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don't be ascared

8/13/2018

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Fear is the number one weapon of the devil, he is the administrator of fear.  You can tell a person to “fear not”, but encouraging words are not always enough.  Demonstrating courage is a great way to help people overcome their fears.  When I was a young boy my dad took my brother and I deep into the mountains.  We slept in the back of my dad’s forty-nine Chevy and Ididn’t sleep a wink.  I “imagined” all night long a bear or a mountain lion jumping on me for his dinner.  My dad slept like a baby all night long, I know because he snored all night long.  Dad said there was nothing to be ascared of, if I would have believed him I could have slept that night.
 
Hebrews 2:15 Jesus came to deliver them who through fear of (spiritual) death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
 
Before the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus men lived in constant fear of hell.  They did not know how to avoid the pit because they knew evil thrived in their lives.  Not knowing the truth, they fabricated something that offered an element of peace.  They began to invest their faith in the keeping of the law for their salvation.  They depended on their own conduct for their salvation, consequently, they had no need of God.  The law, just like “religion”, caters to the flesh and omits the things of the spirit.
 
2 Timothy 1:7 For God has not given us the spirit of fear.

Fear is a spirit sent by the devil to control our lives.  It abides with the faithless and the participants live in a constant state of fearful anticipation.  Whenever a person is under the influence of fear they will make irrational decisions.  Fear unchecked will always lead to panic and that’s exactly where the devil wants us.  Fear always expects the worst of a situation, faith always expects the best.  So, how do we overcome our fears and get into a life of faith?
 
1 Corinthians 14:5 I would that you all have inspired speaking, that the church may receive edifying.
 
God’s plan for your life is to put you in a good church that is appointed to build you up spiritually.  Reading your Bible and listening to teaching is a very needful part of the Christian life.  So, how long does it take to be rid of your fears?  Time is determined by two factors: how diligent you are to hear the Word and how great are the strongholds that fear has over you.  There is no spirit of fear that God’s Word cannot overcome.  I had a lot of fears in my life, maybe too numerous to count but one by one they fell away.  I did not “feel” them leave me but I know they left because I couldn’t find them in my life.  I did, however, find the peace of God.  The peace of God is not the absence of problems, it’s the presence of God.
 
 Fear and peace cannot occupy the same space at the same time.
 
We cannot balance our lives with a little God and a little devil simultaneously.  God will not share any part of our life with the devil.  We must choose between fear and peace, we must choose between God or the devil.  No fear here.

 

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    OFFERING DECLARATION
    Jesus Redeemed me from the curse, no poverty, no lack in my house.

    Wealth and riches in my home, the devil is rebuked for my sake.

    Father daily loads me with benefits, He takes pleasure in my increase.

    I love being redeemed,
    and I give my Lord all the glory.

    ​PRAYER FOCUS
    TAKING INVENTORY
     
    We are about to embark on the greatest adventure and outpouring of God’s Spirit! This month the Holy Spirit is asking us to examine ourselves/take           inventory so as God’s Vessels we can take our part and place in the Body of Christ!
     
    Scriptures to meditate on:
     
    Hebrews 12:1 Therefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily besets us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us.

    Psalm 26:4 Lord you can scrutinize me. Refine my heart and probe my every thought. Put me to the test and you will find it is true.
     
    2 Cor 10:6 It is written, and having a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.

    1 Peter 4:17 For judgement begins at the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God?
     
    Psalm 139: 23, 24 Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me of unbelief and lead me in the way everlasting.
     
    2 Timothy 2:4 No soldier when in service gets entangled in the enterprises of (civilian) life: his aim is to satisfy and please the one who enlisted him (God)! DO ALL FOR THE GLORY OF GOD!

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