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When Fear Grips You, Remember God’s Faithfulness

Writer's picture: Yolanda BillingsleaYolanda Billingslea

Updated: Apr 5, 2024

 

This morning at about 10:22a.m., while I was taking a bubble bath and listening to a sermon by Bishop T. D. Jakes (titled: Bigger Than You Think), all of a sudden, I felt and experienced my building/my apartment/my bathroom shake violently for almost a minute, which I found out later was caused by an earthquake of a 4.8 magnitude.


It honestly felt like my building was going to collapse and crumble and instantly I became terrified. Fear gripped me. And then I promise you, like a few seconds later, I remembered God and how He has always protected me, and I said to myself, “whatever is going on, God is not going to let anything happen to me.” That thought and fact calmed me down, and then I continued to enjoy my bubble bath and be blessed by the sermon that I was listening to.


Friends, the only way I was able to recover from fear so quickly and dismiss it from my mind and my spirit, and in the same moment, think about God’s faithfulness - is because I have recently trained my mind to do this. My Blog Post for yesterday, 4.4.2024, is titled: Train Your Mind.


Yesterday, after I completed that Blog Post, I promised myself and God that I would train my mind in a way as to not allow what is going on around me - to get inside of me, so that I can have a healthy mind and keep it that way. And this morning when I woke up and prayed and talked to God, I told Him again that I would train my mind in order to have peace in the middle of a storm and in the face of whatever difficulties I encounter.


I can tell you though that when the earthquake happened… when my building and bathroom started shaking and rumbling in a way that my upstairs neighbor could not have caused with moving even the heaviest piece of furniture, my initial reaction was to jump out of the bathtub (I was about to… I was in motion), grab my towel, and run out of my bathroom, exit my apartment, and then my building.


That is how the old Yolanda would have reacted, out of fear. By the “old Yolanda”, I mean the me, prior to yesterday, who had not yet trained her mind. The Yolanda who would have let that earthquake experience overtake her with fear and fill her with anxiety for the rest of the day and night, and for God knows how long after that.


However, the aforementioned did not occur because the new Yolanda remembers always that God is in control and that He got her back and will always protect her.


The new Yolanda remembered today - all that God has promised her and knew that there was no way (regardless to what catastrophe was taking place) she was going to die in her bathtub.


Satan wanted fear to overtake me so that he could have my mind, but that same spirit that raised Jesus from the dead, is inside of me, and with that, I have power and authority to rebuke the enemy (and I did) and rebuke storms and speak to winds and calm them. And so, as the song says, “I aint never scared” … anymore. Lol


I know without a doubt that I have inside of me what I need to go through and get through anything; and that is the Holy Spirit/the spirit of God.


Glory to God! I made myself proud today. I believe that I made God proud too. I truly believe that today was a test for me.


Friends, you have to learn how to train your mind. If you have not done so already, read my Blog Post from yesterday, 4.4.2024.


You have to train your mind. I did.


Thus, from now on, I will have peace in the middle of any type of storm and I will sleep comfortably through storms just like Jesus did (while on the boat with His disciples), knowing that I got this. Because I do. I got this!


Today, I have so much confidence in my Father, God. I know that He has his angels encamped all around me at all times.


And today, I have so much confidence in myself, as His daughter, whom He has chosen, and whom He has anointed, and whom He loves, and whom He is pleased with.


My enemies and no devil in hell, can stop me from getting to what God has for me.


So yeah… today I experienced an earthquake, while in a very vulnerable situation at that (I was in the bathtub), but I did not and will not ever let nothing shake my faith (literally).


Be encouraged! God loves you.


Love and peace,


Yolanda Billingslea


FYI: My Facebook Page name is Yolanda Billingslea (my profile picture has "Unbreakable" across it). Be inspired and encouraged by my daily posts.

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Scriptures:


Greater is He that is in you, than He that is in the world.  – 1 John 4:4


For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.  – Jeremiah 29:11


The same Spirit of God, who raised Jesus from the dead, lives in you.  – Romans 8:11


The Lord is trustworthy in all He promises and faithful in all He does.  – Psalm 145:13

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Song: Don't Let Nothing Shake Your Faith by the Consolers


It is an old Gospel song that my grandmother, Ruby Jean Walls, used to always sing when I was growing up. Sleep in peace mommy. I love you always.



 

 

 

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