FEAR NOTHING, FOCUS ON GOD
(First part)
Memory verse (Psalms 23: 4): “ Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; For you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me ”
Fear is the greatest spiritual epidemic that has ever plagued men and women of all races through all generations. Like any other physical sicknesses, fear cripples the spiritual life of every believer. Fear paralyses your progress, fear cuts down your productivity, and fear limits your fruitfulness. Fear is not from God, it’s a spirit from the devil (2Tim1: 7). The Holy Spirit that God has given us does not cause any fear, he is not the spirit of fear. The Spirit of God when he is poured out upon us, he produces courage, boldness, love, power, and wisdom. Whenever fear comes then you know that it is not coming from the Spirit of God, but from the enemy. God’s Spirit generates faith in our lives and when faith comes then all things begin to become possible.
Whatever you try to do, the spirit of fear comes and begin to ask you how will you do it: “do you have what it takes to do it, what if you fail? ”. You want to do business and the spirit of fear comes: “ where will you get the money, many people have failed in business will you make it? ” You want to marry; this spirit asks you how you will get the money? “ It’s only the rich who can make the wedding ”. God calls you for ministry and this spirit begin to bring fear in your heart: “ you are not able to be a minister, see you don’t know how to speak, you are not a good leader, you don’t have money ”. You get a husband and Satan begins to bring fear to you, “ men are not trustable, what if he goes with other women, your marriage will not stand ”. And when you get children, he comes over and over again asking you: “ will your children grow? ” No they will die. When they grow he comes again: “ your children will be spoiled ”. And all other kinds of lies that cause you fear.
May the Lord open your eyes to see beyond your situations and begin to see God’s plans for your life. Fear comes from the devil and faith comes from God. The voice of Satan produces fear but the voice of God brings faith. God gives us assurance but Satan gives us doubt. Faith comes by hearing the words that proceeds from the mouth of God; the scripture says our life is dependent on those words. Life begins to break apart when you begin to listen to the words that come out of the mouth of the devil. So, fear not.
Tomorrow’s subject: “ God is a mountain mover ”
(Second part)
Memory verse (Jer 51:25): " Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, Who destroys all the earth, says the LORD. And I will stretch out My hand against you, Roll you down from the rocks, And make you a burnt mountain ".
Mountains are those insurmountable challenges, difficulties, impossibilities, problems, debts, incurable disease, poverty, bareness etc. Mountains are older, taller and bigger than you. Have you had the opportunity of seeing a mountain? If so, then you would believe with me that that mountain is far taller than you, again that mountain is bigger than you and it's older than you.
If you will observe certain things that torments and oppresses your life, you’ll see that many of them have been in your family, tribe, nation way before you were ever born. Many of your problems are older than you. Again when you try to compare yourself with those mountains before you, they are far bigger than you. You look a dwarf before them. That’s how David was before Goliath. That’s how the children of Israel who went to spy the promised land appeared before the giant-inhabitants of the land. Another thing about spiritual mountains, there have the power and mission to destroy. God called it a destroying mountain. It’s true; Satan set these mountains to destroy your faith, family, children, hope, ministry, finances, and destiny. So you don’t need to treat mountains in your life lightly.
Good news: God is going to stretch forth his hand and roll away those destroying mountains. To the house of Judah, this mountain God is talking about was the nation of Babylon and surely he rolled it away and as we talk today it’s no more. I want encourage you dear ones of the Lord, it does not matter how big and tall and old that mountain is, God is able to roll it away. Babylon stood before Judah for 70 years but it’s day came when God uprooted it. I don’t know for how long that mountain has tortured your family, husband, ministry, health, it’s day is coming when God’s hand will be stretched against it and it will be no more. Perhaps you had lost hope, please don’t. God’s silence does not mean he is not following what is happening in your life. He is busy counting the days of your mountain. The days of your mountain are numbered. Have patience and don’t let go your faith.
Tomorrow’s subject: “ Jesus will calm you see ”
(Third part)
Memory verse (Matt8: 23-26): " Now when He got into a boat, His disciples followed Him. And suddenly a great tempest arose on the sea, so that the boat was covered with the waves. But He was asleep. Then His disciples came to Him and awoke Him, saying, Lord, save us! We are perishing! But He said to them, Why are you fearful, O you of little faith? Then He arose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm ".
There are natural storm in this world, but are also spiritual storm in life. Storms have levels, there are from simple winds to great tornados. There is the Katerina that destroyed the city in America and there was the Tsunami that left hundred of thousands of lives dead. There are storms in your personal life, in your family, finances, marriage, church, ministry, nations etc. In other words, all who walk this walk of life will experience winds, storms at certain moments of life. When the winds were violent on the sea the disciples of Jesus feared, but when Jesus arose to face the storm. He asked them why they feared. He commented that they had little faith.
Maybe you are experiencing storms in different areas of life and you are crying, fearing that you are going to die. Yes storms have ability to kill but Jesus Came to give you life. You are out there thinking of how your business is going to die because of the current economic down turn, maybe you are fearing that your children are going to be lost because of the winds of lawlessness and wickedness blowing across the earth, yes storms are there but fear is not the solution. There is a word and authority God put into your life and everything including your storms bows to it. Jesus expects his disciples to speak to the storms and calm the seas. There is power in you that is able to calm your marriage, business, life, ministry.
Keep building your faith on God’s word. Have continuous communion with the Lord in your life, put on the whole Armour of God, take up our spiritual mighty weapons and resist the storms and there will bow, (Jer1: 9-10). God has put his word in your mouth and he has set you over situations of life including all storms. Stop crying start commanding. What do you do with God’s words in your mouth? When God spoke things were created, when you speak God’s words he has put in your mouth, storms will be stopped and there will be peace in your life, ministry and family.
Tomorrow’s subject “ God will make a way through the sea ”
(Fourth part)
Memory verse (Psalm78: 13) " He divided the sea and caused them to pass through; And He made the waters stand up like a heap ".
Seas and rivers signify limitations and obstacles that would not allow you to go through. They represent situations that come your way and you can’t see a way through. There are so many believers who are there and you want to go to another level in your prayer life, in ministry, in your marriage, in your spiritual walk with the Lord but you feel as though you have encountered a red sea and a Jordan river before you, and you don’t see a way through. In your heart of hearts you know you are not in the place God desires you to be in, you are not satisfied with your level ministry. You feel you need to stretch out and produce more fruits, you feel your ministry need to get to a new dimension, you sense the Lord is calling you to a higher place of communion with him, but Satan has blocked all ways before you.
Don’t lose hope. There is a God on your side, He is ready to divide those rivers and seas before you and make a way through for you. Our God is able to make ways through the seas, rivers and the wilderness. Has God told you what to do and you don’t know how to go about it? Have you been in intense warfare prayer for God to give a breakthrough to the next level of your ministry? Your seas are about to be divided. Keep praying, keep knocking, keep seeking, keep calling, and never give up. Never lose heart. God is on your side. God is with you. In fact God is ahead of you leading you. Your seas will see God’s presence and they will flee (Ps114: 3). Keep walking in the Lord and you will find a way through all obstacles. Gates will open and doors will be lifted up as you walk with the glory of God upon your life.
God is about to open doors before you which no devil in hell will be able close (Rev3: 7-12). My beloved, God is with us the church, we are his holy ones who are blood bought and blood washed, we’re his holy nation, and his peculiar people (1Pet2: 9). We’re his unshakable kingdom, we are his priests and kings and we are his great army in this world, He is the Lord of Host, he is marching ahead of us as the commander of his army. Beloved, you don’t need to fear anymore. The battle is the Lord’s and his victory is ours. We are more than conquerors.
Tomorrow’s subject: “ God will scatter the flames of fire ”
(Fifth part)
Memory verse (Psalm29: 7): " The voice of the Lord divides the flames of fire ".
There are all kinds of fires the devil sets up to devour you but the Lord our God is mighty to neutralize them all. Nebuchadnezzar threw Shadrach; Meshach and Abednego into a burning furnace but the Lord landed into that fire in time and made it fireless fire. He rendered the fire fireless. Our God promised that even when we walk through fire, he would be with us and he won’t let the fire to burn us. Remember our God is a consuming fire. The Lord is with you my brother, my sister. The consuming fire is with you. There is another divine fire of God’s presence around you that will cause you never to feel the hell’s sent fires.
Paul taught and said that we should not be anxious of any thing but we should make all our troubles, needs, fires, hardship, fiery trials known to God in prayer, supplications and thanksgiving, then the peace of God will guard our hearts and minds in Christ (Phil4: 6). As long as you are in Christ and get rooted in him, Satan sent fires will not harm you. Jesus faced and experienced so many negative things in this earth, rejection, persecution, false accusations, strivings of the religious men of his day, oppositions etc but he was never shaken. He was always peaceful, calm, stable and focused. He said often, his heavenly Father was always with him. Scripture says: if God be for us who can be against us? (Rom8:31). Take heart my brother and sister, the fire you are going through in your marriage, business, family, ministry, will not consume you. The persecution, trials, temptations, oppositions, wars and all satanic attacks can’t destroy you. The Lord is with you and he will scatter the flames of fire sent to destroy you. The lord will scatter and quench the flaming arrows of the serpent and you will live and not die (Ps118: 17).
The disease that is burning you up in your body shall not kill you, the Lord will scatter the fiery arrow of death and you will live. That fire you're going through with the Lord will not harm you. You will go through. I just want to comfort you, encourage you, and strengthen you by the Holy Spirit through God’s word. Don’t fear, stop panicking, take heart, your God is watching over you and he does not slumber nor sleep.
Tomorrow’s subject: “ Those Lions will not eat you up ”
(Sixth part)
Memory verse (Dan6: 22): " My God sent His angel and shut the lions’ mouths, so that they have not hurt me, because I was found innocent before Him; and also, O king, I have done no wrong before you ”
There are natural lions and spiritual lions we encounter as we walk this journey of faith. David encountered lions and he killed them. They attacked the flock, he fought them and they fought him but they could not eat him, he was anointed by the Lord. Samson was on his mission to the philistine and encountered a lion charged against him but could not eat him, because he was a nazarite unto God.
God has called you, chosen you and anointed you, lions will not kill you but you will destroy them. We are anointed to kill lions. The king of Babylon threw Daniel in the den of lions to be eaten, but Daniel was the first and perhaps the last man to ever be thrown into the den of lions and he came out alive. The lions attacked Samson and David, but with Daniel no lion even moved to fight him, he did not fight, the Angel of God came and shut up their mouths.
God is going to shut the mouth of lions surrounding you. Some of you dear ones, you are surrounded by lions in your place of work, in ministry, some of your husbands are true lions, but walk with an upright heart and blamelessly in the midst of those lions and the Lord will shut up their mouths.
You won’t be swallowed up. You will live. You won’t be crushed; your bones will be preserved. Even if the devil is roaming around like a lion seeking for who to devour, stand in faith and resist him and he’ll flee. You’re protected, you are preserved, and the Angels of the Lord encompass you. The fire of God surrounds you. Your home is under divine protection. Your business, children, ministry and flock are all protected. Don’t fear those lions you are seated among, there are dumb lions. God has shut their mouth. They try to scare you with their looks, but their mouths are shut. And even if they try to mess with your life, you are anointed to kill lions, you will tear them apart.
You will prosper in the midst of your enemies, i.e. lions because God has prepared a table in the midst of your enemies. Stop walking in fear, walk in faith. Have faith in God and his word. Victory is yours in Jesus name.
Many blessings this weekend!!!
