Who is your enemy?
I have been reading through the Psalms. I have usually just skimmed over the enemy part. You know you just say, "Oh, yea, the enemy is the devil. I know that GOD saves me from that looser." Sometimes when I am particularly down I will pull out a Psalm and throw it in his face and tell him he has no right to bother me.
But as I was reading through this time GOD told me to shift my focus of who is my enemy. I had never looked at other people as enemies. Yea, maybe I had personality conflicts but not enemies. HE said, "Who is your enemy?" "Who do you fear?" HE said that those I fear are my enemies. HE said that I am making them that way in my spirit. So actually HE said that the fear is the enemy and not the actual person. But that the person triggers the fear so I use that as the identifier of the enemy.
There are situations where I am terrified. I fear being rejected, being disliked, not being taken seriously. I am almost disabled by the fear of one very important person in my life and that fear is, unfortunately, very damaging to that relationship.
GOD says that the fear is sin. HE told me that this weekend through a beautiful women who has chosen to be a mentor for me. (I am truly grateful that HE sees that I am important enough to give me a mentor, especially her.) She and I prayed that HE would begin to reveal when I am being fearful and help me to deal with it the right way.
I am beginning to see that this will be a long process. I love process because you can't help but be strengthened through it.
Psalm 27
Of David.
1 The LORD is my light and my salvation—
whom shall I fear?
The LORD is the stronghold of my life—
of whom shall I be afraid?
2 When evil men advance against me
to devour my flesh,
when my enemies and my foes attack me,
they will stumble and fall.
But as I was reading through this time GOD told me to shift my focus of who is my enemy. I had never looked at other people as enemies. Yea, maybe I had personality conflicts but not enemies. HE said, "Who is your enemy?" "Who do you fear?" HE said that those I fear are my enemies. HE said that I am making them that way in my spirit. So actually HE said that the fear is the enemy and not the actual person. But that the person triggers the fear so I use that as the identifier of the enemy.
There are situations where I am terrified. I fear being rejected, being disliked, not being taken seriously. I am almost disabled by the fear of one very important person in my life and that fear is, unfortunately, very damaging to that relationship.
GOD says that the fear is sin. HE told me that this weekend through a beautiful women who has chosen to be a mentor for me. (I am truly grateful that HE sees that I am important enough to give me a mentor, especially her.) She and I prayed that HE would begin to reveal when I am being fearful and help me to deal with it the right way.
I am beginning to see that this will be a long process. I love process because you can't help but be strengthened through it.
Psalm 27
Of David.
1 The LORD is my light and my salvation—
whom shall I fear?
The LORD is the stronghold of my life—
of whom shall I be afraid?
2 When evil men advance against me
to devour my flesh,
when my enemies and my foes attack me,
they will stumble and fall.
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