"It's Not Just a Saying," A Motivational Word by J. Kyle Daniel, MS

No Fear!

Do you remember where you were on 9/11/2001? Do you remember where you were when the shooting took place at Columbine High School? What do these two things have in common?

They were both components of "Fear". Fear is something that everyone knows about, but that few people live without. It is a primary emotion not a secondary emotion, like anger. When someone goes through a situation they either operate out of love or out of fear. I believe these are the only two emotions that every other emotion is stemmed from.

I also believe that everything we do or think about is broken down into either a fear category or a faith category. This makes perfect sense, given that God is love and that the enemy tries to imitate God, thus operating in fear. When you operate in nothing but faith then fear is not welcome. I know you may be thinking well great so all I have to do is have more faith than fear it's that easy....well...YES!

However, it all starts with what Paul said, it is in the renewing of your mind. Fear based thinking says that the circumstance has happened and now you are doomed. This is when you get to believe the lie or rebuke it and stand on what God tells you. Replacing fear for faith starts today, do not look at it like that last diet plan and put it off until next week; start today! Renewing your mind starts by putting the good in and taking the bad out. It starts with the movies you watch, the tv shows you view and the people that you hang around. You cannot watch "Saw" at midnight and then hope to sleep well that night, because you just put fear in. Once fear is in, faith can't hang around.

Furthermore, the people that you also hang around is another huge component of either fear or faith-based thinking. If your best friend, your mom, your dad or your siblings cannot uplift you and speak good things into your life than they are filling you with fear and not faith. The reason is because those harmful words are linked to rejection and/or anger which is tide hand-in-hand into the primary emotion--fear.

However, not being fearful is not the reason for this post. The reason for this post is too be faithful and full of love. Where there is faith and love, fear cannot stay around. Be blessed and full of faith.