"Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me, and know my anxieties; and see if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting." - Psalm 139:23, 24 (NKJV)
“It’s OK to be afraid. It’s not OK to be afraid and disobedient.” - Chip Ingram
What is God asking you to do? Preach? Go into the world and teach? Pray? Serve a specific group of His children? Feed the hungry? Clothe the needy? Give? Love the unlovely? Are you obediently answering His call or are you afraid you lack the necessary qualifications? Are you allowing feelings of insecurity keep you from doing the work God has gifted you to do?
If you allow anxieties to control your actions, you may tend to tread cautiously, if you take any action at all. This lack of boldness in activity highlights a lack of faith. "For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind" (2 Timothy 1:7). It is with this knowledge that you can confidently face your fears and take steps of obedience.
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