Living By Faith Or By Fear, What’s the Difference?
Some people love to be scared, that’s why they watch the most gruesome horror movies, to get a sensation of fear, it can be powerful, palpable, even deadly. You have heard the saying “Scared to death”. It can be real, very real, so real that over 365 times in the Bible God told us “Fear Not”! Why is it so important to Him? You can not please God without Faith! The spiritual rule is Fear Tolerated is Faith contaminated, And we are supposed to live by Faith. Have you heard of the man who worked for the railroad checking rail cars for a living? He worked at a depot that handled a lot of Cold or Freezer cars. One day he was checking one and he was shut into the freezer car, he tried everything to get out, but it got colder and colder, he finally resigned himself to the fact that if he did not break out, or someone find him, he would die. He wrote a message to his wife and children telling them how much he loved them. Finley he just froze to death. He was later found that evening, and with great consternation the officials wondered how he had died in a freezer car that wasn’t even operational, that’s right the freezer unit was broken, non–functional. Yet when they did the autopsy his body showed that his death was consistent with the body of someone who had frozen to death. His wife said that in the past he had dreamed about freezing to death in a locked car, and had feared it since then. Like Job what he feared had come upon him.
Job 3:25 For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me. 26 I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.
God is so against Fear that He wrote 365 times in His Love Letter to mankind, the Bible, or Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth , Not to Fear. Why? Because fear puts you into a Physical relationship with the evil one who comes to kill, steal and destroy. You are no longer in spiritual control of your mind will and emotions. When you are not in spiritual control you open your mouth to creating negative circumstances, because Prov18:24 says “the power of life and death are in the tongue.” Pro 18:20 A man's belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth; and with the increase of his lips shall he be filled. 21 Death and life are in the power of the toonngue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
Prov 29:25 The fear of man bringeth a snare: but whoso putteth his trust in the LORD shall be safe.
Fear does not come from the Lord but from Satan, the evil one. It is his greatest weapon, right up their with Pride and arrogance.
As Christians we are called to 2 Cor 5:7 “walk by faith not by sight”! For sight is a sense like touch, hearing, smelling, and tasting, and can be used to control the mind and body.
2Co 5:5 Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit. 6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: 7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight:) 8We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
Satan has had many thousands of years to perfect tempting us through our senses, to control our minds and steal our souls. Recognize that Gluttony, Sexual proclivity, depravity and diversity, drunkenness, and so many other sins are to keep us in slavery to our bodies’ desires and not to our spiritual faith and beliefs. Everything good that we need can be gotten by exercising our faith through the Power and Relationship of Jesus Christ.
1Jo 4:17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. 18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
Mar 11:24 Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.
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