{"id":12188,"date":"2020-07-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ucbasiapacific.org\/?p=12126"},"modified":"2020-07-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T14:00:00","slug":"the-voice-of-fear-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifefmfiji.org\/the-voice-of-fear-1\/","title":{"rendered":"The Voice of Fear (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u2018Elijah was afraid and fled for his life&#8230;\u2019 1 Kings 19:3 NLT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Bible says, <i>\u2018Jezebel\u2026 sent this message to Elijah: \u201cYou killed my prophets, and now\u2026I am going to kill you\u201d\u2026So Elijah fled for his life.\u2019<\/i> (1 Kings 19:1\u20133 TLB) Often the voice of fear comes after you\u2019ve had a mountain-top experience. Elijah had just called down fire from Heaven on Mount Carmel. Then Jezebel spoke. She didn\u2019t use chariots and soldiers; she didn\u2019t need to. Her words intimidated him, depressed him and drove him into mental depression and into hiding. Look out! If you listen to the voice of fear you\u2019ll be afraid of the next phone call, the next doctor\u2019s visit or being called into the boss\u2019 office. Who are you listening to? Who are you going to believe, God or men? Neither the wind nor the fire nor the earthquake could bring Elijah out of his cave, only the still, small voice of God could (1 Kings 19:11\u201313). <\/p>\n<p> Our fears are often the result of two things: imagination and misunderstanding. Fear causes us to think the worst instead of believing God for the best  (2 Corinthians 10:5). <i>\u2018&#8230;fear brings with it the thought of punishment&#8230;\u2019<\/i> (1 John 4:18 AMP) When something goes wrong we wonder, \u2018Is God punishing me for something I\u2019ve done?\u2019 No, fear and faith are present with us every day; the one you choose will rule your life. So when you come up against a fear-producing situation, do these three things:  (1) Pray for God\u2019s wisdom and protection; He promises both;  (2) Admit your inner struggle\u2014you\u2019re not unique, we all battle fear;  (3) Stand on His Word, for He says, <i>\u2018&#8230;I will never leave you nor forsake you.\u2019<\/i>  (Hebrews 13:5 NKJV)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lifefmfiji.org\/soulfood\/\">SoulFood<\/a>: Jer 14\u201317, Luke 4:1\u201313, Ps 98, Pro 14:34<\/p>\n<p><em style=\"color: #41423d; font-family: arial, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 18px;\">The Word for Today<\/em><span style=\"color: #41423d; font-family: arial, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 18px;\"> is authored by Bob and Debby Gass and published under licence from UCB International Copyright \u00a9<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Elijah was afraid and fled for his life&#8230;\u2019 1 Kings 19:3 NLT The Bible says, \u2018Jezebel\u2026 sent this message to Elijah: \u201cYou killed my prophets, and now\u2026I am going to kill you\u201d\u2026So Elijah fled for his life.\u2019 (1 Kings 19:1\u20133 TLB) Often the voice of fear comes after you\u2019ve had a mountain-top experience. Elijah had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifefmfiji.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12188"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifefmfiji.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifefmfiji.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifefmfiji.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifefmfiji.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifefmfiji.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifefmfiji.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifefmfiji.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifefmfiji.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}