REPLACE FEAR WITH FAITH

Fear Paralyzes
And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the Lord, and proclaimed a fast
throughout all Judah. (2 Chronicles 20:3)
Jehoshaphat received a bad report concerning a multitude of enemy forces and his first
response was fear. This is understandable for, as we learned in the last chapter, the coalition of
enemy forces aligned against him were quite formidable.
Centuries later our immediate response to difficult circumstances has not changed. When
we receive a bad report or face a multitude of problems--when we don’t know what to do--we
usually respond with fear. Impossible situations are never resolved by fear, however, so the first
thing we must do when we don’t know what to do is replace fear with faith.