Extinguishing the Spirit of Fear: 30 Devotions to Battle Fear and Anxiety

If fear and anxiety are things you struggle with, let's walk this path together and find help.

We fear what is awaiting us with every new day. We're anxious to find a place where we feel we belong, like we're accepted. We stay awake at night thinking of all the work we've yet to finish, and we turn on the news only to find more reasons to lose sleep.

Another shooting. Another contentious election. Another untimely death.Another reason to fear and let anxiety blow the sails of our souls.What are we to do?

A brief Google search offers an abundance of cures. Our problem is we're unhealthy, so here's a 6-week exercise program with guaranteed results. The problem is you're using the wrong productivity system so you're behind and anxious. Buy this book and its corresponding 3-month planner. Actually, what you need are more Instagram followers. Once you hit 2,000 everyone will love you and you'll never be stressed again!Here's the truth.

The problem is they don't go deep enough. They don't bring us to the root of our anxiety. It's like slapping a band aid on a flesh wound; they bring only marginal healing.

What's needed is to go deeper because when you get down to the root, when you dig through the fog of anxious despair, you find there's another reality, another dimension hardly spoken of. This is the dimension of the soul.

We are not only flesh and bones but also souls. Souls who are crafted by divine fingers for something more than what this world has to offer.

In this kingdom we find promises which are kept, words which will never perish, and a God who has a personal history with anxiety and fear. A God who took on human flesh to free us from our anxious plight.If you keep looking, you'll find an endless supply of reasons for your heart to be troubled. If you look to the Man Christians call Messiah, you'll find an endless supply of reasons for your heart to have peace. In the process, you'll find peace isn't a thing to be had but a God to hold onto.

What you'll find in these pages isn't a quick fix or a one size fits all solution. No. You might not find anything, in fact. Or you may just find your whole being re-oriented at your deepest level. You may find that peace you've always been looking for.

You may find yourself with Jesus of Nazareth.