Are you living in fear?
Fear, terror and strange happenings seem to be everywhere. All you have to do these days is turn on the TV, the radio, or the internet and crime, robbery, killing and terror is everywhere, the news is full of stories of bad things happening and those bad things are often happening to good people who didn’t deserve it. It seems that these days’ people just enjoy killing for the sake of killing and they are on the loose. It can all make you afraid to leave your house or to go anywhere for fear of what might happen. It does not matter who you are or where you come from; you are affected. Fear is gripping this country in a way that no generation has ever experienced. Many are afraid to go out at night, to stand in a mall parking lot, to pump gas at a gas station, and the list goes on. What was once a reasonably safe place to live has become a war zone full of unsafe people who seem to be on the loose with no restraint.
Fear and Terror
So, how do you cope with today’s way of life? Let’s begin by understanding what the word fear means. It is probably best illustrated in Webster’s dictionary: “a painful emotion excited by an expectation of evil. It is an uneasiness of mind upon the thought of future evil. It is anxiety and timidity.”The synonym for fear is horror, alarm, panic and dread. Many people today have put their lives in a holding pattern because of what the future may or may not hold. Many have become paralyzed by the word terror and have changed the very way they maintain their everyday life. It is as if many are walking a tight rope in life and have become paralyzed, unable to take the next step. Most of the bad things happening in the world today is because of the thief, the devil, for he comes to steal, kill and destroy – John 10:10.
Just like God works through people, so does the devil. The devil is on a mission to destroy any and every one that He can by using those who are unsaved or by using those who allow him to use them. Killing, sickness, death, destruction, division, disappointments, lack and set backs are exactly what the devil wants, because it is in this way that he can keep you and the American people paralyzed by fear. Who is this enemy that we battle against?
The Word of God states that our enemy is the god of this world, the devil. It goes on to say this about our enemy: “The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. Jesus again assures us that: I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance [to the full, till it overflows] “The devil’s job is to steal your hopes, your dreams, and your visions. His whole purpose is to make certain that he kills your future, your hopes, your dreams and more importantly, your future in eternity.
Overcoming Fear = Realizing the Fullness of God
If the devil can grip you with fear, paralyzing you, you will never reach the fullness of all God has for you here on earth. Your destiny will be aborted and you will stay stuck in less than God’s highest and best for your life! God doesn’t want you to live your life in fear, held hostage to the shambles that the devil makes as he wreaks havoc on whomever he can. For God has not given you a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind – 2 Timothy 1:7. God wants you to seek Him daily and spend time in His Holy word the Bible so that He can transform your mind and cancel and reverse any and all fear that has been placed in you by the devil’s tactics. To overcome fear and realize the fullness of what God has for your life, you will have to make the time and commit to meeting with God daily so that you can overcome fear!
The Promise of the Word
As your understanding of fear becomes clearer; you can more readily see that the enemy of this world wants precisely the opposite of what God has purposed for your life. Again, John 10:10 says that Jesus came to give us life abundantly. The word abundantly (Greek) means “exceeding, overflows, more than is necessary, surplus, super abundance, superior in quality.”
In other words, Jesus came that we might have life (Zoe – life on another level) excessively. Jesus came that we might walk not in fear, but in faith, believing that the same God, who sent His only son to die for us, loves us, cares for us, and desires that we are never paralyzed by the fear of this world.
We can trust this God with our life and the lives of our loved ones. Why? Because Jeremiah 29:11 says,
For I know the thoughts and plans that I have for you, says the Lord, thoughts and plans for welfare and peace and not for evil, to give you hope in your final outcome. (Jer. 29:11)
What a promise from God’s Word. He has a plan for you. Your life is in His hands. As you make Him the Lord and Savior of your life, you can know for sure that He holds the future. You can embrace each day striving to live smart and cautiously in a fallen world, but you need not live out your days in fear. You can trust God with your life and your family’s. He holds your days in the palm of His hands, you don’t have to live in fear and settle for less than God’s highest and best for your life. What an assurance this should be to you in the times that we’re all living in!
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