I have been struggling like I never have before with fear. Yall have no idea how much the devil has tried to make me give up on this blog! I have had "writers block" because of it for months and it has been driving me crazy!! But I don't want to give up and let the devil win so here I am trying my best to write something worth reading. ;)
So here it is,
FEAR
My preacher's definition of fear:
F-false
E-evidence
A-appearing
R-real
I realized a few weeks ago at the Women of the Well Conference that fear can actually be a good thing. Fear of the right things is okay. God made fear and everything God makes is good. I won't texted and drive because I am afraid of getting into an accident. I won't touch a burning stove because I am afraid of getting burnt. But the devil has his kind of fear and God has his. The devils best tool is fear. It is his power and he sure is good at using it! Fear from the devil is a lie. He knows what to say to make us fear. Unresolved fear will turn to doubt and unresolved doubt can turn to unbelief. I know this is true. The devil says God is nowhere to be found. God doesn't love you. You will never amount to anything. God doesn't really care. God didn't really save you. You are the same person you were before you "got saved." You listen to these lies long enough and you will begin to believe them. For months I have felt alone, lost, and totally not like myself. I have listened to his lies and I started believe them. I let fear take control. I let the devil feed my lies and control me through them.
But when I would feel overwhelmed I would run to my Bible and pray that the Lord would help me but while i read I would think in my head, "this isn't going to help." And just being honest, it didn't help. Didn't help one bit. I'll explain why in a bit. When fear has filled your heart you will be useless to God. Doubt is never from God and of course unbelief isn't either. God continously says in his word to believe. Believe. Somehow I had stopped believing the truth and started believing the lies Satan whispered to me constantly. I wondered why the Word wasn't helping me. I wondered why church wasn't helping me. But Sunday night I found out why. Fear is the opposite of faith. If you let fear in, it fills the area where faith ought to be. My preacher says, "fear or faith will drive you." Fear comes in and faith leaves; but I am thankful it works the other way around too...faith comes in and fear will have to leave! Faith says stand strong, fear says run away!
FAITH
Faith is the most powerful thing on earth. Faith, true faith that is, comes only from above. The lost have no idea what faith is, they think they do but they don't. If you have faith you can do anything, but if you have fear you can do nothing. When your faith is weak, you are weak. Faith leads to hope. Hope leads to confidence. I am the kind of girl that when I lose sight of Jesus, i lose sight of me. I don't know who I am without HIM. He completes me. I need him in order to be able to faith my fears! Without him I cannot make it.
Don't lose faith because...You can't be saved without faith. You can't please him without faith. You can't live unless you are living by faith. Faith is how we KNOW Jesus is the Savior. Your fears will always win without faith.
You can faith your fears because "Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world."(1 John 4:4)
The Lord showed me why I wasn't getting help when I asked. I did have enough faith to ask for help but I didn't have enough faith to believe or receive what he gave me. I had listened to the Devils lies so much that even the Bible wasn't helping me. Don't get me wrong..i never thought that the Bible wasn't true, i just felt like it wasn't working and it wasn't helping me. Preacher Shem preached a few messages at the beginning of this year about strongholds. It was the first time I had ever really heard about spiritual warfare. I learned from it, that the mind is the devil's playground. He can get in our head and if he gets in, it is pretty scarey! When you let fear win the strongholds (lies) of the devil get stronger. Only faith can pull them down. you can believe your fears or you can believe your faith. The Bible says to believe God no matter what. That is hard to do especially if you are not spending time in the word and praying. The Bible is our food and if you don't eat you will be weak. Believe God is near and you will feel him near. Believe what the Bible says..not what Satan whispers. The only way Satan can win is if he can make you believe the lies.
So we all have a choice to make. 1. Believe the truth (Jesus-he is the way, the truth, and the life)
2. Believe the lie (Satan).
The two are the total opposite. Jesus never lies but all satan does is lie and deceive the world. Jesus is humble, Satan is haughty. Jesus is life while Satan is death. Choose to believe the truth. Choose you this day whom ye will serve...(Josh 24:15).
And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.-Mark 9:24
I feel like this man at times, I do believe but I need Him to help me believe more! Peter is another person who believed but needed help with his unbelief. Peter believed but lost faith and began to sink. He took his eyes of the Savior and saw the sea. (Matthew 14:31 And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and caught him, and said unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?) He doubted because he let his faith get weak. I do commend him for being the only one brave enough to step off the boat and walk towards Jesus on the water. Atleast he had enough faith to take that first step. Who else on Earth can say they walked on water?? no one! But he lost focus and began to worry but Jesus caught him and saved him from sinking! I am glad when our faith is barely there HE will lift us back up and remind us that he will always be there and never let us down! I was looking at the word "always" the other night at church. Always to me means all the time, always...but I saw it a little different. Always=all ways. No matter the way he is always there. No matter the storm he is always there! All the ways there are to go, Jesus is always there :)) This is where I am now...I am choosing to believe but I need him to help me with my unbelief. The devil will still tell you lies, just remember he is a liar. Faith your fears!! We must put up our shield of faith.--> Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.-Ephesians 6:16 Without faith the darts will hit you and harm you.
Here are a few faith verses:
2 Corinthians 5:7 For we walk by faith, not by sight.
Philippians 4:13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
-believing "I can" is your faith. "Christ" is your faith.
-In my Bible I have written, "strengthen: to put power in." Faith is your power.
Romans 4:19 And being not weak in faith...
2 Corinthians 1:24 Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand.
Hebrews 10:23 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)
Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence
of things not seen.
Hebrews 11:3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by
the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do
appear.
Hebrews 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
Hebrews 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
*ALL verses are from the KING JAMES BIBLE.*
The word fear is in the Bible 385 times! Faith is only mentioned 231 times. The phrase, "Fear not" is in the bible 63 times. I looked these up. Pretty interesting.
Faith your fears! You can't win without Jesus! Don't listen to the lies of the devil!
-megan :)
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