Category: Fear Is A Liar

^“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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