FEAR HAS TORMENT

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Text: 1 John 4:18

There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear,: because fear has torment. He that fears us not made perfect in love_ . 

Fear of danger or anything  actually kills faster than the actual danger. Some years back when I  was in the secondary school,  one mischievous boy caused a great deal of trouble to the whole school. 

From the blues, he just started shouting snake!  snake!! snake!!! Immediately everybody started running helter skelter.  One of the students jumped through the glass window and got seriously injured. Some others got head injuries, leg injuries and so on. Other students who didn't even hear the guy nor knew the reason for the pandemonium just blindly joined in the wild race. 

In less than a minute,  I happened to be the only one left in the class. Not that I was not scared but I wanted to see the snake so I could run in the right direction. Later when some level of calmness was restored,  it turned out that there was no snake after all,  the guy was just playing an expensive prank. 

I'm sure you can relate with that story.  And the story is so true to a number of fears that we nurse. The truth is, fear is a bondage. (Romans 8:15, Hebrews 2:15). God has not given us the spirit of bondage again to fear. 

Fear is essentially a spirit, hence you need to deal with it with in the word of God and in the place of prayer. Once you have the understanding that it is a spirit,  you will be able to deal with it effectively. For God has not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.(2 Tim 1:7) 

If God has not given us the spirit of fear,  then it is from the devil. When fear of anything enters into your heart,  get the word of God that counter such fear and cast out the spirit in the name of Jesus.  

Do not fight fear in your thought. Speak out the word to counter any projection of fear into your mind. 

Every torment of fear comes to an end in your life today in the name of Jesus. 

Bible reading: 1 Samuel 17:1-11


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