase, O God, the spirit of neighborliness among us, that in peril we may uphold one another, in suffering tend to one another, and in homelessness, loneliness, or exile befriend one another. Grant us brave and enduring hearts that we may strengthen one another, until the disciplines and testing of these days are ended, and you again give peace in our time; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.”
(#44, Book of Common Prayer, 2019).
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