Do you live in fear – of evil?

Did you know that when we fear any kind of evil, we are really fearing the Devil? Did you know that when we fear the devil, we are making him greater than God? That is as simple as I can put it. We are making that “fearful thing” (the devil) bigger than God! It’s because we aren’t really trusting God IN all things. We may not have fear in some areas of our lives, but when it comes to finances, raising children, housing, jobs, etc., we may fear. We are saying “God you aren’t enough!” And when we do that we accuse God of being evil. The Bible says that God is Good all the time. That means ALL the time. He’s not a schizophrenic God. He is Love. He is Good. He is Faithful. He doesn’t waiver in who He is. We are the ones who waiver.

The Bible says in James chapter one, that a double minded man is unstable in all his ways, let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord.

We are the ones people! Our double-minded is is doubt and unbelief to faith, then doubt and unbelief to faith. We are up and down in believing God! We have to stop once and for all, and be IN faith 24/7. Then, as we pray, we WILL receive what we asked God for. Because it says you will get NOTHING from the Lord! It may be some of the blessings reserved for you are being hindered by your own fear of the devil?

Here are some indicators if you are fearing the devil: If we are afraid of the dark, evil, tomorrow, sickness, disease, people, places, things, anything that causes you anxiety, stress, or fear. These are indicators we fear the devil more than God.

So how to stop fearing the devil?  1) repent for fearing the devil 2) repent for NOT fearing God in the right way (to fear the Lord is to hate evil – Proverbs 8:13), 3) repent for not receiving God’s love personally, 4) repent for accusing Him of not being the God you think He should be in your life, being disappointed in your life, and  5)  repent for calling Him evil.

I know that we never meant to do these things, but these are behind all fear, not just that we fear the devil (or evil) but that we don’t trust God! This is an indicator to me that we don’t “know” Him and the power of His resurrection. Because if we really “knew” Him, His love, His nature and character, and Who He really is in our lives, there wouldn’t be ANY fear at all, because you would be made complete in His love. (His perfect love casts out all fear and torment.)

Let me share my story: I had been afraid of the dark for a long time, but never knew that what I was really afraid of was the devil. I was not believing that God could protect and take care of me in the darkness. So one day, when I realized this, I said, “Lord I will trust you in the darkness, you can take care of me in the darkness, I will not fear the devil. Forgive me for fearing the devil.” So then I stood in my living room in the middle of the night, and turned off all the lights. Yes, fear tried to grip me, but I stood my ground, THANKING the Lord for loving me, because it’s His love that will cast out fear… and waited until the fear passed. It did! And it hasn’t gripped me again in the darkness.

Whatever you are “fearing” you have to face in a way that you out-wait the devil. The devil stands between us and God, and we have to look past the enemy and see God. That’s when our faith is being built. We don’t even build our own faith, it’s God who expands our faith as we get to know Him, receive His love, and take Him at His Word. The Bible says that Faith comes by hearing the Word of God… it isn’t forced, we can’t make it happen, we can only do our part by preparing our heart to “receive.”  Faith “comes” – that means it comes to you. Jesus even said that He is our faith and what He starts He will finish. We get into doubt and unbelief when WE try to finish what He has started! (That topic is for another time.)

This goes for everything in our lives that we struggle in, or fear.  Sickness, hard situations, we have to rise above these things, focus on sitting with Jesus in heavenly places, and your thoughts will catch up, and life will change.

The other morning I woke up and knew from how I was feeling, it was going to be an “off” day. I was feeling a bit sluggish. So before I let that set the tone for my day, I said, “Lord, I am sitting with you in the heavenlies, I am above all this fleshy symptoms and stuff. I pictured my head being lifted up above the clouds. I pictured my spirit soaring with the You. You have plans for me today, thank you for your Power, Love and Sound Mind that is stirring up in me.” And within minutes, that sluggish heaviness was gone! I got out of bed, refreshed, strong and well.

We have the “power” people to rise above anything that comes our way, through grabbing onto  the Word. It is our lifeline. (2 Timothy 1:6-7)

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