Fear is a Spirit that Stops us, and God has a Plan to Defeat it—R Fritz
Fear has a way of making us think because we believe what fear says. We must remember fear is a spirit, as we are also spiritual. We hear fear as we hear God, as we decide those to whom we will listen. Fear is something we must deal with right now, and it takes our time away. Fear takes our past and brings it into our future; it wants to tell us our future is not bright and keeps us stuck in a situation we cannot move because fear stops us. If we believe our fear, we cannot believe God. 1 John 4:16,18-19 says, “And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love, and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. 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. We love him because he first loved us.” Perfect love is God, and that is what defeats fear. Fear has torment, a feeling that comes when fear is present. After many years, I noticed that feeling because that was what the Holy Spirit showed me. When the Holy Spirit showed that to me, it was the key to beginning to overcome fear.
The spiritual battle begins in our mind and our thoughts, where fear and Satan want to stop us, so we do not move. Satan knows exactly what we are going through by our words and actions; Satan cannot read our minds. Satan gives us thoughts that we act on, and with our actions, he knows where we stand. I have learned not to react, so with me, Satan does not know where I stand, which frustrates Satan. Satan’s motive is to get revenge on God, using us to come against God or to have no relationship with God through the Holy Spirit. We have many people who know who God is but have no relationship with the Holy Spirit. Satan is not concerned with people with no relationship because he has them where he wants them. No relationship, and God will say I never knew you. Matthew 7:19-23 says, and this is Jesus speaking, “Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits, ye shall know them. Not everyone that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? And in thy name have cast out devils? And in thy name have many wonderful works been done? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.” Jesus is talking about people when he uses trees without good fruit, cut down, then thrown in the fire. We must do the will of the Father instead of our will and thoughts, where we think we are doing God’s work and think we are going to heaven. We think we have done great things for God, but instead, they were not what God wanted because we do not know what God wanted, either because we did not ask or because we have no relationship with God.
When we think we know what God wants, I have found God has a better plan than what I thought possible. Isaiah 55:8-9 says, “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.” This explains why we need to depend on the Lord for wisdom instead of ourselves, because we do not understand what is going on, nor see what God sees in the situations we are in. If we think we know better, that would be pride rising in us. That spirit of pride makes us think we are better than we really are, which would be a lie. The truth is that when we depend on ourselves and either forget about God or choose not to listen to him, we have made a choice, and that choice is to turn our back on our greatest answer to all our issues and have embraced Satan by default. Is that what we really want? That is what Satan wants for us; he wants to confuse us into believing we are following God and doing the right thing. We do not ask the question, “Is that you, God?” Satan knows how to make us believe what he tells us because he knows us. It is because Satan knows how to manipulate us by answering questions or through actions, and when we do that gives us answers. God knows everything about us because he knew us from the beginning. Satan must manipulate or lie to get his answers. Satan waits for us to tell him what he needs, and we oblige him. I learned many years ago, and do not speak out about things that I do not need to.
The Bible has answers to overcome and stop fear immediately 2 Corinthians 10:4-6 says (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.” These verses given to me by the Holy Spirit stop fear immediately because everything that exalts itself against God’s knowledge and thoughts will have to obey Jesus Christ. Fear is a thought that would have to obey and would immediately have to stop. Fear was stopped when I learned about these verses, and any thought that was not from God, we can just get rid of them. Fear does have torment, and that torment has a feeling. When the Holy Spirit showed me that feeling which I had felt but did not know what it was, I now knew when fear was present, I would deal with it.
God always has a plan; we just need to listen and get on board. Fear controlled fifty years of my life, but God’s plan showed me how to gain that control back through the Holy Spirit. That same plan, with the Holy Spirit’s help, now gives everybody the ability to get rid of fear in their life. God Bless.
