Fear - Don't Let It Torment You

I want to share some tidbits with you about fear.  Fear is a principality and it affects everyone in every area of our lives.  In fact worry, depending on the situation,  can suffocate and even paralyze us at any given moment.  Fear affects our mind, body (health) and our spiritual. Fear will project into the future causing all sorts of imaginations.  Why worry because what you worry about in the future will never come to pass over 99% of the time. I pray that this piece will help you understand what fear can do to you and how God can bring healing to you if we follow His word and believe in Him.

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 fact there are thousands of fears in this world.  In the April 2001, issue of Time Magazine there is an article called “Fear Not” which list over 4,000 different types of fear.  The world labels the evil spirit of Fear as “phobias” or “stressors.”

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.  Paul said in Romans 3:4….let God be true but every man a liar.  So if you are are going to believe man before God, you are making God a liar and man true.  The book of Proverbs says, The fear of man brings a snare, But whoever trusts in the Lord shall be safe Proverbs 29:25.

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, worrying about how they are going to treat us rather than looking to God to protect us. 

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 others’ approval, you are in trouble.  They may think more highly of themselves than they do of you anyway!  That is pride and arrogance.

Fear prevents us from expressing God’s love to people.  It can lead to us putting more stock in what people think instead of what God says in His Word.  At the very least, fearing man robs us of the peace God intends for us.  It also warps our view of who we are in Jesus Christ, because we take our self-concept from what others think of us, instead of what God says about us in His word.

That goes back to the Unloving spirit.  Who you are is what someone else thought about you or said about you.  If someone comes to you and says “Well, I think you’re pretty neat,” so what.  God has already said you are the apple of His eye (Psalm 17:8 Keep me as the apple of Your eye; Hide me under the shadow of Your wings). You are letting a man be your source rather than letting God be your source.  One antidote for Fear of man is found in Psalm 118:6 The Lord is on my side; I will not fear. What can man do to me? Another is found in 1 John 4:18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear (Unloving, rejection, abandonment, etc.), because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love.  

Many of us can have hundreds of fears built up over the years.  It says in 1 John 4:18  that fear involves torment. Did you know that fear can cause depression (torment)? Don’t take my word for it.  Google what causes depression and read what the medical field has to say.   They don’t really have an answer, but God does! Proverbs 12:25  says “Anxiety (worry, stress) in the heart of man causes depression (despair, hopelessness), But a good word makes it glad.”  Nine out of ten people we minister to have never had their earthly father say the words “I love you” or if he did, they didn’t believe him by the terrible way they treated them.  The lack of love from the earthly father and even the mother, will open the door of not feeling loved which leaves us trying to fill the void and living a lifetime of torment.  All he had to say to us was “a good word.”  “Son/daughter, I love you.  You are a good boy/daughter.”  All the earthly father had to do was covey the love of the Heavenly Father to their kids and even their wives.

If you do not believe the Lord loves us and is on your side, you have an antichrist spirit within you and you need to recognize it.  If you do not trust the Lord, who can you trust?  Truly trusting in God will remove Fear of man from our lives.

Repent for fearing man.  God will transform your heart to trust Him without looking to people as your source anymore.  Let God be your place of peace. Surrender to God and receive His love in the name of Jesus.

Psalm 30:2  O Lord my God, I cried out to You, And You healed me.

 

Healing and blessings to you all,

Tony Sanchez 8-27-15

Forgiveness

Greetings,

 

I want to take a moment to share with you a message that must be applied multiple times during the day in a lot of cases.  It has to do with un-forgiveness towards the offender.  Second, the person who has been offended must seek forgiveness from God for having un-forgiveness.  

 

Forgiveness: A Two Step process

 

Step One.  You’ve all heard the forgiveness message over and over and over again.  We are to forgive those who have offended us over and over again as it says in Matthew 18:21-22 where Jesus says to forgive “seventy time seven”.  In reality, this is symbolic, as we are to forgive even if it exceeds seventy times seven.  We continue to forgive them until we are not pinged by the thought that caused our un-forgiveness. 

 

Many people have un-forgiveness towards people that have been dead for years and it should not be an issue.  But it is an issue because we have a record of wrongs against offenders both dead and alive.

 

Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, "Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother when he sins against me? Up to seven times?"  Jesus answered, "I tell you, not seven times, but seventy times seven.  Matthew 18:21-22  

 

Step Two.  Jesus says to love your neighbor as you love yourself (as God loves you).  Matthew 22:37-39 Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and great commandment.  And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.  So, if we took offense and have un-forgiveness, it is contrary to what Jesus said and that is to love our neighbor.  Therefore, we are in sin for having un-forgiveness towards the person who offended us.  We are to go before God and ask Him to forgive us for having un-forgiveness towards the person who offended us or we go to bed with un-repentant sin.

 

And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive him, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins (for having un-forgiveness)." Mark 11:25.  Are you with me?

 

I want to share some things that have really helped me in dealing with offenders and un-forgiveness.

 

1. Separate the sin in the person and look at the person God created. 
2. Love the person, hate the sin.  It’s OK to hate their sin, but we must love them as God loves them
3. Look at the person the way Jesus would have looked at the offender.  With love and compassion.
4. Understand that people do not live their lives according to your expectations.
5. Understand that if you complain, slander, or gossip about someone, you damage his or her reputation and their reputation can never be restored 100%.  In most cases they will exaggerate their record of wrongs to justify their argument.
    

Prayer of Forgiveness:

 

1). Lord, I am angry and hurt for the things that ____ did to me.  Lord I ask that You place in my heart a spirit of forgiveness towards _____ because I don’t want to live with this burden of un-forgiveness any longer.  In Jesus name, I forgive _____ as God forgives me and I want to confess my love for _____ just as God loves me. 2). Father God, In Jesus name I now ask You  to forgive me for having un-forgiveness towards _____.

 

• Ephesians 4:31 Get rid of all bitterness, rage, anger, harsh words, and slander……      

 

We must understand what Jesus knew about man’s short comings when he said “they do not know what they are doing.”  We are to forgive them and understand that they may be in bondage and don’t recognize the offenses they have committed.  It does not mean we have to endure their offenses.  But, we must forgive them and love them as God loves them. 

 

• Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing." Luke 23:34

 

Jesus Warns of Offenses

 

Luke 17:1-4 Then He said to the disciples, “It is impossible that no offenses should come, but woe to him through whom they do come!  It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.  Take heed to yourselves. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him.  And if he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times in a day returns to you, saying, ‘I repent,’ you shall forgive him.”

 

Rid yourself of the record of wrongs you have against friends, family, employers, church, and especially SELF because our un-forgiveness is a much bigger burden on us than it is on them.  In most cases, they don’t know that you have un-forgiveness towards them. Your un-forgiveness compromises your immune system and causes many health issues.  Therefore, we must forgive and seek forgiveness from God. 

 

Don’t ever let your adversaries become your master.  In other words, don’t let their sin control you.

 

God Bless you,

 

Tony Sanchez 8-2-15