Out of Control and Loving It by Lisa Bevere

Author:Lisa Bevere
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Christian Life, Psychology, Control (Psychology), Religious Aspects, Women's Issues, General, Religion, Religious Life, Christian Women, Control (Psychology) - Religious Aspects - Christianity, Christian Women - Religious Life, Christianity, Christian Theology
ISBN: 9781591858836
Publisher: Charisma Media
Published: 1995-12-31T22:00:00+00:00

Love challenges us to doubt what we can see and believe what we cannot.

God sent Lisa Bevere to me personally to lift me up and guide me to a deeper place with Him. Fear has been replaced with faith through her book Out of Control and Loving It!

—B. S., Texas

chapter ten

Fear: The Battle for Your Mind

Why would anyone despise God’s order in their life? Why would they struggle to hold on when they should let go? Why would they want to retain and not relinquish control? Why? Because they are afraid.

Fear is an insidious force. It causes reason and wisdom to escape us. It drives and compels, pushing us to the brink of unbelief. To overcome fear we must know its nature. Fear is not a mental state of mind or a bad attitude. It is a spirit.

For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.

—2 Timothy 1:7, nkjv

Fear is a spirit. It is not from God. It is sent by the enemy to torment our souls and defile our human spirits. Fear comes to steal our power, love, and soundness of mind. As a spiritual force, fear must be confronted spiritually.

Battling for Power

Fear is only empowered to the degree we yield to its deception. Fear steals our power by tricking us into believing its lies. Imaginary fears can become real if we believe in them. Even the most unfounded ones can alter the course of our lives and in turn change our destinies.

The destination for the children of Israel was the Promised Land, but they forsook God’s promises to embrace their fears. They placed their faith in their fears. In doing this they chose the devil’s lies over God’s truth.

God said:

I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey… See, I am sending an angel ahead of you to guard you along the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared.

—Exodus 3:8; 23:20

Fear said:

“We can’t attack those people; they are stronger than we are.”

And they spread among the Israelites a bad report... They

said, “The land we explored devours those living in it. All

the people we saw there are of great size... We seemed like

grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them.”

—Numbers 13:31-33

They believed:

Why is the Lord bringing us to this land only to let us fall by the sword? Our wives and children will be taken as plunder. Wouldn’t it be better for us to go back to Egypt?

—Numbers 14:3

When they chose fear’s lie over God’s truth, they forfeited their power to possess the Promised Land God had already given them. Instead of inheriting the promises, they inherited their fears.

As surely as I live, declares the Lord, I will do to you the very things I heard you say: In this desert your bodies will fall— every one of you twenty years old or more .

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