The knowledge you have about the spiritual realm will help you hit the right opponent when you war for your physical and spiritual inheritance on earth. I must confess that this process is not the best of exercise but it’s worth the exercise, trust me. For you to deliver whatever you’ve conceived, for you to lay hold of your inheritance on earth, it takes rascality and rascality intimidates “fear”. (Matthew 11:12 - And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force). The extent you want to go in life, believe me, is how far the enemy is DETERMINED to discourage and distract you, even, wage war against you by introducing his most powerful weapon, FEAR!
If I’m to define fear from my own perspective, it’s a mirage! Mirage, (simply put), is an appearance that seems real but it’s unreal. When you travel on a very sunny day by road, look as far as your eyes can take you, you’ll notice that the road looks very wet (calling for extreme caution as you approach that scene), but you’ll find out that the road isn’t wet, even when you could have sworn on the appearance you’d seen. That’s how fear works. The devil has a way of magnifying people’s problems, making them seem different and bigger than they are, and the moment you fall for his tactics, you struggle through like a non swimmer who finds himself in an ocean. The best way to fight fear is to stand up to it, face your fears and you’ll see that beneath fear’s garment is a non-existing image.
David was anointed as a king 20 years before he ascended the throne, why? Even though God knew how well he tended to the flocks of sheep and prevented them from been attacked by wilder animals, God wanted to prepare him even better to stand up to fear and so He made David stand up to “his” Goliath, the Philistine army, who had put the people of Israel in fear, the man who would have prevented David from ascending the throne if he hadn’t been brought to nothing by David. (Read, 1 Samuel 17). David faced his mountain to move to the next level because it was at the instance of standing up to Goliath that he was announced. David refused to live in fear like everyone in Israel, David hated that the people of Israel were in fear and he knew that someone had to stand up to that fear to conquer it. God could have taken care of Goliath for David; instead, he equipped David to fight Goliath. David looked fear in the face and said “I KNOW YOU ARE NON-EXISTENT, TODAY, I WILL EXPOSE YOU”.
2 Timothy 1:7 - For God has not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
The Spirit God placed in you and I is not of fear, but of POWER (not weak, not timid, not of cowardice), and it takes the activation of that Spirit for you to see it produce results. The issue of fear has robbed great men and women of the possessions, it has prevented many from taking giant steps that would have brought about radical change, like David.
Let this mind be in you; Everything you fear, everything you fear in an ungodly manner is a foothold for the enemy to penetrate into your life and he’ll not stop manipulating and destroying you until he’s finished with you - ask Job in the Bible. Job 3:25 - What I feared has come upon me; what I dreaded has happened to me. The source of fear- the enemy, knows what you fear the most and what you dread, he then throws arrows at you using those things you fear knowing that they’ll get to you because you’re seen as weak in that aspect and whenever you’re weak, the devil gains entrance through your weakness. I want you to realize who you are in Christ Jesus, the authority you have been given as a child of God (1 John 4:4), and the Spirit that is at work in you; exercise authority over your fears and rebuke the enemy, the enemy loses his grip over whatever area he’s dominated and flees. There may be oppositions in your life today – strongholds of the wicked, threats from men, household oppositions, oppositions from friends, threats and oppositions from rulers and authorities in high places, fear of passing your exams, fear of advancement in life, fear of the unknown, etc; and you’re completely hopeless and weak thinking you’re all alone, no you’re not for ONE WITH GOD IS MAJORITY. It doesn’t matter how many they are, it doesn’t matter how strong they may seem, just say to yourself, I HAVE MORE ARMIES, I HAVE STRONGER ARMIES, I AM NOT ALONE!
2 Kings 6:15-18
So one night the king of Aram sent a great army with many chariots and horses to surround the city. 15When the servant of the man of God got up early the next morning and went outside, there were troops, horses, and chariots everywhere. “Oh, sir, what will we do now?” the young man cried to Elisha. 16“Don’t be afraid!” Elisha told him. “FOR THERE ARE MORE ON OUR SIDE THAN ON THEIRS!” 17Then Elisha prayed, “O Lord, open his eyes and let him see!” The Lord opened the young man’s eyes, and when he looked up, he saw that the hillside around Elisha was filled with horses and chariots of fire. 18As the Aramean army advanced toward him, Elisha prayed, “O Lord, please make them blind.” So the Lord struck them with blindness as Elisha had asked.
For you to attain any level in life, spiritually and physically, the truth is, you have to face the Goliath in every level and the only reason you cannot advance to the next level is fear, fear of defeat, fear of failure, fear of disappointment, etc. THE FREEDOM TO CHOOSE THE BATTLE TO FIGHT ISN’T GOD’S PLAN FOR YOU BUT MAKING DECISIONS TO STAND AND FIGHT THE BATTLES THAT WILL BRING YOU TOTAL FREEDOM. Elisha did not see the Horses and chariots of fire in the physical, they were spiritual, yet, he stood his grounds trusting the power at work in him. Just for the fact that his opponents were physical was enough to make him run, it was enough to make him tremble and not use the power at work in him to command blindness on them, but he said, NO! Friend, I need you to see what he saw at the time -he prayed for his servant’s eyes to be opened to see what he saw. What you know about fear will either help you overcome it or make you give in to its emptiness.
What authority do you act on when you face your oppositions and Goliaths? 1 John 4:4 - But you belong to God, my dear children. You have already won a victory over those people, because the Spirit who lives in you is greater than the spirit who lives in the world.
Having the mind that the SPIRIT of the one who stripped the enemy of ALL his powers when he rose from death lives in you, will help you face any challenge and come out victorious. The enemy may seem powerful, but his powers are “disguised” and “persistent” which makes a persistent Christian the best fit for the enemy. Stand up to your fears because you’ve been given the Spirit of boldness and the Spirit that lives in you overcame the world, no matter how long it may take, yes, no matter how long the battle takes, (the enemy wants to know if you will give up), but when he sees that you’re USING a stronger weapon and that you’re backed by a higher authority, he’ll flee.
In all, fear will rule and eventually destroy any man or woman who hasn’t accepted Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and savior and anyone who doesn’t have a personal relationship with God.
I PRAY THAT WE’LL FULLY KNOW THE POWER THAT IS AT WORK IN US AND EFFICIENTLY EXERCISE THE AUTHORITY WE HAVE AS GOD’S CHILDREN AT ANY GIVEN OPPORTUNITY, IN JESUS NAME. AMEN!
