Grounded to be Mobilized
- Latoya Hazell-Alcide
- May 17
- 3 min read
Updated: May 17
Originally published on www.messagemagazine.org
The Times We Live In (Luke 21:11)
What a serious, interesting, hopeful, concerning, awakening, and anticipatory time we live in! In the last 10 years the news airwaves have brought to our view in the world and in our backdoors and prophet lenses.
Great Earthquakes: just this year significant earthquakes have quaked rare and diverse places.
Magnitude 7.7 and 6.7 earthquakes Myanmar, March 28 (12 minutes apart)
Magnitude 3.9 earthquake WNW of Independence, Utah, May 1
Magnitude 5.6 earthquake S. Virgin Islands, May 4
Famines
Populations facing extreme hunger. Compassion International reports One-third of the world’s food is wasted every year. If one-fourth of the food wasted across the globe could be recovered, it could feed 870 million people. An estimated 45 percent of deaths of children under age 5 are linked to malnutrition.
USDA Economic Research Service reports of the US population in 2023
4 million people lived in food-insecure households.
2 million adults lived in households with very low food security.
The World Health Organization (WHO) cautions in their Disease Outbreak News (DONs), “The events reported in the DON is not an exhaustive list of events that WHO is responding to globally but include those that meet the criteria for information to be made available to the public.”
4/17/2025 | Avian Influenza A(H5N1) – Mexico
4/11/2025 | Invasive meningococcal disease – Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
3/27/2025 | Measles – United States of America
01/20/2025 | Chapare haemorrhagic fever- the Plurinational State of
10/3/2024 | West Nile virus – Barbados
Fearful Events (World and history changing/fear inducing events)
Nuclear War/Armed Conflicts: There are over 110 global armed conflicts, some spanning over 50 years.
Government Elections (Papal Elections/US Elections)
Climate Change (Tsunamis, Melting Glaciers, etc.)
Terrorism/School shootings (Local and international)
Death
Fight or Flight
That was a lot to digest wasn’t it? Absolutely and if we stay solely focused on what is happening in the world and around us, we will be locked into a vicious fight or flight cycle of responses: increased heart rate, increased blood flow, adrenaline spikes, and all heightening of our senses.
It’s not abnormal to have these reactions, but our swiftness in rebounding is most important. Our survival, preservation of quality of life, faith is dependent on. But fear must also be discussed in the light of a grounded relationship with God.
One of the most widely used scriptures about fear is 2 Timothy 1:7 (NLT) “For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline.” It may seem contradictory that we have not been given this heart of fear, however, throughout the Old and New Testament in the Bible there are countless stories of fear and timidity both amongst the people of God and from Jesus’ followers. Taking a look at stories from Adam and Eve afraid to face God, to Gideon hiding in a winepress, Jonah running away from God, Moses timid and doubtful, David fearing his enemies to the disciples afraid in the storm, afraid of the demoniac, afraid of capture at Jesus’ death and the list goes on and on, down through the ages into 2025. Fear and timidity is gripping the world and in these United States.
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