Faith Before Fear

I always see and say myself: Let Your Faith Be Bigger Than Your Fear!

Easier said then done, right?

How do you let your FAITH take over so you do not live in fear of what is next?

That is a tough one that I have been pondering for a long time.

You see I have FAITH.

FAITH in what I believe.

FAITH in people.

But I seem to lack FAITH in the "PLAN" whatever that is because LORD knows but I don't

I struggle. ALL.THE.TIME

You know what will be, what is next, the future, the unknown.

I always say "Thy will be done" , "What will be will be" but who am I kidding?

Do I really BELIEVE that? Do I really practice that?  I try but it is HARD to let it all rest in his hands. I know if I could I would control the outcome and believe me I have tried, really tried at times BUT...it often times backfires.  There in lies the reason why I should let it go...But yet I continue to stress and worry...to my demise.


How do you let your faith be bigger than your fear?

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Read.Feel.Listen.

 READ the words.

Jesus In Disguise by Brandon Heath

Ever get something in your head
It's nothing you've heard, or something you've read
Ever had a cut, but you never saw a blade
Brought to your knees, but you never prayed

Jesus in disguise
Jehovah passing by
The burden of a tear
Hanging in your eye
Jesus in disguise
A scar across the sky
You were looking for a king
You would never recognize
Jesus in disguise

Ever feel like you've been somewhere before
You hold the key, you know which door
Speak the word your lips have never known
Because your heart told you so

Jesus in disguise
Jehovah passing by
The burden of a tear
Hanging in your eye
Jesus in disguise
A scar across the sky
You were looking for a king
You would never recognize
Jesus in disguise


So open my eyes, wide as I can
Blind as I am, blind as I am
So open my eyes as wide as I can
Blind as I am, blind as I am

Jesus in disguise
Jesus in disguise

  

FEEL the words. 

He is walking next to you, carrying you, when you least expect it. Maybe when you don't think you deserve it.  He is there.

He is everywhere and knows all things.  He is there for the smallest of victories and the most difficult seasons of life.  He can move mountains and part seas.  We just have to open our eyes and see, let him in.  Have faith in him. Leave it all in his hands; he will not fail you.  He knows what we need.  When we need it.  

LISTEN to the words.

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And donate if you can.

See that picture on the left side bar of my blog? (Click on the picture to go to his website)

That is Officer Mike Kellogg, a local police officer in our city.

He is fighting cancer for the second time in the last couple years.

23 Years of Service to His Country and Our Community

• 4 Years U.S. Marine Corps
• 19 Years Police Officer
• Oregon's D.A.R.E. Officer of the Year
• A passion for the safety of our children

He was an integral part to the local D.A.R.E program and a Resource Officer at the junior high my daughter attended.

Won't you pray for him, his family, his doctors, his friends.  If you can donate, please do not hesitate.  Every little bit counts.

If you can not donate, can you pray and spread the news? 

Talk about it, blog about it, tweet about it.


Thank you all so much!



Read a story about him here after he beat cancers butt the first time.

Shawn McDonald ~ Heard of Him?

Have you heard of this guy?  He is an Oregon boy, hails from Eugene, so by default I have to *like* him but his music and his past struggles are actually very inspiring! 

Read his bio and blog at Shawn McDonald Music .


Here is one of his songs that is playing on the radio these days.  I love it.  (And I actually liked him before I knew he was from Eugene)


Closer by Shawn McDonald

Looking for a color in a shade of gray

Looking for love in a drop of rain

Trying to find change in the old mundane

Everything I do just feels the same

Spending my life out in the desert

Then gone so long feels like forever



I just want to be closer to you

I just want to be closer, I am yours

You can have all of me anything, everything

I just want to be closer



A day without you is a thousand years

A day without you is a million tears

Tell me what I’m doing wrong when I’m in fear

Why do I run when you are so near

Spending my life out in the weather

Find More lyrics at www.sweetslyrics.com
Been gone so long and I need some shelter



Where ever you go

Where ever you are

I just want be there with you

I just want to be closer to you

I just want to be closer

I am yours

You can have all of me anything everything

I just want to be closer

I just want to be closer to you

I just want to be closer

For I am yours

You can have all of me anything, everything

I just want to be closer



Looking for a color in the shade of gray

Looking for love in a drop of rain

Everytime I hear this song  I get goose bumps because it is exactly how I feel with regard to my walk with the LORD.  I want to get closer to him.  I want to do right by him.  I want to serve him. I am his.