Fear Tidbits Part 2

Yesterday (WED), we went to service and during praise and worship the music leader was led to halt the music.  He felt that someone or more than one in the service had a word and asked them share.  Pastor Jason also encouraged those that had a word to share.  As I listened to three that shared a word, I was strongly led to furiously write down what I was given.  I did not share this in the service but, I want to share it now.

It went something like this:  I sent you my Love, My Son Jesus.  He came to die on the cross for your sins and teach you the ways that lead to salvation.  Yet, you continue believe only what you want to believe.  You continue to compromise My Word.  You have aligned yourself with the fleshly ways of the world and they are contrary to Me.  Your ways are not My ways and your ways will not lead you to My Kingdom.

Now, on to the second part of Fear Tidbits part two.

Fear Tidbits

Hebrews 11:6 (NLT)  And it is impossible to please God without faith. Anyone who wants to come to him must believe that God exists and that he rewards those who sincerely seek him.  Faith and Fear are equal in this dimension: both demand fulfillment.  Faith will always defeat Fear, because faith is a work of the Holy Spirit.  Fear is a work of Satan.  He now rules a kingdom determined to destroy mankind.  This kingdom consists of many principalities and powers, rulers of the darkness of this world and spiritual wickedness in high places.  Fear is from that kingdom.

Fear is Satan’s attempt to overthrow God’s plan in the earth, using you to do it.  Feelings of Fear cannot be trusted.

Your hopes motivate you because that is what faith is.  Faith involves God’s plan for you:  what He created for you from the foundation of the world.

Some churches preach what is called a faith message.  But no one can live up to the faith message, because it is really a system of works. Dr. Henry Wright says “It is a form of Witchcraft, due to the manipulation and control motivation.  They use the Word of God to manipulate and control their circumstances.”

There is nothing wrong with using the Word.  The Word of God is true and faith is true, but the faith teaching is based on works.  They teach your well-being is based on how much faith you have and how you are using the Word to get what you want.  Faith is not works.

Hebrews 11:1 (NLT) Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen; it gives us assurance about things we cannot see.  Faith is that simple.  Your hopes need to be based on the known will and knowledge of God for mankind in the earth, as revealed by the Word of God.  Knowing the will of God requires reading His Word, because it tells you what His plans are for mankind.

Fear is sin and it has consequences.  Your mind, body, and spirit are responders to your Fear.  Fear will bring torment (1 John 4:18) sickness, and disease (Deuteronomy 28).  Unfortunately, Fear is getting greater and greater and the church as a whole is losing the battle.

In conclusion: Fear will try to create your future.  It projects into the future, based on your past.  It is important that you learn to put aside everything you have been exposed to that controls you and tries to create your future for you.  That could include recognizing what is in your family tree, your memories, philosophies, idiosyncrasies (odd or peculiar habits), and any programming that causes victimization.

Amen.

Tony Sanchez 8-21-14

Fear Tidbits Part 1

Fear

There are several types of Fear in God’s Word.  One is Fear of man.  Others would be Fear of evil and Fear of Death.  In the world, there are thousands of Fears which the world labels as “phobias” or “stressors.”  What we worry about throughout the day is considered a Fear as well.  What does God say about worry?  Matthew 6:34 says “Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.”  So, if we worry (fear), and the Bible tells us not to worry, it is considered sin.

The level of fear is escalating in the world and the world sees our fear better than we can see our fears.  Fear is sin.  Not only do we sin by fears, but the world also sees our sin by fear. 

Being in the corporate world and the ministry of healing, I see many struggling with the Fear of man.  To fear man is to look to and regard people rather than God.  In other words, Fear of man makes man your god.  What man thinks and says is what is important to you.  In Romans 3:4 Paul says “…let God be true, but every man a liar.”

So if you are going to believe man before God, you are making God a liar and man true.  Proverbs 29:25 says “The fear of man brings a snare, But whoever trusts in the Lord shall be safe.”

This scripture equates fearing man with not trusting in the Lord.  One way we fear man in our lives is to hold back from people, because we worry about how they are going to treat us rather than looking to God to protect us.  There is a close connection between the Unloving spirit and the spirit of Fear.

When you have Rejection and Fear of Rejection, you draw back from people.  You do not become transparent with them because you are afraid of Rejection.  Who you are depends on what other people think about you.

If you are looking for other’s approval, you are in trouble.  They think more highly of themselves than they do of you anyway!  That is pride and arrogance and they are not likely to show the love of God to you.

Fear prevents us from expressing God’s love not only to ourselves but to people including our family.  It can lead to us putting more stock in what people think instead of what God says in His Word.

Fear demands fulfillment and the enemy is always there to help bring about this fulfillment.  We need to stand against fear and hold every thought of fear captive and cast down every imagination.  We must take fear from the past, the present, and the future and cast it out in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth who came in the flesh.  In the name of Jesus, I pray and declare victory to the saints over fear.

Amen,

Tony Sanchez, 8-2014

What Do You Confess As Truth Part 5

This is the last in a series of what we confess as truth.  Realistically, we could write an article every week for years on this subject.  As I am exposed to people, I have come to identify an area of brokenness in many people mostly due to how they have been treated.  The first bullet point closely ties into the other bullet points I will share.  A key word attached to these bullets points is fear.  There are thousands of fears that affect our everyday life and if we would just trust in God we would be in a better place.  God says “Do not worry (fear)” Matthew 6:34.  Unfortunately, we constantly worry now and into the future.  We constantly deal with our imaginations on things that may never happen in the future.

 So, let’s get started.

• Rejection/Abandonment/Unloved - We all know the deep sting of rejection, because we are all born with an innate longing for love and acceptance.  The effects of agreeing with rejection can be physically and psychologically devastating.  Rejection that kids experience due to lack of love, lack of involvement of the parents, divorce, abandonment, and rejection from peers. Rejection that adults experience because our parents did not show their love.  Rejection that wives or husbands experience due to lack of communication and love.  Rejections from family and friends. Rejection from our places of employment for lack of recognition or gratitude.  Rejection from our church. Accepting rejection (real or imagined) disagrees with who God says we are.  It places man’s acceptance as more important than God’s and you are telling God that you don’t believe Him when He said that you are worthy. You are saying to God that you would rather believe what other people are thinking of me. Rejection and abandonment will lead us on a desperate search, striving for the love that will complete us.  This love cannot be found in people, places or things, but only in God. That is, in Christ, he chose us before the world was made so that we would be his holy people—people without blame before him. Because of his love, God had already decided to make us his own children through Jesus Christ. That was what he wanted and what pleased him, Ephesians 1:4-5 (NCV).  Believe that God loves you more than anyone can love you and He will not reject you.  Seek His love and use His love as your foundation.  Trust in man and understand that there is always a potential for rejection.

• Betrayal – The definition is to be unfaithful or disloyal.  How many times has your family, friends, and coworkers backstabbed you and it gets back to you?  It is very painful.  Most often we get offended when we should be praying for those who throw us under the bus.  Again, it comes down to whom do we trust.  Are going to trust in what man has to say?  Psalm 118:8 It is better to trust in the Lord Than to put confidence in man.  Easier said than done, eh?

• Self-Hatred – Do you know how many people do not like their selves?  Do you know how many people struggle with self-hatred, lack of self-esteem and guilt?  Are you able to look in the mirror and say I love myself?  How many of you hate to look at yourself in a picture?  How can you not love yourself if God loves you?  He is greater than you.  He, who is the greatest and holiest of all, God the Father, says he loves you.  Under what gospel do we have the audacity to say we do not love ourselves.  If we do this, we make ourselves in opposition to God.  We make ourselves a god unto ourselves.  We deny His statement of love and open ourselves up to the enemy to agree with us.  So instead of hearing God speaking to you, by His Word and by the Holy Spirit, telling you that you are loved and you are okay, you are going to hear this voice coming into your mind telling you how rotten, stupid or worthless you are.  God’s loved us so much He sent Jesus take away all the sins (including self-hatred) of the world.  God wants us to love our neighbors as we love ourselves. Matthew 22:39 And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’  We love ourselves because God loves us.  Self-hatred is sin and we cannot confess this as truth.

A meme is a unit of memory.  Memes will include everything we have talked about in this series and most every negative memory in your life.  Memes have been programmed in your long-term memory by our enemy and he wants us to follow his thinking all the way to the grave.  Behind spiritually rooted sicknesses and diseases are always feelings, emotions and thoughts.  The enemy is banking on you having these sinful thoughts in your mind continuously.  He wants sinful thoughts to consume you every minute of the day so your thoughts are not centered on God.  He wants to use you as a medium of expression in what you feel, think or say.  Satan wants you to confess all sin as truth.

I think we are getting a clear understanding of what we feel, think, and say can affect us greatly.  We can reverse this by doing a better job of understanding, identifying and acknowledging sin.  We do this by building a stronger relationship with God through His Word and by using the Helper (Holy Spirit) that God the Father sent to us when Jesus left to be with Our Father in Heaven.

Going forward, what are you going to confess as truth?

John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

Final thoughts:  Many will come to offend us.  God loves all his children and we must understand that we need to love those who offend us.  We have to separate the sin in them and the person God created and loves.  We can love them and hate the sin working in them.

Thank you for taking time to read what I send out.

God’s blessings to you all,

Tony Sanchez