My Faith Over Fear was Tested! 3-15-25

A week ago, I posted a message about the high price of eggs, and a conversation with a lady in the grocery store pertaining to sky high price of eggs. Well, a friend and were at Walmart a fews days ago and some of the eggs were more expensive.

Back to the story on last week, about “Faith over Fear,” it was brought to my remembrance about the tee shirt “Faith over Fear” that my niece was wearing almost two years ago and the reason she wore it because it was a testimony to others how the Lord had worked so marvelously in her life.

Her story was confirmation for me to write about the conversions in both stores pertaining to faith over fear because of the astronomical price of eggs. After writing the story, I felt that a test would be coming, and the thought left.

A few days later, one of my nieces had to take a six fifteen AM Amtrak train to Harrisburg, and she asked me to take her to Philly. I don’t like driving certain places when it’s dark and trying to get out of Philly at six o’clock AM had me tripping.

We  had to leave Jersey at five thirty. I had not driven to Philly in quite a while, because my nieces drove, or I would take the train. So, when she asked me, I agreed, but for the next few days I wouldn’t stop thinking about driving in Philly again, especially in a high traffic congested area. I kept thinking of different ways to get back across on of the bridges.

The night before we were to go to Philly, I started feeling a sense of calmness and accepted that this was a happening thing and I could not get out of it. My niece drove to Philly, and as we were going across the Walt Whitman Bridge, she said “I should have taken the Ben Franklin Bridge”

Hold on, you’ll see why she went across Walt Whitman Bridge. We arrived at the train station she told me how t get to the Ben Franklin Bridge; that’s the way she felt she should have gone to make it easier for me to get back to Jersey.

I told her that I knew how to take Thirtieth Street to my friend’s house on Baltimore Ave. I thought about visiting her and after rush hour head back to Jersey. Afterwards my thought was “She wouldn’t be up at six AM.

Well, well, well, I put on the GPS because it was dark, and thought it was navigating me the way I knew. It gave different directions; instructed me to go 76 east, but I got in the wrong lane heading 76 west and said, “Oh God!” However, I was determined not to go up 76 west; put my right signal on and waited. There was a long line of cars, and someone finally signaled me to proceed in from of them; praise God!

I headed toward Ben Franklin Bridge, and I was a happy person! My faith had kicked in and “I was thanking the Lord because I passed the test of “Faith over fear.”  Not only that, but my happiness also turned to Joy, and I cruised through some areas of Camden and then headed for home via the White Horse Pike (Route 30).

The message intended for the readers is, just because doubts and anxiety rise up when you are asked to do something that is completely out of the norm, and it takes you out of your comfort zone, don’t give up or give in to your fears because they come to test your faith. Without faith it is impossible to please God…. (Hebrews 11:6).

Be strong and courageous, do not be afraid or dismayed  because the Lord God is with me and you wherever we go (Joshua 1:9)  the joy of the Lord I can and you can do all things through Christ who strengthens us (Philippians 4:13) because the joy of the Lord is mine and your Strength (Nehemiah 8:10b).

Hang in there and “Keep on pressing forward” and Trust our Heavenly Father who watches over us!

His handmaiden, Betty A. Burnett ~ burnettministries.org