Faith Over Fear

Jesus compelled Jairus to see the unseen (Luke 8:50). Don’t limit your possibilities to the visible. Don’t listen only for the audible. Don’t be controlled by the logical. Believe there is more to life than meets the eye!

In my anguish I cried to the Lord and He answered by setting me free! The Lord is with me; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me? (Psalm 118:5-6)

When I cry out to You, then my enemies will turn back; this I know because God is for me (Psalm 56:9).

I – I am the One who comforts you. Who are you that you should fear man who dies, or a son of man who is given up like grass? But you have forgotten the Lord, your Maker, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth. You are in constant dread all day long because of the fury of the oppressor, who has set himself to destroy. But where is the fury of the oppressor? (Isaiah 51:12-13)

When I am afraid, I will trust in You. In God – whose Word I praise – in God I trust. I will not be afraid! What can mortal man do to me? (Psalm 56:3-4)

If God is for us, who can be against us? (Romans 8:31)

The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life, of whom shall I be afraid? (Psalm 27:1)

Though an army besiege me, my heart will not fear. Though war break out against me, even then will I be confident! (Psalm 27:3)

Did I not say to you that if you would believe, you would see the glory of God? (John 11:40)

For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world – our faith! (1 John 5:4)

Faith awakes at the voice of truth, but responds to no other sound.

So then faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes through the message about Christ (Romans 10:17).

For in the Gospel, a righteousness which God ascribes is revealed, both springing from faith and leading to faith [disclosed through the way of faith that arouses to more faith]. As it is written: “The man who through faith is just and upright shall live, and shall live by faith” (Romans 1:17).

Now it is clear that no one is justified before God by the law, because “the righteous will live by faith” (Galatians 3:11).

Look, his ego is inflated; he is without integrity [not upright]. But the righteous one will live by his faith (Habakkuk 2:4).

“But My righteous one will live by faith; and if he draws back, My soul has no pleasure in him.” But we are not of those who draw back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and obtain life (Hebrews 10:38-39).

Indeed, our lives are guided by faith, not by sight (2 Corinthians 5:7).

Now faith is the reality of what is hoped for, the proof of what is not seen; for by it our ancestors were approved. By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen has been made from things that are not visible (Hebrews 11:1-3).