Feelings of Fear |
| Some causes of fear: self-concern, self-interest, self-protection. |
The self that is manifested in anger, bitterness, resentment, envy, jealousy, unforgiving spirit, fear, worry, anxiety, and so on are reactions to life that are based on 'feelings', and 'feelings'are but fertile areas in which Satan thrives. Feelings are his food, the reactions to life from which he is nourished and sustained.
Satan usually attacks our circumstances to cause stress. This produces fear, and from fear comes worry, doubt, weariness, discouragement, and finally depression, the feelings of life.
Matt. 6:33-34
-All the while God is asking us to seek His righteousness which
requires an act of our will to do what God's word says to do. We are to seek
Bible truths, not emotional experiences, feelings, or other stimuli. We are
to respond to life by our will based on the word of God, and not react according
to our feelings.
Bible truth is addressed to the mind. Don't ask self "what do I feel"? but ask self "what do I believe"?. From this I begin to stir up the spirit, and not the feelings.
Matt. 5:6 -Blessed (truly happy) are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness -- not after sensations, feelings, emotional thrills, or reactions to the world's stimuli of negatives.
Ps. 42 and Ps. 103:1-2 -Whether I feel anything or not, I am to believe the Scriptures above all else.
l John 4:18 ; Isa. 30:15 -Fear results from lack of trust in and love for God.
Gen. 1:26-28 -God is love. To be born of God is to be born of love. A child of God is constituted of love which is to be exercised in the care and love for all of creation, that is, a focus on all things other than self, the very nature of God.
Gen. 2:16-17 -Man must choose, he is not a robot. Issue of will here, to love God and be guided by Him or to become a god and be guided by the 'self', Gen. 3:5
Gen. 3:7 -The onset of self-consciousness and shame, man discovered that he could not handle life on his own, that he is not a god.
Gen. 3:8-10 -Fear is the first emotion man expressed, a separation from God, sense of punishment, man now tied to Satan.
Gen. 3:11 -Self-protection comes in, not holding self accountable, blameshifting comes in to cover self, the self that is now in union with Satan.
Fear taken care of at the Cross
Eph. 2:4-7
-We were translated from the pit of hell into the Throne room,
seated with Christ in heavenly places.
Col. 3:1-3 -No longer of this world, view life from God's perspective.
Phil. 2:12-13 -We are under control of the Holy Spirit, no longer controlled by an evil spirit.
Heb. 10:19-20 -Enabled to have free access into God's presence.
Heb. 1:13 -In Christ , Satan is now under my foot.
l John 4:4 ; James 4:6-7 -Knowing who you are in Christ, resist and Satan has to flee.
Rom. 6:14 -No longer under law , but grace, grace to love as God loves, being perfected daily, compassion manifests, the true feelings emerge of a self-loving-others, the will of God exercised, fear vanishes.