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Friday! Proverbs!
The fear of the Lord 
leads to life,
So that
one may sleep satisfied, untouched by evil.
Proverbs 19:23 NASB
This can't mean that if you're a Christian that nothing bad can happen to you at night. 
Wouldn't this be nice if it was an automatic formula for removing bad dreams, nightmares, those dreams that seem so real...
I think the key is the word "satisfied".
When I'm hungry, & then have a meal, my appetite is sated. It's satisfied.
Next day, my appetite is back, unsated, unsatisfied.
When the nightmares come, when I can't sleep, when my fear and anxiety is unsated, unsatisfied, I keep going back to who God is.
His purposes.
His love.
His grace.
His expression of love embodied in Jesus, my living hope.
Keep going back to His Truth spoken, and let those words speak into my fears, thoughts.
Ask His Spirit to commune, to speak into my fear.
Just like I need to keep eating to satisfy, to sate my hunger, so I need to keep going back to Him.
Yahweh.
Emmanuel.
God with us.
And in that process, there is life, hope, and change :)
#with
#somethingtochewon
#speaklife

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