“Fear not, little flock: for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom”                                                                                                                                                 (Luke 12)

“Be not afraid…”  (Matthew 28)

 

Fear is or can be deabilitating. Fear is a prison. Fear will stop many opportunities. There is a good fear and a bad fear. The Scriptures speak of “the Fear of the LORD.”  This is reverential respect. However, one should fear God if one does wrong just as a child would fear a parent if said child did wrong. The Proverbs tell us that there is strong confidence in the fear of the LORD. That means, if we abide in the fear of the LORD, we have reason to be confident. We have no reason, on the other hand, to be afraid, to be scared, to be fearful or filled with fear, There is no reason or logic to a Christ-ian’s fear. GOD IS FOR YOU. That’s the positive side of the passage. The negative side is, God is against those that would come up against you.

“If God be for us, who can be against us?”  This is a rhetorical question because the answer is obvious. No one, right?  But Reader, there is much that is against us. The world system is against us. Our carnality or our flesh is against us. In some ways, the Government is against us. The leftist mindset or progressive mindset is certainly against us.

Is the Word of God wrong in this one (1) case?……..OF COURSE NOT.

Our enemies, His enemies will not prosper in the end. Think war.  Many battles, you win some battles and you lose some battles but the war is already won.

Many years ago, I heard an evangelist say, “There is no man on this earth that I fear.” I thought to myself, Huh, How can that be? No fear of any man? It sounds a bit arrogant, does it not?

Reader, I can now say, I fear no man on this earth. Once one beholds the Greatness, the Awesomeness, the Awfulness (Full of Awe), the Amazing-ness of God, all other persons become puny and small. When one walks with God, there is nothing to fear because God is for you. God is for those that are His. God is for His peculiar persons. God is for His certain man and woman.

Faith overwhelms fear. David said, “Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness; [T]hou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.”

Read that again.  God enlarged David to meet his troubles. God and His gift of faith is more than able to enlarge you to overcome your mountain, your trouble, your trial, your problem, your FEAR.  David was the giant and Goliath was a little man.  God was not for Goliath.  The lions were in Daniel’s den because God was for Daniel.  The three (3) friends of Daniel were not harmed in the fire because God was for them.  Reader, God IS for you.

David is very much like Samson. Samson is known to be the Strong man in Scripture. Samson was able to do great feats and exploits when the Spirit of God came upon him. David as well, David killed a little giant, a lion, a bear, and jumped a high wall when the Spirit of God came upon him. Reader, our God is the same God. Our God is David’s God. Our God is Daniel’s God. Our God is Samson’s God.  Do you see my point? What God has done for them, and with them, God can do for you.

Reader, you and I are indestructable. Nothing can harm us lest God allows it. If God allows it, then we know it will be for our good.  You see, no one can stand against God’s person. Faith overwhelms fear.  The Word of God overcomes worry.  The Amen of God ankle-hooks anxiety.  “Fear not” is a command of our Lord Jesus. Our Lord would say to those that would be afraid, “Ye of little faith.”  God gave you and me Faith in order to cast off fear,  “For God hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.”

Reader, Reader, Reader, God gave us His Spirit, the Spirit of Christ.  God gave unto us the Spirit that allowed the Old Testament saints to do their exploits and feats. Reader, the Omnipotent God, the Omniscient God, the omniPresent God lives inside of YOU.

“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? 

Godspeed.