Fighting Fear with Prayer
Answered Prayer Six months ago, I wrote down in my journal five answers to specific prayers I had just received. These interventions from God came through His people and through changes in circumstances. Some involved a person to change their heart about a matter and then act in a different way. They all had a cost to them. Just the other day I came across what the angel of the Lord said to Zechariah in the encounter they had in the temple. This would-be father had both a hope and a fear in the angel's message. And God addressed the fear as He came to give hope. Fear is a part of our lives. It is what we expect to happen. We anticipate negative, difficult and bad things happening and as a result, we wrestle in our inner being with fear. But, we also have faith as a part of our lives. Faith is like fear, it anticipates something happening, only the thing that faith expects to happen is good, it is God’s will, it is hopeful even when it is difficult. Long ago t...