Fear Not!

      Today I want to talk with you about the greatest challenge that all of us face.  This is something we all struggle with.  It is also the greatest weapon the devil uses against God’s people.  It’s extremely effective, and it’s rare, indeed, when it does not completely put a dead STOP to great things we might have done for the Lord and the Kingdom of God, and great blessings we might have received in return.

   What am I talking about?  FEAR.  The most paralyzing emotion there is.  Fear dictates how we feel, what we say, what we do (or DON’T do), and when God’s people are fearful, when they FEAR anything other than the Lord, it is always, ALWAYS of the enemy.  It is a tactic of spiritual warfare, used by the devil and his demonic spirits to shut us down.  And it works so well.

   In Genesis 3, following Adam and Eve’s disobedience and sin against God, we read, “And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.  But the LORD God called to the man and said to him, ‘Where are you?’  And he said, ‘I heard the sound of You in the garden and I was afraid, because I was naked and I hid myself.’”

   Prior to this, Adam and Eve lived ...

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