Facing Your Fears

This post is from Leroy Mackey

On page 43 it says, "the greatest breakthrough in your life will happen when you push through the fear." Pastor Dave, through the leading of the Lord, started this Book Club. The Book Club was fine and dandy to me, until I found out Pastor Dave put the Board on a schedule to write down what we thought about a certain chapter. Well, the Lord didn't tell Pastor Dave that I am not a writer, and fear things like this (or is it a fear of rejection). May God help whoever is going to proof read this.

It is great how the Lord works! After a meeting one night, another Board Member and I were chatting with Pastor Dave. I was trying all I could to get out of this writing. In my mind I was going to say, "I'm not doing this, it's not me!" Then it hit me, am I a lion chaser or not! Lion chasers don't hide from things they fear! Page 48: "the goal of love is fearlessness! As we grow in a love relationship with God, we unlearn the fears that paralyze us and neutralize us spiritually." We as the church need to grasp these thoughts, so we are no longer paralyzed to defeat the enemy of our souls. Remember we are all members of one body, we all have to do our jobs for the Kingdom, so the Church can march forward.

Reading this book I now realize how far God has brought me - through fear and rejection - and He is not done with me yet. The life I led before the Lord got a hold of me in 1980, well let's just say, you would not be impressed. After attending church at First Assembly for a few years, God put me on the Board of the church. Talk about fear! There have been many ups and down through the years at the church, but God told me to stay and do my part for His Kingdom.

Like Mark Batterson said - satan has two primary tactics when it comes to neutralizing you spiritually: discouragement and fear. Let's not focus on the past, but the future, and dare to see where God leads us.

Leroy Mackey