{"id":10778,"date":"2019-11-21T12:00:59","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T19:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/realfaith.com\/uncategorized\/five-ways-to-feed-your-faith-and-starve-your-fears\/"},"modified":"2022-08-30T12:05:14","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T19:05:14","slug":"five-ways-to-feed-your-faith-and-starve-your-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/realfaith.com\/daily-devotions\/five-ways-to-feed-your-faith-and-starve-your-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Ways to Feed Your Faith and Starve Your Fears","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"

Philippians 4:4-7 \u2013 <\/em>Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice. Let your reasonableness be known to everyone.\u00a0The Lord is at hand; do not be anxious about anything,\u00a0but in everything by prayer and supplication\u00a0with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And\u00a0the peace of God,\u00a0which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.<\/em><\/p>\n

How do we feed our faith and starve our fear? Here are five ways:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Focus one eye on each track<\/strong>. Most people think of life as being a series of good and bad seasons. But life is more like train tracks with good and bad happening congruently. We need to practice the discipline of also seeing the good track where bad things are happening.<\/li>\n
  2. Make your will your rudder<\/strong>. Your emotions are like a sail. They are drive your life. So when anxious and fearful, let your reasonableness be known to everyone<\/em> (Phil. 4:5). Reasonableness<\/em> means making wise, faith-filled decisions that drive you forward into God\u2019s will.<\/li>\n
  3. Replace panic with prayer<\/strong>. When a spirit of fear comes over us, our mind races with all of the possible dangers. Sometimes these fears are legitimate, but often they are lies. Rather than panic, we should pray. Freaking out is not a spiritual gift; faith is.<\/li>\n
  4. Tell the Father what you want<\/strong>. Sometimes we ask God, \u201cWhat do You want?\u201d and God replies, \u201cI was going to ask you the same question.\u201d In a season of fear when what we want and don\u2019t want needs to be clarified, it is reasonable to tell God what we want and see what He says. Let your requests be made known to God<\/em> (Phil. 4:6). Sometimes God\u2019s will is to ask you for the desires of your heart.<\/li>\n
  5. Enjoy God\u2019s presence and peace<\/strong>. Like a soldier God will guard the emotional life of our hearts and the thought life of our minds if we stand with Him against the spirit of fear. It is not the absence of trouble that brings peace but the presence of God. This is the ministry of the Holy Spirit. Light drives out darkness, truth drives out lies, and the Spirit of God drives out the spirit of fear.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    To order the new book from Pastor Mark & Grace Driscoll \u201cWin Your War\u201d, visit: https:\/\/amzn.to\/2YuhoDn<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

    For the entire eight-week \u201cWin Your War\u201d sermon series from Pastor Mark, visit www.markdriscoll.org<\/a> or the Mark Driscoll Ministries app.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Philippians 4:4-7 \u2013 Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice. Let your reasonableness be known to everyone.\u00a0The Lord is at hand; do not be anxious about anything,\u00a0but in everything by prayer and supplication\u00a0with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And\u00a0the peace of God,\u00a0which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.<\/p>\n

    How do we feed our faith and starve our fear? Here are five ways:\u00a0<\/p>\n

    Focus one eye on each track. Most people think of life as being a series of good and bad seasons. But life is more like train tracks with good and bad happening congruently. We need to practice the discipline of also seeing the good track where bad things are happening.
    \nMake your will your rudder. Your emotions are like a sail. They are drive your life. So when anxious and fearful, let your reasonableness be known to everyone (Phil. 4:5). Reasonableness means making wise, faith-filled decisions that drive you forward into God\u2019s will.
    \nReplace panic with prayer. When a spirit of fear comes over us, our mind races with all of the possible dangers. Sometimes these fears are legitimate, but often they are lies. Rather than panic, we should pray. Freaking out is not a spiritual gift; faith is.
    \nTell the Father what you want. Sometimes we ask God, \u201cWhat do You want?\u201d and God replies, \u201cI was going to ask you the same question.\u201d In a season of fear when what we want and don\u2019t want needs to be clarified, it is reasonable to tell God what we want and see what He says. Let your requests be made known to God (Phil. 4:6). Sometimes God\u2019s will is to ask you for the desires of your heart.
    \nEnjoy God\u2019s presence and peace. Like a soldier God will guard the emotional life of our hearts and the thought life of our minds if we stand with Him against the spirit of fear. It is not the absence of trouble that brings peace but the presence of God. This is the ministry of the Holy Spirit. Light drives out darkness, truth drives out lies, and the Spirit of God drives out the spirit of fear.<\/p>\n

    To order the new book from Pastor Mark & Grace Driscoll \u201cWin Your War\u201d, visit: https:\/\/amzn.to\/2YuhoDn.<\/p>\n

    For the entire eight-week \u201cWin Your War\u201d sermon series from Pastor Mark, visit www.markdriscoll.org or the Mark Driscoll Ministries app.<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":6,"featured_media":12,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[349],"tags":[],"ministries":[195,196],"topics":[198,293],"series":[363],"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"link","format":"url"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/realfaith.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10778"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/realfaith.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/realfaith.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realfaith.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realfaith.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/realfaith.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12233,"href":"https:\/\/realfaith.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10778\/revisions\/12233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realfaith.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/realfaith.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realfaith.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realfaith.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10778"},{"taxonomy":"ministries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realfaith.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ministries?post=10778"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realfaith.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=10778"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realfaith.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=10778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}