\u201cFor God has not given us a spirit of fear, but one of power, love and sound judgement.\u201d 2 Timothy 1:7 CSB
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Fear, in its original form in this verse means \u201cfaithless, afraid, coward.\u201d\u00a0 God didn\u2019t make cowards, He made warriors. The spirit He gave us in not faithless, but faithful.\u00a0 He didn\u2019t make us afraid, He made us courageous. This verse reinforces it for us, be not afraid, God is with us.\u00a0 The devil is the one who tries to make us fearful, if we let him, we will be. This month, we\u2019re focusing on our fears.\u00a0 We\u2019re going to look at scripture that speaks directly to them, we\u2019re going to tell our fears who is really in charge, it\u2019s not them.\u00a0 God is bigger than any fear we have. When we face our fears with God by our side, we will experience a freedom like we\u2019ve never experienced before.\u00a0 We will begin to live our lives to the fullest, just as God intended us to do. When we fill ourselves with His Spirit, there is no room for fear.
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The definition of darkness is the absence of light. Fear lives in darkness, the crevices of our soul that have not had light shed on them. Jesus is the light of the world (John 8:12 NIV). If we\u2019re to shed light on our fears, we\u2019ve got to let Jesus into those dark crevices where they are hiding. In an article from Brain Tracy<\/a>, fears are learned, therefore they can be unlearned. But in order to unlearn fear, it takes self discipline, it takes intentionality, it takes getting back on the horse. I have a massive fear of heights. I have no idea where this came from, I think from my days as a flight attendant. I didn\u2019t realize I had a fear of heights until my mother and I climbed the steps of the lighthouse in Corolla one summer vacation. As soon as I came out of the door at the top of the steps I was paralyzed with fear. Yes, my mother had to hold my hand as I clung to the wall and help me get back to the stairs. I still remember the moment so vividly, my mother thought I was nuts. I believe she told me I was being ridiculous, but I can\u2019t remember her exact words. I do know, I have yet to overcome my fear of heights. I will never overcome my fear of heights if I don\u2019t expose myself to heights over and over again. Until I learn, just as my mother said, I\u2019m being ridiculous, I will live in fear. My fear of heights keeps me from seeing beautiful sights from a vantage point that can only be found when one climbs to the top. I don\u2019t know that I will overcome that fear this month, but I\u2019m willing to try. Will you join me as we expose the darkness of our fears to the light of Jesus? In Him we will find freedom from our fears, in Him we will find power, we will find love, we will find sound judgement. \u201cFor God has not given us a spirit of fear, but one of power, love and sound judgement.\u201d 2 Timothy 1:7 CSB Fear, in its original form in this verse means \u201cfaithless, afraid, coward.\u201d\u00a0 God didn\u2019t make cowards, He made warriors. The spirit He gave us in not faithless, but faithful.\u00a0 He didn\u2019t make us… Continue reading GOD DIDN\u2019T GIVE YOU A SPIRIT OF FEAR<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1101,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions\/1101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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