Fear can be our greatest enemy if we don't learn how to fight them off. The only way to overcome our fears is to speak truth over our fears. Truth is found in the word of God. It contains all we need to tear down the lies of the enemy. It's time to fight our fears.
Fear is contagious. Once we entertain fear in one area of our lives, it spreads to other areas of our lives.
That where I found myself at, in a mixture of fear all around.
God had opened the door and confirmed for my husband and me to go to Singapore for a missions trip. However, we only had less than 2 weeks to raise funds for this trip. Going to this trip would also be a sacrifice for my husband since he had planned to use this summer time to build up finances.
Worries started going in my mind. What if we don't raise the $3500 that we need? What if our endeavor's to raise finances fail? Soon enough I found fear seeping through other areas of my life such as with Living Revelations and our home.
I know God had called me to give myself wholly to establishing this ministry, but I had fears that I wouldn't be capable to build partners to sustain the ministry. I started having doubts about other promises that God has spoken to us such as bringing us a house to live in.
I decided to get into my alone time with Jesus and it was there where He awakened me and said, "It's time to fight your fears."
I realized that entertaining all these fears would do no good for me and only pull me away from persevering in the path that I know God wants me to be in. At that moment I decided to choose to fight my fears with God's truth.
"God I know you will bring the partners for Living Revelations. You have birthed this ministry in me and I will not let discouragement tempt me to give up. I will continue to keep your way, hope in you and trust that you will exalt me to inherit your promises (Psalm 37:34)."
"God, you say that you always do immeasurably more than what we ask or imagine so I believe you will provide more than enough what we need for this Singapore trip (Ephesians 3:20)."
God has given us His word to speak over our lives. The word of God is our sword to use against our fears. Ephesians 6:17 says, “...Take up the sword of the spirit which is the word of God.”
What fears have you been battling with? It's time to fight your fears with God's truth.
Use every moment of fear to cause you to press into the battle of prayer even more with God's truth. The reason the enemy tempts us to not get in the word of God is that He doesn’t want us to have our sword for battle. He wants us to be defeated. But now is the time to pick up our sword and start fighting through His lies.
Ephesians 6:12 says, "For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms." The enemy uses fear to take us off from the path of God. However, faith will lead us to the path of God.
Faith is choosing to believe what God said over what we see.
There will be times in our lives where we will be faced at a crossroad; to choose the path of fear or faith. It's only when we choose to obey God and choose the path of faith that we can walk into the good plans He has for our lives.
Jeremiah 6:16 says, “Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls.”
Are you faced at a crossroad? Will you choose to take the path of faith?
It's when we choose to partner with faith that we will see God's miraculous hand move upon our lives.
We see throughout the Bible the results of those who chose to walk by faith and not by sight. Sarah, who was past childbearing age, was enabled to bear children because she considered God faithful who had made the promise (Hebrews 11:11). Moses was able to see the Red Sea split and watch His people cross the sea into safety (Hebrews 11:29). There are many more faith stories in the Bible that we can read to encourage our own faith walk.
We have today to make the decision to live such a life of faith as those in the Bible. We have the opportunity to live a life where many will see and fear the Lord and put their trust in Him. So remember, it's time to fight our fears.
