Perfect Love Cast Out Fear
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1 John 4:18 "perfect love cast out fear."
Do you wake up in the morning and feel this horrible dread, this absolute wretchedness?
Many of us have had difficult pasts or various struggles and trials. How about struggles to look to God and His promises and believe and hope? Then, hope for something better for their future.
It all comes down to which voice we listen to. Are we listening to a spirit of Fear or the Spirit of God? Let’s explore how to overcome the fear of the future and dread and establish faith over fear.
Do you have a fear of making mistakes or failure? Then they can project past mistakes into the future that, robs hope for tomorrow. Fear is just that – the absence of faith or hope.
Fear and dread will cause us to get hyper-focused on tomorrow's potential problems or evils, so we cannot correctly deal with things today.
How do we overcome this fear?
One is learning to stay in the present, not reflect or replay the past - forgive yourself. We need to take on each challenge, choice, and activity, one at a time, step by step, trusting God for the leading and guidance for the next and the next step.
Overcoming fear is not a positive confession or declaration of what we want. It’s about a heart issue. Who do we choose to really believe today?
Fear is putting your faith in the enemy.
How does a person get rooted and grounded in a relationship and trust God? Faith is a moment-by-moment where they take a step in faith over the situation before them. This will make it easier for them to problem solve, find solutions, or make quick decisions to avert danger.
It is believing moment by moment that God will help us through anything and give us strength and wisdom to overcome fear. But that means you don't listen to the enemy's lies, which is the opposite of faith and love. Cast it down the lies - 2 Cor. 10:5 that exalts against God's truth and word.
God’s love helps us defeat fear as they occur. If we seek and desire to live after faith and be grounded in God’s love, that may have been tarnished in how we grew up. There's no fear in love 1 John 4:18. Overcoming fear is a process.
Sometimes it takes deliverance or relearning to renew your mind God's way.
John 3:16 - For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Romans 5:8 - But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
1 John 4:19 - We love him, because he first loved us.
Isaiah 41:13 - For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.
1 John 4:10 - Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Romans 8:35-39 - Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? (Read More...)
Jeremiah 31:3 - The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.
1 John 4:8 - He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
Galatians 2:20 - I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
1 John 3:1 - Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
Zephaniah 3:17 - The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.
John 15:13 - Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Ephesians 3:19 - And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
Romans 5:8 - But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
1 John 4:19 - We love him, because he first loved us.
Isaiah 41:13 - For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.
1 John 4:10 - Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Romans 8:35-39 - Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? (Read More...)
Jeremiah 31:3 - The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.
1 John 4:8 - He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
Galatians 2:20 - I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
1 John 3:1 - Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
Zephaniah 3:17 - The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.
John 15:13 - Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Ephesians 3:19 - And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
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