FEAR NOT

  How powerful, comforting, and heart-warning these words are to us!
 The invisible God is never far from any one of us, but His presence oftentimes seems distant, during times of deep distress and anguish of heart. But God in His wisdom, often waits for His distressed children to recognize that our deepest needs is the Lord Himself, and that our severe lack, can only be satisfied in Him as we come to Him in childlike dependence and trusting faith.
 God in His grace, often uses those times of darkness and distress to teach us important lessons of His grace, so that as we call out to Him for help and strength, we discover Him to be our great Support, our merciful Provider, the Rock on which we stand, and our heavenly Comforter.
 Often in His great wisdom, He will bring us to the end of ourselves so that we discover that He alone is our refuge and strength. 
 The prayer of helplessness is the simple sigh of the living soul, which is breathed into the heart of the living God. The whispered plea of dependent helplessness, rejoices the heart of God, and His immediate response is, "fear not, my child, I created you and purchased you, I died for you and I love you."
 When the eyes of the heart cling to the Lord in deep distress and childlike dependence, our muted voice is translated into an inner groan of the soul, and God draws near and He hears and responds to every cry of His children, with His gracious words of comfort, FEAR NOT.
You came near when I called you, and you said, “Do not fear.”

Our United Prayer:
Help us Lord, in our deep distress, in Jesus' name we Pray, AMEN.
You came near when I called you, and you said, “Do not fear.”