On Taking Fear Captive So We are Not Its Slave...

We demolish arguments and every pretension

 that sets itself up against the knowledge of God,

 and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ ...

2 Cor.10:5

Every so often I need to listen to this song 

because there are a LOT of 'what if's/fears that could hound/torment us!

Fear can be a hounding beast

Blinds us to God’s mercy-feast

Binds us to a yoke of dread

Makes hope feel heavy as lead

Keeps us from faith’s flying leap

Shackles us with doubt’s defeat

Cumbers us with load of care

Numbs us to the peace of prayer

Takes us captive lest we know

Faithful Words whereby we go

Makes us slaves, a faithless fraud

Instead of servants to God

Hold the hand that wears Love's Scars

Touch the hem that heals our hearts

When fear's hounding hellions rile

Turn the other cheek, (faith) and smile

© Janet Martin

 For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.

2 Tim.1:7