✝️🙏🏼 'Exhaling Fear' 🗣💜

✝️💙🙋🏻‍♂️ This post is going to be a tough one for me to write, because, it's about the terrible struggle through which my father experienced - the last four months of his life. Yesterday, Wednesday, the seventeenth of Oct., was the twelfth year since he passed away, so, I am, once again, thinking about his, and our, "nightmare!" 💔😢🙏🏼 I've "shared" some of it in previous posts, however, this one is going to be deeper, and, more detailed. 😔🙏🏼 First, and for most, I am incredibly grateful for the comfort that I've sensed from the Holy Spirit throughout dad's - AWFUL, MEDICAL ORDEAL, passing on (death), funeral activities, and, continued living without him the past twelve years.  I am also grateful for the peace in which I have within me, in believing, based on his profession of faith in Christ Jesus, as his personal Savior, that, he is with HIM in Heaven (2 Corinthians 5:6)! 🙌🏼✝️😇     🤔😜 OOPS...as I was thinking upon my poppa, for this post, and, his terrifying ordeal, etc., I realized that, I HAVE indeed, already written about all of this (in as much detail as I choose to share), in, one or more, previous posts! 😫 Therefore, I am choosing to write about something else! 😏 I'm sorry, dad, and ya'll (blog readers)!! ☺️😊💗 I LOVE YOU, DADDY! 💙 We'll be reunited soon (based on "eternal time" 🕰)! ✝️...Now...to think of another subject about which to "BLOG!!" 🤔🤔🤔🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼..."Please, help me, Jesus!!" 😌✝️🙏🏼💜...Okay...I've got it! 😘 SO, 'Fall/Autumn' is here! 👍🏼😃🍁 And, exactly like so many other situations which confront me in life, I was not ready for it, whenever it arrived, a couple weeks ago, even with as much as I love it!! 😏 A few years ago, whenever, the realization hit me that, I seemed to struggle with preparation in being ready - when the "future" would suddenly become the "present," and /or, the "unexpected!" 😮 Knowing that I'd become this way, really bothered me! I didn't used to be like this! Therefore, I decided then, that, I'd purposely attempt to do better at being prepared for - the such! 🤗 BUT, anymore, sometimes I'm ready for "whatever comes," and, sometimes, I'm NOT!! For example, here are some things for which I'm usually unprepared, and/or, overwhelmed, whenever they occur:  season changes, holidays, birthdays, graduations, Etc....the examples are endless- really! 😏😳 I have improved since that acknowledgement, but, there's definitely room for even more improvement! 🙏🏼 There are many obvious (to me) contributing factors, as to why I have developed this behavior, and, probably other negative ones, of which I'm unaware, also. 😔 I'm trusting 'The Lord' to help me to do better in this area of my life, and, several other areas, too! 😳🙏🏼💜 I wonder if there are any more of you, out there in "Blogland," who also deal with this?! 😗 For me, it correlates with the, anxiety and dread, with which I've also been battling for a couple years.  Through prayer, faith, etc., God has helped me with all of this!  However, I'm excited for the day when I receive the total manifestation of the victory that I have through Christ Jesus, concerning these tormentors!  It is not only with major matters, but, it is with minute occurrences, oftentimes, too!  I hate it!  Prayer is the main way in which I combat it, and, I haven't gone insane yet, so, HE IS answering me, and, is getting me through this, and, many other, situations and circumstances, as HE has throughout eons of years! 🙌🏼🙏🏼 "THANK YOU, LORD!" 😃✝️  Lately, I've really been trying to think ahead, and prepare for, the knowns, and, the unknowns, which, I realize shall come upon me, "as sure as night follows day!" 😘 I'm also getting pretty good at - "casting ALL of my cares upon HIM" (1 Peter 5:7+8)! 🙏🏼✝️ It is now Friday morning, and, I've decided just this a.m., that, I'm going to keep trusting God to do HIS part in helping me with this, and with everything, and, I'm going to "CHILL," while, I LET HIM help me DEAL with whatever, bombards and overwhelms, WHENEVER "IT" HITS me!! 😌🙏🏼 By HIS GRACE, ETC., I can do this (Philippians 4:13-19)! 😳🙏🏼✝️🙌🏼 On 'Pinterest,' I recently saw a "pinned" pic of a Wolf, with the words written on it, "I breathe in COURAGE, and exhale FEAR!"  This is exactly what I need to do, in Jesus', name and power, of course!!  Most of these kind of issues, are rooted in fear, somehow. 🙏🏼✝️🙌🏼 It needs to become like breathing, and, not simply whenever I "happen" to think of it! Why are bad habits SO much easier to establish than good ones?! 😩 The good Lord has brought me through innumerable "insurmountable" (in my 💭 thinking) circumstances, situations, ordeals, etc., and, although, these current "tormentors," honestly "seems" unbeatable to me, I am "hoping against hope," and, praying (trying to do so - in faith-believing) that, actual victory shall come to me, concerning the - unpreparedness (and, the sensation of feeling overwhelmed - when things hit me, and, I'm not prepared, etc.), anxiety, dread, etc.!  I appreciate any of you who would be willing to pray, and, agree with me about this (in Jesus' name)!  I sincerely, thank you!! 💗 I'm praying for any of you (blog-readers) who, also, deal with these types of "tormentors," etc.! 😘🙏🏼✝️💜 Most Believers have various, personal struggles (different and similar to mine), issues, battles, etc.!! 😢 Just because someone doesn't, broadcast, or even express, that they have "tormentors," doesn't mean that, they don't have them! 😉 Anyway, we need to lift 'The Body of Christ' (as a whole, and, individually) up in intercessory prayer, continually, for God's perfect will to be done - in all ways! 🙏🏼✝️🙏🏼 Whenever, brothers and sisters, unite - in prayer - agreeing - in Jesus' name, God magnificently answers (Matthew 18:19)!! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 We need to do this, so that, we can, walk in victory, as individuals, and as, HIS CHURCH! 📖✝️🕊 This is one very crucial way in which we may, honor and glorify, HIM, to an observing world!  The world needs to see a victorious Church, so that, it (individual sinners) shall have a desire to be part of this wonderful, "supernatural organism!" ✝️ The world (people/sinners), also, needs to see us - victoriously leaning (not an oxymoron here) on "HIS everlasting arms!" 😌 I, for one, am going to be praying that, each of us (Believers) shall, get the victory (practically), in which, we already have, (positionally - "in Christ"), and that, is available to us (through the finished work of 'The Cross' of Christ)! ✝️ I, sincerely hope that, you agree - with me - in prayer - and - in faith, also! 🙏🏼✝️🙏🏼 Because, after all, we're all a part of a "spiritual family," and, this is yet, another, little way that, we can love one another (because we should, and, it is a good witness to the world - John 13:35), and, offer, a small, but, mighty deed, in which, each of us is able to contribute, that, can make a positive difference, and, huge impact, for the cause of Christ, while we all "co-exist," in this big, bad, wild, wonderful, etc., 🌎 world (compliments of God - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit)! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼✝️...😘💖😊...👋🏼...until next post...