When you’re facing a troubling situation, what do you do? Jesus is asking you to STOP YIELDING TO YOUR FEAR and instead TRUST HIM.



Is God aware of what you’re going through? Absolutely. He knows every detail of your life. How do I know? His word tells me! Psalm 139: 1-5, “O Lord, you have examined my heart and know everything about me. You know when I sit down or stand up. You know my thoughts even when I’m far away. You see me when I travel and when I rest at home. You know everything I do. You know what I am going to say even before I say it, Lord. You go before me and follow me.”



But he goes beyond just knowing about every detail of your life. My sister, your God CARES about every detail. Again, how do I know? His word tells me! Psalm 37:23, “The Lord directs the steps of the godly. He delights in every detail of their lives.” He literally DELIGHTS in the details of your journey. This means he’s not just involved because he has to be, he’s involved in the details of your life because he WANTS to be.



And this God who knows every detail and cares about every detail, holds the divine and unmatched power to do the impossible in your life. Yes, God can make a way through this. God can heal this. God can use this for good. Bring him the worst, ugliest, messiest, most shameful parts of your life and he will do something beautiful with it. Beauty for ashes, Sis, that’s what he gives!



When you understand God’s power matched with God’s awareness, care and involvement in your life, you can truly trust him. You can trust that he has gone before you and made a way for you. You can trust he will strengthen your every step forward with him. You can trust he will be with you and guide you. You can trust he will break chains, he will part seas, he will tear down walls. He’s simply asking you to partner with him!



To partner with God, you must stop yielding to your fear and trust him.



Maybe you’ve been stuck, yielding to your fear. Is that where you are? You’re sitting in the overwhelm of ‘what if’ and ‘what next’, but you’re not moving forward in faith. Let me tell you what happens when you yield to fear … life piles up. Little messes become big messes. Problems don’t just remain, they grow. Soon, you have horns honking at you, pressure is building and you are overwhelmed.



What happened? YOU YIELDED TO FEAR.



Imagine driving your car and you’re going from the access road to the interstate highway. What is there as your lane merges into another lane? A yield sign. So, what do you do, you slow down, you look at what is coming for your chance to proceed. But if you continue yielding, you never move forward. You sit and you look at the cars passing, passing, passing. Then the cars behind you begin building, building, building. What happens next? They start honking, honking, honking. Then you feel anxious. You feel pushed. You feel fearful.



Understand, when you sit and look at your problems, you are yielding. The problems aren’t just going to stop for you. That’s not what problems do. Problems keep on barreling through on their lane whether you do anything or not. As you yield, watching your problems, more problems start building up behind you. The more you do nothing, the more it builds. Then the honking begins. Then the pressure. Then the fear.



Is this where you are? Have you yielded to fear? You’ve been looking at the thing you’re afraid of without moving forward. You’ve been talking about your problem without taking the necessary next steps. You’ve been worrying a whole lot more than you’ve been pr...