DRAW THE LINE on… FEAR
Victory App 4
Dear ‘LB’ friends,
In my previous writings from the Victory Apps series, I spoke of different applications we can do to give our concerns to the Lord, Burnt Offerings Victory App 1, Boxes, Bows, Brown Grocery Bags and Wheel Barrels Victory App 2 and ‘Dustings’ Bumps and Bruises, Victory App 3.
As I mentioned in my last message with today’s new words such as Covid 19 and Corona Virus being household words with the attending emotions of fear, anxiety, hopelessness, anger and confusion, we all need to find hope in Jesus.
How are you doing? Have you applied any of them? If you haven’t needed additional help with release of life’s bumps, that’s great because all is well with you and we can rejoice with you! But, if a need comes for you or someone you know, you have some resources. There is another application so important to help us on our journeys entitled DRAW THE LINE on…FEAR Victory App 4.
This application is for the times when we have to make a stand against the mental enslavement that keeps us bound.
We might ask, draw the line on what? Many things come to my mind but, one of the biggest is FEAR. It is one of the most prevailing and disabling malady we can experience. It keeps us from excelling and living our lives to the fullest. It can follow us all of our lives showing up in places we don’t realize.
Some examples of fear manifesting can be when we don’t stand up for ourselves. We don’t say, “No, I don’t want to do that.” “No, I don’t want to go there.” “No, I don’t want to be here.”
Many times we compromise when we shouldn’t because we want love or approval. Fear tells us we won’t be accepted unless we go along with the others. It’s a malady that trails behind us from childhood to adults. The young school age child is under pressure to ‘fit in’. The middle school years are filled with decisions to ‘do as they do’ or not be popular and accepted. The senior years form our characters of wanting independence while we are still trying to fit in, be accepted and popular. The college years brings with it a freedom from the parent’s rules and take the character formed from the earlier years and live out our choices of wanting independence, fitting in, being popular and accepted.
With each phase of the decisions, it all started with another fear… fear of rejection; from the child to the teenager to the young adult. Let’s don’t forget the older adults. We don’t get off any easier than the younger ones. We are just older to do more compromised things.
So what do we do? This is another application we can learn from the Victory Apps series. We can Draw the Line on… FEAR.
Really, drawing the line can be for most anything that makes us captive to do things we shouldn’t. Fear, of course, is the culprit in most cases but, captivity comes in many forms. Taking drugs, excessive drinking, pornography, stealing, violent behavior, having affairs down to ‘smaller’ sins like gossip, lying and back biting. If we could see the beginning of the trail, we would probably see where fear started the road to our destructions. In some situations, it takes a counselor to unravel the maze of the deep things of the soul, to how it all started.
So, what do we do? As I mentioned in the three other Victory Apps, we start with prayer. Nothing can be successful without Jesus. We ask Him to help us. If we have done something wrong, we ask Him to forgive us, then forgive ourselves and others and say,”no more!” Once again, all of our prayers and petitions will be different but, in many ways, the same. Take your time to talk to Him. After all, it took time to be where you are now so, it may take some time to release your fears.
You might pray something like this. “Father, in the name of Jesus, I come before you to release my fears about__________________. I have tried to overcome it on my own but haven’t been successful. I need your help and enablement, Please show me how this all started so I can give it to you as well. I want to be free from this yoke. You came so I can be free. I receive your enablement to overcome this. Thank You for loving me and I want to love You more.”
The next part is the action phase after the prayer. You draw a line. It can be a line formed from using your toe across a carpet, a chalk mark on the sidewalk, a line on the ground or even a mental line that you see. I’ve normally drawn a line in the carpet. Over the years, my husband has seen lines drawn in the carpet different places in the living room. Upon seeing them in the morning, he has asked, “What did you pray about last night?”
With any of the line drawing, be it on carpet, sidewalk, ground or mentally seeing the line, the point is to see yourself on one side which represents your need or captivity and stepping over it to victory from whatever has bound you. Take as long as you need to mentally put them on one side, and see yourself releasing them before you take your step across the line. This is another way to get free.
I have used these four different applications over the years and have shared them with others. In each case when I applied them, I ended up loving Jesus more. He always was there to hear me and answered my prayers or showed me what to do. He will also be there for you. Remember, He loves you, understands and waits to hear from you,
I hope these have helped you. We are all in this journey of life together and will all make it through in victory. You’ve got four more ways to do it. They all start out with prayer and end in praise!
If you or someone you know, has had similar experiences and need to talk to someone, they can contact Dawne at 1 883 644 3600. She is a compassionate professional with years of experience helping families, individuals and children. For more information, click CONTACT option at top of page.
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