Proverbs 3:25-26 Do not be afraid of sudden terror, nor of trouble from the wicked when it comes; for the LORD will be your confidence, and will keep your foot from being caught.

There was a parable about a mountain giant that was mean, cantankerous and violent. The folks in the town said whatever you do , don't go up to the top of the mountain because that is where the old giant lives. During the summer there were a brave group of men that decided that they were going to go up to the top of the mountain to confront the giant in battle and defeat him. They took with them guns, bats, and long sticks. Upon reaching the halfway mark up the side of the mountain they heard a loud roar and smelled a terrible stench. Out of thirty-two men, twenty of them took off running back down the mountain as quickly as they had climbed it, screaming. The twelve men noticed that at a glimpse the giant was smaller than what they had expected. The giant continued to roar and the smell was so bad that the other eleven men also ran away. As the one man took a few more steps and looked at the giant again the giant had shrank in size to the size of a man. He go closer to take a closer look and the giant shrank again. The giant was ugly and the stench was unbearable. Evenso, the man came even close enough now to see clearly as he bent down and picked up the once so-called giant in the palm of his hand and asked him, "who are you?" The giant squeaked, "my name is Fear."

If you submit to the plan of the LORD for confronting fear you will find that the issues that you have been frightened of in the past were really nothing at all.

Lord, help me to begin to confront fears I've been running away from. I want to silence the roars that keep me from moving ahead with my life in Jesus name. Amen.