their heart, or their spirit.
It may not have been produced in their
spirit. In fact, as we've already seen, if
they're believers, it defi nitely wasn't. Born-
again human spirits don't produce fear.
For it to get inside us, we must allow it to
get in from the outside by entertaining and
accepting it.
What would cause us to do that? To quote
Hosea 4:6 again, a "lack of knowledge."
Most Christians unintentionally let fear
get into their spirits because they don't
know any better. Most of the time, they
aren't even aware that they've done it. When
they encounter a threatening situation and
fear comes up out of their spirits, they just
assume it showed up in response to the
situation. But it didn't. The fear came up
because it was already in them.
We all have had this experience. We've
inadvertently let fear enter into us at times
and had it working in us without being
aware of it.
"Well," someone might say, "I know how
fear feels, so wouldn't I be aware of it if it
were inside me?"
Not necessarily, because fear is not a
feeling. It's a spiritual force.
Spiritual forces can function without you
feeling them. Think about the spiritual force
of faith and you'll realize that's true. You
can't tell if you have faith or if it is working
in you by checking your natural feelings.
Faith doesn't have anything to do with
feelings. It functions in the spirit. It goes
to work in you when you plant the spiritual
seed of God's WORD in your heart. If you
keep The WORD in your heart and mouth
and don't allow the devil to steal it, the
spiritual force of faith will keep working
in and for you until that WORD becomes a
manifest reality in your life. As Jesus said in
Mark 4:
So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should
cast seed into the ground; and should sleep,
and rise night and day, and the seed should
spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.
For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself;
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