June 1, 2025 • 48 mins
Fear lurks in the shadows of our lives, manifesting in ways we often fail to recognize. From procrastination and perfectionism to avoidance and lost identity, the spirit of fear weaves itself into the fabric of our daily existence, slowly draining us of the peace we were created to enjoy.
In this soul-stirring episode, we journey deep into understanding what fear truly is from a spiritual perspective. The revelation that "God did not create us with a spirit of fear, but of power, love and a sound mind" (2 Timothy 1:7) becomes our anchor as we explore how fear attaches itself to us through trauma, abuse, or threatening environments, often triggering physical symptoms like panic attacks, trembling hands, and chronic anxiety.
The antidote to fear isn't found in mere positive thinking but in perfect love. When we allow God's flawless love to permeate our entire being, fear has no choice but to flee. Like Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the fiery furnace, we discover that even in our most terrifying circumstances, we're never alone—the fourth man in the fire walks with us through every trial.
Practical spiritual tools emerge as we learn to dress ourselves in God's armor, speaking His promises over our lives and acknowledging His presence in every situation. The transformation becomes tangible as fear's grip loosens: "One day you'll say, 'Oh, my goodness, I'm not shaking anymore... I don't have to isolate myself... I matter.'"
Ready to break free from fear's prison? Place your hand on your heart and join us in a powerful prayer of healing that will begin your journey toward the peace-filled life you were designed to live. Your path to freedom starts here.
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Dina LaFargue Augusti (00:00):
Greetings and welcome to another episode
of The Drip Line, where love andhealing will flow into your
soul.
Tune in and take a listen.
Come along this journeyallowing love and truth to
permeate your entire being.
Hopefully, the message sharedtoday will touch your heart,
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bringing you closer to yourhealing, empowering you for your
daily life, and helping youmove through the process
successfully.
Fear Fear shows its face in manyways.
It can manifest inprocrastination.
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It can manifest in avoidance.
It could manifest in hiding.
It can manifest in acquiescingto someone's demands.
It could manifest in trying tobe perfect.
It can manifest in being afraidto express oneself.
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It can manifest in avoidance.
It can manifest in being beyondshy.
There's nothing wrong withbeing shy, but sometimes being
shy can be crippling.
It can manifest in a lack ofself-expression.
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It can manifest in a lack ofhonesty.
It can manifest in a lostidentity.
Fear can be very crippling anddestroy a destiny, destroy one's
peace or prevent one fromliving in peace.
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Fear can be caused from ourinner man.
Fear can be caused by externalfactors.
But even if it's caused fromone's inner self that more than
likely there is a trigger thatsparked the nature of fear to
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begin to develop in the person'spersonality or actions.
It can be very serious.
And many of us live in fear dayto day.
That fear may express itself inpanic attacks that can be very
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extreme, where you lose yourbreath, you lose control, where
you want to hide, where you'retruly panicking.
It can also manifest in feelingvery anxious and you don't even
know why you're anxious.
Feeling like something bad isabout to happen.
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But you don't know why.
Feeling unstable.
And you don't know why.
Fear is ugly.
Fear can be caused because youknow you've been abused and
you're waiting for the nextmoment to occur.
It could be mentalabuse, physical abuse, emotional
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abuse, systematic abuse. It canbe abuse by a loved one, by a
co-worker, by a so-calledfriend, by a supervisor,
manager, boss, or the system.
Fear can arise from trauma, andit can stick with you.
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It can start manifesting inyour body by having headaches,
trembling, a nervous stomach,gastrointestinal issues.
Fear is a monster.
You can see your hands shakewhen they never used to shake
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before.
You might even startstuttering.
Again, fear is a monster.
So if you're living in fear, itis helpful to write down the
sources of your fear.
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What's made you afraid?
Why are you afraid?
When did you start becomingafraid?
Why are you so nervous?
What are the triggers that makeyou nervous?
What are the triggers that makeyou want to hide away?
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Have you isolated yourself?
Do you try to sleep it away?
Fear can be identified in somany aspects of one's
personality.
Fear can be identified in somany aspects of one's actions.
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It's so very imperative to dosome self-introspection, do some
self-analysis.
If you know that you're someonethat's living in fear or know
or realize that fear came to youand it somehow stayed with you,
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do you see it in your body orin your emotions or in your
actions?
It's so important to identifyit because the Word of God says
that He did not create us with aspirit of fear, but of power,
love, and a sound mind.
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And that can be found in 2Timothy 1, verse 7.
The Lord God did not create anyof us with a spirit of fear, but
he created us with power, withhis love for he is love, and a
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sound mind.
Let's break that down.
He says I did not create youwith a spirit of fear.
So we were not born in fear.
We were not born with fear.
We were not made with fear.
We were not created with fear.
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So fear had to come to us.
Fear had to find us.
Fear had to search us out.
And when fear came, it had animpact.
Some of us can brush it off,but the spirit of fear means
that fear is living within you.
Not that you just reacted in amoment of fear.
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Not that you were just afraidfor a moment.
But a spirit of fear lingers.
A spirit of fear dwells within.
A spirit of fear is like adisease.
Think about it carefully.
What's living with you thatwasn't once common to you?
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What's moving you and provokingyou to do things that are
contrary to God's natural naturethat he made us with?
What has changed in you due toa traumatic event or an
environment or atmosphere thatyou live in?
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What have you noticed aboutyour own personality, your own
demeanor, your own mindset thathas been influenced by fear?
And I'm not just talking aboutone traumatic event, but one
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traumatic event can introduceyou to the spirit of ; where
fear has decided to attach ,where now you react differently
than you ever reacted before.
Your mind dwells on things thatwere not common to your
daydreams or thought lifebefore.
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It's a negative influence thatresides within.
And it's something that reallyneeds to be dealt with.
It's something that reallyneeds to be cut off.
We have to remind ourselves ofwho we belong to and who God
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says we are and who God is to usto overcome the fear, to
overcome the triggers thatignite fear in us, the things
that we dread, the things thatwe think about that we don't
want to happen.
We may sit and imagine, well, Ihope this doesn't happen.
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I hope they don't say this tome.
I hope I don't have to go here.
I hope I don't have to gothere.
I really don't want to dealwith this.
I really don't want to facethis situation.
I really don't want to handlethis task.
Not today.
No, because then I have toconfront whatever it is that I
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don't want to confront.
I have to confront somethingthat reminds me of a bad
experience.
It could be a personality, aperson who has a spirit of
intimidation that brings trauma,that's insulting, that is
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demanding and you shy away from.
That you'd rather turn aroundand walk the other way even
though they seeyou. It's important that we recognize
the strength and power of God and the strength and power that God infused us with. Because He did. He says, I created you with Power- power to overcome, power to push through,power to say,
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no to, but in a positive way, No to fear.
Power to say, "not today,Satan".
Power to say, that spirit ofintimidation will not rule
me; that spirit of fear will notdictate how I respond or how I
act.
It's the power of saying, no.
It's the power of saying, Iknow who my God is.
It's the power of saying, Iknow who created me and I know
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who my shield and rear guard is.
It's the power to know that Godis the master of the universe.
The power of the universe.
And that nothing operateswithout his power.
Now power can be corrupted.
But God's power never is.
He says he is our shield and ourrear guard.
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And he goes before us.
And he has our back.
He says he hides us in hiswings.
If we dwell in the shelter ofthe Almighty, oh my gosh, we
will be at peace.
And if we dwell in the shadowof the Almighty, if we rest in
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him, we can live in peace.
He is perfect peace.
He is a shelter in the storm.
He will hide us in the cleft ofhis rock.
His power is perfect.
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He is omnipotent.
And he infused us with hispower.
You see, God said he created usin his image.
So if his image includes power,and love and soundness of mind
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because god is all-knowingall-powerful and ever-present
right so we have his power wewere created in his love, and we
can hold on to his , we canoperate in love.
And he created us with a soundmind, so if our minds are
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fragmented, if our minds turn tothe negative, if we are
constantly trembling, if we arefearful of expressing ourselves,
if we are fearful of minglingwith others, if we are fearful
of dealing with situations, ifwe are fearful of turning away,
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we've got to turn to God.
We've got to take hold of whathe gave us.
We've got to remember How heframed us.
The blueprint of our beingnessis in his image.
So we've got to meditate onwhat it means to be created in
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his image; what it means tolive, operate, and exist in
power, and love and with asoundness of mind.
It means that we are not...
living in our emotions.
I'm addressing the sound mindpart of this verse.
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If God created us with a soundmind it means we have the
ability to live Outside of ouremotions, meaning not allowing
negative emotions to control ouractions, and our thought life,
and our habits in our bodies;not allowing anything negative
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to persuade us to change our Godidentity and take on the
identity of the fallen one.
Because the fallen one iseverything negative and God is
everything positive and perfect.
God is love.
And it "says, there is no fearin love but perfect love cast
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out fear for fear has to do withpunishment and whatever fear
has there is not been aperfection of love." That's in
first John chapter 4.
There is no fear in love.
Love, in and of itself is God.
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Love is pure in itself.
Love will not provoke.
Love will not provoke you tolive in fear.
If you're living in fear,something is wrong.
If you're allowing someone elseto intimidate you, something is
wrong.
If you're allowing someone tocontinually cause you to be
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fearful, something is wrong.
That love has not beenperfected.
That love is tainted.
That love is corrupted.
And if you're not lovingyourself, then you've been
corrupted.
Corruption is not of God.
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Being infiltrated byintimidation and trauma is not
of God.
It is not a state of being thatGod wants us to dwell in.
It's not where he wants ourmind to be.
Because he says, if we think onwhat is excellent, what is
pure, what is lovely, what isrighteous, what is excellent,
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and what is of good rapport,then we can live in his peace
and his peace is perfect.
And that's in Philippians.
We are to think on him.
Instead of thinking on thenegative, think on the love of
God.
Instead of thinking of thefearful, think of the power of
God.
Think of the flawlessness inGod's love.
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Think of the purity of God'slove.
Love is.
We can think of how we say loveis not out of control.
Love is not crazy.
Love is not reckless.
Love is not abusive.
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Love is not less than love islove and all love can only be
love.
It can be nothing else.
Love cannot be tormenting.
Love cannot cause one to thinkless of themselves.
Love will not cause one tosecond guess themselves.
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That's fear.
And then fearful people live inanger because they're afraid of
losing control.
They want to manipulate andthey want to control situations,
circumstances, and people.
But if you hold on to God, ifyou allow God to come into your
heart, if you allow God toremind you of who you are, then
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you will not live in anger.
You will not live in fear.
Your soul will be settledbecause your spirit man is
connecting with its creator, theLord.
There's so much to say.
I don't want to jump here andthere.
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Am I speaking about fear andaddressing fear?
But too many of us live infear.
Too many of us don't identifyit.
Too many of us let it dictatehow we wake up in the morning
and how we go to sleep at night.
Fear causes us to haveoutbursts of anger that we don't
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need to have.
Fear causes us to abuse our ownselves.
And that can look different ineach one of us - overeating,
undereating, eating the wrongthings, listening to the wrong
things, spending our time thewrong way, hanging out with the
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wrong people.
Again, fear is a disease and itmust be eradicated.
And the perfect medicine toeradicate fear is to hold on to
the love of God, the power ofGod, the truth of God, the
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gentleness.
God is gentle.
God's love does not hurt.
God's correction does not hurt.
So if you're judging yourself,God will say, no, child, I am
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the perfect judge.
I know who you are.
I know why you do what you do.
Rest in me.
Give your burdens to me.
Give your thoughts to me.
Give your pain to me.
And remember, I hold all ofyour tears in a bottle.
I cry with you and I embraceyou, but allow me to lead you.
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Because the Lord says, I willhold you by your right hand.
It is I, your Lord, who says toyou, do not fear for I am here
to help you.
Yes, he says that.
It is written.
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See, when we read his word, webecome acquainted with God's
love, God's long suffering,God's willingness to go with us
the full nine yards.
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The word fear is mentioned inthe Bible hundreds and hundreds
of times.
Because he knows that fear isan instrument that the enemy of
our soul is constantly provokingus with.
And you'll see he told even hisstrongest of prophets, do not
fear for I am with you.
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Let's constantly remindourselves that we need not fear
because God is with us.
We need not tremble because Godis with us.
We need not hide away becauseGod goes before us.
We need not hesitate becauseGod's got our back.
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We need not fear because Godhas created us in his image.
We need not fear because God'scorrection is gentle, and
caring, because he knows each ofus personally, and
individually, andintricately, and intimately. He
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knows how to speak to us andhow to guide us and how to heal
us.
So we don't even have to beafraid to share our innermost,
darkest secrets with him.
Because we really have nosecrets because God knows
everything about us.
So what we hold inside that canturn into a monster of fear and
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pain and illness; whether it beemotional, mental, or physical,
it's totally unnecessarybecause God knows it already.
He knew what was going tohappen before it happened and he
knows how to help us out of it.
He climbs every mountain withus and he walks through every
valley with us.
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And he's willing to take histime.
He will not rush us.
But he partners with us.
He cares for us and embracesus.
But it's sometimes, and most ofthe time, we that push him away
that don't allow him in to helpus cope with what has happened,
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to help us overcome what hashappened that brings us to this
dilapidated state, the corruptedstate, the less than state of
fear, the fear of self.
Many times we've taken on fearand it's become our middle name.
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Because the decisions that wemake are based on fear.
The decisions that we make maybe based on avoidance.
The decisions we make may bebased on prevention, trying to
prevent something that isinevitable.
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We have to know when to walkaway from situations.
We have to know when to walkaway from people.
We have to know when we need tochange our environment.
And we mainly need to know howto change the atmosphere that is
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around us.
And that comes with practiceand knowing God's word and
allowing our spirit man to bebuilt up by developing our
relationship with the Lord GodAlmighty.
Remember, he created us withpower.
The Holy Spirit is our teacherand comforter and fills us with
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power.
Power to overcome, power tomake change, power to speak the
word of God with influence overspiritual forces that are trying
to rule us.
And one of them is fear.
It is a spirit.
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Remember, we're not warringagainst flesh and blood, but
against principalities andpowers, spiritual wickedness,
and rulers of darkness in highplaces.
So when people are beingabusive and situations become
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destructive, we have to realizethat that person has been
afflicted and is afflicting you.
That situation has beeninfluenced by people that carry
spiritual wickedness, a spiritof fear and intimidation, a
spirit of corruption, foulspirits that are trying to
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corrupt and taint you.
And we have to dress ourselvesin the full armor of the Lord
God Almighty.
We have to dress ourselves inHis helmet of salvation.
In his breastplate ofrighteousness, his belt of truth
girded about our loins, theiron shoes of the gospel of
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peace - the Word of God; theshield of faith to deflect every
fiery dart and arrow of theenemy, and the sword of the
spirit, the word ofGod, which is swift and powerful, sharper than any two-edged sword, to dividing of soul and spirit, marrrow and bone, discerning that hearts and minds of men.
We must be equipped day in andday out.
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First, accepting the LordChrist Jesus as our Savior and
wearing his truth, having ourminds filled with his word.
And we know that the word ofGod overcomes everything
natural.
For the word of God never losesits power.
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And with the word, there'snothing impossible.
Then we dress ourselves in thebreastplate of righteousness and
we are made righteous throughChrist Jesus.
Our hearts are made purethrough his sacrifice, through
the love that was so perfectthat he died for us, took on our
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sins that we would be free fromcondemnation and live eternally
in his presence.
Then we dress ourselves in thebelt of truth.
Truth is God is God.
God is real.
God is true.
God is the creator and maker ofeverything seen and unseen.
The living word is Christ Jesusand nothing made, seen or
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unseen, was made without him.
Truth, that without him we arecondemned.
Truth, with him we live.
Truth, he is eternal,everlasting.
Has no beginning and has noend.
Truth, we are created in hisimage with power, love, and a
sound mind.
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Truth, that we are the head andnot the tail.
Truth, that we have all powerover the enemy.
Truth, that we can drink poisonand not be harmed by it.
Truth, that we have the powerto trample upon the serpent and
the scorpion, the lion and theadder.
Truth is we can cast down everyfalse imagination, everything
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that is contrary to God, andcast it down until its
disobedience exists no more,until it manifests no more.
We have power and love and theclarity of mind to overcome
every confusion and everycorruption, every phobia.
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Did you know phobias are fear,manifestations of fear?
I have a phobia.
If you say I have a phobia,you're saying that the power of
God is not enough for you.
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There are hundreds of phobiasthat exist.
You can just look them up onGoogle.
I can't even name most of thembecause I do not live in fear.
I have recognized when fear hastried to enter in my life and
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consume me and control me.
Yes, I have, and I fightagainst it.
And when I feel it trying tosneak up; and there was a year
when I felt it was trying tosneak about and I didn't
understand.
I'm like, what is this?
What is trying to overcome me?
And I'm like, no, not today,Satan.
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No, I know who I am and I knowwho my God is.
And I know what he created mewith.
And I know my own naturalcharacter is not to live in fear
and not to be intimidated.
No, not arrogant, but to livein peace and comfort and
confidence.
Not being moved by systems, notbeing moved by people with ill
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intentions, not being moved withstructures and systems that are
not of God.
No, phobia has no space.
Do not give phobia a space.
Do not give panic space.
Do not give it a space in yoursoul.
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Because your soul is supposedto be ruled by your inner man,
your spirit man and your spiritman is supposed to be connected
to the Holy Spirit.
And the Holy Spirit leads youto Christ, which is truth, the
Word of God.
And the Word of God is the lifeof men, and it is the light of
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the world.
And we are to be beacons oflight and not contaminated with
darkness.
And fear is dark.
Fear is crippling.
Fear is punishment.
Fear is great discomfort.
And God doesn't want us to livelike that.
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We were created to celebrate, tobe reflections of God, images
of God here in this earthlyrealm.
Love should be perfected in us.
Call on love.
Call on God.
Call on your father who lovesyou with an everlasting love and
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allow his love to permeateeverything about you.
Then no matter what comes yourway, you're operating in love.
Your decisions are made out ofGod's love and wisdom.
I'm not saying be a doormat.
No, we're never to be adoormat.
But when we love, when we dwellin his love and in his peace,
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our decisions are sourced fromlove and peace.
And he gives it liberally.
And with that should comewisdom.
Wisdom says, use what God hasgiven you to live.
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Live in the knowledge of God'sword and apply his word to all
your circumstances.
So when you're operating, whenyou're living, when you're
dealing with the process oflife, the things of life, you're
moving, you're constantlymoving in love, in the cycles of
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love, in the place of peace, ina place of abundance.
Operating on wisdom.
Knowing that the knowledge ofGod and the truth of God has an
answer for every situation ofyour life.
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It's key.
I don't want to circle aroundand be too repetitive.
But no one should have to livein fear.
God says, I shall supply allyour needs, all your needs, and
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he does so with all his richesand his glory.
There is no lack in God becausehe owns everything.
So we have to remind him, youown everything, Father.
I thank you for supplying me.
You created me in your image,Father.
I thank you for reminding myinner man of who I am.
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I thank you for manifestingyourself in my life because you
made me you're creator.
You're my creator.
You're the author and finisher.
Thank you for taking me by theright hand of your righteousness
and leading me down straightpaths because he makes our
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crooked paths straight.
His word is a lamp to our feetand a light unto our path.
So if we walk in his way, walkin his word, allowing him to
lead and guide us and notallowing fear to guide us, not
allowing fear to make ourdecisions, then how can we go
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wrong?
If we partner with God and say,"God, I want to walk with you
in line with you.
I don't want to get ahead ofyou.
I don't want to lag behindyou." You'll be synchronized
with him.
And then when those eventscome, when people trip, when
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circumstances create chaos andtrauma, we can remind ourselves,
ah-ah, my hand is in God'shand.
He is holding me by my righthand.
And his right hand's got me.
He will lead me out of this andI will be okay.
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Like Shadrach, Meshach, andAbednego in the fiery furnace.
The guards got burnt by thefire.
The enemy's tools, the enemy'sfootmen got burnt by the enemy's
own devices.
But Shadrach, Meshach, andAbednego were protected.
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They were in the fiery furnaceof affliction.
They were under attack.
A life-changing attack.
Attack that was a mortal attackwhere they should have been
killed.
Where Nebuchadnezzar thought,well, yeah, surely they'll die.
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Surely they will die.
There is no way they can livein that heat because it was
turned up, hotter than ever; tosuch a degree that I can't even
understand how the furnacedidn't melt itself.
But there was the fourth man,which was the Lord, that was in
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there with them.
So we have to remember that theLord is with us wherever we
find ourselves.
The Lord is always walking withus.
Now, the difference is, do weacknowledge him?
Do we let him in?
Have we received him?
Without God, we are sovulnerable.
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Without the Lord God Almighty,we are in danger.
We are in utter danger, mortaldanger.
Without the salvation ofChrist, the only protection that
we have is mercy.
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But when will mercy run out?
He says, find Him while wecan.
Find the Lord while we can.
Because there's going to be atime when it's going to be too
late.
You see, truly, if you know whoyour Lord is, you need not even
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fear death.
You need not even fear it.
Let's put it this way.
If you're living in God's willand you know who your Lord is
and you know you have a truerelationship with the Lord, if
you are taken out, whether it'sby God's hand or the enemy's,
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you've got nothing to fearbecause you know where you're
going.
Okay, I know some of you arethinking, well, when it's your
time, it's your time.
That's another debate.
But even Jesus escaped deathbecause he said it's not his
time, okay?
So there's God's perfect willand permissive will.
Let's remember that.
But I don't want to go in thatdirection too far, but let's
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just say when trauma comes, Godsays the thing that you should
fear is knowing who holds yoursoul, not if man can take your
life.
The condition of your soul isthe most important thing in
existence.
The birth of your spirit man isvery important because that
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means that if your spirit man isalive, you are alive in Christ.
If you have not received Christand you're living in fear, fear
will always come after you.
Fear will always dictate itselfin your life.
Fear will always rule over you.
And fear does not decrease, itincreases into psychosis, mental
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illnesses.
Or you'll have a need formedication where the problem is
masked and not healed.
Again, fear is a monster.
But Jesus is the way, thetruth, and the life.
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Jesus is the way out of fear.
Jesus is abundant life, a lifeof peace.
Jesus is the way to overcomethe negativity.
His truth is everlasting.
He is truth.
And truth is not a lie.
Truth doesn't lie.
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God does not lie.
He says, "I'm not a man that Ishould lie, nor the son of man
that I should change my mind."The truth is when you live in
Christ, you can live in peaceand you live a life that is
victorious.
So when you know you'revictorious, you don't have to
bow to fear.
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When you know you arevictorious in everything, even
though it doesn't look like itor feel like it, you can say,
but I am victorious because Iknow who my God is and my God's
got me.
Remember on the cross, and ifyou don't know Christ, but he
said to Pontius Pilate, who wasready to crucify him because of
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the political Jewish leadersthat were fearful of losing
their power, quote unquote, hesaid, you can do nothing to me
but what my father in heavenallows.
So that's why it's so importantto live in God's will because
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you know when bad times come,when traumatic events come, you
know that you're in God's handbecause you've been living in
his will.
You've been seeking his face.
You have a real relationshipwith him.
You don't want to be the causeof your own problems.
But if you are, the way out ofthem is to put your hand in the
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Lord's hand.
And when you do that, fear willwill fall away.
And the truth of God will dripinto your soul like an IV.
And all the negative will beflushed out of your system.
The fear will have to flee.
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Because perfect love have nofear.
And when you allow theperfection of God, the perfect
love of God to enter into yourheart, Fear has no space.
Because love, perfect love ofGod, can be all-encompassing if
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you allow it in.
Think about it!So everyone that is listening,
that is dealing with fear, atany level, meditate on God's
word.
Pull up scriptures about fearand see what God has to say
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about it.
And speak God's word overyourself.
And put your name in it.
And watch yourself grow.
One day you'll say, oh mygoodness, I'm not shaking
anymore.
You'll say, oh wow, I'm notdealing with this situation
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anymore.
You'll say, wow, I don't haveto tolerate that anymore.
You'll say, wow, I can moveaway from this because it's not
healthy.
Wow, I don't have to isolatemyself anymore! Wow, I don't
have to mince my words anymore!Wow, I matter! Wow, I can rest
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and sleep in peace now! Wow,when I wake up in the morning, I
don't have to be concerned andworried about what the day is
going to bring because I've madea decision to let God in and
I'm holding onto his peace andI'm reminding myself that his
love overcomes everything andthat I'm victorious because he
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died on the cross for me and heconquered everything on the
cross! All sin was conquered!All illnesses were conquered.
All ungodliness was conquered.
That means fear was conquered.
I've been delivered because Goddied for me and took it all on
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him, on the cross.
And he rose again victoriouslybecause he conquered it.
And now I am more than aconqueror because of him.
So I can conquer anything thatis not of God.
I can conquer anything thatcomes my way, that seeks to
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kill, steal, and destroyme because I am dressed in the
full armor of God.
I have the power to conquer anyspiritual force that comes
against me.
I have the resources in thenatural because God has given
them to me because he ownseverything.
So I have everything I need tolive victoriously every day and
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in peace every day.
That's power! That's pure, truelove! And love conquers a
multitude of sin.
Love conquers all! So hold onto love! Live in love! Allow
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your heart to grow! He says, "inplace of that stony heart, I
will give you a heart of flesh.
I am the healer of thebrokenhearted and I bind up all
of your wounds." So if you'vebeen wounded and fear has taken
hold, if arrows of fear havebeen shot into your heart, pluck
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them up in the name of JesusChrist! Because Love has no
place for it.
God's heart is pure.
And he binds up every wound.
So place your hand on yourheart right now and say, "God,
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heal my broken-heartedness.
Heal me of every fear andaffliction that has taken
residence in my soul.
And replace it with your loveand your truth." Amen.
Until next time, be blessed, beat peace and be in love! Truth
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Drips!
Greetings and welcome to another episode
of The Drip Line, where love andhealing will flow into your
soul.
Tune in and take a listen.
Come along this journeyallowing love and truth to
permeate your entire being.
Hopefully, the message sharedtoday will touch your heart,
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bringing you closer to yourhealing, empowering you for your
daily life, and helping youmove through the process
successfully.
Fear Fear shows its face in manyways.
It can manifest inprocrastination.
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It can manifest in avoidance.
It could manifest in hiding.
It can manifest in acquiescingto someone's demands.
It could manifest in trying tobe perfect.
It can manifest in being afraidto express oneself.
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It can manifest in avoidance.
It can manifest in being beyondshy.
There's nothing wrong withbeing shy, but sometimes being
shy can be crippling.
It can manifest in a lack ofself-expression.
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It can manifest in a lack ofhonesty.
It can manifest in a lostidentity.
Fear can be very crippling anddestroy a destiny, destroy one's
peace or prevent one fromliving in peace.
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Fear can be caused from ourinner man.
Fear can be caused by externalfactors.
But even if it's caused fromone's inner self that more than
likely there is a trigger thatsparked the nature of fear to
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begin to develop in the person'spersonality or actions.
It can be very serious.
And many of us live in fear dayto day.
That fear may express itself inpanic attacks that can be very
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extreme, where you lose yourbreath, you lose control, where
you want to hide, where you'retruly panicking.
It can also manifest in feelingvery anxious and you don't even
know why you're anxious.
Feeling like something bad isabout to happen.
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But you don't know why.
Feeling unstable.
And you don't know why.
Fear is ugly.
Fear can be caused because youknow you've been abused and
you're waiting for the nextmoment to occur.
It could be mentalabuse, physical abuse, emotional
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abuse, systematic abuse. It canbe abuse by a loved one, by a
co-worker, by a so-calledfriend, by a supervisor,
manager, boss, or the system.
Fear can arise from trauma, andit can stick with you.
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It can start manifesting inyour body by having headaches,
trembling, a nervous stomach,gastrointestinal issues.
Fear is a monster.
You can see your hands shakewhen they never used to shake
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before.
You might even startstuttering.
Again, fear is a monster.
So if you're living in fear, itis helpful to write down the
sources of your fear.
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What's made you afraid?
Why are you afraid?
When did you start becomingafraid?
Why are you so nervous?
What are the triggers that makeyou nervous?
What are the triggers that makeyou want to hide away?
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Have you isolated yourself?
Do you try to sleep it away?
Fear can be identified in somany aspects of one's
personality.
Fear can be identified in somany aspects of one's actions.
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It's so very imperative to dosome self-introspection, do some
self-analysis.
If you know that you're someonethat's living in fear or know
or realize that fear came to youand it somehow stayed with you,
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do you see it in your body orin your emotions or in your
actions?
It's so important to identifyit because the Word of God says
that He did not create us with aspirit of fear, but of power,
love, and a sound mind.
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And that can be found in 2Timothy 1, verse 7.
The Lord God did not create anyof us with a spirit of fear, but
he created us with power, withhis love for he is love, and a
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sound mind.
Let's break that down.
He says I did not create youwith a spirit of fear.
So we were not born in fear.
We were not born with fear.
We were not made with fear.
We were not created with fear.
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So fear had to come to us.
Fear had to find us.
Fear had to search us out.
And when fear came, it had animpact.
Some of us can brush it off,but the spirit of fear means
that fear is living within you.
Not that you just reacted in amoment of fear.
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Not that you were just afraidfor a moment.
But a spirit of fear lingers.
A spirit of fear dwells within.
A spirit of fear is like adisease.
Think about it carefully.
What's living with you thatwasn't once common to you?
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What's moving you and provokingyou to do things that are
contrary to God's natural naturethat he made us with?
What has changed in you due toa traumatic event or an
environment or atmosphere thatyou live in?
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What have you noticed aboutyour own personality, your own
demeanor, your own mindset thathas been influenced by fear?
And I'm not just talking aboutone traumatic event, but one
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traumatic event can introduceyou to the spirit of ; where
fear has decided to attach ,where now you react differently
than you ever reacted before.
Your mind dwells on things thatwere not common to your
daydreams or thought lifebefore.
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It's a negative influence thatresides within.
And it's something that reallyneeds to be dealt with.
It's something that reallyneeds to be cut off.
We have to remind ourselves ofwho we belong to and who God
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says we are and who God is to usto overcome the fear, to
overcome the triggers thatignite fear in us, the things
that we dread, the things thatwe think about that we don't
want to happen.
We may sit and imagine, well, Ihope this doesn't happen.
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I hope they don't say this tome.
I hope I don't have to go here.
I hope I don't have to gothere.
I really don't want to dealwith this.
I really don't want to facethis situation.
I really don't want to handlethis task.
Not today.
No, because then I have toconfront whatever it is that I
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don't want to confront.
I have to confront somethingthat reminds me of a bad
experience.
It could be a personality, aperson who has a spirit of
intimidation that brings trauma,that's insulting, that is
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demanding and you shy away from.
That you'd rather turn aroundand walk the other way even
though they seeyou. It's important that we recognize
the strength and power of God and the strength and power that God infused us with. Because He did. He says, I created you with Power- power to overcome, power to push through,power to say,
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no to, but in a positive way, No to fear.
Power to say, "not today,Satan".
Power to say, that spirit ofintimidation will not rule
me; that spirit of fear will notdictate how I respond or how I
act.
It's the power of saying, no.
It's the power of saying, Iknow who my God is.
It's the power of saying, Iknow who created me and I know
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who my shield and rear guard is.
It's the power to know that Godis the master of the universe.
The power of the universe.
And that nothing operateswithout his power.
Now power can be corrupted.
But God's power never is.
He says he is our shield and ourrear guard.
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And he goes before us.
And he has our back.
He says he hides us in hiswings.
If we dwell in the shelter ofthe Almighty, oh my gosh, we
will be at peace.
And if we dwell in the shadowof the Almighty, if we rest in
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him, we can live in peace.
He is perfect peace.
He is a shelter in the storm.
He will hide us in the cleft ofhis rock.
His power is perfect.
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He is omnipotent.
And he infused us with hispower.
You see, God said he created usin his image.
So if his image includes power,and love and soundness of mind
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because god is all-knowingall-powerful and ever-present
right so we have his power wewere created in his love, and we
can hold on to his , we canoperate in love.
And he created us with a soundmind, so if our minds are
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fragmented, if our minds turn tothe negative, if we are
constantly trembling, if we arefearful of expressing ourselves,
if we are fearful of minglingwith others, if we are fearful
of dealing with situations, ifwe are fearful of turning away,
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we've got to turn to God.
We've got to take hold of whathe gave us.
We've got to remember How heframed us.
The blueprint of our beingnessis in his image.
So we've got to meditate onwhat it means to be created in
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his image; what it means tolive, operate, and exist in
power, and love and with asoundness of mind.
It means that we are not...
living in our emotions.
I'm addressing the sound mindpart of this verse.
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If God created us with a soundmind it means we have the
ability to live Outside of ouremotions, meaning not allowing
negative emotions to control ouractions, and our thought life,
and our habits in our bodies;not allowing anything negative
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to persuade us to change our Godidentity and take on the
identity of the fallen one.
Because the fallen one iseverything negative and God is
everything positive and perfect.
God is love.
And it "says, there is no fearin love but perfect love cast
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out fear for fear has to do withpunishment and whatever fear
has there is not been aperfection of love." That's in
first John chapter 4.
There is no fear in love.
Love, in and of itself is God.
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Love is pure in itself.
Love will not provoke.
Love will not provoke you tolive in fear.
If you're living in fear,something is wrong.
If you're allowing someone elseto intimidate you, something is
wrong.
If you're allowing someone tocontinually cause you to be
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fearful, something is wrong.
That love has not beenperfected.
That love is tainted.
That love is corrupted.
And if you're not lovingyourself, then you've been
corrupted.
Corruption is not of God.
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Being infiltrated byintimidation and trauma is not
of God.
It is not a state of being thatGod wants us to dwell in.
It's not where he wants ourmind to be.
Because he says, if we think onwhat is excellent, what is
pure, what is lovely, what isrighteous, what is excellent,
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and what is of good rapport,then we can live in his peace
and his peace is perfect.
And that's in Philippians.
We are to think on him.
Instead of thinking on thenegative, think on the love of
God.
Instead of thinking of thefearful, think of the power of
God.
Think of the flawlessness inGod's love.
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Think of the purity of God'slove.
Love is.
We can think of how we say loveis not out of control.
Love is not crazy.
Love is not reckless.
Love is not abusive.
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Love is not less than love islove and all love can only be
love.
It can be nothing else.
Love cannot be tormenting.
Love cannot cause one to thinkless of themselves.
Love will not cause one tosecond guess themselves.
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That's fear.
And then fearful people live inanger because they're afraid of
losing control.
They want to manipulate andthey want to control situations,
circumstances, and people.
But if you hold on to God, ifyou allow God to come into your
heart, if you allow God toremind you of who you are, then
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you will not live in anger.
You will not live in fear.
Your soul will be settledbecause your spirit man is
connecting with its creator, theLord.
There's so much to say.
I don't want to jump here andthere.
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Am I speaking about fear andaddressing fear?
But too many of us live infear.
Too many of us don't identifyit.
Too many of us let it dictatehow we wake up in the morning
and how we go to sleep at night.
Fear causes us to haveoutbursts of anger that we don't
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need to have.
Fear causes us to abuse our ownselves.
And that can look different ineach one of us - overeating,
undereating, eating the wrongthings, listening to the wrong
things, spending our time thewrong way, hanging out with the
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wrong people.
Again, fear is a disease and itmust be eradicated.
And the perfect medicine toeradicate fear is to hold on to
the love of God, the power ofGod, the truth of God, the
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gentleness.
God is gentle.
God's love does not hurt.
God's correction does not hurt.
So if you're judging yourself,God will say, no, child, I am
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the perfect judge.
I know who you are.
I know why you do what you do.
Rest in me.
Give your burdens to me.
Give your thoughts to me.
Give your pain to me.
And remember, I hold all ofyour tears in a bottle.
I cry with you and I embraceyou, but allow me to lead you.
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Because the Lord says, I willhold you by your right hand.
It is I, your Lord, who says toyou, do not fear for I am here
to help you.
Yes, he says that.
It is written.
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See, when we read his word, webecome acquainted with God's
love, God's long suffering,God's willingness to go with us
the full nine yards.
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The word fear is mentioned inthe Bible hundreds and hundreds
of times.
Because he knows that fear isan instrument that the enemy of
our soul is constantly provokingus with.
And you'll see he told even hisstrongest of prophets, do not
fear for I am with you.
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Let's constantly remindourselves that we need not fear
because God is with us.
We need not tremble because Godis with us.
We need not hide away becauseGod goes before us.
We need not hesitate becauseGod's got our back.
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We need not fear because Godhas created us in his image.
We need not fear because God'scorrection is gentle, and
caring, because he knows each ofus personally, and
individually, andintricately, and intimately. He
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knows how to speak to us andhow to guide us and how to heal
us.
So we don't even have to beafraid to share our innermost,
darkest secrets with him.
Because we really have nosecrets because God knows
everything about us.
So what we hold inside that canturn into a monster of fear and
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pain and illness; whether it beemotional, mental, or physical,
it's totally unnecessarybecause God knows it already.
He knew what was going tohappen before it happened and he
knows how to help us out of it.
He climbs every mountain withus and he walks through every
valley with us.
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And he's willing to take histime.
He will not rush us.
But he partners with us.
He cares for us and embracesus.
But it's sometimes, and most ofthe time, we that push him away
that don't allow him in to helpus cope with what has happened,
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to help us overcome what hashappened that brings us to this
dilapidated state, the corruptedstate, the less than state of
fear, the fear of self.
Many times we've taken on fearand it's become our middle name.
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Because the decisions that wemake are based on fear.
The decisions that we make maybe based on avoidance.
The decisions we make may bebased on prevention, trying to
prevent something that isinevitable.
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We have to know when to walkaway from situations.
We have to know when to walkaway from people.
We have to know when we need tochange our environment.
And we mainly need to know howto change the atmosphere that is
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around us.
And that comes with practiceand knowing God's word and
allowing our spirit man to bebuilt up by developing our
relationship with the Lord GodAlmighty.
Remember, he created us withpower.
The Holy Spirit is our teacherand comforter and fills us with
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power.
Power to overcome, power tomake change, power to speak the
word of God with influence overspiritual forces that are trying
to rule us.
And one of them is fear.
It is a spirit.
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Remember, we're not warringagainst flesh and blood, but
against principalities andpowers, spiritual wickedness,
and rulers of darkness in highplaces.
So when people are beingabusive and situations become
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destructive, we have to realizethat that person has been
afflicted and is afflicting you.
That situation has beeninfluenced by people that carry
spiritual wickedness, a spiritof fear and intimidation, a
spirit of corruption, foulspirits that are trying to
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corrupt and taint you.
And we have to dress ourselvesin the full armor of the Lord
God Almighty.
We have to dress ourselves inHis helmet of salvation.
In his breastplate ofrighteousness, his belt of truth
girded about our loins, theiron shoes of the gospel of
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peace - the Word of God; theshield of faith to deflect every
fiery dart and arrow of theenemy, and the sword of the
spirit, the word ofGod, which is swift and powerful, sharper than any two-edged sword, to dividing of soul and spirit, marrrow and bone, discerning that hearts and minds of men.
We must be equipped day in andday out.
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First, accepting the LordChrist Jesus as our Savior and
wearing his truth, having ourminds filled with his word.
And we know that the word ofGod overcomes everything
natural.
For the word of God never losesits power.
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And with the word, there'snothing impossible.
Then we dress ourselves in thebreastplate of righteousness and
we are made righteous throughChrist Jesus.
Our hearts are made purethrough his sacrifice, through
the love that was so perfectthat he died for us, took on our
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sins that we would be free fromcondemnation and live eternally
in his presence.
Then we dress ourselves in thebelt of truth.
Truth is God is God.
God is real.
God is true.
God is the creator and maker ofeverything seen and unseen.
The living word is Christ Jesusand nothing made, seen or
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unseen, was made without him.
Truth, that without him we arecondemned.
Truth, with him we live.
Truth, he is eternal,everlasting.
Has no beginning and has noend.
Truth, we are created in hisimage with power, love, and a
sound mind.
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Truth, that we are the head andnot the tail.
Truth, that we have all powerover the enemy.
Truth, that we can drink poisonand not be harmed by it.
Truth, that we have the powerto trample upon the serpent and
the scorpion, the lion and theadder.
Truth is we can cast down everyfalse imagination, everything
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that is contrary to God, andcast it down until its
disobedience exists no more,until it manifests no more.
We have power and love and theclarity of mind to overcome
every confusion and everycorruption, every phobia.
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Did you know phobias are fear,manifestations of fear?
I have a phobia.
If you say I have a phobia,you're saying that the power of
God is not enough for you.
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There are hundreds of phobiasthat exist.
You can just look them up onGoogle.
I can't even name most of thembecause I do not live in fear.
I have recognized when fear hastried to enter in my life and
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consume me and control me.
Yes, I have, and I fightagainst it.
And when I feel it trying tosneak up; and there was a year
when I felt it was trying tosneak about and I didn't
understand.
I'm like, what is this?
What is trying to overcome me?
And I'm like, no, not today,Satan.
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No, I know who I am and I knowwho my God is.
And I know what he created mewith.
And I know my own naturalcharacter is not to live in fear
and not to be intimidated.
No, not arrogant, but to livein peace and comfort and
confidence.
Not being moved by systems, notbeing moved by people with ill
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intentions, not being moved withstructures and systems that are
not of God.
No, phobia has no space.
Do not give phobia a space.
Do not give panic space.
Do not give it a space in yoursoul.
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Because your soul is supposedto be ruled by your inner man,
your spirit man and your spiritman is supposed to be connected
to the Holy Spirit.
And the Holy Spirit leads youto Christ, which is truth, the
Word of God.
And the Word of God is the lifeof men, and it is the light of
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the world.
And we are to be beacons oflight and not contaminated with
darkness.
And fear is dark.
Fear is crippling.
Fear is punishment.
Fear is great discomfort.
And God doesn't want us to livelike that.
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We were created to celebrate, tobe reflections of God, images
of God here in this earthlyrealm.
Love should be perfected in us.
Call on love.
Call on God.
Call on your father who lovesyou with an everlasting love and
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allow his love to permeateeverything about you.
Then no matter what comes yourway, you're operating in love.
Your decisions are made out ofGod's love and wisdom.
I'm not saying be a doormat.
No, we're never to be adoormat.
But when we love, when we dwellin his love and in his peace,
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our decisions are sourced fromlove and peace.
And he gives it liberally.
And with that should comewisdom.
Wisdom says, use what God hasgiven you to live.
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Live in the knowledge of God'sword and apply his word to all
your circumstances.
So when you're operating, whenyou're living, when you're
dealing with the process oflife, the things of life, you're
moving, you're constantlymoving in love, in the cycles of
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love, in the place of peace, ina place of abundance.
Operating on wisdom.
Knowing that the knowledge ofGod and the truth of God has an
answer for every situation ofyour life.
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It's key.
I don't want to circle aroundand be too repetitive.
But no one should have to livein fear.
God says, I shall supply allyour needs, all your needs, and
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he does so with all his richesand his glory.
There is no lack in God becausehe owns everything.
So we have to remind him, youown everything, Father.
I thank you for supplying me.
You created me in your image,Father.
I thank you for reminding myinner man of who I am.
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I thank you for manifestingyourself in my life because you
made me you're creator.
You're my creator.
You're the author and finisher.
Thank you for taking me by theright hand of your righteousness
and leading me down straightpaths because he makes our
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crooked paths straight.
His word is a lamp to our feetand a light unto our path.
So if we walk in his way, walkin his word, allowing him to
lead and guide us and notallowing fear to guide us, not
allowing fear to make ourdecisions, then how can we go
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wrong?
If we partner with God and say,"God, I want to walk with you
in line with you.
I don't want to get ahead ofyou.
I don't want to lag behindyou." You'll be synchronized
with him.
And then when those eventscome, when people trip, when
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circumstances create chaos andtrauma, we can remind ourselves,
ah-ah, my hand is in God'shand.
He is holding me by my righthand.
And his right hand's got me.
He will lead me out of this andI will be okay.
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Like Shadrach, Meshach, andAbednego in the fiery furnace.
The guards got burnt by thefire.
The enemy's tools, the enemy'sfootmen got burnt by the enemy's
own devices.
But Shadrach, Meshach, andAbednego were protected.
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They were in the fiery furnaceof affliction.
They were under attack.
A life-changing attack.
Attack that was a mortal attackwhere they should have been
killed.
Where Nebuchadnezzar thought,well, yeah, surely they'll die.
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Surely they will die.
There is no way they can livein that heat because it was
turned up, hotter than ever; tosuch a degree that I can't even
understand how the furnacedidn't melt itself.
But there was the fourth man,which was the Lord, that was in
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there with them.
So we have to remember that theLord is with us wherever we
find ourselves.
The Lord is always walking withus.
Now, the difference is, do weacknowledge him?
Do we let him in?
Have we received him?
Without God, we are sovulnerable.
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Without the Lord God Almighty,we are in danger.
We are in utter danger, mortaldanger.
Without the salvation ofChrist, the only protection that
we have is mercy.
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But when will mercy run out?
He says, find Him while wecan.
Find the Lord while we can.
Because there's going to be atime when it's going to be too
late.
You see, truly, if you know whoyour Lord is, you need not even
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fear death.
You need not even fear it.
Let's put it this way.
If you're living in God's willand you know who your Lord is
and you know you have a truerelationship with the Lord, if
you are taken out, whether it'sby God's hand or the enemy's,
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you've got nothing to fearbecause you know where you're
going.
Okay, I know some of you arethinking, well, when it's your
time, it's your time.
That's another debate.
But even Jesus escaped deathbecause he said it's not his
time, okay?
So there's God's perfect willand permissive will.
Let's remember that.
But I don't want to go in thatdirection too far, but let's
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just say when trauma comes, Godsays the thing that you should
fear is knowing who holds yoursoul, not if man can take your
life.
The condition of your soul isthe most important thing in
existence.
The birth of your spirit man isvery important because that
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means that if your spirit man isalive, you are alive in Christ.
If you have not received Christand you're living in fear, fear
will always come after you.
Fear will always dictate itselfin your life.
Fear will always rule over you.
And fear does not decrease, itincreases into psychosis, mental
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illnesses.
Or you'll have a need formedication where the problem is
masked and not healed.
Again, fear is a monster.
But Jesus is the way, thetruth, and the life.
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Jesus is the way out of fear.
Jesus is abundant life, a lifeof peace.
Jesus is the way to overcomethe negativity.
His truth is everlasting.
He is truth.
And truth is not a lie.
Truth doesn't lie.
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God does not lie.
He says, "I'm not a man that Ishould lie, nor the son of man
that I should change my mind."The truth is when you live in
Christ, you can live in peaceand you live a life that is
victorious.
So when you know you'revictorious, you don't have to
bow to fear.
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When you know you arevictorious in everything, even
though it doesn't look like itor feel like it, you can say,
but I am victorious because Iknow who my God is and my God's
got me.
Remember on the cross, and ifyou don't know Christ, but he
said to Pontius Pilate, who wasready to crucify him because of
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the political Jewish leadersthat were fearful of losing
their power, quote unquote, hesaid, you can do nothing to me
but what my father in heavenallows.
So that's why it's so importantto live in God's will because
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you know when bad times come,when traumatic events come, you
know that you're in God's handbecause you've been living in
his will.
You've been seeking his face.
You have a real relationshipwith him.
You don't want to be the causeof your own problems.
But if you are, the way out ofthem is to put your hand in the
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Lord's hand.
And when you do that, fear willwill fall away.
And the truth of God will dripinto your soul like an IV.
And all the negative will beflushed out of your system.
The fear will have to flee.
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Because perfect love have nofear.
And when you allow theperfection of God, the perfect
love of God to enter into yourheart, Fear has no space.
Because love, perfect love ofGod, can be all-encompassing if
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you allow it in.
Think about it!So everyone that is listening,
that is dealing with fear, atany level, meditate on God's
word.
Pull up scriptures about fearand see what God has to say
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about it.
And speak God's word overyourself.
And put your name in it.
And watch yourself grow.
One day you'll say, oh mygoodness, I'm not shaking
anymore.
You'll say, oh wow, I'm notdealing with this situation
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anymore.
You'll say, wow, I don't haveto tolerate that anymore.
You'll say, wow, I can moveaway from this because it's not
healthy.
Wow, I don't have to isolatemyself anymore! Wow, I don't
have to mince my words anymore!Wow, I matter! Wow, I can rest
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and sleep in peace now! Wow,when I wake up in the morning, I
don't have to be concerned andworried about what the day is
going to bring because I've madea decision to let God in and
I'm holding onto his peace andI'm reminding myself that his
love overcomes everything andthat I'm victorious because he
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died on the cross for me and heconquered everything on the
cross! All sin was conquered!All illnesses were conquered.
All ungodliness was conquered.
That means fear was conquered.
I've been delivered because Goddied for me and took it all on
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him, on the cross.
And he rose again victoriouslybecause he conquered it.
And now I am more than aconqueror because of him.
So I can conquer anything thatis not of God.
I can conquer anything thatcomes my way, that seeks to
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kill, steal, and destroyme because I am dressed in the
full armor of God.
I have the power to conquer anyspiritual force that comes
against me.
I have the resources in thenatural because God has given
them to me because he ownseverything.
So I have everything I need tolive victoriously every day and
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in peace every day.
That's power! That's pure, truelove! And love conquers a
multitude of sin.
Love conquers all! So hold onto love! Live in love! Allow
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your heart to grow! He says, "inplace of that stony heart, I
will give you a heart of flesh.
I am the healer of thebrokenhearted and I bind up all
of your wounds." So if you'vebeen wounded and fear has taken
hold, if arrows of fear havebeen shot into your heart, pluck
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them up in the name of JesusChrist! Because Love has no
place for it.
God's heart is pure.
And he binds up every wound.
So place your hand on yourheart right now and say, "God,
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heal my broken-heartedness.
Heal me of every fear andaffliction that has taken
residence in my soul.
And replace it with your loveand your truth." Amen.
Until next time, be blessed, beat peace and be in love! Truth
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