FAITH CAPSULE: One with fear and worry are inseparable, like five and six.

Exodus 14

Worry is a choice.
Choose not to give in to worry.
Are you looking to the God of the world or to the perfect Creator?
Worry in the face of challenge is not looking to God, who does everything.
Any time one keeps eyes on confronting challenges, one will miss God.
Are you beholding your challenge?
Are you looking into the face of your challenge?
Exodus 14:10-12 documents the issue of fear by the Israelites: “And when Pharaoh drew near, the children of Israel lifted their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians marched after them. So they were very afraid, and the children of Israel cried out to the Lord. Then they said to Moses, “Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you so dealt with us, to bring us up out of Egypt? Is this not the word that we told you in Egypt, saying, ‘Let us alone that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than that we should die in the wilderness.” 
As an acclaimed believer, does that sound like you? 
No reasonable excuse for fear before God.
The Israelites knew fully well that God would deliver, but they gave in to fear. 
The Israelites were worried and troubled.
Know that worshipping God gives His peace. 
Worrying instead of worshipping is always the root of negative confession.
The solution to challenges is to gain and retain focus on God and the word of His promise. 
Despite all the powerful teachings of Jesus against fear and worrying, the disciples went ahead and locked themselves up in fear of the Jews. “Then, the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them, ‘Peace be with you.” (John 20:19)
While they were locked up in fear, Jesus showed up and declared peace. Jesus, the Word of God, is the Prince of peace. 
Understand and know: look to Jesus as Lord and Savior for deliverance.
Faith in Jesus will cause peace to reign. 
After Jesus spoke peace into the life of His disciples, their eyes of the mind opened to see the mark of crucifixion that He carries. (John 20:20)
Do you know that Jesus carries a mark on your behalf?
The devil authors fear. 
John 10:10 records the encouraging word of Jesus, for all not to worry, not to give in to fear: “The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life and that they may have it more abundantly. “It is a choice not to give in to worry rooted in fear.

Prayer for today: Ask for the boldness and character that is in Jesus.