BEYOND FEAR

EVERYTHING YOU WANT IS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF FEAR.

Fear is inevitable.  We have to accept that.   But we cannot allow it to paralyze us.  Fear of the unknown is natural.  But don't fear failure.  Fear being in the exact same next year as you are today.

I never thought my blog and notes from my mirror would actually become a book.  But I overcame my fear, and here I am today, six months after publishing my first book.  "Lessons From My Mirror - Change Begins with Me" has received 5-star reviews on Amazon and has been approved for publication in the Pentecostal Publishing House book store and magazine.  My life will never be the same.

I told myself when I published my story, "If it helps one person, it is a best-seller to me." I am so thankful to everyone who has purchased it, shared it on social media and reviewed it on Amazon.

Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations. Never regret anything in your life. Learn the lesson from the experience and take it with you on your journey forward.

I am so excited about this new journey and looking forward to the lessons I will be learning along the way.

JEALOUSY

Proverbs 13:14 says a heart at peace brings life to the body, but envy rots the bones.

Job 5:2:  Resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.  

HUMILITY is recognizing that a person is more talented than me.  That person is smarter than me so I should learn from them.  That person is really anointed I could use their prayers. JEALOUSY says, what does that person have that I don’t have?  Or why does that person have what I don’t have?

We don’t know we have jealousy until we see the manifestation of it in our actions.

We know what fear feels like. We know when we are angry. But jealousy does not have its own emotion.  We have to look at the outward emotions in order to reveal jealousy. Fear, depression, anger, resentment.

Genesis 4:5 says Cain was very angry and his face was downcast.  He showed two emotions:  anger and depression.  The Bible does not use the word jealous, but we all know Cain’s problem was jealousy toward his brother.  His problem wasn’t that someone else did better than he did. His brother was right and he was wrong.  He was not sorrowful, he was jealous.

No one wants to admit they are jealous. When God asked Cain what was wrong, he wanted to know what is the real problem here.  We can see it in others but we don’t want to admit it. We would rather say we are angry, or depressed.  But the way you know it is jealousy is when your anger or depression has to do with someone else.  What they are doing or what you are perceiving their actions are is causing these emotions.

JEALOUSY is when there is a third party involved and you are afraid of losing that person’s first affection. ENVY is when you feel you are entitled to what someone else has.  In the Greek and Hebrew there is no distinction between the two.  So now, normally in the English language the two interchangeably.