Do Not Fear: God is With You
When I read somewhere that “Do not fear” occurs in the Bible 365 times—once for each day of the year, I wanted to take a look myself and find all those instances. There are not 365 instances, by the way, but there are however a lot of verses where God gives the command to not fear. I want these verses to remind you, and me, that God is always for us, fighting our battles, seeing us in the midst of our circumstances, and through it all, He wants us to trust Him and not be afraid. The verses show the different circumstances people faced in the Bible and in those circumstances, the Lord says, “Do not fear,” or, “Do not be afraid.” I hope you'll find these verses encouraging and applicable to your own life, and that you'll always remember: no matter what is happening in your life or in the lives of those you love, with God on your side, there is nothing to fear. After searching for verses that contained or dealt with the command not to fear, I categorized them in three different c