Faith Trumps Fear in 2022 - Let us BELIEVE

Actually, FAITH always trumps fear...but this is definitely something that God is underlining/highlighting right now. There has been far too much fear dominating the Body of Christ globally. The fear has taken many different forms - from the fear of a virus that 99.83% of the people who contracted it survived without treatment, to the fear produced by the global political/financial developments and uncertainties, to the fear of the so-called "vaccine" (which they are NOT) mandates. 

Everything has been and is being exposed. Who actually HAD faith? What do Christians believe about God's protection and His promises of healing? What about His promises to provide for His people? Everything has been shaken. And the glorious thing is that we KNOW that the testing of our faith produces something. It produces endurance. 

What does James say? 

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. (James 1:2-4)

There might not be verses that have been proven to be less applied/believed than these in God's Word. Did we consider things "joy"? Have we KNOWN that the testing of our faith (which it has been) produced something? Did it produce that? And the verses go on to describe things that I've NEVER heard a Christian Bible teacher expound on what the rest of those verses mean...especially the description of being "perfect and complete" and "lacking in nothing".

Let us BELIEVE these verses in 2022. Let us rise up and overcome our fears, our apprehensions, our concerns, our uncertainties. God is working in our lives and His Word is true. Let these "testings" produce endurance in our lives (if they haven't already) and then we can look forward to whatever it means to be "perfect and complete"... I know that I've experienced the endurance part. And of course, I want to continue to see that fruit in my life. But let us press on...let us continue. Let us believe that this will be the greatest year of our lives.