Fear

Healing of The Heart

Mercy Me – You Are I Am

TESTIMONY

I battled with fear during my rebellion years. After coming back to Christ, it was still a struggle until I repented of the sin of witchcraft. Immediately the spirit of fear left me, however, sometime later that same spirit moved to a different part of my life and that was with my husband. For eight years, it was a war with fear; I could not think straight. My heart full of sin towards my husband, was feeding the spirit of fear. That’s why the purity of our hearts is critical in overcoming fear. When I repented of the sin I had brought into my marriage, I was delivered from fear again. However, later, it raised its ugly head again in another area of my life for 10 more years. I did not think to ask God for wisdom regarding this plaguing spirit. It wasn’t until I got sick and God began to reveal the power of the Blood of Jesus, His Righteousness and His Word spoken over my life daily and over the spirit of fear that I saw healing, greater deliverance and peace. So each time I sense that spirit, the Holy Spirit says, “What does my Word say? Speak it! Speak truth to that spirit. Proclaim my saving Blood and remember I have made you righteous. Declare it! Do not agree with this spirit of fear. Agree with ME for I AM truth.”

I am so grateful to Jesus!

OVERCOMING

The ONLY way that the spirit of fear can be silenced is by letting the Holy Spirit purify our hearts of sin first and foremost. Repenting is where He reveals sin in the deep dark places of our hearts. The Blood of Jesus must wash us first and make us white as snow.

If the spirit of fear raises its ugly head again, then it must be met head-on and countered with the proclaimed Blood of Jesus, the spoken truth of God’s Word and His Righteousness. Let these words not cease from our mouths as God commanded Joshua before entering the promise land, “Be courageous and do not fear, I am with you.”

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified, do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go.

Joshua 1:9

Be very discerning. When we have deliverance from the spirit of fear in one area of our lives, that spirit wants to creep into other areas quietly, subtly and eventually boldly. Ask Jesus to reveal where it is hiding and thriving. Again, the ONLY thing that can give us victory over this spirit is the precious Blood of Jesus, His Righteousness and His Word proclaimed over our lives, our health, families, churches, businesses, cities and nations. We will overcome.

And lastly, we can either fear God or fear things in this world. But we can’t fear both.

INVENTORY OF THE HEART

Taking an inventory of our heart is powerful and life changing. When we see on paper the VOLUME of sin that has been stored in there, it’s mind boggling to comprehend all the junk we have lived with day after day. We then begin to understand why we are sick, confused, angry, suicidal, violent, impatient, harsh and critical, with relationships crumbling and bad fruit produced instead of good fruit.

By the power of the Holy Spirit, an inventory reveals the sin and motives which lie deep within the heart that we cannot see. Sin which longs to hide, destroying us and those we care about.

There is great healing by writing down the sin produced in our hearts; seeing it with our own eyes, hearing our mouths repent and confess - cleaning it all out. It turns our hearts into new wine skins. It says in Mark 2:22, and no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins.

When we see a speck in another’s eye, it can make us angry, critical or fearful or all the above. That speck creates a heart full of sin as long as a log. The speck is their sin and the log is our sin. The inventory reveals just how long our log is and surprisingly how many logs we have in our eyeballs. No wonder we are blind!!

As Jesus says, “Take the log out of your own eye and you will be able to see clearly.”

When we begin to see and face our sin, wisdom, meekness and understanding fills our heart. It is so beautiful! Healing begins as Jesus reveals and forgives the sin we have been carrying quite possibly for many years.

Ask yourself what am I struggling with the most - fear, anger, or criticalness?

When the heart fills up with the anger, criticalness or fear, they give birth to a pit full of other sins.

Take a Heart Inventory and conquer fear through the righteousness of Jesus when you are struggling with a relationship, family, job, addiction, pain, disease or sickness.

Let the Holy Spirit be your guide.

Repent, confess and make it right with others if and when needed. Healing will come, but it must first begin in our own heart.

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