Saturday, January 30, 2016

Emotion of Fear vs Spirit of Fear

I am certain you like all others have experienced feelings of fear at one point or other in your life time. 
This feeling or emotion of fear like all others come and go.
If someone were to come up behind you unexpectedly, you would likely experience fear, and once you realized who they were the fear would subside.
  It is written in 2Timothy 1:7"For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love, and of a sound mind." 
The word does not say God didn't give us the emotion of fear, but a spirit of fear.
A spirit is in need of a host, one who will entertain it or allow for it to stay.
When you allow fear to control your thoughts, words and actions, you can be certain you have allowed the spirit of fear to reside in you.
God didn't give you the spirit of fear, because he knew that fear would  hinder your experiencing the life he planned for you.
The acronym F.E.A.R = false expectations appearing real, is just what we experience when we are walking in a spirit of fear. 
Our God does not deal in anything false. 
 He is a God of Truth and it is truth that sets you free. 
When you experience the emotion of fear, do as it is written in James 1:25"But one who looks intently at the perfect law, the law of liberty, and abides by it, not having become a forgetful hearer but an effectual doer, this man will be blessed in what he does."
Face that fear you conqueror and walk in your victory, free of the spirit of fear.
Do not allow him to haunt you any longer.