Who Controls Your Thoughts Part 3

Good morning and praise the Lord!!!!The Holy Spirit keeps pushing at me the word fear so lets look at another scripture this morning about fear.2 Timothy 1:7"For God hath not given us the spirit of fear;but of power,and of love, and of a sound mind. Notice that the WORD says God did not give us a spirit of fear. So if God did not give us a spirit of fear then where does it come from? It comes from the enemy of our soul satan. As I have been led to show you the last couple of days satan finds ways to create fear in us through our thoughts.Fear does many things to our thoughts. Fear creates restlessness when we are being driven by fear we just can not seem to find rest. The only fear we as christians should have is a fear of the LORD but that is reverential. This fear in the text we are looking at is dealing with the enemy.Look at this verse from the amplified translation:"For God did not give us a spirit of timidity(of cowardice, of craven and cringing, and fawning fear), but {He has given us a spirit} of power,and of love, and of calm and well-balanced mind and discipline and self control. Think about your life before Jesus if you were like me you were out of control there was nothing calm about us. We would loose our tempers at the drop of a hat and we never had any true respect for anything or any one. But when we opened the door of our heart to Jesus that all changed. So it should be with our dealing with satan the enemy of our soul and life. When he tries to create fear in my life I remind Him of what Jesus did thruogh the cross and how Jesus stripped him of the keys to death hell and the grave. He no longer has power over the child of God. The only way he can over power a child of God is if he can get us to drop our gaurd down. How do we drop our gaurd by allowing him to place thoughts of fear and despair in our minds. Notice the Word power in the text God has given us all the power we need to defeat this fear its in the name of Jesus. All we have to do is know our rights and privliges in the name of Jesus our enemy cringes at the name of Jesus when spoken through the lips of dedicated born again child of God. If you and I are the children of God we should be satan will quickly learn he cant win by intimidating us with fear tactics.Notice the WORD love. God has shed His love abroad into our hearts, this love that God put in us conquers all fear.Listen to the Words of 1John4:18"There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.When we choose to walk by the Word of God we are walking in the Fathers perfect love and that love casteth out fear from our lives.Let me just say to all that God Loves You and He wacthes over you to keep you safe just stand on the WORD. If your being tormented by thoughts that are creating fear and anxiety in your life. Tell the devil to back off you have had enough of his lies. Speak to him in the name of Jesus. Have a Blessed and Healthy Day in Jesus. From Pastor Ken