Vital Signs: Saturday, December 14, 2024

Overcoming Fear with Holy Boldness

Fear can stop you in your tracks. It can make you run and hide. Satan loves to distract us with fear, keeping us from seeing the safety of God’s direction. Fear threatened the fulfillment of Christmas multiple times, and God was intentional in reminding the key players in His story over and over: “Do not be afraid.”

Matthew 1:18-21 tells us Joseph’s side of the Christmas story. Mary became pregnant before she and Joseph were married, and Joseph, “being a righteous man and not wanting to disgrace her, planned to send her away secretly.” But an angel of God appeared to him in a dream, reassuring him that he had been chosen to raise God’s Son on earth.

God came to Joseph in a dream, challenged his fear with the peace of divine purpose, and set him on course to be the earthly father of the greatest Man the world has ever known.

When we seek His peace, He will conquer our fears.

Arise with holy boldness and say “no” to fear!

Now—go walk out your purpose in Jesus’ name!