Bible Reading: Isaiah 31-32; Philippians 1
“And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself. And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?” – Genesis 3:10-11
Fear is destructive because it is a door that can open you up to every work of Satan. 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.” We often read about Job’s ordeal but fail to realize that what caused all that happened to him to happen was that he opened the door for the devil through fear because what you are afraid of will eventually happen.
From our text, we see that fear entered man’s existence when Adam yielded to the devil by listening to him (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 must have changed his source of information. Adam had no business listening to the devil because God had already created him and the woman to be like Himself as recorded in Genesis 1:26 so there was no need to eat any fruit that will make him ‘like’ God. The devil lied to them when they listened to him.
Some people are bound in fear because of the things that their parents or authority figures have repeatedly told them for years. For others, it is a negative report from the doctor or what they hear from News on television sets.
The cure for any 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. The word of God is the source of faith which can quench every evil dart of fear. “For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.”– 2 Timothy 1:7
If you want to live life above any kind of fear and enjoy success in whatever you do, then you have to feed on the right things because you can’t feed on fear and live victoriously in faith.
Prayer: Father, deliver me from the spirit of fear. I boldly declare that no evil report can impact fear in me in Jesus Name.
Pastor Alfred Samuel