Read The Purpose of Fear, The Purpose of Fear 2
We are told to look at the eternal unseen and not the temporary seen! [2 Corinthians 4:18]
While faith shows us the unseen will of God, fear shows us the evil unseen. Fear whispers a word to us and we immediately see the evil coming to pass.
I've heard many people, myself included, say "I just have trouble visualizing."
With a little further investigation, we see that what they [I] really mean is that we have trouble visualizing good things coming to pass in our lives.
Which is really a problem, because Bible hope is the earnest expectation that God's promises are true and will come to pass...and faith is the SUBSTANCE of THINGS HOPED FOR! The conviction or evidence of THINGS NOT SEEN!!
I'm going to repeat that...faith is the SUBSTANCE of things HOPED for...evidence of things NOT SEEN!
Since fear is faith's evil twin and what we fear befalls us, it stands to reason that fear is also the substance of things feared, the evidence of bad things not seen!
People, Satan KNOWS how things really work! That's one of the reasons he's deceived us into 'thinking rationally, thinking logically.' Because worldly wisdom—natural rationality—denies the supernatural completely and cripples us from walking in its power.
Eternal
2 Corinthians 4:18 says '...for the things which are seen are temporal [temporary], but the things which are not seen are eternal.
The Greek word for eternal here is aionios—without beginning and end, THAT WHICH ALWAYS HAS BEEN AND ALWAYS WILL BE, never to cease, everlasting.
In the church world, we tend to think of eternal as meaning after we die...but that's not what it means! When we read that God's Word is settled forever in heaven, it means it is settled eternally...without beginning or end, that which always has been and always will be!
It is finished...what? The works of God, from the FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD! [Hebrews 4:3] If we could pull back the veil and see into the spirit, we would see God's forever settled Word!
And God tells us clearly to look at that, not the temporary circumstance. So we must be able to do so... [Read That Which Has Been Will Be...]
Get that...His Word is, was and shall be settled eternally...without beginning or end, and all of the promises of God are YES in Jesus! And '...BY HIS DOING you are IN Christ Jesus, Who became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption...'
But I Digress...
So we see that the things unseen by the natural eye are eternal and we are told to look at them...Jesus taught us to pray 'Your will be done ON EARTH as it is IN HEAVEN.'
Faith sees the promises of God as settled forever and speaks them into the earth. Fear sees the lies of the devil, and, if spoken into the earth, will come to pass as well.
That's the whole point!
Finally, Brethren...
'...whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, dwell on these things.' [Philippians 4:8]
The Word of God is true...everything else a lie. Whispered anxieties and visions of tragedy are LIES, but if we meditate on it, our natural faith mechanism kicks into gear and we begin to draw it to us.
Why? Because THAT'S HOW THINGS WORK, THAT'S HOW WE ARE MADE!!
So instead, meditate on the promises of God—'For as many as are the promises of God, in Him they are YES; therefore also through Him is our AMEN [so be it] to the GLORY OF GOD through us.' [2 Corinthians 1:20]
Read the Word aloud, close your eyes and see it coming to pass in your own life
Don't let fear fulfill its purpose of bringing evil into your life. Instead, let faith do what it was designed to do...to bring the blessings of God into your life.
