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by Katherine Kehler
“He who watches over you will not slumber…” (Psalm 121:3 )
Peace and panic cannot occupy the same place. If we are filled with fear, we aren’t peaceful.
I am not usually a fearful person. My husband has traveled a lot during the past 30 years while we worked with Campus Crusade for Christ and when I go to bed, I thank God that His angels are around our property. I thank Him that He is above us and that He is our foundation. I am covered with His protection. And I go to sleep.
However the other night I woke after I had been in bed for only an hour. I thought I heard someone trying to open one of our doors (we don’t have an alarm system, we have two big dogs). Our property is on a highway, and we have had some interesting people come to our door and have also been robbed several times. Needless to say my heartbeat quickened, I began to perspire – especially when I remembered that I had not checked the windows to see if they were locked.
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Then the Lord brought the above verse to my mind. “He who watches over you will not slumber.” I settled down and thanked God that He was still watching over us and He didn’t need any help and fell asleep.
The next day, I checked all the windows, locked the ones that were unlocked and let our big German Shepherd sleep in the garage since then.
How are you doing today? Do you have any major fears? Are you peaceful or fearful? Ask God to give you the grace to believe Him and receive His peace. He is all-powerful.
~Father, thank You that you never slumber. That You are always watching over us. Jesus, You are the Prince of Peace. Come, we invite You to invade our hearts with Your peace today. Amen.
Questions to ponder: Are you at peace or do you often struggle with major fears? How can we overcome the fear that so often raises its ugly head?
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This devotional was written by Katherine Kehler. Read more about Katherine: http://www.talk.thelife.com/authors/katherine-kehler/
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I am a very protective mother. I am conscious of all that my children do. Two weeks ago, I decided to go to bed early and told the children they could read in bed until they fell asleep. An hour later I heard hysterical screaming coming from the childrens’ room. My 6 year old had climbed up on the massive wood dresser with hutch and fell off, bringing the wooden fortress down on top of her head. Of course I took her straight to the emergency room, but once the shock had worn off – she was bright and alert, with just a Flintstone lump on her head. I knew that her skull could easily have been crushed. I felt it was God telling me – “I protect my children, you don’t need to worry over them – you’ve asked, I provide” They are His children, I’ve just been lucky enough to be the one assigned to take care of them while they are here on earth. Angels had to be over top of that child when that wood fell. This devotion was very relevant to me.
Thanks for sharing. God is so faithful.
Hello, I ‘m not at peace because now I fear to drive on the enterstate, over bridges and sometime just driving the main streets. I lose control and I began to shake sometime I even have to pull over and take a deep breath or call a family member to came and drive me and the car home. I don’t want to take any med. I pray when am approaching a bridge and whenever I see that I have missed a turn and it bring me near the enterstate I lose all control. Pray for me.
Thanks
Mary what ever we ask in Jesus name and do it with out doubting it will be given us .So don’t give up keep praying for a healing on this fear you have and I will help you pray also. The devotional today is so incouraging to me. I do pray every night and day for me and my families protection and God never lets me down. One day I was driving a friend home. We were talking and I looked at her for a second and looked back to the road and there was a car that went over into our lane. It was headed straight towards us. I had no time to think I believe that God took hold of my wheel and turned me into the next lane. Praise his holy name. Thank you Jesus.
Mary,
I can understand how you feel. I have had experience of becoming worked up and anxious when driving and have had great fear of driving on motorways (enterstate)and on bridges. I believe for me it is part of a general state of anxiety I have sometimes gone through. Sometimes, I have been scared of going out or driving somewhere. My anxiety is more under control now – I do take medication which has helped. But also, I try to keep my eyes on God and know that He is with me, whatever I am feeling or going through.
Sometimes it might feel like you’re losing control when you shake and feel fear, but God has your life in control and will bring you through this. It may help you to read “Don’t Forget to Look Up” by Angela K Brittain. It has been a big help to me!
Praying that you’ll soon feel a lot more comfortable with your driving….
Miriam x
I can understand this fear everyone is talking about. I have had a fear of flying all my life, and I was in a bad accident and have a fear of driving. The Lord is helping me deal with the driving, but the flying I still have not overcome. I try to trust the Lord. Everytime I get in my car I ask Jesus to cover me with his precious blood, and when I get to my destination I just Praise and Thank Jesus. I talk to him the whole time I am driving.
thank you so much for peace or fear. i am always fearfull that some thing will happen to one of my kids or grandkids and one major fear for me is that cancer willstrike me again. my brother passed three years afo from lung cancer. my mother had breast cancer and has been gone 17 yrs now they both died in aug. one on the 28 the other on29th. so this is asad time for me. i know God will watch over me but it is a real fear your devotional could not have come at A better time God bless you and your family.
sharon
Thank you I needed to read that devotional today. My son and daughter-in-law are going to India, China and S. Korea for at least a year. All the “what ifs” have been playing through my mind. I know I need to leave them and all their travel arrangements etc. in God’s hand and I have done that, but I keep pulling it all back and worrying. Psalm 121:3 just really spoke to me when I needed it the most.
Hello everyone.A few months after my husband and I got married ,I Moved into his house,a2 story w/basement I wasn’t comfortable in the house yet.My husband went to night shift , I was scared to be here alone it didn’t help someone tried to break-in twice during that time.this time when we knew he was going to go to nights I was in panic.We install lights and an alarm system.but it didn’t help i would start praying in the afternoon, before he had to leave that night, I would still stay up all night(just in case) but God showed me I wasn’t trusting him enough to guard me through out the night, like he said he would.I was asking him to but I was putting more trust in my fast reaction and my phone(just in case.)then I was in God. He showed me where my fear were coming from, 2 timothy 1;7 , he also told me I can not serve 2 masters, All my actions were being controled by fear and not the peace he has promised me.I still ask God for a hedge of protection for our safety, but now for my kids at school, everytime I get in the car, and or my husband at work , not just at night anymore.I choose to serve my Lord, I know he doesn’t need my help so now I go to bed.
Thank you Lord for showing me the areas in my life I was fellowshipping with fear.Thank you for showing me the fruit of fear was causing doubt and untrust in my life.God you are faithful and loving and you are the one I will serve.Thank you for showing me how to escape the control of fear and how to enjoy your peace.
Bless you, dear Ladies, so much strength in these comments today..And, Katherine, you helped us with Psalm 121:3..and the beautiful prayer thanking HIM for never sleeping..always on guard on our behalf. I was a Christmas week baby and have always loved that special time of year? But what a wonderful thing that we, whom HE has called..have the “Prince of Peace” in our lives EVERY day. HE understands those human days when fear “trys” to invade and gently draws us under His “Sheltering Wings”..Thank the Lord for Psalm 91 every day, too! Amen!!
sandi
God will watch over your children!!!
sharon
When I am filled with fear I try to simply pray “GOD’S PERFECT LOVE CASTS OUT ALL FEAR”…. Satan is such a lier and many of the fears that we encounter are from him for he knows that if we overcome the fears in our lives/christian walk then we would be more effective here on earth and to GOD’S KINGDOM here on earth. Some fear is “GOOD” as the Bible declares such being “He who fears the Lord our God”. We just need to keep on calling upon the Holy Spirit within each and everyone of us for gudiance in determining what is healthy and permitable fear and what is not….
Lord in Jesus name help us all to overcome the fears in ourlives that do not belong. Help us to all have more and more confidence in you when it comes time for us to challenge the fears in our lives that hold us back in becoming effective in our christian lives here on earth.
Barbara C.
What a great message on peace or fear. I am an older woman who just lost a son and a sister. Now my house that I love is about to be sold. My deepest fear is the future as I wonder where will the money come from to buy my medications and where will we live. There is a gap in my insurance and there will be a year where my income will register as though we were still getting the amount my husband and I were getting the year earlier. God has been so good to me and I have no doubt HE can handle all this. So I cannot understand why I worry about this. Thank you for the prayers that come to us online. No matter what else JESUS IS LORD.
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I enjoyed the message about fear and peace. Sometimes I fear and though I know the word speaks about fear. At times I feel unworthy.Like I have to compete, if I fail or make a mistake. Thank God he hasn’t forsaken me. Please pray for me and I will do the same.
Fear knocks at the door and faith answers. I suffer from an anxiety problem due to a traumatic childhood. A lot of this has been removed from my life due to the Lords graciousness and reading the word that promises us protection as children of the (Great Jehovah) Our Abba father.
As the only relief is from contact with God this keeps me close to him in prayer and thankgiving.
All things work together for those who love God.
Thank you so much for the fellowship I feel from reading all your comments.
Yours in Christ Jesus
Linda Bartlett