Fear has been a spiritual bully far too long. Don’t let it bully you. Stand up to it. Confront it. Go toe-to-toe, face to face, eye to eye with it. Learn how to…
Put Fear on the Run
by Pastor George Pearsons
The newspaper [in 2001] stood up and shouted at me from across the room:
Death to America!
Death to Israel!
We Have This Anthrax!
Are You Afraid?
My response bypassed my thinking. I stood defiantly and pointed at the front page. The answer flew out of my mouth:
“NO! I AM NOT AFRAID!”
I lifted my hand to my heart. Again, I spoke out loud: “No fear here. No fear here.” Over and over again: “No fear here.”
Fear approached me that day. Walked right up to me, waved its arms and shouted at me: “We have this anthrax. Are you afraid?”
My response to fear—our response to fear—must be to attack it. Nail it. Cast it out before it ever has the chance to dig in. If we don’t, a newspaper headline will become another brick of fear in the fortress of terror. Remember, we don’t cope with fear, manage fear or put up with fear anymore. We must enforce a “zero tolerance policy” against fear.
We must train ourselves to immediately act whenever fear comes knocking. We must learn to do what Jesus did—confront fear and cast it out. We must learn how to put fear on the run.
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