From Fear to Freedom

Posted on June 04, 2013 by Krissti Bryant, One of Thousands of Christian Coaches on Noomii.

I remember in 2000 starting my business with a $75 computer and my first clients being a little German couple who were just a sweet blessing. As the business slowly grew I would manage that while managing a full-time job, marriage, and children. I was scared to venture out on my own. I had so many opinions from so many people and at times I felt trapped as if moving forward was not an option. There were so many times I tried to take that step into FREEDOM, but FEAR stopped me dead in my tracked I allowed any and every thing around me to become a hindrance.

FEAR was definitely my tormentor in fact it became my tormentor in more then one way. It stopped me from being the person that GOD called me to be an it stopped me from being ME and not what other wanted me to be. I craved FREEDOM and at times cried out for FREEDOM and just didn’t have the strength to reach up and get it. I had been in church all my life I knew who Jesus was I knew what he had done for me, but I was STUCK in FEAR and I found out the FEAR became the norm for me I got comfortable. It was as if I liked being a puppet told what to do while hanging on a string. I could not and will not blame anyone, but myself I had a choice. In 2009 I began to get tired of my NORM I wanted out I tried my way and trust me that did not work in fact it only brought more heartache. I tried following my friends and that did not work either I was still trying to be someone else. In 2011 I met a very special GODLY group of women that really were an encouragement and they encouraged me to be ME. Yes ME except I really didn’t know who ME was. So I began the journey to find out who ME was. Thus began my journey to FREEDOM.

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. Psalms 139:14

“Perfect love casts out Fear”

Part of my path to FREEDOM was beginning to think for myself, beginning to get to know me, beginning to search the Lord for myself, and beginning to get in the word for myself. God had definitely began a new work in me when I started out on this part of my journey. My spiritual life began to grow, my love for Lord and his people began to grow, my marriage grew, my children grew, and my business began to grow. It was amazing I was confident that the Lord was going to do what he said he was going to do. I knew that he was going to fulfill the promises in my life. With the Lord’s help I have given FEAR a kick in the butt! For the first time in years I got a hair cut I liked and I even found a fashion I liked. I talk about the Lord all the time he is the reason I have been delivered and set free.

I went to a retreat this past weekend and the Lord once again showed up and showed me somethings I needed to do. He told it was time to change my business direction. In my mind I was saying “Really Lord I just made all these changes” and he said “Yes YOU did”. So now to his pans once again and not my own. After coming back I decided I was going to do what the Lord had told me to do I was not going to kick against the brick I am FREE. So thus begins the next part of my journey “A Shifting”. He created a divine connection and he disconnected my mind from FEAR. Without him I can do nothing. Whenever FEAR tries to rise back up I remember this scripture:

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. 1 John 4:18

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