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 Don’t Be Afraid Of Fear
Fear is a lethal weapon the devil uses to steal, kill
and destroy the Christian!
The trouble with fear is that it’s like smallpox
or the measles. Normally, you don’t have just one
little spot. They come in bunches. So does fear.
You get one fear, then another, and another, and
another, and another!
Almost all of us have been gripped by fear at
some point in our lives. Fear may grip us, but we
don’t have to let it stay!
Charles and I were in a big DC-10 airplane on
our way to Canada, and we had just taken off from
the Houston airport when the plane apparently got
caught in the tail end of a tornado. The plane tilted
at such an angle I wondered if we were going to
crash right into the ground on the left wing of the
plane. For a moment there was real fear in my
heart.
You should have seen the rest of the plane!
There was panic! Suitcases came flying through
the air. My purse went up, hit the ceiling of the
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that wasn’t tied down was sailing around the
interior of the plane!
Fear gripped both Charles and me. . .for a
moment.
What did we do? We immediately began to
pray in the Spirit!
What happened? The fear instantly left. Why?
Because we trusted God. The moment we began
praying, fear disappeared! Fear and trust cannot
exist at the same time. Praying in tongues was
instantaneous for both of us, because we didn’t
think about how to pray, so our spirits prayed in an
unknown tongue and God heard and answered!
Webster’s dictionary says that fear is “a feeling
of anxiety and agitation caused by the presence or
nearness of danger, evil, pain, etc.; timidity; dread;
terror; fright, apprehension. A feeling of
uneasiness; disquiet; anxiety, concern.”
We certainly did have a feeling of anxiety
because of the “nearness of danger,” but as soon as
we realized where our trust was, fear couldn’t stay.
Maybe in your life you are experiencing some
of the most “common” fears such as death, getting
old, sickness, failure, poverty, losing a mate,
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any of these fears, get ready to get rid of them right
now!
“Fear involves torment” (I John 4:18). This tool
of the devil causes physical suffering, mental
anguish and distress; it also brings terror, panic
and horror. We discover we cannot think clearly or
rationally when fear grips us. In fact, we may not
be able to think at all!
Is there an answer to such devastating fear?
What is it? Is there an antidote? There certainly is!
When faith looks at a situation, fear disappears!
“Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word
of God!” (Romans 10:17).
God’s word has the answer to this kind of fear
and also talks about a kind of fear that is good —
the fear, or reverence, of God. The fear which
brings torment does not belong in the Christian’s
life because God has given us the answer!
We need to know and understand who we are in
Christ in order to have peace in our lives. This
knowledge, firmly embedded in our hearts, can
dispel all the fear the devil tries to throw our way!
One of my favorite portions of scripture which
reminds us of who we are in Christ, is I John 4:4-8.
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you meditate on these verses and realize what they
say to YOU:
“Little children, you are of God — you belong
to Him — and have [already] defeated and
overcome them [the agents of antichrist], because
He Who lives in you is greater (mightier) than he
who is in the world.”
That verse alone should dispel all the fear you
could ever acquire! Now let’s examine some of the
things it says and apply them to our own lives:
We are of God — we belong to Him! If we
belong to God, we are His possession, and if we
are His possession, He is going to take good care
of us. We take good care of our possessions, don’t
we? God is the same way! He cares about a
sparrow that falls and even counts the number of
hairs on our heads, so naturally He’s going to take
good care of us. If He’s taking care of us, why
should we worry about the devil and have fear?
We belong to God! We don’t belong to the devil!
Jesus lives in us and is greater than anything
outside of us! One of the things that will
strengthen your life more than anything else
concerning fear is to be constantly aware of the
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hope of glory” (Colossians 1:27). Let that spirit in
you rise up and say to the world, “Greater is He
that is in me, than he that is in the world!” Say it
over and over and over until it begins to stick to
your ribs and becomes embedded in your heart.
Say it to God!
Say it to yourself!
Say it to your family!
Say it to the walls!
Say it on the telephone every time it rings!
Say it in your bathtub!
Say it to your bed!
Say it! Say it! Say it! Say it until you’ve heard
it often enough that you are thoroughly convinced
that inside you lives that One who is greater and
mightier than he that is in the world! Hallelujah!
We have already defeated and overcome the
devil. How can we be afraid?
If we really love Jesus, our trust in Him will
always exceed our fear of the devil.
When we confess that we have fear, we are
saying the word of God is inaccurate and not true.
We need to know what God’s word says so we can
firmly plant our two feet on it. The Bible says we
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How can we be concerned and full of worry if we
believe what God’s word tells us, that we have
already overcome? Let’s act on victorious trust in
God’s protection, not on the devil-instilled fear
that God cannot perform what He says!
This fabulous bit of scripture goes on to say,
“We are [children] of God. Whoever is learning to
know God progressively to perceive, recognize
and understand God [by observation and
experience] and to get an ever clearer knowledge
of Him — listens to us; and he who is not of God
does not listen or pay attention to us. By this we
know (recognize) the Spirit of Truth and the spirit
of error.”
We are children of God and can actually
believe that we are when we get to know Him
better. There is another wonderful key to finding
freedom from fear. Know that you are a child of
God. Know it, know it, know it! How do you know
it? By getting to know Him better.
How do we get to know Him better and better?
By reading His word over and over and over!
Everything you read in His word points to His
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this until you read it and get it firmly fixed in your
heart and mind!
I think of all the years I lived in this world,
attended church and had a “precious” Bible. I
wanted to take such good care of it that I never
used it for fear I’d wear it out. No wonder I didn’t
know what God had for me! I never bothered to
find out. I was starving to death spiritually even
though His whole basket of goodies was right there
waiting for me to eat!
“Beloved, let us love one another; for love
[springs] from God, and he who loves [his fellow
men] is begotten (born) of God and is coming
(progressively) to know and understand God — to
perceive and recognize and get a better and clearer
knowledge of Him” (I John 4:7 Amp).
Notice the words “know,” “get acquainted
with,” “understand” and “knowledge of Him”
mentioned in these two verses. These are the
secrets to dispelling fear — getting as close to God
as possible by spending time with Him in His word
and in prayer. I think back to the times when I first
became a Christian and read the Bible until two or
three o’clock in the morning. Many nights I sat
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concentrating on the word of God and feeling the
love that was pouring into me while I was getting
acquainted with Him! These are still some of the
most beautiful times in my life, and they will be in
yours, too, when you are so immersed in the word
of God that you are totally possessed by His
wonderful love!
There is no short cut to knowing God and
experiencing and feeling God’s love. We must be
with Him and let Him be in us, letting His love
flow into us and through us. By doing this, we will
overcome this fear that involves torment!
A woman called me on the telephone the other
day and asked me to pray for her physical
condition. I asked her what her problem was and
she said, “Many!” She began to name a whole
string of illnesses: colitis, ulcers, rash all over her
body, sleeplessness, diarrhea, and biting her
fingernails.
I said to her, “What are you afraid of? Why are
you so fearful?” I knew it wouldn’t do any good to
minister healing to her body until we discovered
the cause and removed it! Every single affliction
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nervousness, anxiety, worry, being uptight — all
of which were caused by fear!
After talking to her for a short while, she
realized her problem had come from listening to
the devil. He always wants to grab your mind and
thoughts! She had received the baptism with the
Holy Spirit three years previously in a glorious
experience. Then the devil came around and told
her it wasn’t real!
This may be difficult for you to believe, but as
a result of the devil telling her this lie, she had
lived in fear of speaking in tongues or associating
with anyone who did. She thought it was of the
devil. She was afraid to open her mouth and praise
God in her prayer language because the devil had
told her for three years that she couldn’t pray in
tongues. She became completely convinced that it
was an impossibility for her. She was unbelievably
depressed and had apparently been this way for
three long years of defeat, all because she failed to
depend and stand on the word of God!
With a short, simple command, we cast out the
spirit of fear. Immediately she started praying in
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 You might feel that this was a very insignificant
thing to be afraid of, but the fear that is the worst
in the whole world is the fear that attaches itself
to you. It might seem to be nothing to someone
else, but when fear has hooked its claws into you,
regardless of what it is, it will become a huge,
overwhelming, overpowering force in your life
until you learn what God has to say about fear!
I had no sooner hung up the telephone when
another call came in with almost the same hysteria.
A woman, approximately forty-five years of age,
thought her mind was going to snap. The devil had
been hounding her with such thoughts as: “You
like to talk about Hoover Dam and Boulder Dam
because you like to curse. You just like the word
“dam.” Then the devil continued, “Say it, say it,
say it!”
Another day he would say, “You like to talk
about your skin being damp, because if you don’t
pronounce the last letter, you can swear and no one
will know it!” Then he would start again saying,
“Say it, say it, say it!”
I told her to pray a simple prayer with me,
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greater One who was in her rise up above the
devil.
I reminded her that David said in Psalm 23, “I
will fear no evil.” Why and how could he say that
with such confidence? “For You are with me,” he
proclaimed in that same Psalm! He stood on the
promises of God and said he would fear absolutely
NO evil.
You may say, “But David was never
surrounded with the bad situation I’m in.” You
may argue that his problems never compared with
yours. Are you sure of that? He says in Psalm 3:6,
“I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people
who have set themselves against me all around.”
The Living Bible says, “Although ten thousand
enemies surround me on every side, I am not
afraid!”
Why wasn’t he afraid? He gives the answer in
other verses in Psalm 3: “But You, O Lord, are a
shield for me, My glory and the One who lifts up
my head. I cried to the Lord with my voice, And
He heard me from His holy hill. I lay down and
slept; I awoke, for the Lord sustained me.” David
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 Have you ever had ten thousand enemies
surround you on every side? Then your problem
couldn’t be as bad as David’s problem because he
was loaded with enemies all over the place. The
thing I love so much about his answer is that he
simply gave the problem to God and went to sleep!
Glory!
Most of us would have stayed awake all night
worrying about the problem, but David knew when
he cried out to God that He heard him, so he just
went to bed and relaxed! That’s the greatest way to
get rid of fear that I know of — just give it to God
and then let Him handle the problem.
A scripture that recently came alive to me
concerning fear is in the fourteenth chapter of
Exodus. I especially like it in the Living Bible.
Moses had led the Israelites out of Egypt and the
Egyptian army was chasing them. As I visualized
all these chariots and charioteers, horses and
people coming pell mell after the Israelites, I can
understand why they complained and murmured to
Moses. They were just plain scared! I probably
would have been scared, too, if I had been looking
at the circumstances with them instead of looking
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 Moses said an interesting thing to his people:
“Don’t be afraid. Just stand where you are and
watch, and you will see the wonderful way the
Lord will rescue you today. The Egyptians you are
looking at — you will never see them again. The
Lord will fight for you, and you won’t need to lift
a finger!” (vs. 13). What he was really saying to
them was to put their trust in God and not look
at the problem! They didn’t realize that not only
was God on the scene already, but a host of angels
was there to defeat the foe.
I love what God said then, “Quit praying and
get the people moving! Forward, march!” (vs. 15).
God’s answer was a plan that involved action! He
told them not to just sit there and wait for disaster
to overtake them, but to get moving! Hallelujah!
This is what we need to do in our own lives; let
God answer us and then get moving out of the
realm of fear into the realm of faith, because God
will never let you down when you are doing what
He tells you to do! “You will see the wonderful
way the Lord will rescue you today.” Too many
times we sit and bemoan our problems instead of
moving out for God in order to give Him an
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 God is not on the defensive.
God is on the offensive!
God likes action!
The devil tries delay tactics all the time! He
wants us to sit down and cry and have a real “pity
party” for ourselves. He wants us to talk to all our
friends about how afraid we are of the future and
what it holds for us instead of standing on the
promises of God and knowing who holds the
future! The devil makes fearful Christians waste
their time by trying to get someone to counsel with
them, or at least listen to them, instead of moving
out. Forward, march!
The devil delays; God moves!
Probably the greatest fear in the world today is
the fear of failure. At a recent meeting, we asked
everyone to stand who had fear of poverty, old
age, cancer or losing a husband or wife. Many
people stood. But when we asked the final
question, “How many of you have a fear of
failure?” approximately ninety-five percent of the
audience stood! What a shocking revelation at a
meeting of Christians to have that many of them
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 The greatest over comer of fear is the word of
God. We need to sharpen that two-edged sword,
because “...the word of God is quick, and
powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword,
piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and
spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a
discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart”
(Heb. 4:12). When we keep that sword sharp, we
can chop fear into tiny little pieces they really
didn’t know, but we praise God that and scatter it
to the four winds. Fear has no right to be in the
heart of a believer!
Those who are fearful often blame a lack of
time for not reading the word of God and learning
the promises they can stand on, but they will take
all the time in the world to discuss their fears with
anyone who will listen to them.
God’s word says, “Let no corrupt
communication proceed out of your mouth, but
that which is good to the use of edifying, that it
may minister grace unto the hearers” (Ephesians
4:29). We certainly don’t do much edifying, do
we, when all we talk about is fear? And did you
ever think how corrupt our communication is when
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better for the hearers when we let them know that
we know who we are in Christ!
Fear comes into our lives when we don’t know
what we have in Christ, or when we don’t know
our actual inheritance from God. The minute you
discover who you are, you will begin to have
victory over the fear of failure.
I recently wrote a letter to a number of people
who had written us pages and pages of their
troubles and problems. Almost all of them related
to fear. I wrote and told them to take all their fears,
doubts and unbelief and write them down on a
sheet of paper. Then at the bottom I instructed
them to write the following: “Nay, in all these
things we are more than conquerors through Him
that loved us.” Try it yourself. Get a piece of paper
right now and write on it the fears you have in
your life.
Make the list as long as you need to. Write
down every one of your fears, big and small! At
the bottom of the page, write in big, bold letters,
“In all these things we are more than
conquerors through Him that loved us!”
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 When you’ve finished that, you might even
want to burn the list, just to let the devil know
those fears don’t exist any more!
God’s word doesn’t allow room for failure.
Over and over He gives us the prescription for
total deliverance from fear and worry. Another of
my favorite scriptures as an antidote to fear of
failure is Proverbs 16:3 in the Amplified Bible:
“Roll your works upon the Lord — commit and
trust them wholly to Him; [He will cause your
thoughts to become agreeable to His will, and] so
shall your plans be established and succeed.”
Did you ever go bowling or watch someone
else bowl? You use a ball which has three holes for
your fingers. You stand at one end of a long
wooden freeway, and try to knock down the “pins”
at the other end of the lane. Everyone gets all
excited when you knock them all down!
The secret in bowling is to let the ball go right
down the center path (with a slight curve) and it’s
done! You can’t knock the pins down with the ball
still in your hand!
The same secret holds true in “rolling your
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the load you’ve been carrying and throw it on the
Lord. Turn it loose!
The next step is so important — “commit and
trust them wholly to Him.” Isn’t that difficult
sometimes? After we’ve let go we begin to wonder
if we can trust God for the answers! Did you ever
feel like you wanted to run down the alley after the
bowling ball? That’s what a lot of us do with
problems — we give them to God and then run
after them as fast as we can to take them back! The
Bible is so simple and specific in telling us to
commit and trust our problems “wholly” to Him,
not just half way, but all the way!
Watch what happens when you do! “He will
cause your thoughts (God works in your mind) to
become agreeable to His will.” Do you see what
happens when you give your mind and your fears
to God? He causes your mind to become agreeable
to His will instead of arguing with Him. Then,
look at the wonderful promise; “and so shall your
plans be established and succeed.”
There’s your secret for success! If you believe
the word of God to be true and obey what it says,
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word promises that your plans shall be established
and succeed!
Failure and success don’t go together, and fear
and faith aren’t dating either!
God said in Genesis 26:24 (Amplified), “Fear
not for I am with you, and will favor you with
blessings.” The Living Bible adds, “...because of
my promise.” He can be trusted! He will be with
us! He is true to His wonderful word! Hallelujah!
One of the most beautiful antidotes for the fear
of failure is found in the first chapter of Psalms at
the very end of the third verse. It says, “and
whatever he does shall prosper.” How can we ever
anticipate failure when God’s word promises us
that everything we do is going to prosper? We
need to confess that over and over until we have
prosperity rolling in our doors in such great
measure that we don’t have room to contain it!
That’s God’s way! That’s what God wants!
If success is what you need, take God’s
prescription listed in Deuteronomy 1:21: “Look,
the Lord your God has set the land before you;
go up and possess it, as the Lord God of your
fathers has spoken to you; do not fear or be
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 That’s an order from God! He’s ordering you to
go out and possess the things He has for you! He’s
saying to you, “Go get your inheritance. Go
possess what I’ve given to you. Go get what is
rightfully yours!” God gives simple instructions
because He tells us that we are not to fear and
neither are we to be discouraged. Being
discouraged is the same as telling God we don’t
believe what He says, and that we are going to be
disobedient.
We need to begin confessing God’s word!
When the day comes that we learn to confess the
word of God instead of the lies of Satan, it will be
a great day of victory for us and a great day of
rejoicing for the Lord. His word says, “If God be
for us, who can be against us?” (Romans 8:31). It
doesn’t make any difference who is against us
because we’re children of the King!
Memorize Romans 10:9-10, “. . .that if you
confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and
believe in your heart that God has raised Him from
the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one
believes to righteousness, and with the mouth
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 Confession is made unto success or failure,
whichever you choose.
Confessing fear will bring fear.
Confessing God’s word will make the Bible a
reality. I guarantee that if you line up your life
with the word of God, the word of God will line up
with your life!
“Say to them that are of a fearful heart, “Be
strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with
vengeance, even God with a recompense; He will
come and save you” (Isaiah 35:4). That’s a
personal word from the Lord just for you!
Where does fear start? Many times we instill
fear in our children as it was instilled in us, and
then it continues throughout their lifetime. How
many times have we said to our children, “Watch
out or the ‘boogey’ man will get you!” Or have we
said, “If you don’t behave, I’ll put you in the closet
where it’s dark!” Darkness then becomes a thing to
fear.
Telling ghost stories was the “in” thing when I
was growing up. Everyone tried to come up with
the most gory, gruesome story possible to “scare”
everybody else. We actually put a value and
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 I often look at our granddaughter, Charity, and
think of the way her parents have raised her. On
Halloween when she was two years old, many of
the children in the neighborhood came by dressed
in costumes grotesque enough to scare even the
most calm individual. When Charity became
frightened and ran behind her mother, Joan said,
“Honey, you don’t have to be afraid because the
angels have charge over you!”
Psalm 91:11 says, “For he shall give his angels
charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.”
Charity now has no fear because she knows what
the Bible says, and she often states, “The angels
have charge over me!” What a confession for a
two-year-old child to make! That’s the confession
we all need to make. When the devil tries to put
fear in us, we need to accept and then confess the
protection of the angels over us.
Don’t confess the devil’s power — confess
God’s word!
Someone recently gave us some Bible markers
which had twenty-two different colored ribbons.
We laid these down on our desk. When Charity
visited us, she immediately spotted them, put one
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with the ribbons flying in the air as she said, “He’s
alive! He’s alive! He’s alive!”
How we praise God that as young as she was,
her thoughts were on Jesus! She’ll never think of
Jesus as dead. To her, “He’s alive!”
How we wish that all Christians would
excitedly proclaim the same message with banners
flying. We asked her parents where she learned
this. They said somewhere in her mind had been
imprinted the fact that He’s alive!
Fear exists when we don’t sincerely and
honestly believe that Jesus is alive and capable of
handling all of our affairs better than we could.
Doubt and the devil go hand in hand. When
doubt comes in, we don’t think God is big enough
to take care of us, so fear has us where the devil
wants us. Fear is only the absence of trust in God.
If you really love Jesus, you will not live in fear.
When we have been raised in and have lived in
an atmosphere of fear, how do we get over it —
especially when we’re past our childhood days?
There’s only one way I know and that’s to start
confessing and possessing the word of God.
Fear of not knowing our standing with God can
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right now, “Father, I have things in my life that
make me afraid of my eternal destiny. Please
forgive my sins and cleanse me. I promise to quit
doing anything displeasing to You as soon as I
know it is wrong. I know You will let me know in
my heart instantly when I am not pleasing You.
Thank You for forgiving me and thank You for the
peace You promise when I obey You.”
Where do we go from here? The answer is
simple! We need to possess the promises of God,
so, like God told the children of Israel, we can go
in and possess the land!
“I believe You want me to possess my rights as
Your child, Father, so right now, by faith, I possess
peace from all fear, especially the fear of death. I
have the power and desire to obey Your every
wish, and therefore I have full rights as Your child
to enjoy total peace and freedom from all fear! I
really love You!”
The Bible distinguishes between two kinds of
fear. One is the negative fear we’ve been talking
about, but the other is a necessary “fear” — godly
fear. This “fear” is a reverence toward God, an
attitude of awe and wonder at God’s greatness and
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respect, reverence and worship God. God seeks
only good for His children and certainly nothing
evil. The Holy Spirit reveals God as our loving
Father, and a holy fear (or respect) of God is the
result of our walking “in truth.” This type of fear is
not the frightening kind of fear but is connected
only with respect or awe.
When we have this fear (or awe) of God, we
possess peace, joy, contentment and serenity.
To be afraid of God means we don’t really
know and understand Him, or that we are rebelling
against Him and have reason to be afraid. This
negative fear destroys the peace we could possess.
When sin in our lives creates fear in us, the
thing to do is confess that sin to God and ask
forgiveness for it right then and there! “If we
confess ours sins, He is faithful and just to forgive
us our sins and to cleanse us from all
unrighteousness” (I John 1:9). To continue living
in rebellion puts us in constant fear of what would
happen to us if we died. Psychologists say that fear
of death is one of the most common fears. It is not
actually the fear of death itself, but fear of what
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 The word “possess” means to have, to hold, to
occupy, to enjoy, to own, to command, to inherit,
to acquire, to retain, to belong to, to pertain to, to
be in one’s possession. We need to have God’s
promises in our hearts, hold onto them with our
spirits and let them occupy our thoughts, so we can
enjoy life. When we possess the promises of God,
we can speak them boldly, in commanding tones,
because we have inherited, through salvation, all
of God’s promises. We have acquired and will
retain them because they belong to us and pertain
to us and are in our possession as long as we act
upon them.
One of the best confessions against fear (which
I would recommend you memorize) is found in the
first six verses of the twenty-seventh Psalm: “The
Lord is my light and my salvation; Whom shall I
fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; Of whom
shall I be afraid? When the wicked came against
me to eat up my flesh, my enemies and foes, They
stumbled and fell. Though an army should encamp
against me, my heart shall not fear; Though war
should rise against me, In this I will be confident.
“One thing I have desired of the Lord, That will
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all the days of my life to behold the beauty of the
Lord, and to inquire in His temple. For in the time
of trouble He shall hide me in His pavilion; in the
secret place of His tabernacle He shall hide me; He
shall set me high upon a rock. And now my head
shall be lifted up above my enemies all around
me,Therefore I will offer sacrifices of joy in His
tabernacle; I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to
the Lord.”
When you feast on the promises in these verses,
fear has to disappear. If you have a fear in your life
right now, say over and over again, “The Lord is
my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The
Lord is the strength of my life, of whom shall I be
afraid?”
The enemies that come around you to eat up
your flesh are all sent by the devil. Watch what
happens to them when you rely on and live by the
word of God. The second verse says that when
they came upon you to eat up your flesh, they fell
right down! Why? Because God cares for you and
is protecting you!
Even if an entire army encamps against you,
you don’t have to fear! Even if war should rise
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your light and your salvation and you have
nothing, nothing, nothing to fear!
Fear can come when we are afraid of being hurt
emotionally. The Bible says, “Behold, I give you
the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions,
and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing
shall by any means hurt you” (Luke 10:19). Say
that over and over and over until it is as much a
part of you as your eyes so you will know that
nothing shall by any means hurt you. The Bible
promises that nothing shall hurt you! Fear can’t
reach you as long as you are believing and living
by the word of God!
It’s amazing how our mouths can lead us right
into the pit of hell through fear. Matthew 12:37
says, “For by your words you will be justified, and
by your words you will be condemned.” If you
speak fear, you will be full and overflowing with
horrible, condemning fear. Those same lips can
form the right words and you will be justified.
Hallelujah! We need to be careful of the things we
say because we call into being those things which
are not as though they were. This applies to both
the good and bad. I prefer to call into being the
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 Freedom from fear comes so easily if we will
listen to the words of Jesus, “If you abide in My
word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall
know the truth, and the truth shall make you free”
(John 8:31,32). Nothing but the truth can set you
free, and to find that freedom we need to stay in
His word at all times.
I love the words of an old favorite hymn,
Standing On the Promises. It says, “Standing on
the promises that cannot fail, when the howling
storms of doubt and fear assail.” Christians often
have doubt and say, “Will God really do this? Will
God really do that?” Remember, you can stand on
the promises of God! Don’t look at the
circumstances, look at Jesus because God’s word
has never failed.
“And the word grew and prevailed.” When you
hide the word of God in your heart, that word is
going to grow and grow and grow until the word
prevails over the circumstances. You can look at
situations that don’t look good, but if you stand on
His promises, I’ll guarantee those promises will
come true.
Anything that is not of faith is sin. (See Romans
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opposite ends of the pole, so when fear remains in
your life, it is sin! No one wants to sin so let’s
agree with God all the way that His perfect love
casts out ALL fear.
Recently we were visiting a Canadian church.
Nobody knew we were going to be there. The
pastor had just extended an invitation to us on
Saturday night and we told him we would love to
share since we were not speaking until Sunday
afternoon. When we walked in, the pastor asked
Charles to go someplace with him. I was left alone
for a few minutes in the narthex of the church.
I was standing there looking out the door at the
deep snow when one of the ushers walked up to
me, introduced himself and said, “There is an aura
that surrounds you. I saw it when you walked in.”
He paused a moment, and then continued, “You
really know who you are, don’t you?”
I said, “I certainly do know who I am in Christ!
I have overcome the devil by the blood of the
Lamb and by the word of my testimony. I am a
joint heir with Jesus. The Lord is my shepherd, and
because of this I shall not want for anything!
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world! I’m a child of the King! That’s who I am!”
Praise God, it shows!
Christians need not be cringing slaves of fear.
We need to throw our shoulders back and let the
world know we’ve got something special and
know who we are! Not in ourselves but in Christ!
When you know exactly who you are in Christ,
that knowledge will drive fear right out of your
life.
Here are some words that will warm your heart.
“I will bless the Lord at all times; His praise shall
continually be in my mouth” (Psalms 34:1). If the
praise of God is continually in your mouth, you
can’t be shouting the praises of the devil, can you?
That’s what you’re doing when you have fear!
You’re just shouting the praises of the devil and
telling the world that he is greater than God! God
is greater!
“My soul shall make its boast in the Lord; the
humble shall hear of it, and be glad” (vs. 2). Who
are you going to boast about? The devil or God?
You can’t do both, and if you’re busy telling the
world what the Lord has done for you, you won’t
have time to tell them about the fear you think you
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 “O magnify the Lord with mc, and let us exalt
Hi name together” (vs. 3). That’s right. Get
someone to magnify the Lord with you. If you
don’t, Satan will have hundreds of cohorts ready to
sympathize with you and agree with you about
your fear!
Then look what God promises, “I sought the
Lord, and He heard me, and delivered me from all
my fears” (vs. 4). That’s right. You boast in the
Lord, you magnify the Lord, and He will hear you
and by this praise you will be delivered of all your
fears! That’s what you have in Jesus —
deliverance from all fears.
Here’s something special for you out of the
Amplified Bible: “Oh, how great is Your
goodness, which You have laid up for those who
fear, revere and worship You, goodness which
You have wrought for those who trust and take
refuge in You before the sons of men! In the secret
of Your presence You hide them from the plots of
men; You keep them secretly in Your pavilion. . .“
(Psalm 31:19,20). Hallelujah, I am secretly hidden
in God; nothing can get to me!
Another great scripture for any person who is
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the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of
a sound mind” (II Timothy 1:7). Say this over and
over and over until you possess it! That’s what
God’s word has to say about fear. What has God
given us to possess? Power, love and a sound
mind! Glory!
POWER ... authority, might and strength from
God (Luke 4:6; II Corinthians 4:7),
… from on high (Luke 24:49),
… to become the sons of God (John 1:12), that
works in us to perform exceeding and abundant
things (Ephesians 3:20),
… that destroyed Satan who once had the
power of death (Hebrews 2:14),
… that keeps us through our faith (I Peter
1:4,5)
… which gives to us all things that pertain to
life and godliness through knowing (there’s the
need to know) Him. (II Peter 1:3),
… over the nations — that means over
everything in our world or life; “And he who
overcomes and keeps My works until the end, to
him will I give power...” (Revelation 2:26).
Love… the antidote for fear … casts out fear (I
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 Mind… We have the sound mind of Christ (I
Corinthians 2:16).
God shall keep your heart and mind through
Christ Jesus, our Lord (Philippians 4:7).
There are others. What are they? Look them up.
Write them down, share them with someone.
The words “fear not” are mentioned 355 times
in the Bible, one for almost every day of the entire
year! Here are a few of them:
“Fear not, for I am with you; Be not dismayed,
for I am your God. I will strengthen you, Yes, I
will help you, I will uphold you with My righteous
right hand” (Isaiah 41:10).
“But now, thus says the Lord, who created you,
0 Jacob, and He who formed you, 0 Israel: ‘Fear
not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by
your name; you are mine’” (Isaiah 43:1).
“Also I said to you, ‘I am the Lord your God;
do not fear the gods of the Amorites (heathen, the
pagans, the enemy), in whose land you dwell’”
(Judges 6:10).
“Then the Lord said to Joshua: ‘Do not be
afraid, nor be dismayed; take all the people of
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 “And the Lord appeared to him the same night
and said, ‘I am the God of your father Abraham;
do not fear, for I am with you. I will bless you’”
(Genesis 26:24).
“...do not be afraid; I am the First and the
Last. I am He who lives, and was dead, and
behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have
the keys of Hades and of Death.” (Revelation
1:17,18).
“Do not fear, little flock, for it is your Father’s
good pleasure to give you the kingdom” (Luke
12:32).
“Fear not, O land; Be glad and rejoice, For the
Lord has done marvelous things! Do not be
afraid...” (Joel 2:21,22).
Do you realize that is only eight of the total
number that appear in the Bible? That should give
you an idea of what God is saying to you — “Fear
not, fear not, fear not! Don’t have fear, trust me.”
Exodus 14:13 says in the Living Bible, “Don’t
be afraid. Just stand where you are and watch and
you will see the wonderful way the Lord will
rescue you today.” He’s telling you to hang loose
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 When you’re afraid of failure, read I Chronicles
28:20 in the Living Bible: “Be strong and
courageous and get to work. Don’t be frightened
by the size of the task, for the Lord my God is with
you: He will not forsake you. He will see to it that
everything is finished correctly!”
I love Psalm 46: “God is our refuge and
strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore
will not we fear, though the earth be removed
(what can be more earth-shattering?) and though
the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;
though the waters thereof roar and be troubled,
though the mountains shake with the swelling
thereof.. . God is in the midst.. .The Lord of hosts
is with us... Be still and know that I am God. The
Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our
refuge.”
Praise the Lord, we don’t even have to worry if
the world blows up with a bomb of one kind or
another, and the whole earth falls into the sea.
Hallelujah! God says that He will be in our midst
and that we have nothing to fear.
Did you ever have everything go wrong at one
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you from the fear that the devil’s going to win the
battle.
One day it seemed like our world was falling
apart! We were having all kinds of personnel
problems in our office, we ran into complications
in our bank loan for a new building, our road
secretary quit, and the devil was having a field
day.
We had gone to the bank to sign the final
papers for the loan and something had come up
that held back the loan. Charles and I sat outside
the bank and my heart was crying out to God. I
said, “God, have You forgotten all about us? What
have we done wrong that You don’t answer our
prayers any more? Is there something wrong with
us? I can hardly pray. God, where are You? Don’t
You really love us any more?”
Then I said to Charles, “Honey, remember
when there was just the two of us and God did
miracles? We didn’t have all these problems?
What happened?”
Never have I ever had such a circumstantial
down since I became a Christian, because it really
seemed like the devil was going to win the battle. I
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papers signed. When I started my car, I heard my
own voice reading the Living Psalms. (The tape
recorder automatically came on in our car when we
started the engine.)
The 77th Psalm came on. Read what it says, “I
cry to the Lord; I call and call to him. Oh, that he
would listen. I am in deep trouble and I need his
help so badly. All night long I pray, lifting my
hands to heaven, pleading. There can be no joy for
me until he acts. I think of God and moan,
overwhelmed with longing for his help. I cannot
sleep until you act. I am too distressed even to
pray.
“I kept thinking of the good old days of the
past, long since ended. Then my nights were filled
with joyous songs. I search my soul and meditate
upon the difference now. Has the Lord rejected me
forever? Will he never again be favorable? Is his
loving kindness gone forever? Has his promise
failed? Has he forgotten to be kind to one so
undeserving? Has he slammed the door in anger on
his love?
“And I said: This is my fate, that the blessings
of God have changed to hate. I recall the many
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wonderful deeds are constantly in my thoughts, I
cannot stop thinking about them.”
Did you hear the very words I had cried out to
God? They were the same ones David cried out,
and Jesus cried out as He went to the cross! God
knew what I needed!
The cassette came to the end and I flipped it
over. Listen to what came on next from the 56th
Psalm (vs. 9), “The very day I call for help, the
tide of battle turns. My enemies flee! This one
thing I know; God is for me! I am trusting God
— oh, praise his promises! I am not afraid of
anything mere man can do to me! Yes, praise his
promises.”
My heart leaped! God was reassuring me that
the tide of the battle had turned. God was
reassuring me that there was no reason for me to
have fear, because He was for me—He was for us
— He was for Hunter Ministries! Hallelujah! The
tide of the battle turned! God smoothed out the
problems and everything started going ahead full
speed.
Nothing, nothing, nothing can take the place of
the word of God when you’re having problems!
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left me when I heard my own voice coming back at
me saying, “This one thing I know — God is for
me!”
And He is for you!!
Say it out loud!
“GOD IS FOR ME”
“GOD IS FOR ME!”
“GOD IS FOR ME”
“ GOD IS FOR ME”

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