How a King overcame fear through GOD - Part 1

Anytime trouble comes fear is usually the first thing we feel. Satan injects ''what if'' thoughts into our head, and we often begin to see the worst possible outcome. As soon as that happens, we should realize what is going on - Satan is trying to keep us from going forward in God's will and good plan for our lives.

The devil tries to use fear in its many different forms to keep us in shallow water. But even though we may feel fear, we need to focus our attention on God, and at His word we should launch out into the deep to receive the blessings God has for us.

It came to pass after this also, that the children of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and with them other beside the Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle.
2 Chronicles 20:1

Are the ''-ites'' after you? In this passage it was the Moabites and the Ammonites who were after King Jehoshaphat and the people of Judah. In other places in the Old Testament it was the Jebusites, the Hittites and the Canaanites who were the troublemakers for God's people.

But with us it is the ''fear-ites,'' the ''disease-ites,'' ''poverty-ites,'' ''bad-marriage-ites,'' ''stress-ites,'' ''grouchy neighbor-ites,'' ''insecurity-ites,'' ''rejection-ites'' and on and on.

How many ''-ites'' are chasing you around? However many there are, let's look at what King Jehoshaphat did to turn His attention on God instead of focusing on all those ''-ites'' that were trying to rise and rule.

To be Continued.....