Woo Hoo! It’s Word Wednesday! Hope you’ve been reading your Proverbs and are ready to share your favorites in the comments!
Proverbs 3:24-26 (NAS)–When you lie down, you will not be afraid; when you lie down, your sleep will be sweet. Do not be afraid of sudden fear nor of the onslaught of the wicked when it comes; for the Lord will be your confidence and will keep your foot from being caught.
Oh, how I LOVE this verse! As someone whose life was once defined by fear, the promise of this verse still amazes me. If you’ve read around the website, you know I once suffered from a panic disorder that prevented me from leaving my house for several months and that marked my life for ten years. It actually made me afraid of going out because I might have a panic attack. Fear of fear. Sounds insane, doesn’t it? On my 28th birthday, God delivered me. He 100% delivered me. He healed me. He took away fear that was nearly a part of my DNA.
So when I see verses like, “Do not be afraid of sudden fear… for the Lord will be your confidence” it makes me want to stand up and sing. I don’t have to fear ever going back to a place of fear. Why? Because the LORD is my CONFIDENCE. That gets me so excited I can hardly come up with words to describe it. God’s got it. He’s my deliverer. And that rocks my world. And believe me, if He can heal someone as messed up as I was, I have no doubt He can heal anything. Love to hear Mandisa sing it, “My deliverer has set me free from all that held me captive!”
-JB
Dawn Lucowitz says
Proverbs is so full of awesome verses it was really tough to pick this week. Initially I guessed I would go with one that spoke about the mouth, but I did not. Then I thought I’d write about one of the many that had to do with quarrelsome wives. Who knew there were so many verses about me in the bible!
I decided to go with Proverbs 16:3 –Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and your plans will succeed.
When I first moved to Fort Campbell about a year and a half ago, I really wanted to be doing things God wanted me to be doing. I wanted to be wherever he was leading me to be. I wasn’t sure exactly what I was supposed to be doing in life at that moment and I tried so hard to wait on the Lord to show me where to go. I really struggled with this and found that I was also using this as a way out of doing a lot of things that maybe I should have been doing. There often comes a time when we have to just act and move forward, even if we aren’t 100% sure that’s where we are suppose to be. If we are doing so with the right motives in our heart and have God as our focal point, we can’t go wrong. As long as we commit everything we do to him, our plans will succeed. Maybe not in the way we intend, but God will work out the details. I have thought I was being led one place and often found I totally missed what God wanted me to be doing, but he gently redirected me and got me where he intended for me to be all along.
Our God is so awesome!
Jen says
I may not have the wording exactly right on this one, but my favorite is Proverbs 16:9….
In his heart a man plans his course, but the Lord determines his steps.
So, yeah…. that Ten Year Plan? So totally out the window! God obviously knows me better than I know myself, and I wouldn’t have it any other way. 🙂