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•A Prayer for When You Fear Death•By Anthony Valente👉 “The LORD is my light and my salvation — whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life — of whom shall I be afraid?” (Psalm 27:1)Have you ever been stung by a bee? It’s not a fun experience. But though it’s painful for the person being stung, it’s fatal for the bee.When a honeybee stings a person, it can’t pull its little barbed stinger back out. This is a one-time experience for them. They had better think carefully about who they are going to sting, because once they do it, they are not going to survive.When a bee stings you, not only is the bee’s stinger left in you but also part of its abdomen and digestive tract, as well as nerves and muscles. This massive abdominal rupture kills the bee shortly after it stings.That is what happened when Jesus died on the cross. In his enduring hatred for God’s Son, satan thought it would be a great idea to have Jesus betrayed, arrested, beaten within an inch of His life, and then crucified and put to death on a Roman cross. The devil said, “This is my moment. I am going to sting Him. I will have a role in His death. When He dies, that is the end of Him.” Everything went according to satan’s plan, and like a bee, he flew off thinking he had succeeded.But everything went according to God’s plan as well, and the sting of death was its own defeat. As 1 Corinthians 15:54–55 says, “Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?”Where is the sting of death for the believer? It is ripped out, because at the cross, Jesus took the stinger out of death. This is a great truth. As Christians, we no longer need to fear death because our souls will live on forever with Christ.The only one who wants us to fear is the enemy of our souls.God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power and love and a sound mind (2 Timothy 1:7).satan knows he can’t go to heaven, so he wants to scare us about death. Let us pray.🙏 Heavenly Father, At times I become quite fearful about the prospect of death and dying, and Lord, I pray that You would help me to overcome this fear and enable me to see death from a heavenly perspective. I know Lord, that it says in Scripture that the death of Your saints is very precious to You and that it is better to be with You in heaven. I also thank You for Your promise that death has lost its sting and that the grave has lost its victory, through the glorious resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ, for which I praise and thank You. Father, I do thank You that You are my caring Shepherd and that even when I have to walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I do not need to fear, knowing You are with me every step of the way, to comfort and support. Help me not to fear but rather, may I rest my soul in You and trust that in all things, even in death, You will fulfill Your promise to be with me always and to carry me through, to the end — where eternal glory awaits me. Thank You Lord. I love You Lord.In Jesus' Name,AMEN 🙏 “Don’t let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, and trust also in me. There is more than enough room in my Father’s home. If this were not so, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you? When everything is ready, I will come and get you, so that you will always be with me where I am.(John 14:1-3)For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his.(Romans 6:5)It is the same way with the resurrection of the dead. Our earthly bodies are planted in the ground when we die, but they will be raised to live forever. Our bodies are buried in brokenness, but they will be raised in glory. They are buried in weakness, but they will be raised in strength. They are buried as natural human bodies, but they will be raised as spiritual bodies. For just as there are natural bodies, there are also spiritual bodies.(1 Corinthians 15:43-44)Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for You are with me;Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.(Psalm 23:4)He will swallow up death [and abolish it] for all time. And the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from all faces, And He will take away the disgrace of His people from all the earth; For the LORD has spoken.(Isaiah 25:8)And now, dear brothers and sisters, we want you to know what will happen to the believers who have died so you will not grieve like people who have no hope.(1 Thessalonians 4:13)Only in this way could he set free all who have lived their lives as slaves to the fear of dying.(Hebrews 2:15)“The waves of death overwhelmed me; floods of destruction swept over me. The grave wrapped its ropes around me; death laid a trap in my path. But in my distress I cried out to the Lord; yes, I cried to my God for help. He heard me from his sanctuary; my cry reached his ears.(2 Samuel 22:5-7)When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.” “Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?”(1 Corinthians 15:54-55)For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.(2 Timothy 1:7)For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.(John 3:16)But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ.(Philippians 3:20)He dreamed that there was a ladder (stairway) placed on the earth, and the top of it reached [out of sight] toward heaven; and [he saw] the angels of God ascending and descending on it [going to and from heaven].(Genesis 28:12)But when he saw the strong wind, he was afraid, and beginning to sink, he yelled, saying, "Lord, save me."(Matthew 14:30)(pic verse)"Father! You have given them to me, and I want them to be with me where I am, so that they may see my glory, the glory you gave me; for you loved me before the world was made.(John 17:24)Artist 👨‍🎨 I Am With You Always - David Delfeld