Faith and Fear

Faith and fear can't live in the same place, let me explain:

Let's look at Genesis 12, I know its a lot but let's get into it:

God told Abram: “Leave your country, your family, and your father’s home for a land that I will show you.

2-3 I’ll make you a great nation and bless you. I’ll make you famous; you’ll be a blessing. I’ll bless those who bless you; those who curse you I’ll curse. All the families of the Earth will be blessed through you.”

4-6 So Abram left just as God said, and Lot left with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran. Abram took his wife Sarai and his nephew Lot with him, along with all the possessions and people they had gotten in Haran, and set out for the land of Canaan and arrived safe and sound.

Abram passed through the country as far as Shechem and the Oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites occupied the land.

7 God appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your children.” Abram built an altar at the place God had appeared to him.

8 He moved on from there to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent between Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. He built an altar there and prayed to God.

9 Abram kept moving, steadily making his way south, to the Negev.

10-13 Then a famine came to the land. Abram went down to Egypt to live; it was a hard famine. As he drew near to Egypt, he said to his wife, Sarai, “Look. We both know that you’re a beautiful woman. When the Egyptians see you they’re going to say, ‘Aha! That’s his wife!’ and kill me. But they’ll let you live. Do me a favor: tell them you’re my sister. Because of you, they’ll welcome me and let me live.”

14-15 When Abram arrived in Egypt, the Egyptians took one look and saw that his wife was stunningly beautiful. Pharaoh’s princes raved over her to Pharaoh. She was taken to live with Pharaoh.

16-17 Because of her, Abram got along very well: he accumulated sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys, men and women servants, and camels. But God hit Pharaoh hard because of Abram’s wife Sarai; everybody in the palace got seriously sick.

18-19 Pharaoh called for Abram, “What’s this that you’ve done to me? Why didn’t you tell me that she’s your wife? Why did you say, ‘She’s my sister’ so that I’d take her as my wife? Here’s your wife back—take her and get out!”

20 Pharaoh ordered his men to get Abram out of the country. They sent him and his wife and everything he owned on their way.

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FAITH AND FEAR CAN'T LIVE IN THE SAME PLACE:

Can we talk about how we literally see Abraham step out on faith in verse 4, he obeys what God tells him, he steps out on faith on a WORD that God gave him in the beginning of this chapter he told him to "leave his family and everything he knew" to follow the voice of God. God had already promised Abraham but if we read down a little, he begins to act out of Fear, we see that a famine hits the land, he and Sarah go out to Egypt, as they reach the land he told his WIFE Sarah to tell the Egyptians that she was his SISTER...........Chileee this is where we see his fear come in, you see what happened there?

Abraham's story is a great reflection of how we are on fire with faith but we get faced with an opposition then we act out on fear.

Although Abraham obeyed God immediately, he also reacted out of fear, God gave him a word to stand on he promised him all these things and so much more but why wasn't he trusting God to have his back when he got to Egypt?

God spoke why wasn't that enough for him?

Why isn't it enough for you or me?

One word from God changes EVERYTHING, fear stops faith and God's plan for your life, this is what happens when we try to work things out in our own strength instead of relying on God, what would have happened if Abraham would have just went into Egypt with faith? Would there have been a different outcome? Yes, they got all the nice things but he got those things by acting out of fear, Abraham didn't trust that God would have his back when he sent him out on the journey.... Let's use this as a lesson in trusting God, and not relying on fear. God is saying today to everyone reading this blog post; "I got your back, trust me I know what's best for you, fail or fall trust me I won't leave you, trust my plan, my will, my way.

I said all that to say that Fear and Faith can't live in the same place we have to choose one side and prayerfully we all take the faith side, even if it seems unsure, even if it doesn't look like what God showed you, you only have to faith it, trust him, and obey him. Easier said than done right?

Lets Pray:

Hey God. help me to move not in fear but continually move in faith, no matter what i'm faced with, I will always trust you, my faith is in you and you alone, not my thoughts, not my overthinking, not my will, not my way, but of yours God, I trust you and love you,

in Jesus Name

Amen.