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).