“Ok, Lord, I will write, I will write! What do you want me to write about?”....a conversation I just had with the Lord when my blog was put on my heart. So I sat down with my iPad and the big word “FEAR” came to my mind. So here I am, writing about fear. I am 36 years old and for as long as I can remember FEAR has had some sort of grip on my life. Lately God has been speaking to me on this subject. I’ve realized that the Lord is finally....FINALLY addressing fear and anxiety in me and bringing it onto the battle ground. When I realized this was happening I must say FEAR came rushing in. What is this going to FEEL like, what is going to happen to me, how difficult of a battle is this going to be? It’s crazy to me that I would have FEAR about God finally addressing FEAR in my life, but it’s true, this is a huge area of bondage that I have been begging the Lord to address for the majority of my life.
God has opened my eyes to some things about fear:
1. Fear is a sin. You may not agree, but fear is a result of not trusting God, and not believing He is sovereign and in control, and therefore is sin.
2. Fear must be confessed- it has such a gripping hold on my life that you better believe I am confessing all.day.long.
3. Fear needs to be brought from the darkness to the light- I do this out loud. I tell the Lord “Father, I am afraid that
, I am bringing this from the darkness to the Light, to the one who is sovereign and in control of this fear. By doing this it not only sheds light on your sin of fear, but it strips the enemy of having any power. So often I didn’t want to voice out loud my fears, because the enemy would hear them and haunt me with these fears...I was giving power to an enemy that has NO power against me. Try it. When a fear pops in your mind, for example “God, I am fearful that I have cancer, I am bringing from the darkness to the light, to the one who has power over sickness and health, who is sovereign over all things, Father forgive me for being fearful”.....saying that out loud, or whatever fear you have, brings such a freedom and a feeling of peace.
4. Once fears have been confessed and brought from darkness to light, I leave them with the Lord and ask him to fill me with his spirit.
The more you confess a sin, the less and less you will struggle with that sin. I am not saying this is immediate, far from immediate, but it’s through OBEDIENCE of confession that you receive miraculous healing of your bondage to fear.
When you read about miracles in the Bible, it was usually accompanied by an act of obedience by the one being healed. The act proved the person’s FAITH.
Someone wrote that fear is “False Evidence Appearing Real”...that’s what fear is. When you feel fear rise up in you, bring it from the darkness to the LIGHT, confess it, and allow truth to be spoken over it, and then it’s the TRUTH that will set you free.
