FAITH, FEAR AND YOUR FUTURE
Michael A. Adeniyi inspires us with the following brief discourse on faith, fear and your future:
Faith and fear are great measures to determine your future. Faith and fear are truly infectious words
because they spread like epidemics, but you must be careful about what you
listen to and about those with whom you associate. Many people have allowed the faithless words
of others to drive them into despair and cause them to become failures.
What is FAITH?
F - future
A - actions
I - intended and expected
T - to
H - happen
F - future
A - actions
I - intended and expected
T - to
H - happen
What is FEAR?
F - fake
E - experiences
A - appearing
R - real
Thus, a person with fear is somewhat of a coward since a coward dies ten times before their death. Here is a true story that illustrates my point.
A man started running down the street of his town screaming, “The dam has broken.” Women shopping in the supermarket heard him screaming, so they dropped their grocery baskets and joined him. Men in the barbershops and offices heard the mob and joined also, as did the police and the firemen. Soon the street was filled with people shouting fearfully, “The dam has broken!”
F - fake
E - experiences
A - appearing
R - real
Thus, a person with fear is somewhat of a coward since a coward dies ten times before their death. Here is a true story that illustrates my point.
A man started running down the street of his town screaming, “The dam has broken.” Women shopping in the supermarket heard him screaming, so they dropped their grocery baskets and joined him. Men in the barbershops and offices heard the mob and joined also, as did the police and the firemen. Soon the street was filled with people shouting fearfully, “The dam has broken!”
One old man ran as fast and far has he could and then sat down on
the curb for a moment and thought, “I've
lived here all my life. What dam are
they shouting about and running away from?”
The truth and fact
was there was no dam. There was no danger.
A short while later, the citizens came shuffling back into town
embarrassed by their collective response to fear. Some suffered from the stampede, some even
died in the collective panic of their community.
So, reject fear and choose faith to get a better future.
What is your FUTURE?
F - focused
U - understood
T - timing
U - used in
R - realizing
E - expectations
Thank you, Mr. Adeniyi. Today, we will live by faith, just as the Word of God teaches us:
Romans
1:16-17 (NKJV)
16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power
of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for
the Greek.
17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith;
as it is written, “The just shall live by faith.”
Sisters and brothers, be continually
blessed, and please (above all else) MAKE SURE YOU ARE READY TO MEET OUR SOON
COMING KING. Maranatha!
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