Then he’ll get in his truck, and while he’s driving to the next rodeo, he’ll worry all the way there about his finances and his children and his wife who’s threatening to leave him. Why? Because although he’s managed fear in one area, he’s still not free of it. He’s still in bondage to it in other areas of his life.
That’s not how it’s supposed to be for us, as believers. We’ve not been given “the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind” (2 Timothy 1:7). We’re to refuse to give fear any place in us at all and live fear free!
Love: the Key to Fearless Living
How do you do that?
By tapping into the power of Love!
First John 4 says:
"Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another…. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us. Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit [of love]…. And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.... There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love" (verses 10-13, 16, 18).
Those verses reveal the key to living fearlessly! You do it by developing faith in Love. You study and meditate on what the Bible says about love and spend time fellowshiping with Love Himself until you not only know that God is Love, you really believe He loves you.
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VICTORY EVERY TIME
The first key to having strong faith is to understand you have a covenant with God.
Deuteronomy 8:18
By activating the law of faith you can prosper in every way, regardless of what’s happening in the world.
Proverbs 10:22
All the promises of God in both the Old Covenant and the New are yours in Christ.
Galatians 3:16, 29
You can believe God’s Covenant promises because He gave you His own faith when you were born again.
Ephesians 2:8
You can develop your faith and put it to work by hearing The WORD preached and speaking it.
Romans 10:8
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