Fear – (worry, stress anxiety, panic, terror, nervous, afraid, dread, alarm, fright, trepidation)
Fear
definition:
an unpleasant often strong emotion caused by anticipation or awareness of
danger; an instance of this emotion; a state marked by this emotion; to be afraid
of; expect with alarm. Synonyms for fear: alarm, anxiety, dread, fearfulness,
fright, horror, panic, scare, terror, trepidation, stress, nervousness, uneasy,
alarm, dread, distress, wary, anxiety, phobia, and worry.
God gave us emotions to help us. The emotion fear was
intended to alert us to danger so that we may respond by our fight or flight
abilities. Fighting fear means you battle to take your peace by overcoming
fear. Flight means that you don’t stand
up to fear and it can end up being one with you. Constant fear will control you and put you in
bondage.
Studies show that anxiety and stress are as detrimental to
the heart health as are cholesterol, smoking and others. You must get rid of your worries, stresses,
anxieties, and fears because they are detrimental to your health. Fear weakens
your immune system leaving you at risk of immune diseases.
The
Mind-Body Connection
The hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal is the facilitator of the
mind-body connection. For every thought
you have, conscious or unconscious, there is a corresponding chemical, hormone,
neurotransmitter, or neuropeptide that secretes somewhere in your body to
respond to that thought. Fear can cause
the body to become out of balance.
But, if there is a departure from normal because of
spiritual problems, it is called disease.
Something that God created to function has been perverted and it is now
malfunctioning most of the time through hyposecretion (under) or hypersecretion
(over) of body chemicals.
Much of fear and panic is caused by the hypersecretion of
hormones. The amygdala (a little ball of
nerves in the brain that detects fear) triggers and regulates fear responses
and sets the whole fight or flight reaction into motion. When the stressor is gone and the fight or flight
reaction consistently extends beyond its normal recovery time due to long-term
fear and anxiety, it carries over into the Resistance Stage.
Resistance
Stage
The Resistance stage is where you are geared up all the time
to face this invisible enemy of fear. Certain part of your body that needed to
maintain homeostasis (balance) are no longer functioning because your body has
been told there is an enemy. So, you are
geared up, wrestling this enemy of fear all the time. After a while, you wonder why you are worn
out.
The
Exhaustion Stage
Constant exposure to fear will produce hopelessness and
despair. Also know as depression. How do
I know this? God’s Word tells us in Proverbs
12:25 Anxiety in the heart of man causes depression, but a good word
makes it glad. Years of exposure to
depression will produce oppression (sense of being weighed down in body or mind). Also know as a stupor (a state of extreme
apathy-lack feeling/emotion or torpor-a state of lowered physiological activity
typically characterized by reduced metabolism, heart rate, respiration, and
body temperature that occurs in varying degrees resulting often from stress
or shock). The Bible describes this condition in Romans 11:8 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” which describes feeling lethargic as it
relates to, or characterized by laziness, procrastination, and lack of energy.
Many years ago, Life magazine published a list of 4,000
fears. I will only list some that I see
most often.
|
Fear of not
being loved |
Fear of
rejection |
Fear of
abandonment |
|
Fear of not
performing |
Fearing into
the future |
Fears from
work |
|
Fear of not
being worthy |
Fear from
politics |
Fears from
the world |
|
Fear of what
people think or say |
Fear of
Sickness and Disease |
Fear for your
children |
|
Fear of
losing your job |
Fear of
facing people who hurt you |
Fear of
embarrassment |
|
Fear of
growing old and being alone |
Fear of dying |
Fear of foods
and not exercising |
|
Fear of
Failure |
Fear of
gaining weight |
Fear of mankind |
|
Fear of
showing love |
Fear of
parent and kids |
Fear of
losing salvation |
What Are
Some Emotional and Physical Symptoms of Fear?
|
Insomnia |
Migraine
Headaches |
Cramps |
High Blood Pressure |
IBS |
|
Itching |
Back and Neck
Pain |
Plantar
Fasciitis |
Feeling Lethargic |
Hopelessness |
|
Constricted
vessels |
Contracted
Muscles |
Contracted
tendons |
Contracted
ligaments |
Panic attacks |
|
Narrow Air
passages |
Narrow lung
air sacs |
Confusion |
Psychosis |
Unsound mind |
|
Reclusive |
Carpal Tunnel |
Shortness of
Breath |
Depression |
Oppression |
|
Procrastination |
Blood clots |
Arterial
Stiffness |
Vessel wall
thinning |
Erectile Disfunction |
|
Hopelessness |
Despair |
IBS |
COPD |
Sleep Apnea |
Fear Topics
Traumas – Traumas and the stressor tied to them come
in all sizes from the littlest trauma to the biggest. Each of us has had a constant lifetime
exposure to traumas of all sizes that affect our physical and emotional
well-being leading to what the medical field calls PTSD. A lifetime of fears from traumas piles up
leading to emotional sickness and physical disease. Traumas and the fears attached to traumas
will stay with us until we receive ministry to eradicate them.
Generation Fears can be passed down the family line.
In other words, we are born with fears, which is sin, (Behold, I was brought
forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me, Psalm 51:5). Not only
do we have to break the generational fears from past generations and confess it
as sin, we must also confess the generational sin that we have partaken in from
past generation, and ask God to forgive us.
This is called repentance.
Unloving Spirit – 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. Fear is an unclean spirit.
Unfortunately, an Unloving spirit will have Fear working
with it. The Fear is the fear of not being loved or a fear of not being worthy
to be loved. They combine with anger to bring torment to you.
To be free of fear, you must be able to receive God’s love
and feel safe in it, regardless of whether anyone loves you or not. God loves you. An Unloving spirit and the spirit of Fear are
antichrists spirits because they debate and dethrone the Word of God in your
life.
When God says He loves you and you say you are not loved,
you call God a liar. When God says “fear
not,” yet you continue to fear, you are calling God a liar again. The phrases “fear
not” or “do not fear” are found in the Bible more than 350 different
times. Do you think God is trying to
tell us something?
You MUST resolve the tact that you belong here on this
planet and you MUST believe that God placed you here for a reason. You are going to have to believe the Word of
God! You are not an accident! You were known from the foundation of the
world.
Yet, you say you are not loved? You need to get a reality check. It is time you leave the lies of the past
behind and start believing you are worthy to be loved. And we have known and
believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love
abides in God, and God in him, 1 John 4:16.
Constricted vessels are the narrowing of the vessels because
of fear causing the heart to have to pump harder resulting in high blood
pressure, blood clots, migraines, reduced hair growth, circulations issues and
numbness to name a few.
Contraction of the muscles, tendons, and ligaments A
contraction is activation of tension within the fibers of the muscles, tendon,
or ligaments. It begins when the nervous system generates a signal that causes
a contraction and can be summed up in three ways: (1) A message travels from
the nervous system to the muscular system, triggering chemical reactions. (2)
The chemical reactions lead to the fibers reorganizing the muscles, tendons,
and ligaments. That is the
contraction. (3). When the nervous system signal is not longer
present, the chemical process reverses, and the muscles, tendons, and ligaments
relax.
Unfortunately, many times we are in constant fear causing
the muscles, tendons, and ligaments to be contracted perpetually leading to muscle
cramps/spasms/pain, tightness, tears, severed, muscles, and tendons.
A good example of this is the NFL and their players during
COVID. There was a great increase in
injuries due to the fears the players manifested within themselves. Fear of not playing, fear of not getting a
paycheck, fear of being isolated from families during the season, fear of
infecting family or friends, fear of performing, and the list goes on. So, their muscles, tendons, and ligaments are
so tight, it resulted in many injuries in football and the other sports.
These fears did not allow them to “play loose” as they say
in the athletic world. Meaning, they
were not able to perform at 100% of their abilities. These same fears did not allow their mind to
process at 100%. Fear causes confusion
and it is not from God, 1 Corinthians 14:33 For God is not the author of
confusion but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints. Once fear is
reduced, it allows them to slow down the game. Fear is from the enemy and it has to be
cast out, which is a big part of our ministry, and the ministry of Jesus Christ
(Mark 16:17), whether it be athletics or common folk. We have been very successful because this is
what God has promised, but it is a process and it doesn’t happen
overnight. A person has to change their
habits of stress, anxiety, worry (fear).
Plantar Fasciitis is the result of fear contracting
the tendon resulting in miniscule tears causing pain. Fear is nesting in this area of the foot.
Lower back pain is the result of fear contracting
muscles, tendons and ligaments. Fear is
nesting in this part of the body. 99% of the time we find the left leg shorter
than the right leg. This means they are
out of alignment due to fear.
Erectile Disfunction – ED can result from emotions
(fear, stress, anxiety, depression), clogged and narrowing of the blood
vessels. Knowing what causes ED is not complicated. Fear will cause the vessels to narrow
restricting blood flow as in any part of the body. With men, a lifetime of fears not addressed can
result in ED. ED causes marriage issues
because the man has fears of not being able to perform making it worse.
Procrastination – A person who has depression and a
worse condition called oppression causes a lethargic existence. Depression and
oppression lead to procrastinate. Many
times, a person can barely get out of bed.
Every effort is extremely difficult and the more you ignore what has to
be done, the more it causes additional fear.
It’s an endless cycle.
The disorder comes
on gradually and can begin across the life cycle, though the risk is highest
between childhood and middle age. Sometimes just the thought of getting through
the day produces anxiety. They don’t
know how to stop the worry cycle and feel it is beyond their control, even
though they usually realize that their anxiety is more intense than the
situation warrants.
Spirits of: fear (as
in stress/anxiety) and anger. Many people feel rejected, unworthy, and
unloved. The father’s failure to say
these simple words “I love you” early in a person’s one’s life has great impact
on how one feels about their self.
Note: Many times, a
single worry will trigger other worries to a point where they pile up causing
greater fear. Eventually, a person becomes one with fear causing great bondage.
Covid has caused GAD to increase substantially.
Fear of Not Being
Loved - This is the number one fear most, if not all of us have to deal
with and it does the most damage emotionally and physically. Feeling unloved brings on rejection,
abandonment, not feeling worthy, depression leading to oppression, feeling
lethargic, and feeling unwanted. Over
time a person will experience extreme anger towards those who did not love
them. Not feeling loved is an offense
resulting in un-forgiveness towards them. It produces self-rejection,
self-hatred, anger at self, that results in a person beating themselves up
emotionally and physically, ultimately, causing sickness and disease. Feeling unloved compromises, the immune
system. Meaning, it dries the bones and
the bone marrow that produces white T cells that fight off immune diseases, A
merry heart does good, like medicine, but a broken spirit dries the bones,
Proverbs 17:22. Feeling unloved will
produce envy, bitterness and jealousy because they love others more than they
love you, A sound heart is life to the body, but envy is rottenness to the
bones Proverbs 14:30.
Addictions –
Fear is the major component in why we have addictions and its root cause is tied
to not feeling loved! We are not
trusting the love of God to fill our loving needs. We have relied on man’s love that continually disappoints us
over and over. So, when we look to fill
that loving void, we turn to things of this world such as alcohol, cigarettes,
drugs, shopping, diet/exercising, eating, gambling, video games, work,
internet, sports, social media, sex, phones, pornography, and many more. Many times,
these addictions come down the generational line.
How do we
combat fear and the symptoms associated with fear?
Fear is an unclean spirit and it needs to be addressed. You
can command it to leave in Jesus name and you can repent of this fear. Fear is sin and as with all sin in the Bible,
we must repent. Repent means to change
our ways, but we need God’s help. Below
is a basic repentance prayer.
Father God,
I confess my fears_____ as sin. I am very sorry and I ask You to forgive
me. I choose to repent with your help in
the name of Jesus, Amen.
Consistently repent of any sin and God’s promises is that
Jesus will take on your sin, which leads to healing.
Isaiah 53:5 But He was wounded for our transgressions
(sin), He was bruised for our iniquities (sin); The chastisement for our peace
was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed.
1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, He is
faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all
unrighteousness.
James 5:16 Confess your trespasses to one another, and
pray for one another, that you may be healed…
Number one reason we are not being healed is we fail to
confess our sin, we fail to ask God to forgive us, and we fail to repent
CONSISTANTLY.
The medical field and mankind have not been able to heal
anyone from fear. They feed you drugs, advise
counselling, diet, exercise, and yoga (meditation) and self-help to name a few.
Yet, the fear and the symptoms from fear continue to keep us in captivity.
The greatest responsibility of a father is to convey the
love of God the Father to their children and wife with these simple words, “I
Love You” over and over and over again.
This is a declaration to all the heavenlies.
I pray you will be blessed with this information so that you
and others can out of captivity. Tony Sanchez 2-12-21
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