Fear

Fear.

We have been teaching on fear for many weeks now. Not only have I been teaching about it to children and women but God has been teaching ME about it as well.

What have I learned about fear?

• It is one of the main tools of the enemy. He wants us to be completely distracted and immobilized by it. He is good at what he does.

• The Bible talks about fear 365 times through out, once for everyday of the year. I fully believe that is no coincidence.

• Many times when the Bible says "Do not fear" it is followed by, "I am with you." 
• Isiah 41:10 - "So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
• Matthew 14:27 - "But Jesus immediately said to them: "Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid."

• Fear needs to come up and OUT of us so that God can replace that fear with good things.

This is a quote that has popped up in my Facebook feed this week:
"Faith changes your perspective from saying "I'm afraid" to saying "I'm excited." - Steve Mason

• This is the exact story of my life. Many of my fears have been turned into things that I am very excited about!
• Public Speaking
• Rain Storms (obviously not bad ones)
• Being alone
• Praying out loud
• Singing/worshiping in front of others

As we have been teaching about fear there have been many fears bubble up inside of me and I have been able to let it come up, feel it, let it go and allow God to connect pieces of my past and present and allow Him to fill me with TRUTH.

I had three days of intense fears and feelings coming up and out of me. And while those three days were hard they were good because I was able to learn more about myself and release more fears to the Lord.

Over the next blog post or two I am going to be sharing some of our teaching about fear in hopes that it too will bless you, free you and help you grow so much more in the Lord just like I have.

What a wonderful thing it is to let go of the things holding us back and have freedom in Jesus Christ our Lord!

Father, today I pray for the one trapped in fear. I pray for freedom. I pray that these readers would be able to easily identify their fears and that you would speak TRUTH to those fears. Jesus I pray that you would light up the darkness of these lies (fears) and that they would begin to immediately walk in freedom and truth. Father I thank you for all that you have done and for all that you are going to do. In Jesus mighty name I pray. Amen.