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Fear is the one thing that the enemy uses to keep us small, to remind us that we are insignificant, that we are incapable of achieving anything God calls us to do. If what God’s Word is true, and it is, then there is no fear and condemnation from the Lord. In a place where God can use you, but you feel He can’t. You are uniquely qualified and called to do something only YOU can accomplish THROUGH Him.

For me, it’s often at the times when I am feeling the least faithful, the most doubtful, the times when life gets turned upside down and makes no sense, the time that I am under attack, that it really affects me. Horatio G. Spafford was a successful businessman and family man in Chicago in the late 1800’s. On the way, Mr. Spafford asked the captain to take him to the place where his daughters died, and that is where overlooking the water that took his daughters, he penned It is Well with My Soul. The reason this song, these lyrics resonate during those times when I don’t understand, is simply because I am covered by grace and mercy.

The child is trying her best, making little bits of progress, but never quite getting to the point where she feels satisfied with the new skill. The issue is that she needs to go backwards, to revisit the task she was given before long division even was taught. So for that young girl, going backwards meant forward progress. The knowledge that true freedom is to be yourself, to live abundantly, to enjoy our families, and to have fun, and that it only comes from one place.

Do You not know that I have power to crucify You, and power to release You? When Jesus therefore saw His mother, and the disciple whom He loved standing by, He said to His mother, So when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, And bowing His head, He gave up His spirit. Dear Lord Jesus, I know that I am a sinned and fallen short of who You created me to be, and I ask for Your forgiveness.