WHEN FEAR SIGNALS ASSIGNMENT
Joshua 1:9
“Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid. Do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.”
Among the Igbo, there is a saying, onye amaghi ebe mmiri bidoro maba ya, agaghi ama ebe o kwusiri ima ya, he who does not know where the rain began to beat him will not know where it stopped, nor how his body eventually dried.
Fear often marks the beginning of an important journey. It signals that something significant has been activated within you. Yet, without discernment, the same fear can suffocate courage, weaken moral resolve, and suppress the birth of what is unfolding in the spirit.
In many African communities, where religion sometimes overrides common sense, young men and women become paralysed when responsibility calls. Instead of seeking insight, strategy, and wisdom, they retreat into endless prayers for miracles. They ask for divine intervention where divine inspiration is required.
#Prayer is powerful, but prayer without action reduces destiny to wishful thinking.
When a first son realises he must now stand for the family, or when a young woman senses the weight of leadership upon her shoulders, fear appears not as weakness, but as awakening call.
Responsibility announces itself before confidence arrives. Joshua felt it too. That is why God did not remove the assignment. He commanded him to embrace courage. God did not reduce the project. He strengthened the man.
Fear does not disqualify you. It confirms that an assignment is unfolding. Destiny often announces itself before readiness appears. God’s promise is not the absence of fear, but His presence in the storms that lie ahead.
Do not pray fear away when it is meant to awaken courage within you. Learn to interpret fear correctly, and it will become a compass rather than a cage.
Stop asking God to take away the mountains before you. Ask Him to teach you how to climb those mountains, and how to walk through the valleys without fear.
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