A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON FEAR

A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON FEAR

Folks who have not ascended view their enemies from beneath. They just won't shut up, going on and on about their circumstances. Sometimes tough love has to say, "My ears are not slop buckets. I don't want to hear that any more. Stop talking about it." Stop listening to your adversary. You can always tell when the devil is lying to you-his lips are moving! He is the father of lies (Jn. 8:44). It is impossible for God to lie (Heb. 6:18), and it is impossible for satan to tell the truth.

Trust the Lord. Living by faith is not risky because it is based upon the Word of God (Rom. 10:17). We must arise into the ascended life to hear God talk with Himself. In that high place, there is nothing to fear. From that perspective, all our enemies are beneath, defeated, under our feet (Rom. 16:20).

Numbers 13:31-33, KJV But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.

And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature.

And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight (eye) as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.
This "evil report" literally means, "to move slowly, be sluggish." What really brought fear to the ten unbelieving spies was the possibility of inhabiting a land and realm of "great stature" (Eph. 4:13).

The ascended life brings a new perspective…..fear is our enemy. The verse above (Num. 13:33) is the key to whole story, for how we see our adversaries determines the strength of our enemy. The adversary's level of attack will be on the basis of how you "see" yourself-"and so we were in their sight."

Numbers 14:1-2, KJV And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept (bewail, cry) that night.And all the children of Israel murmured (complain, grumble) against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!

Numbers 14:9, KJV (Caleb is speaking) Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence (shade, as a protection) is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not.

The Scriptures reveal two ways to deal with a giant. Like David (1 Sam. 17), we can knock him down and cut off his head (the Word went ahead of the rock), or we can eat him! Using the metaphor of bending over and harvesting by hand, Caleb declared, "They are bread for us!" The key to his heavenly perspective was his awareness that, "The Lord is with us." What about the circumstances of life's situations? "Fear them not!"

Similarly, the prophet Ezekiel sat by the same river in the same land of exile with his fellow captives. While they looked around, moaning and sorrowing, he looked up and saw visions of God (Psa. 137:1-4 with Ezek. 1:1).

ABUNDANT LIFE

God is a God of abundance.

The story of Elijah speaking against the drought and speaking an abundance of rain is a perfect example.

1 Kings 18:41 Then Elijah said to Ahab, “Go up, eat and drink; for there is the sound of abundance of rain.” 42 So Ahab went up to eat and drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; then he bowed down on the ground, and put his face between his knees,43 and said to his servant, “Go up now, look toward the sea.” So he went up and looked, and said, “There is nothing.” And seven times he said, “Go again.”44 Then it came to pass the seventh time, that he said, “There is a cloud, as small as a man’s hand, rising out of the sea!” So he said, “Go up, say to Ahab, ‘Prepare your chariot, and go down before the rain stops you.’ ”45 Now it happened in the meantime that the sky became black with clouds and wind, and there was a heavy rain. So Ahab rode away and went to Jezreel.

THERE IS THE ABUNDANCE OF RAIN

SYMBOL OF GOD’S BLESSING  & GOD’S WORD AND SPIRIT BEING POURED OUT

Some Scriptures on Abundance

Psalm 132:15 I will abundantly bless her provision; I will satisfy her poor with bread.

Luke 15:23 ‘And bring the fatted calf  (calf with excess) here and kill it, and let us eat and be merry;

John 10:10 “The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.

Eph.3:20 Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

Titus 3:5-6 not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,6 whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior,

2 Peter 1:11 for so an entrance will be supplied to you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

2 Cor. 9:8 And God is able to bless you abundantly, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work.

Scripture tells us much about God. But we can never fully comprehend his greatness or the abundance of his riches. His judgments are "unsearchable" and his paths "beyond tracing out" (Romans 11:33). Paul speaks of the "unsearchable riches of Christ" (Ephesians 3:8). He says that "No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him" (1 Corinthians 2:9).

Paul prayed that we may be able to "grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge" (Ephesians 3:19). He wants us to know it and yet it is more than we can ever know. If we present our requests to God with prayer and thanksgiving, "the peace of God, which transcends all understanding" will guard our hearts and minds (Philippians 4:7). God's peace goes beyond anything we can understand or explain. The abundance God has for us is beyond anything else we have ever experienced. Thus Paul speaks of God's "incomparably great power for us who believe" (Ephesians 1:19) and the "incomparable riches of his grace" (Ephesians 2:7). God is "able to do immeasurably more ["exceedingly abundantly" KJV] than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us" (Ephesians 3:20).

HAPPY FREEDOM DAY!!

Paul admonished us about bondage in his epistles.

(Rom 8:15)  For you have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption by which we cry, Abba, Father!

(Rom 8:21)  that the creation itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

(1Co 7:15)  But if the unbelieving one separates, let him be separated. A brother or a sister is not in bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.

(Gal 4:3)  Even so we, when we were infants, were in bondage under the elements of the world.

(Gal 5:1)  Stand fast therefore in the liberty with which Christ has made us free, and do not again be held with the yoke of bondage.

(Heb 2:15)  and deliver those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

 Instead of Bondage we have  received Grace:

Grace is Totally Free!

Grace is a gift that is given by God.

Ephesians 2:8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

Romans 5:15 But the free gift is not like the offense. For if by the one man's offense many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many.

Grace is a gift received by man through Christ.

John 1:16 And of His fullness we have all received, and grace for grace.
Romans 3:24 being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,

Grace is greater than all our sin.

Grace is God's Power Given to live Christ's Life.

Acts 4:33 And with great power the apostles gave witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And great grace was upon them all.

1 Corinthians 15:10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

REJOICE THE JULY 4TH. WE HAVE BEEN SET FREE!!

GRACE IS A PERSON AND WE HAVE RECEIVED HIM!!