Fear is a terrible thing.<\/p>\n
When you add worry, anxiety and panic, it becomes one cocktail for failure.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n As a child, I had a penchant for worrying, I would worry about things that didn\u2019t even concern me.<\/p>\n When I write exams, I would wake up at night trying to calculate the possible scores of an exam I was yet to write. I was so scared and full of fear to the extent that after reading, I would enter the exam hall and forget what I read.<\/p>\n Fear held me down, it was like a cloak of darkness over me. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n The worst part was that I always appeared calm and controlled on the outside. I would be bold outside and cry my eyes out when I was alone.<\/p>\n Fear costed me relationships and opportunities, I would start applications for awards and grants that I qualified for but I would talk myself out of them. In my eyes, I was no good. No matter how much people praised my abilities, it made no difference.<\/p>\n Until you begin to see yourself \u00a0through the lens of God\u2019s eyes, fear won\u2019t let go of you.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n All the while, I have been a Christian. I could pray in tongues, I spoke Christianese (a language that sounded like how Children of God should speak). Hahahaha<\/p>\n I was a worker in church, I didn\u2019t party or do any worldly thing but that made no difference.<\/p>\n From all appearances, I was doing all the right things and that was the problem. The word that I heard in sermons and in books was not taking root in my heart. I was only bold in the presence of other believers but my own fire and fellowship with God was non -existent.<\/p>\n This pattern continued until one day when I have had enough of this lukewarm life. I poured my heart to God and told him all my cares and worries. I wrote out everything that I worried about and took out a day in a week to pray about it. By the end of the first week, I held my head higher, I felt God with me all the way. I started studying the word of God and I discovered God\u2019s promises to me. I no longer worry or live in fear because my best friend – the Holy Ghost lives in me. The song below by Bethel music is a safe haven for me.<\/p>\n From my mothers womb I’m no longer a slave to fear Today I\u2019m free and not scared to chase my dreams.<\/p>\n I\u2019m not just bold outwardly but also inwardly.<\/p>\n I can now command the value I deserve.<\/p>\n Sis , do not let fear prevent you from being all that God has called you to be.<\/p>\n Love you<\/p>\n Xoxo<\/p>\n Oby<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fear is a terrible thing. When you add worry, anxiety and panic, it becomes one cocktail for failure. As a child, I had a penchant for worrying, I would worry about things that didn\u2019t even concern me. When I write exams, I would wake up at night trying to calculate the possible scores of an exam I was yet to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thephenomenalwoman.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thephenomenalwoman.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thephenomenalwoman.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thephenomenalwoman.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thephenomenalwoman.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thephenomenalwoman.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thephenomenalwoman.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thephenomenalwoman.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thephenomenalwoman.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thephenomenalwoman.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nYou have chosen me
\nLove has called my name
\nI’ve been born again, into a family
\nYour blood flows through my veins<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n
\nI am a child of God<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n