{"id":4287,"date":"2020-02-13T17:28:23","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T22:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forglorysake.com\/?p=4287"},"modified":"2020-09-21T11:38:58","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T15:38:58","slug":"afraid-fear-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/2020\/02\/13\/afraid-fear-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Afraid? Fear not."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Some 300 times in scripture God says \u201cfear not.\u201d In other words, <strong>\u201chave peace, you can trust Me!\u201d <\/strong>Angels appearing, crisis happening, things that clearly cause fear&#8230; and God says, <strong>&#8220;don\u2019t, stop.&#8221; <\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have been in scary situations, such as sudden accidents, and it\u2019s really hard to stop fearing on a dime. Sometimes an inner-calm has come immediately after prayer&#8230; sometimes it hasn\u2019t. Fear can often gnaw and grow if left unchallanged.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What am I so afraid of?? I don\u2019t fear <strong>if <\/strong>God is there, or <strong>whether<\/strong> He can hear me, or that He <strong>might not want<\/strong> to help. I fear this trial may be something He allows to continue and it may be uncomfortable&#8230; even painful. This could possibly last a long time, change my life, bring separation. <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The good news? I do not have to fear because He loves me. I can NEVER be separated from Him! And <strong>He promises to use every tiny thing for my good and for His Glory.<\/strong> Whether I feel He caused it -or allowed it to happen, He remains Sovereign and will use it&#8230;all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trails are inevitable. Pain is a given. God ways will forever be higher than ours. He prunes to bring forth fruit. He disciplines\/<strong>trials<\/strong> those He loves. So I will \u201cfear not\u201d He is to be trusted, my troubles achieve Glory! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ForGlorySake!<\/strong> &#8211;<em>Anna<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forglorysake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/3D33AA54-57FE-44E6-9C1B-BD3AA69A7A2D.png?resize=640%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4290\"\/><figcaption>Explanations come later \ud83d\ude09<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some 300 times in scripture God says \u201cfear not.\u201d In other words, \u201chave peace, you can trust Me!\u201d Angels appearing, crisis happening, things that clearly cause fear&#8230; and God says, &#8220;don\u2019t, stop.&#8221; I have been in scary situations, such as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/2020\/02\/13\/afraid-fear-not\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1420,9,10],"tags":[1440,1129,334,834,869],"class_list":["post-4287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","category-spiritual-growth","category-trust","tag-2-corinthians-417","tag-everything-used","tag-gods-glory","tag-trials","tag-waiting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paUt4s-179","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4287"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4327,"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4287\/revisions\/4327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}