TOPIC: YOU ARE NO LONGER A SLAVE TO FEAR
Bible Reading: Exodus 31-33; Matthew 22:23-46
“And he said, ‘I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself.’ He said, ‘Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?'” – Genesis 3:10-11
The root of all bondage, addiction and slavery is fear and Jesus through the cross has delivered us from fear. The bible in Hebrews 2:14-15 tells us that Jesus shared in man’s humanity, “Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; and deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.”
You are no longer a slave to any form of fear because fear is destructive. Fear opens the door to every work of satan in a person’s life. The man Job in Job 3:25 says, “For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.”
Fear is faith in the devil’s ability against what God has said. Job opened the door for the devil through fear because what one is afraid of eventually happens. This is why you should NEVER use fear to express yourself. Don’t say things like, “I’m afraid I won’t be able to come…” or “I am afraid this thing might not work…” As a child of God your words should always be full of faith and faith comes by hearing the Word of God. (Romans 10:17)
We see from today’s text that fear entered into the human experience when Adam yielded to the devil by listening to him in Genesis 3:5. When Adam said he was afraid, the first question God asked him was, “…Who told you that you were naked?” God knew Adam had changed his source of information. The truth is, Adam had no business listening to the devil because God created Adam and Eve to be like Himself as recorded in Genesis 1:26. They glory of God was in them and there was no need to eat any fruit that will make them ‘like’ God.
Men and women are bound in fear because of the things the devil has repeatedly used abusive spouses, parents, guardians, events, doctors or the negative media to feed them with. Some have even been subjected to these negative Word from their childhood.
The cure for every kind of fear is to change your source of information. You have to stop listening to anything that reveals your weaknesses, faults, and shortcomings and start giving attention to God’s Word that reveals Jesus and HIs finished works to you. Jesus is saying to you today that you are blessed, favoured, beautiful and righteous.
When you start feeding on the Word of God, fear leaves and you live victoriously in faith because you’re no longer a slave to fear.
Prayer: Father, thank you for delivering me from the spirit of fear. I boldly declare that there is no fear in me because I am full of faith.
Pastor Alfred Samuel