In February 2014 God began to show me a
vision to help me understand Fear vs Faith. They are at opposition
with each other.
Imagine with me a mine field. It is
unmarked. This mine field is your path in life. The enemy has
placed these mines out hoping to create destruction and desolation in
your life. He isn't mad at you in particular but he is out to harm
your king and damage his kingdom! So since the king is unreachable,
his citizen's who are made in the King's image will do. As citizen's
of heaven Satan cannot legally touch us but he is good at finding
loop holes.
We have been given free will. We are
the only being created with free will. All of nature, the angels and
the animals all do not have a choice but to do what they were created
to do. We are given a choice. Satan uses that free will against us
as often as we will let him.
Each mine in this mine field represents
a situation in your life that you have to deal with or respond to.
Some can be avoided completely and others can be defused before they
explode and do the damage. Each and every mine is flagged for us so
we can avoid them or defuse them before they go off. Those flags are
our emotions... Fear leading the pack... along with anger, anxiety,
stress, jealousy, greed, etc. These are non-productive emotions that
easily get us to react impulsively to the situation and cause
destruction in our own lives and in the lives of those around us.
So how can we defuse these bombs before
they go off? How can we outsmart our enemy? How can we avoid the
destruction and desolation that the enemy wants to see in our lives?
Let's look at a couple of verses in the
Bible to help us out here...
What does the Bible say about fear??
Worry?? Doubt?? Anxiety?? Each of these is in opposition to Faith,
they hinder your ability to receive from God all that he has for you.
We are told that without Faith it is impossible please God. Those
who come to him must believe that he exists and that he is a rewarder
of those who diligently seek him. Do we even know what Faith is?
Hebrews 11:1 says:
How do we have assurance? Romans 10:17
says that it comes from the Word of God... You need to be in the word
to hear from God and have that assurance that God has got you
covered.
Faith is choosing to believe that what
God has said is true no matter what I am feeling, no matter what my
experience is at the moment... If my experience and God's word are
not lining up with each other then I choose to believe that God's
word is still truth.
So what do we do with our fears etc?
Remain in the Word of God... Choose to train yourself to see the
flags in the mine field and defuse them by coming into agreement with
the Word of God in your thoughts, words and actions. Don't let the
enemy do anymore damage in your lives by biting into the temptation
of reacting to situations in fear, anger, anxiety, worry... just
stand firm and know that God has got this and you just need to enter
into that rest!
