Blessing Blocker - Fear
I shared with you in a previous post that hatred is a blessing blocker. There are four blessing blockers that were mentioned in the book I read by Dr. David Yonggi Cho. The second blocker is the Spirit of fear.
Whatever we fear will come to us. The dictionary defines fear as an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous, likely to cause pain, or a threat. Did you see that fear is belief in something. The Scriptures tell us to fear not because God is with us. Satan uses fear to move us away from God and to believe in his lies.
When we operate in fear we put our faith in Satan! In Dr. Cho’s book he talks about how he was in a biology class and the teacher was teaching about the dangers of tuberculosis when the instructor ended the class by saying, “There are people who are born with a tendency to have tuberculosis. Men with narrow shoulders and long necks seem more apt to catch tuberculosis.” Dr. Cho believed the statement to be true and looking at himself having narrow shoulder and a long neck, he believed he would contract tuberculosis. He says in the book , “Right away I knew that I would get tuberculosis. Fear stuck me. When I got back to my room, I stood before the mirror, looking at my neck all afternoon. Fear came into my heart, and every moment I lived under the grinding fear of tuberculosis. When I turned 18 years old I did have tuberculosis. Like attracts like, and like produces like. If you have fear, the devil has an open channel through with to come and strike you; fear is negative faith.”
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power, love and self-control (2 Timothy 1:7) I love this scripture because it reminds us that a spirit is something we can put on or take off. In Isaiah 61:3 ….we are told to put on the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. God reminds us that He did not give us this fear spirit, He gave us the spirit of power, love, and self control.
I know that it is not easy to let go of the spirit of fear, but that is why God gives us so many examples in the Bible of how to overcome fear. We all know the story of David and Goliath. The whole Israel army feared Goliath, but David went after him in the name of the Lord and killed Goliath. Everything we fear appears to be as big as Goliath, but we can take God at His word. We have His power to overcome any fear! Fear keeps us locked in prison and causes us to miss our blessings.
Father,
We thank you for your word teaches that when we seek you, You deliver us from all of our fears. Help us to remember that when we are afraid, all we have to do is put our trust in you. God we praise you for we chose to walk in faith and crush fear! In Jesus name, Amen.
Affirmations: Matthew 10:20; Luke 24:32; Ephesians 6:19, Isaiah 55:11
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