SPIRITUAL WARFARE PART 4

"BUT....I WAS AFRAID!"

                     

         FEAR AND TRUST

 

WHERE IN THE BIBLE, DO WE FIRST MEET   FEAR?

 

GENESIS 3:9,10 - "THEN THE LORD GOD CALLED TO ADAM AND SAID TO HIM, 'WHERE ARE YOU?  SO HE (ADAM) SAID, 'I HEARD YOUR VOICE IN THE GARDEN, AND I WAS AFRAID BECAUSE I WAS NAKED; AND I HID MYSELF.'"

 

ADAM AND EVE WERE THEN EVICTED FROM THE GARDEN AND BEGAN LIFE IN THE WORLD BEING SEPARATED FROM GOD BECAUSE THEY DISOBEYED HIM..THUS BEGAN A LIFE OF FEAR AND TREPIDATION FOR THEM AND ALL  

 MANKIND!  

"SAY TO THOSE WHO ARE FEARFUL-HEARTED, BE STRONG, DO NOT FEAR!....."  (ISAIAH 35:4)

"FOR GOD HAS NOT GIVEN US A SPIRIT OF FEAR, BUT OF POWER AND LOVE AND OF  A SOUND MIND...." (2 TIMOTHY 1:7)

PLEASE BE AWARE OF THE WORD "SPIRIT"!  WE WILL ADDRESS THAT CRITICAL ISSUE AT ANOTHER TIME.



DAVID AND GOLIATH

QUESTIONS: WERE MOSES, DAVID, OR JESUS FEARFUL AS THEY CONFRONTED SUCH  FORMIDABLE CHALLENGES?  AND WAS I FEARFUL WHEN I COMMANDED THE TORNADOES "TO DISSIPATE"?  NO! AND WHY WERE WE NOT FEARFUL? BECAUSE THE HOLY SPIRIT SET EACH TASK INTO BEING!  IT WAS OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO BE OBEDIENT.  ON THE OTHER HAND, WHY WERE ADAM AND EVE FEARFUL?  GOD SAID TO THEM, "DO NOT.." AND THEY SAID "WE WILL..."!  THE REST IS HISTORY!

IT IS CRUCIAL TO MAKE THE POINT THAT IN THE OLD TESTAMENT DAYS, PEOPLE SUCH AS  MOSES AND DAVID WERE VISITED AND EMPOWERED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT FOR SUCH  SPECIFIC ASSIGNMENTS, THEY JUST DIDN'T DECIDE ON THEIR OWN ONE DAY TO PART THE RED SEA OR FIGHT THE GIANT! THESE WERE ACTS OF GOD!

UNLIKE NEW TESTAMENT "BORN AGAIN" CHRISTIANS WHO ONCE THEY ASK TO BE BAPTIZED IN THE HOLY SPIRIT, ARE FILLED AND EMPOWERED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT TO ACCOMPLISH THE TASKS ASSIGNED TO THEM BY THE HOLY SPIRIT.

 JESUS WAS BAPTIZED IN THE RIVER JORDAN BY JOHN THE BAPTIST AND THE HOLY SPIRIT CAME UPON HIM (MATTHEW 3:16).
 
WHY WOULD JESUS (GOD ALMIGHTY) NEED TO BE BAPTIZED AND FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT, YOU ASK? PLEASE REMEMBER, JESUS CAME TO EARTH, BORN OF MAN TO ACCOMPLISH ALL THAT THE FATHER HAD ASKED OF HIM. THUS, HE NEEDED TO BE EMPOWERED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT IN ORDER TO BEGIN HIS EARTHLY MINISTRY.  I WAS BAPTIZED IN THE HOLY SPIRIT WHICH THEN EMPOWERED ME TO SPEAK TO THE TORNADOES, AS HE DIRECTED,.AND TO ACCOMPLISH ALL THAT THE LORD HAS FOR ME.  THIS IS NOT UNIQUE FOR JUST ME, BUT AVAILABLE TO THOSE SPIRIT FILLED SAINTS WHO SEEK TO BE USED BY THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY.

                                                       
                                      THIS TOPIC WILL CONTINUE  WITH PART 5

                                    TO GOD BE THE HONOR, GLORY AND PRAISE