Welcome to "Victorious Daily Devotion" in the ever loving and sweet name of Jesus Christ! 🌹💐🙋🏽‍♀️ Topic: Faith And Fear. If Faith Rules Our Heart, Fear 😨 Dissppears... When we are not close to the Lord Almighty, when we don't practice His presence in our day to day lives, we will have only little faith and fear dominates us and paralyses us from moving forward. You don't dare to take new decisions and strive to fly higher. Let us read Mark 10: 46 & 47. And they came to Jericho: and as he went out of Jericho with his disciples and a great number of people, blind Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, sat by the highway side begging. And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out, and say, "Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me." We must not let our fears control us! We need to face our fears by drawing closer to Him and strengthen our faith in God. Fear has an incredible ability to paralyze our potential—to keep us from launching out with faith. When we choose fear over faith, it makes us skeptical. Fear keeps us from trying new things. It makes us selfish because we’re afraid to commit to God and to others. It makes us short-sighted; we focus on the past and not on the future. Bartimaeus—a man who was blind and wanted Jesus to give him sight—faced a fear that is familiar to many of us: the fear of rejection. He knew that people would look down on him if he shouted out to Jesus in a crowd. But he was desperate. And he knew that Jesus Christ was the only one who could help him. Look what happened when he shouted out to Jesus: “Many of the people scolded him and told him to be quiet” (Mark 10:48). They probably said things like, “Don’t do that. Be quiet. Don’t make a scene. Surely Jesus Christ isn’t interested in you. He has more important things to do.” The devil whispers things like that to lot of us every day. When that opportunity for faith comes into our heart, thoughts like, “God surely wouldn’t be interested in you” or “Don’t make a scene” or “What would people think of you?” may keep you from trusting God. When you see an opportunity to change, shouts from inside and around you tell you not to rock the boat which is still. But God is asking us to do something greater than we have ever done before: He’s asking us to depend on him completely. Don’t you think that’s going to feel a little bit scary? Of course it will. Bartimaeus was probably scared too, but here’s what he did: “But he shouted even more loudly, ‘Son of David, have mercy on me!’” (Mark 10:48). When God asks something of, you have a choice. Are you going to fall back on your fear and stay the way you are? Or are you going to tame your fear and step forward in faith. Let us come closer in our walk with Christ and trust Him completely and attempt greater things for our own blessing and for His glory. Lord search our hearts, save us from lack of faith and strengthen us constantly through your divine Word. In ..... If you are blessed with these devotions Pl forward to other groups and friends.. 💐🙏. For any queries or prayer request, you can call us / whatsapp us @ 91 9704028977. Benedict James Have a blessed time! Benedict James! 💐🌹🙋🏽‍♀️