Let's all just be honest with ourselves.---> Most of us are NOT living in the Resurrection Power of Jesus. 1 Corinthians 4:20 "For the kingdom of God is not a matter of talk but of power."We (including myself) are living in fear of about everything and we have crippled:
- Our faith and our supernatural destiny
- The testimony and power of the church
A few recent examples
- We fear ISIS and Syrian Refugees
- Have you prayed for them or asked God what his perfect solution is? I KNOW he has one.
Jeremiah 32:27(ESV) “Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh. Is anything too hard for me?
- We fear Starbucks taking away our Christmas!!!!!!
- Puh-lease- No red cup can steal my faith or Christmas.
- We fear people might associate us with the Olsteens, Mark Driscoll, and Benny Hinn so we post shaming and unforgiving articles about them. We have become the Pharisee Police and take every opportunity to rebuke any and everyone. (Gal. 6:1) Mark Driscoll's children should not have to deal with death threats, rust nails and rocks being thrown at them... (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZVtuOIrrDg) 04:00- 05:30
John 13:35(ESV) "By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- We fear EVERYTHING about our children! (Guilty) I had a friend who lives in the middle east once tell me that she had to give her children over to God including all fears about any kind of abuse, sickness or safety. Let me tell you that I'm not there. The mommy wars are all based on fear- you know what I'm talking about. Defensiveness is also fear. (Guilty)
- Matthew 6:25-34
- In the short time I've been a parent, I've realized that the greatest gift I can give my children is to teach them to hear the voice of the Lord. My fleshly self cannot provide all the solutions but if God can give them strategy and healing for any problem they face- I know they will be ok. Knowing about God or the Bible are not enough.
This is the short list of fears we have. John 4:18 "There is no fear in love, perfect love cast out fear." We love control and knowing whats going to happen next = fear. If we truly live in the power of the resurrection, we would know that the power that raised Christ from the dead lives in us. (Romans 8) My mind just shrugged this off for so many years until I began to renew my mind and surrounded myself in a culture of people who believed God was stronger than the world.
2 Timothy 1:7(NKJV) "For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind."
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