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Fear Not!
Psalm 118:6-7 'The LORD is with me; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me? The LORD is with me; he is my helper. I will look in triumph on my enemies.' (NIV)
 A great deal has been written and said on the subject of faith. The Bible itself is clear: without faith we can't please God. But what is faith? The Bible teaches that faith is a spiritual force for good. It is God's creative power invested in us. It is the sense of assurance deep within us that God will give us that the things we're hoping for. And faith is the very opposite of fear. The command to 'fear not' is repeated more than 60 times in the Bible -- in fact, it is the most often repeated command. Obviously, fear is something God wants us to do without. Like faith, fear is also a spiritual force, but fear brings Satan's destructive power into our lives. It brings an assurance of things we don't hope for. Faith is born in hearts as we hear the word of God. It is developed by meditating and acting on that word. Fear is born when we heed the word of an unbelieving and cynical world, and it develops as we act on the wrong assumptions this will bring. Faith is applied as we speak about positive things as though they already are; fear is applied by speaking negative things as though they already are. When we act out of fear, we produce in our lives what Paul called the 'law of sin and death'. When we act on faith we produce in our lives of 'the law of the spirit of life'.
Prayer: 'Lord, help me to be a person of faith, not a person of fear. I want to overcome fear with strong faith. Help me to grow stronger in faith, so that I am rise above the doubt and anxiety inspired by a cynical world.'
© 2003-2004 Mal Fletcher
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