What I Do When I am Afraid

Fear. It has been my best friend at times in my life. Trust me on this. Its no friend to have. I was taught it well, it comes with a fallen nature of the human race. There is only one way to deal with it. It is an enemy. You have to look at it that way. It is the worst enemy of my soul. It is a disease of the heart. Dis-ease, no ease, no peace in the heart. Not a cool thing to have in the heart. It disables, it paralyzes, it releases toxic chemicals in the brain which incapacitate reason and clear thinking, and it defies that God is good and faithful. It is the loudest witness against Jesus and what He actually  came to do for us. So what do I do when I am afraid, seemingly unable to get back to peace? what do I do when my circumstances are causing my heart to race, my mind to race and my gut to churn because I do not think any of the present crisis will end in anything but pure disaster. Fear paints the worst picture possible. It is a an evil spirit. My job is to do everything in my power and the power of God to keep it and its thoughts and imaginations out of my life.
First when I am really backed up against the wall, I pray in the Spirit. Because it lets my rational thinking mind be still for once and allows the Holy Spirit to pray the perfect prayer in and through me. Second I ask God to protect my thinking and my soul with His Blood. Nothing can cross the Blood line. (Revelations says: they overcame him by the Blood of the Lamb, the Word of their testimony and loving not their lives unto death) Third, I put worship on and I worship without feeling like it, (because I never feel like it when I am in terror) Fourth, I start saying out loud what I  believe about God to be true, directly to Him. I tell Him, I believe you are God, you are faithful, you are full of mercy and kindness, you said you would never leave me nor forsake me, you said you made me more than an overcomer, that when I am weak, you are strong, that you came to destroy the works of the enemy, ....I go back to Isaiah 41:10 and Isaiah 43...and I read them out loud. Fear Not is in the Bible 144 times. Apparently God knew we were going to need to read that more than once. In the New Testament it is said 27 times. God knows us but He also is inviting us to turn our face to His eyes and climb into His presence and tell him aloud we will commit to trust in Him no matter what. There is something about saying it out loud to Him. I TRUST IN YOU TODAY. I WILL NOT FEAR....I WILL KEEP MY EYES ON YOU TODAY. Every other thought that comes along I will cast down and put it under Your feet! You are Lord today over my mind, my emotions, my will. I will only mediatate on what you say and what you tell me to do. Peace will come, It will come. I promise you, it is yours for the asking and He is present in the Person of the Holy Spirit to Stand By, Comfort, Counsel and Defend you, Interceed for you...He wont leave you ever, He Promised, He promised He would  bring you peace. The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want for anything, He leads me through the valley of the shadow of death. Through the valley,..its a shadow, it talks of death but it is not death, Life abundant came with His sacrifice. When you gave your heart to Him you inherited that LIFE. I would have lost heart unless I believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living! Its coming, His goodness is racing to be at your side, hang on and by all means tell that thing (fear) to go back to hell where it belongs. :)