How often as fear showed up in your life, and how often have you allowed fear to alter or interfere with your progress? I will be the first to admit that there were a lot of moments in my life that living in fear has kept me farther away from getting results in very important areas of my life. I often would wait until after the opportunity to step out in faith has passed to ask myself “what are you afraid of or why are you afraid.” What I discovered in asking myself those questions was that I had no reason to be afraid all I had were a lot of limiting thoughts which supported my excuses to allow fear to drive my actions. I learned to understand that it is a common behavior for most of us, and we all experience it at different moments in our life. The secret to overcoming fear is to feel it and still act, the reason why most of us including myself avoids acting through fear due to the lack of faith, self-confidence, and support. The fear I struggled with was due to my lack of faith and self-confidence. There were two methods of operation that truly changed my perspective of life and who I was being, and who I needed to become.

The first method that I focused on was my spiritual growth, I knew the word but there was a time where I did not know or have a relationship of my own with God.  One scripture that stuck with me and one I abide in daily is “fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, yes, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand” Isaiah 41:10. I learned how to trust and hold on to God’s promises and not rely on my own understanding. Walking in faith does not mean that we have all the answers, it means that we are willing to continue to be active while we wait and trust that God will provide no matter what the circumstances are. Six months after giving birth to my daughter I was in a very dark space I did not know what direction to take through many nights of prayer and crying God provided me with the answer. I remember when I was younger in church and I would often wonder what it felt like to hear God’s voice and the day that I woke up and decided to get started with unapologetic happiness. I knew that was the voice of God because by being obedient to what I felt in my spirit I unlocked a lot of things in my life that I thought no longer existed.  The second method of operation that I committed to was the art of mastering self. I focused and set my intentions daily on working harder on myself than I do anything else. My health, my body, my mind, my energy was my responsibility to take care of, which has made such a difference in my life and who I am today.

In conclusion I want to leave you all with this reminder that fear is one of the tools of Satan, as blessed people of God we were not created to live in fear but to live in faith. Faith is an act that we must practice in all that we do in every situation we are faced we must be mindful of our thoughts and how we are reacting to the lessons that are blessings in disguise that God has out in place for our lives. Everything that we experience in life from the day we were born up until it is time to depart from this earth God already knows who we are, the mistakes we will make, the amount of times we will fall short of faith. The most rewarding thing is that even knowing that there was still purpose and a plan for our lives, we must learn to not disqualify ourselves with assumptions and limiting thoughts. Walking in faith connected me with my purpose, do not allow fear to keep you away from living the life that was designed for you to live. Walking by faith and not by site requires you to be brave and trusting in not what you can see but the word and the love of God. Will you continue to walk in fear, or will you begin to walk in faith to accept your role as an extraordinary being with a purpose to bless the world with? The choice to live complete and whole being true to yourself and connected with your purpose in life.