They said to him, ``Inquire of God, please, that we may know whether our way on which we are going will be prosperous."
He said to them, ``Thus and so has Micah done to me, and he has hired me and I have become his priest." When they were near the house of Micah, they recognized the voice of the young man, the Levite and they turned aside there and said to him, ``Who brought you here? And what are you doing in this place? And what do you have here?" So the sons of Dan sent from their family five men out of their whole number, valiant men from Zorah and Eshtaol, to spy out the land and to search it and they said to them, ``Go, search the land." And they came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there. In those days there was no king of Israel and in those days the tribe of the Danites was seeking an inheritance for themselves to live in, for until that day an inheritance had not been allotted to them as a possession among the tribes of Israel. Are you willing to go before Him today and say, “Lord, I’m afraid of. God wants to cast out the fear and doubt in your life. That same power is available to you today. In the Psalms, in fact, King David makes this confession several times! (See Psalm 34:4 Psalm 55:4-5.) His confessions are often wrapped in prayer, acknowledging the Lord’s power over his fears and his enemies. There is no shame in admitting you’re afraid.
I imagine you, on occasion, may feel frightened too -whether of failure, ridicule, loneliness, or something else entirely. That’s the key to conquering feelings of anxiety. However, before I can take a stand against fear, I have to admit it is there. I decided long ago that I would not let apprehension stop me from doing what God calls me to do. When fear begins to sink in, I pray harder, study longer, and read my Bible more closely. But let me tell you: In spite of all that, sometimes I still get scared. I have read the Bible from cover to cover, preached thousands of sermons, and written pages and pages of study material. I’ve walked with the Lord for more than seven decades now.
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