Fear.

Fear. What is fear? Fear is the anxiety that builds up inside you. Everyone suffers from fear, some more severely than others, but there is no escaping fear. 

Over the years my fears have built up and become worse and worse. I have an extreme fear of fire - to the point I still have nightmares about fire. Although the thing I am most fearful of is fire, it doesn't effect me as badly as other things I fear as fire is something I'm less likely to encounter. 

I do however have a fear of being on my own and being vulnerable, I'm a 17 year old girl who is very small and weak and would be useless in defending herself. I become 1000000x more aware of everything when I'm on my own, and I begin to become really panicky to the point its hard for me to breathe. If a van drives past me I panic even more (I blame that fear on Chitty Chitty bang bang's child catcher). 

Although fear has a tight hold of my life, when I am panicked and alone and scared I focus my mind on a psalm and I say it to myself over and over again, I pray that psalm and I feel God's peace being laid upon me. The psalm says "the LORD is my light and my salvation, of whom shall I fear, the LORD is the stronghold of my life, of whom shall I be afraid. When evil men advance against me they will stumble and fall" 

I hope this verse can help and encourage those of you who suffer with fear.