Fear Keeps Us In Bondage - Part 1

 I hope to have a series on the subject of fear including some of the sickness and disease associated with fear that I have come across in a healing room ministry, private ministry, my studies on sickness/disease, and experience over the past decade.  Below is meant to give us additional clarity of what fear does to us.  We cannot ignore fear because it is very destructive.

God give us emotions to enhance our lives.  The emotion of fear was intended to alert us to danger so that we respond by our fight or flight abilities.  Meaning, it is a set of physiological changes, such as increased heart rate, arterial blood pressure, and blood glucose, initiated by the sympathetic nervous system to mobilize body systems in response to stress.  Basically speaking, the sympathetic nervous system provides the body with a burst of energy so that it can respond to perceived dangers.

However, much of mankind lives with fear on a daily basis.  Everyone of us has been subjected to fear.  Fear of the unknown, fear of failure, and fear of not being loved, fear of not being appreciated, and fear of not being worthy.  And especially fearing about what may happen in the future when God’s Word clearly instructs us not to worry about tomorrow– Matthew 6:34, Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.  Worrying about tomorrow is projecting fear into the future for something that won’t happen. 

So many lives are ruled by fear.  This kind of fear was not given to us by God.  This kind of fear does not warn us or protect us.  This kind of fear brings destruction because it is an evil spirit.  Fear is an antichrist spirit.  It is an unclean Unloving spirit because it tells you that you are not accepted and not loved by God.  Any thought that comes to you from another voice or from your own thought process which contradicts the Word of God is an antichrist thought.  This is why 2 Corinthians 10:5 says to be, 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.

God is not going to answer our prayer if you will not get these problems straightened out in our lives.  He won’t answer when fear comes and when distress and anguish are tormenting you because we hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the Lord.  Instead, we have ignored His counsel and despised all His reproof – Proverbs 1:25 You ignored my advice and rejected the correction I offered.

God told us not to fear.  If we allow fear to rule our lives, then we may have sickness and disease that will come because of our inability to believe and trust God.  When our desolation comes, do you think God is going to answer your prayer to heal you, but let you keep the fear that is causing the problem?  He will not, because He would have to be unholy to do that.  In other words, He would have to bless us and let us keep our sin. Our disease would come anyway, because the wages of that sin are still death and sin is still the problem.  God is dealing with this situation in the following scripture:

Proverbs 1:20-25 (NLT) Wisdom shouts in the streets. She cries out in the public square. She calls to the crowds along the main street, to those gathered in front of the city gate: “How long, you simpletons, will you insist on being simpleminded? How long will you mockers relish your mocking? How long will you fools hate knowledge? Come and listen to my counsel. I’ll share my heart with you and make you wise. “I called you so often, but you wouldn’t come. I reached out to you, but you paid no attention.  You ignored my advice and rejected the correction I offered.

God has given us His Word to bring us to a place of safety. Whether it be fear or un-forgiveness, don’t be too upset when the disease coming from fear or bitterness’ hits your life.

When we get help in recognizing our roots of disease and blocks to our healing in whatever disease you are dealing with, we are paving the way for you to be set free.  Then we can call to God according to His knowledge, not according to ignorance.  God brings us knowledge and wisdom so we can escape from the snare of the devil    2 Timothy 2:26 and that they may come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him to do his will.

We either believe His Word, or we do not believe His Word.  If you do not believe it, you have a spirit of unbelief.  If you cannot believe His Word, you may have an antichrist spirit.  You may have been programmed in your thinking by doctrines of devils through false teaching.

We are fertile ground.  We are a sponge in the spiritual dimension and in the thinking dimension.  We are receiving different voices at all levels and all dimensions.  The Bible says there are many voices, 1 Corinthians 14:10 There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without signification.  They all have something to say, but what they are saying does not always match what has been said.

Hebrews 11:6 says “Without faith, it is impossible to please god,” because faith represent your future.  Fear represents the destruction of your future and especially the destruction of your health.

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, ruler of the darkness of the world and spiritual wickedness in high places (Ephesians 6:12).  They dwell in the 2^nd heaven where Gabriel and Michael fought the kings of Persia, Daniel 10:13 But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me twenty-one days; and behold, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, for I had been left alone there with the kings of Persia. Fear is from that kingdom.  Fear is Satan’s attempt to overthrow God’s plan in the earth, using you to do it. 

Many people are chasing health and wealth and are tormented by driveness.  These are people trying to create their own blessings by things man has come up with.  Fear is motivating them, not faith.

Fear will try to create your future.  It projects into the future, base on you past of rejection, unloving, hurts/offences, and trauma in the emotional or physical sense.  It is important the we learn to put aside everything we have been exposed to that controls us and tries to create our future for us.  That could include recognizing what is in your family tree, your memories, philosophies, idiosyncrasies and any programming from victimization.

“Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence not yet seen,” (Hebrews 11:1).  This statement “the evidence not yet seen,” represents the future.  Faith is a substance.  When you touch your fingers, you know they are there.  You can feel them.  They are a substance and they are real. Faith is the substance of things hoped for that has not happened yet.  Fear is the same faith in that dimension.  It has substance.  Fear is the substance of things not hoped for, the evidence not yet seen.

Faith and Fear Are Equal – What you are meditating on or thinking about every day occupies your mind.  You may be meditating on the good things or you may be thinking about all the things that will go wrong in your life today and tomorrow.  The object of your fear is not only being projected into tomorrow, but also yesterday’s projected fear is here today.  Then your days become nights and your nights become days.  Fear will manifest in your emotional and physical causing torment because we are not accepting God’s and have not been made perfect in love, 1 John 4:18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love.  We give fear a legal right in the spiritual dimension to bring many into a life of despair and hopelessness resulting in depression and a deeper level of depression know as oppression which causes fatigue (spirit of stupor Romans 11:8).  A spirit of stupor is the lack of critical mental function and a level of consciousness wherein a sufferer is almost entirely unresponsive and only responds to base stimuli such as pain.

Mankind thinks of fear as anxiety and stress, which is the modern term for what the Bible refers to as fear.  Fear will cause many health problems and mankind will say it is because of a lack of exercise or that their diet has caused these issues (lack of exercise and proper diet creates fear as well).  They seek out all sorts of remedies that they hope will relieve or cure disease. Everything that friends swear by or alternative solutions such as oils, acupuncture, yoga, massage therapy, chiropractic treatments, machines, science and especially doctors.  We put our trust in doctors (who bring great fear) and they treat the symptoms with tests and drugs and before we know it, people are on multiple medications and in bondage to drugs which also brings fear.

Folks, we have it all wrong. God tells us why we have sickness and disease in Deuteronomy 28:15-68).  His Word gives us all the answers to overcoming sickness and disease in our lives.  Yet, the body of Christ is not being taught how.  When is the last time you heard a message or was in a class on the subject of root cause of sickness and disease?

We come to church with a happy face and go home to our sickness/disease without anyone knowing how much suffering they are experiencing.  I love messages on faith and love, but we would be in a better position to receive increased faith and love if we could rid ourselves of sickness and disease that is hindering our relationship with God.  How can we have ears to hear God and eyes to see (discernment)? Romans 11:8 Just as it is written: “God has given them a spirit of stupor, Eyes that they should not see and ears that they should not hear, To this very day.” Much of our sickness and disease in no particular order, is caused by fear, un-forgiveness, and anger. Together they can destroy us.

Fear and Faith have to be to be fulfilled.  Unfortunately for most, fear is being fulfilled more than the faith in our lives.  Fear has brought many to a life of despair and hopelessness, Proverbs 12:25 Anxiety (fear) in the heart of man causes depression, but a good word makes it glad.  It doesn’t have to be this way.