Do It Afraid!: Obeying God in the Face of Fear by Joyce Meyer

Author:Joyce Meyer
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Christian Life, Obedience, Christianity, Religion, Inspirational, Fear, General, Pentecostal & Charismatic
ISBN: 9780446691598
Publisher: FaithWords
Published: 1996-01-01T22:00:00+00:00

BENEATH THE FEAR

One of the biggest fears I have had to stand against all my life is the fear of making people mad. During my childhood, my dad expressed a lot of anger, and we never really knew what he was mad at. A lot of times he wasn't even mad at anybody. He was just mad, but he took it out on whoever was around.

Children tend to feel as through everything is their fault. I spent a lot of time in my life trying to figure out what I could do to keep him for getting mad. I used to be very careful all the time around him because I didn't want to upset him.

A few years ago God led me to discuss my childhood with my parents. God had been working behind the scenes and a miracle of restoration began taking place in my relationship with my parents! As a result, my parents released me to freely share the details of my childhood as I ministered to help the people God has called me to help. My parents and I are now building a wonderful relationship. But to this very day, I really have to stand against a fear of making people mad. I have made some major strides forward in that area the last 3 years because I have come to the understanding that we just can't let people control us.

When Dave and I are driving somewhere, if he discovers he is driving in the wrong direction, he sometimes pulls into somebody's driveway in order to turn around in the right direction. When he did this, though, I would get a panicky feeling and say, "What are you doing? What are you doing that for? Don't do that!"

Then one day he looked at me and said "What is your problem? I'm just trying to turn this car around." It was then I began to ask God, "What is my problem?" God showed me I was afraid whoever lived in that house would come out ranting and raving like my dad might have done because someone was turning around in his driveway.

Let me share without the second half of my revelation. As I really began to dig into this more, I said, "Lord, what is it we are afraid of anyway?" The first thought at came to me was that we were afraid of man. But what does that amount to really? Beneath that, we are afraid of rejection. But that isn't even the end of it. What we are really afraid of, when all is said and done, isn't the devil. It isn't man. It isn't want people will think, say or do. What we are really afraid of beneath it all is pain! We just simply don't want to hurt!

I began to notice this tendency even in some of the most basic areas. For example, last winter when I left a building to go into the cold, I would clutch my coat around me and duck my head to try to keep from getting cold.

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