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by Kenneth Copeland
He is so committed to BLESSING you
that He sent Jesus to shed His precious
blood to redeem you, spirit, soul and body,
from every work of the devil.
He loves you so much that He paid the
highest price ever paid for anything, to reverse
what satan did in Adam so that you could be
born again from death to life.
God is so totally for you and me, and all
believers, that even before we called on Him
for salvation, He provided it for us. And as
Romans 8:31-32 says, "If God be for us, who
can be against us? He that spared not his own
Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall
he not with him also freely give us all things?"
Think about it! This is the Creator of the
heavens and the earth we're talking about.
This is the Almighty One, the Most High—
the One for whom nothing is impossible.
With Him on our side, no one can stand
against us. Nothing can overcome us. With
The LORD on our side, we have no reason to
fear and every reason not to!
In fact, fear doesn't even come naturally
to us as believers. It's foreign to our spirits
because when we received Jesus as our LORD,
we received a new spiritual nature. Our old
sin-and-fear-infested nature died, and we
received the nature of Christ. In Him, we have
become "a new creature: old things are passed
away; behold, all things are become new. And
all things are of God" (2 Corinthians 5:17-18).
In other words, all the same qualities, forces
and characteristics of God are now in us that
were originally in Adam. And as we saw in
Chapter 1, Adam didn't have any fear in him
when God fi rst made him. He was a faith man
created in God's image.
As God's born-again child, the same is true
of you. You are a faith being! Your reborn spirit
doesn't produce fear. It's no longer a natural
force for you. You have been re-created in
God's image, and you did not receive from
Him "the spirit of bondage again to fear,
but you received the Spirit of adoption
by whom we cry out, 'Abba, Father'"
(Romans 8:15, New King James Version).
Fear might still seem to come
naturally to you, but that's only because
you've been practicing it. You have
continued to give place to it the same way
you used to before you were born again.
Back then, fear actually was natural for you
"Your reborn
spirit doesn't
produce fear.
It's no longer a
natural force
for you."
