Fight Flight or Freeze- Power of Gods Word in Times of Distress- Fight Flight or Freeze

[00:00:00]: Today's podcast is going to be focused on three particular scriptures and it's entitled The Power God's Word in times of distress.
Now, I love this scripture in Romans 8 and it says that what shall we then say to these things if God before us, who can be against us?
Now, that is a really, really powerful scripture that whatever things are going on for us in our lives in times of distress when everything seems to be against us, you know? At the moment we're dealing with the coronavirus, COVID-19 and we're hearing stories every day of distressing situations where people are losing loved ones, we're losing loved ones close by us, you know, and it's not that far away thing that you hear about in a country somewhere else across the globe, it is affecting us on our doorsteps. But what can we do when we are in times of distress? And dealing with such traumatic situations that are literally affecting our daily lives and everybody around us? Well, we've got to know that there is an outside force that is greater, that is more powerful than anything that is created and made on this earth.
The second thing that I take comfort in with the scriptures is that the verse that says, who shall separate us from the love of Christ shall tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword. And you might be thinking, why do I take comfort in this particular scripture? Because it tells us that we can find homage in God in his son Christ Jesus. Even when the highest of tribulations come upon us personally, socially, economically, environmentally, and health-wise as well.
So persecution, famine, nakedness or peril or sword, who shall separate us from the love of God. None of these things can take us away from that God-centered love that can be around us and give us the piece that we need even in the most distressing times. And I believe that it's so key that in times like this now that we focus on things that are going to lift us up and build us up rather than focusing on the news that the media present to us on a daily basis, shared in a post or a podcast previously where all I'm hearing every day is the word Covid, 19, Covid, 19, Covid, 19.
And to be quite honest, I am sick of it because what I want to be hearing is actually, we are stronger than any man-made things.
When you set your mind on positivity, when you set your mind on higher thinking and higher consciousness and have faith that surpasses all natural understanding, believe me, anything that seemed to be insurmountable to us, we can now put that into perspective and there are some key things that we need to do in order to be able to Take control of the things that seem impossible.
Number one is used divine wisdom now, we can't take things for granted because we live in an earthly body okay? And therefore there are rules and there are laws for us operating in this realm. So we know that if we take a knife to our hand and we slice it, we are going to bleed. So we can't be so supernatural and so out of this world that we become unwise. So there are laws around protecting ourselves, laws that govern this land. And it's really important that we uphold those laws. Because I know for a fact that if I mix my faith with practical knowledge and wisdom, then I've got a winning double combination there. But if I just focus solely on my faith and my trust only then I'm being completely unwise. So we need to join the two things together. Those of you that are believers in the bible and know your word. You'll understand the scripture that saves faith without works is dead. So in other words, it's futile. Okay, but the last most empowering thing that want to leave with you is that in the same scripture Romans 8? It says verse 37, that we inane all of these things that we are more than conquerors through him that loves us. All right, I'm going to just repeat that We are more than conquerors through him that loves us. Now. That word conqueror means that you have had to go through a battle. It means that you have had to overcome. It means that you have had to withstand. It means that you have had to weather storms All right. And I want to refer to storms as anything that is traumatic in your life right now. Okay, So we might be weathering the storm of coronavirus. Okay. It is no different from the plagues that we're here in the early years. influenza flu polio. All of those things that came to our forefathers in their time, yes, lives sadly, we're lost. But ultimately out of that comes new birth. So, I believe we are going through a transition period right now where we're shedding old skin a bit like a caterpillar that needs to transition into a beautiful butterfly. It depends on your perspective. It really does depend on how you look at this. So, there are three things that you can ultimately do. Okay. One of them is that you can freeze. That means y...