fear not.

Fear is not an emotion.

It affects the emotions.

Being that it affects, them we assume that it originated out of emotions. It didn't. Your emotions did not create the fear, your fear created the emotions.

These emotions, 9 times out of 10 come from something we hear. After we've heard a thing it travels up to our brain and evokes a feeling. It's inevitable! BUT! We have the power to decide wether we will believe what we heard to be truth.

I remember I once worked at a camp for one month. I was a part of the ropes crew. Throughout the summer we put hundreds of kids and adults through a ropes course, which was very high in the air and encouraged them to jump off at the end. There was no drop, but to see that when you jumped off nothing stood between you and the ground was a hard thing to deal with. It even took me some getting used to (I never totally did). I remember this one kid in particular who was SUPER afraid. He made his way through every obstacle with the help of the team. It definitely tested our patience but we could totally understand where he was coming from. It wasn't a walk in the park. At the end came the big "faith jump" and he was NOT havin' it! He screamed so loud. "I ain't jumpin'!!! I'm gonna fall and my brains are gonna splat!! I'm gonna die"!!! We continued to encourage him and try to calm him down. As I observed, I noticed that his hysterical nature was beginning to affect the other kids. They began to hear him and their steps toward the jump became a lot slower.  (let it marinate)

We do this same thing. Although we have been proven protected time and time again we fear a jump! We see something scary so, like the boy we begin to tell ourselves what will possibly occur. "I'll go broke!", "I'll lose him/ her", "I'll die"! When did you become a psychic and how's that workin' for you? Once we've spoken those words we choose to believe them and thus fear going further. 

Now speaking is a whole other post, but the thing is, you're going to always have to speak something in  order to get over fear. You have to choose what you're going to speak, negativity (Death) or positivity (Life). When we speak life, which I believe comes for the word of God (The Holy Bible), we begin to get TRUE understanding of what we are not wise enough and will never be wise enough to understand.

So today, tackle what you are afraid of. 

nuff said.

-Bring Life.