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 ...