Break Through : Overcoming Fear And AnxietySample

Unbelief – the last of our three roots that feed into anxiety. It is interesting how often people go on the defensive or get offended if you suggest that maybe they have pockets of unbelief. Yet, if we are honest, we all do. For example, someone can have total belief in the Lord as being their provider. Yet the same person can have doubts that the Lord is their healer. I would suggest that it is quite normal to have pockets of unbelief within us. 

I am reminded of the man in Mark 9:14-27 who wanted healing for his son. When Jesus said that everything is possible for the one who believes, he exclaimed, ‘I believe; help my unbelief!’ (NKJV). The Lord did not rebuke the man but healed his son. 

There are many ways the Lord talks to us. Through a ‘still small voice’ (1 Kings 19:12, NKJV), a sense of Him speaking to us, and times when a particular verse in His written Word leaps out to us. Then we have to choose whether to believe Him or not. 

I remember at the beginning of John’s breakdown, the Lord gave me a verse. It was Psalm 118:18: ‘The LORD has chastened me severely, But He has not given me over to death.’ I chose then to believe that word, and to keep choosing to believe, even when it a was a life or death situation:

Often, after not sleeping all night, he would still get up at 6.30 am to go to work. How he ever got there safely was a mystery. Without any sleep, feeling suicidal and the fast London traffic … There were some days that he would leave in the morning and I wondered whether I would ever see him again. These were the times when I really struggled but I held on tightly onto Psalm 118 v18 that the Lord had given me.*

 

Unbelief is the stronghold of anxiety; it feeds into fear and lack of trust. If we believe the Lord when He says, ‘Fear not, for I am with you’ (Isaiah 41:10, NKJV), then we can conquer fear. If we believe Him when tells us to trust Him (see John 14:1, NLT), then lack of trust will have to go. 

If we can turn our unbelief into belief, we are going a long way to being free of anxiety. 

For Footnotes and references, see Breakthrough

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