🌹Encouraging Mondays: Love That Casts Out Fear
💞Good, Blessed Encouraging Mondays, Family, Friends & New Encouragers!
📖SCRIPTURE READING — NLT
1 John 4:18
“Such love has no fear, because perfect love expels all fear.
If we are afraid, it is for fear of punishment, and this shows that we have not fully experienced His perfect love.”
🤔 ENCOURAGING MONDAYS REFLECTION
“When Love Drives Fear Away”
💕Family…
God is inviting us today to notice something gently but honestly:
fear cannot survive where His love is fully received.
This is not about pretending we never feel afraid.
It’s about recognizing that fear loses its authority when we are rooted in God’s love.
The Lord is gently reminding us that many of our anxieties, hesitations, and emotional defenses are not signs of weakness—but signals that His love wants to go deeper. God’s presence brings security, not pressure. His love reassures rather than intimidates.
This is not about performance.
This is about experience.
When we truly experience God’s love, fear no longer leads.
Love does.
🗝️Key spiritual truths highlighted today:
Love vs. fear
Peace vs. anxiety
Security vs. punishment
Alignment vs. emotional striving
🤔ENCOURAGING THOUGHT FOR TODAY
If you’ve been feeling:
anxious about the future
guarded in your relationships
afraid of getting it wrong
🤔Pause and remember:
You are not rejected.
You are not condemned.
You are not being tested.
God’s love is not threatening you.
God’s love is surrounding you.
God’s love is steady and secure.
🍲TEMPLE CARE CHECK-IN
Fear doesn’t only affect the mind—it affects the body.
This journey is not about guilt or extremes.
It’s about awareness, stewardship, and grace.
You may be:
calming your nervous system
learning to slow down
choosing rest over overexertion
paying attention to how stress shows up physically
And all of it still counts.
🥗 Gentle Temple-Care Truths to Reinforce:
Our bodies are God’s design
Stress follows fear; peace follows trust
Gentle routines support emotional and physical health
Awareness leads to freedom, not fear
🙏🏼 CLOSING PRAYER
LORD,
Thank You for loving us with a love that removes fear.
Help us receive Your perfect love more deeply.
Calm every anxious thought and unsettled place within us.
Teach us to live from security, not fear—
from trust, not worry—
from love, not striving.
Cleanse us.
Guide us.
Renew us.
In Jesus’s powerful, majestic name,
we praise and pray,
Amen.
✝️ DAILY PROCLAMATION
Before we close, I want to invite you—only if you feel led—to say a daily proclamation with me.
This is the proclamation I return to daily.
Not out of perfection, but out of surrender.
From Survival to Surrender — My Daily Proclamation
🙏🏼God, today I stop negotiating with You.
I stop hiding parts of my life behind excuses, wounds, and fear.
I stop managing sin instead of surrendering it.
I stop calling survival “strength” when it is really exhaustion.
I release every attachment that feels good but pulls me away from truth.
I let go of relationships, habits, and cycles that soothe me temporarily but cost me spiritually.
I acknowledge what I already know:
what does not align with You cannot heal me.
Today, I surrender control.
I surrender comfort.
I surrender timing.
I surrender the false intimacy I’ve used to avoid true wholeness.
I choose alignment over appetite.
Obedience over urgency.
Healing over hiding.
💞God, I no longer want to survive — I want to live whole.
I invite You into every area I’ve kept guarded, delayed, or divided.
Lead my life.
Heal my heart.
Reorder my desires.
From this moment forward, I choose surrender —
not because I am weak,
but because You are strong.
In Jesus’ name,
Amen.
😊 CLOSING BLESSING
Much love for you all!
Have an amazingly Blessed day and week.
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