Blog | May 2, 2010 | 0 Comments

Fear Not!

I found that when 2 or three unlinked people start speaking the same messages, God is trying to speak to me and His body, the church, about something. This happened in the last 2 days. Once by our friends blog (Andrew York) and also by our home pastor at The Vine, Tomas Nyblom. Camille said she was just listening to Dan Baumann talking on the topic as well! The topic is FEAR!…and the biblical cure for fear.

Fear dictates so many of our lives and decisions we make—fear of failure, fear of man, fear of not having enough money to retire or to pay the bills, fear of flying, fear of death, pain, etc, the list goes on. As my pastor talked about, many people suffer anxiety as a result all these fears. He spoke that my generation and the younger generation are suffering way more anxiety issues than older generations. How about you what do you fear? Are you anxious? Well I have the answer.

Jesus is the answer. Don’t roll your eyes because I keep saying He is the solution to all the world’s problems! He really is and fear is one problem he has covered.

Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. 2 Corinthians 3:17

If you believe in Jesus, His spirit is with you. Cultivate the Spirit in worship and prayer and you will notice that your fears melt away and you have a boldness develop.

These are the famous words of Jesus:

“For this reason I say to you, do not be worried about your life, as to what you will eat or what you will drink; nor for your body, as to what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? ²⁶“Look at the birds of the air, that they do not sow, nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they?²⁷And who of you by being worried can add a single hour to his life? ²⁸And why are you worried about clothing? Observe how the lilies of the field grow; they do not toil nor do they spin, ²⁹yet I say to you that not even Solomon in all his glory clothed himself like one of these.

³⁰But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, will He not much more clothe you? You of little faith! ³¹Do not worry then, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear for clothing?’ ³²For the Gentiles eagerly seek all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.

³³But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. ³⁴So do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. Matthew 6:25-34

Just think about all your fears. What are they hold you back from? What is it accomplishing by being afraid? The devil has tricked you and I into thinking our fears help protect us or help us, but instead it is destroying us just as he wants to do. It prevents us from bringing God’s Kingdom to Earth with His perfect love that drives out all fear! The Lord brings victory over fear as we continually focus on Him and  and we can live in the freedom of knowing He is with us always and to the very end of the age (Matthew 28:26).

Freedom from Fear and Pain in Action

As Pastor Tomas finished his sermon on freedom from fear today, Camille had been feeling her neck hurting for most the service and she felt like the Lord said someone had neck pain and He was wanting to heal them. She contemplating going up to the mic to ask the congregation. I’m sure fears were going through her head, what if she was wrong and heard God wrong?, but she walked out in freedom and got on the mic and asked if anyone had neck pain because God wanted to heal them. Sure enough a woman came up and said she’d had neck pain for a few weeks now and didn’t know what it was. Tomas, Camille and I got around her and prayed. After the prayer, the lady with tears streaming down her face said her neck felt better! Thank you Jesus! It was cool to see Camille walk out in action what Tomas had just preached about!