Fear Is Not From God

For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.
---2 Timothy 1:7

The prophet Hosea wrote as God charged the children of Israel with Truth. In chapter 4 verse 6, God said, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.” It is no different today as it was in the days of Hosea. God’s people (Christians) are dying and are being destroyed emotionally, physically and spiritually because they don’t understand the Word: God’s heart, His passion, or His laws. We also don’t understand the enemy of God, Satan. For this reason I am going to attempt to share the strategy of the enemy. Let’s start with Satan’s number one tool, fear.

There are two types of fear. One is a reverential, honoring fear which is healthy. This fear is what God wants from us. We must honor God as the Creator of the universe, the One True Living God, the Most High God. He is the One who holds the universe and our lives in His hand. If we fear Him reverentially, He will bless us with all His promises of health, wholeness, safety, and prosperity. But if we dishonor and disobey Him, He has the power to correct, and withhold the blessings. Also our disobedience and rebellion opens spiritual “doors” in our lives where God will have to allow the enemy (Satan) access.

There are a couple other fears mentioned in the Bible. Their meanings would encompass; shake or quake, be afraid, terror, and sudden alarm. Another word for fear is dread; causing great fear or anxiety. This is an abiding fear that resides with you day after day in anticipation that something bad is going to happen.

In John 10:10 Jesus was telling us what the devil’s job description is: “The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy.” The ONLY thing Satan wants to do is make our lives miserable or take us out. He has all the time in the world to wait and pick at us, waiting for us to become weak, fall, to become incapacitated and unable to live out the destiny God has established for us. It is interesting to find that the word “kill” means to breathe hard, blow or to rush.

In 2 Timothy 1:7 it says, God has not given us a spirit of fear. The word for spirit is a current of air, breath or breeze. So, if God has not given us that spirit then who has? Of course, the devil! He is breathing on us to put into us all kinds of fear. It is interesting that the words “kill” and “spirit” have the same kind of meaning. You may be in a situation where your response is fright, heart-thumping fright. Or you may have that slow breath blowing on you constantly, creating a feeling of dread; an anticipated situation that will be bad. Regardless of the type of fear, understand that your mortal enemy, Satan, wants to keep you in fear; afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of the future. But it is not from God. Tomorrow we will find that fear has been destroyed, so stay with me because it will get better!

Confession: I understand that fear is not from God. Fear is a tool of the enemy of my mortal soul, Satan, to keep me from walking in victory and reaching the destiny God has established for me. I will not be moved by fear.