"There is o fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love" (1 John 4:18).
A man born into this earth is filled with and ruled by fear, but a man with a recreated spirit is born of and filled with the love of God.
When you were born again, you were born of love and there is no fear in love. When love entered, it cast fear out of you. However, your heart will continue to receive, store and produce fear if fear is fed into it.
You have the substance of faith in your spirit; but if you don't feed it with the Word of God, it will never develop. If you keep practicing fear, talking fear, living fear, the Word of God will be completely choked out of your spirit.
Fear is a spiritual force. When you talk fear, you get spiritual power working to your disadvantage instead of to your advantage. Get rid of the fear. If you have a sensation of fear around you, openly and boldly rebuke it on the spot. Don't put up with it.
Don't fool with fear. Fear hath torment. Who, in the Bible, is called the "tormentor"? Satan.
The Bible says we have not been given a spirit of fear (2 Tim. 1:7). When you are dealing with fear, you're dealing with a spirit. I absolutely refuse to make myself available to any kind of spirit but the Holy Spirit of God, and those who are in His allegiance.
I will not make my body, my mind, my spirit or my words available to any evil force.
Whenever fear shows up, we should be so trained in the Word of God that we rebuke it, repel it and stand against it in every Bible form available. Fear is one of Satan's choice weapons. Stop fear. Rebuke it. Renounce it.
Every time fear crosses your mind, say out loud: "I am redeemed from fear. Jesus delivered me from fear" (Gal. 3:13-14, Heb. 2:15).
The Bible says, "Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report...think on these things" (Phil. 4:8).
Take those good thoughts and say them.
Fear is fed, through your intellect, down into your spirit. Remember, fear is not natural to the believer. It comes from the outside in.
In Matthew 6:28, 31, Jesus said, "Why take ye thought for rainment?...Take no thought, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'Wherewithal shall we be clothed?'"
How do you take a thought? Just because a thought comes into your mind, you are not required to take it, or accept it.
The Bible says, "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" (2 Cor. 10:5).
Jesus said, "Take no thought, saying." How do you take a thought? By saying it.
In Matthew 12:34, Jesus said, "...out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh."
How do you get it down in your spirit? By saying it. You feed it from your mind into your spirit by taking the thought and saying it.
Develop habits of saying the Word of God. Stop practicing fear by using fear filled words in your daily conversation. It is not from God, so you don't need it.
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