Category: Fear Is A Liar

“¹³ I believe that I shall look upon the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living! ¹⁴ Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the Lord!” ~ Psalms 27:13-14

Chaos may be upon the Earth right now, but wait upon the LORD and believe that you will see the goodness of the LORD. Fear will try to tell you that God has forgotten you. Fear will try to tell you to panic. It will try to overcome you in every bit of your life, but God is that still whisper in the storm saying “I am God. Peace, be still.” Listen for that whisper and believe in the love God has for you.

During this time of panic, don’t allow fear to control you. God has not given you a spirit of fear, but of power and self-control. He has given you His peace. Pray and wait upon Him. When you do, you will see His miracles.

Peace. Love. Go Forth and Wait For The LORD.

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⁷ Some of them crossed the Jordan River and escaped into the land of Gad and Gilead. Meanwhile, Saul stayed at Gilgal, and his men were trembling with fear. ⁸ Saul waited there seven days for Samuel, as Samuel had instructed him earlier, but Samuel still didn’t come. Saul realized that his troops were rapidly slipping away. ⁹ So he demanded, “Bring me the burnt offering and the peace offerings!” And Saul sacrificed the burnt offering himself. ¹⁰ Just as Saul was finishing with the burnt offering, Samuel arrived. Saul went out to meet and welcome him, ¹¹ but Samuel said, “What is this you have done?” Saul replied, “I saw my men scattering from me, and you didn’t arrive when you said you would, and the Philistines are at Micmash ready for battle. So I said, ‘The Philistines are ready to march against us at Gilgal, and I haven’t even asked for the Lord ’s help!’ ¹²So I felt compelled to offer the burnt offering myself before you came.” ~ 1 Samuel 13:7-12 ^NLT

Saul and his men were afraid. They were terrified that the Philistines would attack them, but he waited for Samuel to come. Saul waits the seven days, but when Samuel still wasn’t there on the seventh day, Saul began to panic. He probably thought Samuel abandoned him and left him to fend for himself, so he moved without him.

When time seemed to be running out and the enemy closing in, Saul gave into fear and lost everything. He lost his entire kingdom to David. See God wanted to establish King Saul, but Saul’s lack of faith and disobedience made it impossible for God to use him.

Don’t believe the lie that fear screams at you. God isn’t too late. He’s always right on time. Have faith and be obedient, so that God may be able to use you and establish your name forever.

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“⁷ Some of them crossed the Jordan River and escaped into the land of Gad and Gilead. Meanwhile, Saul stayed at Gilgal, and his men were trembling with fear. ⁸ Saul waited there seven days for Samuel, as Samuel had instructed him earlier, but Samuel still didn’t come. Saul realized that his troops were rapidly slipping away. ⁹ So he demanded, ‘Bring me the burnt offering and the peace offerings!’ And Saul sacrificed the burnt offering himself. ¹⁰ Just as Saul was finishing with the burnt offering, Samuel arrived. Saul went out to meet and welcome him, ¹¹ but Samuel said, ‘What is this you have done?’” ~ 1 Samuel 16:1-4 ^NLT

Saul waited for Samuel as instructed until time seemed to be running out. Saul began to panic. His men were afraid. He was afraid. He couldn’t see all that God had done for him and through him. So he moved without God. He didn’t wait for Samuel as commanded, he waited as long as he saw fit to wait. He moved without God, and often times we do the same thing. We see the giants in the land, the enemy moving quickly, your company’s failing, your job’s hanging on by a tight thread, you don’t know how your gonna get through this storm. So we move on our own because we feel like God is late.

Fear grips us by the throat and refuses to let go. But Fear trembles in the presence of the LORD our God. We don’t have to be afraid of all the craziness going on around us. We don’t have to fear the war that we’re in because God is fighting for us. God is with us. We have to learn to listen to faith instead of fear. God will never let you down, He loves you more than you will ever know.

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“One day news came to David that the Philistines were at Keilah stealing grain from the threshing floors. ² David asked the Lord, ‘Should I go and attack them?’ ‘Yes, go and save Keilah,’ the Lord told him. ³ But David’s men said, ‘We’re afraid even here in Judah. We certainly don’t want to go to Keilah to fight the whole Philistine army!’ ⁴ So David asked the Lord again, and again the Lord replied, ‘Go down to Keilah, for I will help you conquer the Philistines.’ ⁵ So David and his men went to Keilah. They slaughtered the Philistines and took all their livestock and rescued the people of Keilah.” ~ 1 Samuel 23:1-5

Even though David just heard from God to go attack the Philistines and save Keilah, David’s men were afraid. They were terrified that them being few in number, would allow the whole Philistine army to obliterate them in battle. So what did David do? He asked God a second time. God didn’t get upset. He didn’t say, “Didn’t I just tell you what to do? What’s wrong with you?” No, He told them to go, and then added more, verse 4, “So David asked the Lord again, and again the Lord replied, ‘Go down to Keilah, for I will help you conquer the Philistines.’”

David’s men couldn’t see how they would be able to defeat such a large army being so small. They had to stories of Joshua and Caleb and the Nephilim, they had the stories of Exodus, they had the stories of Samson, but still fear was able to penetrate their heart. Fear was able to poison them with doubt, so God in His love and compassion reassured them that they wouldn’t be fighting alone. Instead, God would fight through them. God would defeat the Philistines for them.

How amazing is that? God would fight through them, so they had no reason to fear. God doesn’t change, so if He fought for them, He’ll fight for you. He’ll fight through you. When fear comes in with his lies and twisted self-image, ask God for confirmation, and He will remind you exactly who He is.

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“³³ And there we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim), and we seemed to ourselves like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them.” ~ Numbers 13:13

The Israelites had just come from victory after victory, but when they saw the Nephilim, they allowed fear to take over. Fear will distort your view of yourself. And when you see yourself as small and weak, then that is how others will begin to see you. The Israelites saw how great their opponents were and couldn’t see how great they were. They couldn’t see how blessed they were. They couldn’t see the strength that God gave them. They couldn’t see past the mask that Fear put on them. The Israelites saw themselves as Fear saw them, not as God did. Fear will distort your self-image. Don’t allow yourself to put on Fear’s mask. When that thought comes into your mind, cast it down in the Name of Jesus. Don’t accept anything less than what you deserve. You are a Child of God.

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^“35While He was still speaking, there came from the ruler’s house some who said, ‘Your daughter is dead. Why trouble the Teacher any further?’ ³⁶But overhearing what they said, Jesus said to the ruler of the synagogue, ‘Do not fear, only believe.’ ³⁷And He allowed no one to follow Him except Peter and James and John the brother of James. ³⁸They came to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and Jesus saw a commotion, people weeping and wailing loudly. ³⁹And when He had entered, He said to them, ‘Why are you making a commotion and weeping? The child is not dead but sleeping.’ ⁴⁰And they laughed at Him. But He put them all outside and took the child’s father and mother and those who were with him and went in where the child was. ⁴¹Taking her by the hand He said to her, ‘Talitha cumi,’ which means, ‘Little girl, I say to you, arise.’ ⁴²And immediately the girl got up and began walking (for she was twelve years of age), and they were immediately overcome with amazement. ⁴³And He strictly charged them that no one should know this, and told them to give her something to eat.” ~ Mark 5:35-43

Did you notice what Jesus told the ruler of the synagogue? He said in verse 36, “do not fear, only believe.” Do not fear only believe. The opposite of fear is belief. It’s faith. We have to trust God in order to receive what we pray for. In order to receive our requests.

Imagine if the ruler of the synagogue didn’t believe. The little girl wouldn’t have woken up. Why? Because he would have limited Jesus’ power. Mark 6:5-6, “5 And He could do no mighty work there, except that He laid his hands on a few sick people and healed them. 6 And He marveled because of their unbelief. And He went about among the villages teaching.” God is limited by our fears, our unbelief, our trust issues. We are the only ones who can limit God.

We don’t have to be Paul or Peter or John or any other of the new testament prophets in order to see the glory of God. We just have to have faith, and not allow fear to hold us back. The fear that what we pray for won’t come true. The fear that we will look a fool when it doesn’t come true. The fear that we don’t have the authority to do these miracles. The fear of absolute failure. Don’t limit God because of your fear, step out in faith and believe. That’s all you have to do is believe. Which is a lot easier said than done, but it is possible. Romans 10:17 tells us, “So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.”

If we want faith, we have to read our Bible daily. We have to have quiet time daily. We have to spend time with God daily. Not just once a week when we go to church on Sunday, but every day. We should start and end our day in God’s Word. Why? Because if we start our day with God, our mind starts out with clarity. With purity. With love. With joy. With peace. With the Armor of God, so that we can defend ourselves from the evil one when he attacks us during the day. It needs to be the last thing we do at night so that it seeps through our subconscious. Why? So that while we are asleep, our subconscious is on guard. So that our Spirit Man is strong and ready to defend when the evil one attacks us during our sleep, through our dreams. Our dreams are susceptible to the evil one if we are not on guard. If our Spirit Man is weak. We have to read our Bible so that we can grow our Spirit Man. We have to grow our Spirit Man so we can build our faith. We have to build our faith so we can defend ourselves from the evil one.

Peace. Love. Go Forth and Only Believe.

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“Noah did this; he did all that God commanded him.” Genesis 6:22

We always talk about having Faith like Abraham, but never Noah. Why? Let me put it into perspective. Never once had the Earth rained before the flood. Genesis 2:5-6 tells us a mist came up from the Earth and watered the Earth. “⁵ When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground, ⁶ and a mist was going up from the land and was watering the whole face of the ground—” Now this explains why no one believed that rain would fall from Heaven to cause a flood to destroy all of mankind because they never saw a raindrop before.

Imagine the faith it took for Noah to not only believe that it would happen, but he spent the next 120 years building an ark. He had not only faith but patience. This is where he and Abraham differ, because Abraham slept with Hagar to try to produce the child God promised, but only caused a problem for the generations to come. Whereas Noah never strayed from God’s plan. He waited with faith, patience, and obedience for 120 years.

Then the ark was finished. The ark was finally complete, but the rain still hadn’t started. Imagine the taunting he received. Imagine the doubt that tried to fill his mind. He just spent 120 years building an ark, but there’s no rain. Not a day after not even two days after. It took seven days after the ark was built, for the rain to come.

Then when they got into the ark, he needed faith again. Faith that when God shut that door, that door stayed shut. That door didn’t budge so that no water would enter the ark.

Then he needed faith that the ark would be able to withstand the aggression of the flood. He needed to have faith that the ark would not overturn or have a crack or leak.

Noah had to trust God about so many things that could very well put his life and the lives of the people he loved in danger. Imagine if we had faith like Noah. Imagine if we expected the best instead of fearing the worst. Imagine if we went out into our everyday life filled with the faith that God would shut us into our call and keep us safe from the flood of sin that plague the Earth.
We tend to walk into things with fear and worry, whether it’s our past we are afraid of coming back to haunt us or the fear of racism or sexism. We go into things with fear, instead of faith.

We’re using the wrong f word. It’s not an easy thing to change the way we think. We’re creatures of habit. But this isn’t an impossible task either. Whenever those fears try to overwhelm us, we have to change that thought. Whether we quote scripture or we pray, or we speak confident/encouraging words, the thought has to change.

Peace. Love. Go Forth and Change Your F Word.

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²⁸And when he came to the other side, to the country of the Gadarenes, two demon-possessed men met him, coming out of the tombs, so fierce that no one could pass that way. ²⁹And behold, they cried out, “What have you to do with us, O Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?” ³⁰Now a herd of many pigs was feeding at some distance from them. ³¹And the demons begged him, saying, “If you cast us out, send us away into the herd of pigs.” ³²And he said to them, “Go.” So they came out and went into the pigs, and behold, the whole herd rushed down the steep bank into the sea and drowned in the waters. ³³The herdsmen fled, and going into the city they told everything, especially what had happened to the demon-possessed men. ³⁴And behold, all the city came out to meet Jesus, and when they saw him, they begged him to leave their region. ~ Matthew 8:28-34

Fear can hold you back and stop you from getting your blessing. Imagine what more Jesus could have done in their region if they had not been afraid. If they had just had faith and brought him their sick. Brought him their hurting. Imagine how much more they would have gotten if they had just asked. The church has become like this. The church has become fearful of things we do not understand. Because we don’t understand power, we don’t seek it. Because we don’t understand prophecy, we don’t seek it. Imagine if we did.

Jesus said if we would only seek, we would find. If we would only ask, we would receive. But we are too afraid to seek things we don’t fully understand. Let us no longer be like the people of the Gadarenes, fearful and without faith, but instead let us be courageous and full of faith.

Peace. Love. Go Forth and Seek.

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