“6For this reason I remind you to kindle afresh the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands. 7For God has not given us a spirit of timidity, but of power and love and discipline.” (II Timothy 1:6-7, New American Standard Bible)
People across the globe are living in fear and are dealing with the realities of our time. In light of the recent events like earthquakes, floods, tornadoes, and the economic instability around the world; more and more people feel powerless and live hopeless lives. God has given us power over fear! Fear says that you will not succeed and that you will not make it. Faith says nothing is impossible to those who believe in the only omnipotent and sovereign God of the universe.
The greatest weapon you and I have is the power to change fear into faith. Faith is when your spirit-man has been empowered with the tools to overcome setbacks, oppositions and the storms of life. Christ has overcome fear on our behalf and has given us the power of faith to live a life of victory. “And this is the victory that overcomes the world— our faith” (I John 5:4). As long as the fear reigns in your life, it is sitting on the throne. If the fear of failure, the unknown or the fear of the future is on the throne of your heart, then Christ is still on the Cross. Put Christ on the throne of your heart and place your fears back on the Cross; for this is where they belong.
Friends, you and I can destroy the anxieties and worries that have hindered us from developing and walking in faith. The Scriptures enjoins us to walk by faith and not by sight (II Corinthians 5:7, NKJV). If you don’t destroy the giant of fear, it will refuse to relinquish its grip. It will take an act of your will and God’s power to build the kind of faith that confesses like the apostle Paul, “16Therefore, we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day…18While we do not look at the things which are seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal” (II Corinthians 4:16-18, NKJV). God has given us the power to abort the seeds of fear. He has given us His Word and His Holy Spirit as the means to increase our faith (Romans 10:17). God will not do your fears without you—but He will do it through you.
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