Dealing with Fear

Dealing With Fear

Teaching compiled by Bill Subritsky
www.doveministries.com

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"You will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on You." (Isaiah 26:3).

OUR ENEMIES CAN BE FEAR AND WORRY

Worry
Bad news
Anxiety, fretting
Guilt
What if?
Lack of rest
Stress
Depression (Proverbs 12:25)
Rejection
Confusion
Ulcers
Suicide

Main types of fear

Fear of death
Fear of sickness
Fear of failure
Fear of rejection

There are many hundreds of types of fears ranging from claustrophobia (fear of enclosed
spaces) to such things as phonophobia (fear of speaking aloud), rhypophobia (fear of dirt)
through to zoophobia (fear of animals).

FEAR AND TORMENT GO TOGETHER

"men's hearts failing them from fear and the expectation of those things which are
coming on the earth..." (Luke 21:26)

FEAR A KILLER FORCE

- opposed to faith
Spirit of faith is equal to spiritual force.
Spirit of fear equals a spiritual force.
Fear is a spiritual force that comes out of the spiritual realm and attacks our mind.

FEAR CAN KILL

Heart cells destroyed by body's reaction to fear.
Stress caused by fear can produce lethal changes in the heart muscle - can cause death.
4 out of 10 were children - all were assaulted, not badly enough to have caused death.
Dr Charles Mayo of Mayo Clinic said fear affects the heart, the circulation, the glands,
the nervous system and the health.

Scriptural example

: Nabal died of fear when he heard about the visit of David: "So it
was, in the morning, when the wine had gone from Nabal, and his wife had told him these
things, that his heart died within him, and he became like a stone." (1 Samuel 25:37)

FEAR ANTICIPATES THE WORST AND NOT THE BEST

What if - I can't pay bills
I get sick
I lose my job

FEAR RELEASES THE DEVIL'S POWER IN OUR LIFE

The devil loves to operate through fear. (John 10:10)

OUR WORST MISFORTUNES NEVER HAPPEN

Most of our torments and miseries come from anticipating what might happen. Many
times it does not happen at all.

PSALM 53:5

"There they are in great fear where no fear was."

AS WE FEAR WE ALLOW WHAT WE DON'T WANT TO HAPPEN TO BE MANIFESTED
and allowed into our life because we are operating in fear as the opposite of faith. If we operate in fear we are opening our lives to the very thing we don't
want to happen, we are bringing this reality into being.

FEAR COMES FROM IGNORANCE OR LACK OF KNOWLEDGE OR GOD'S
WORD

"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge." (Hosea 4:6)

FEAR OPERATES BY THE SAME SPIRITUAL LAWS AS FAITH OPERATES

but it operates in reverse.
"Now faith is the substance of things hoped for." (Hebrews 11:1)
Fear is the substance of things not hoped for.

As we fear, the things we don't want to happen are brought into manifestation and are
given substance in our life because we are operating a counterforce to faith. If we are
operating in fear, we are actually bringing this reality into our life because fear is a
spiritual force.

FEAR IS A SPIRIT

"For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and love and of a sound mind." (2
Timothy 1:7)

FEAR IS DEVELOPED BY MEDITATING ON THE LIES OF THE DEVIL

i.e. worry. We take something we don't want to happen, eg have our car repossessed or we
have no money or sickness or God is not helping. Worry or fear is a spiritual force that
can make negative things happen, eg lose our job.
"For the thing I greatly feared has come upon me, and what I dreaded has happened to
me." (Job 3:25)

GREAT FEAR CAN BRING SOMETHING TO PASS

Fear is a force God hates.
Example at Constantinople - Cholera - 125 people died but only 5 from cholera.
Remainder died from fear of cholera.

DEAN INGE

- Worry is interest paid on trouble before it is due.

FEAR AND WORRY ARE A SIN

"Whatever is not of faith is sin." (Romans 14:23)
Jesus spoke of worry. He said six times, "Do not worry." (Matthew 6:25-34).

FIRST EVIL FORCE TO GRIP ADAM AFTER THE FALL WAS FEAR

It is ingrained in all creation.
"So he said, 'I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid
because I was naked; and I hid myself.'" (Genesis 3:10) Adam fell from fellowship with God.

WE CAN'T AVOID TESTS

eg tribulation
"These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you
will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world." (John 16:33)
"The wicked flee when no one pursues, But the righteous are bold as a lion." (Proverbs
28:1)

EMMERSON SAID

"Fear always springs from ignorance." Get hold of the best
advisers, get good counsel. Don't try and handle it yourself.

EXAMPLE OF JIM JONES

Jenni Mills in her book "Six Years with God" tells how Jones said in 1975 there was
cyanide in the wine - 45 minutes to live - girl ran out of place - shot. 45 minutes later
Jones said no cyanide with wine and the girl had only been shot with a blank, but he
controlled them by fear. This was four years before he killed all in Guyana in 1979 but
shows the control of fear.

SOME SAY THEY HAVE LEARNED TO LIVE WITH IT

but look at Revelation 21:8.

SATAN USES FEAR TO DESTROY MIND AND BODY

Fear destroys, faith creates.
"God's Word is health to all our flesh" (Proverbs 3:8)
Dr Charles Mayo said, "I have never known anyone who died of overwork, but I have
known many who died from fear, anxiety, worry."

COMMON SAYING

"Those who live in worry invite death in a hurry."

TIREDNESS AND OVERWORK

provide an entry point to worry and fear. Dale
Carnegie says, "Our fatigue is not caused by work but by worry, frustration, resentment."

FEAR TEARS DOWN THE GODLY HEDGE OF PROTECTION

FEAR CAUSES OVEREATING, ANXIETY, STRESS

EXAMPLE OF IMAGINATION:

Doctor: Chisel - long knife - hammer - hacksaw.

Husband beside himself when doctor called for these instruments when attending to
man's wife. Doctor was only trying to open his briefcase

FEAR BRINGS TORMENT

THE DEVIL LOVES TO OPERATE THROUGH FEAR

because it gives him an

open door to attack and destroy a person.

ENTRY POINTS OF FEAR

(1) Trauma or shock

(a) Example of lady whose father died when he was 42 - the Lord gave vision of a chasm,
her falling in as bridge broke and trying to get out.
(b) Watching people die - eg from cancer.

(c) Looking into an open coffin (effect on child).
(d) Sometimes adoption causes fear to enter.
(e) Accidents.
(2) Sin

(of ourselves or ancestors) - Past involvement in the occult. Also prenatal shock.
(3) The touching of dead bodies

Old Testament example.
(4) Rejection

- Children stuttering because of teacher's discipline.
(5) Environment

Marital breakups, ie homes - effect on children.
(6) Spirit of Jezebel

(especially note spirit of a little child, ie terror).

Spirit of Antichrist

Spirit of Death and Hell

- note particularly Psalm 18:4&5.
(7) Failing to bring all thoughts into captivity to Jesus Christ

(2 Corinthians 10:4&5)
(8) Failing to trust God completely

ie not having Jesus at all times as Lord and Saviour
of every part of our lives.
(9) Religious spirits

- manipulation.
(10) Not trusting in the Word of God

(11) Not knowing the fullness of God's love

in our lives, eg failing to honour our
parents and let go of their sins and the sins of our ancestors.

(12) Viewing some types of television

, movies, books, music, games eg dungeons and
dragons (especially for children).
(13) Hearing the wrong things

Jesus said, "Take heed how you hear." (Luke 8:18)

(14) Covetousness

is a primary entry point for fear. As we covet material things, we
allow ourselves to be brought into bondage and debt (Proverbs 22:7). We are told that our
conduct should be without covetousness and we should be content with such things as we
have. Then we can boldly say, "The Lord is my helper, I will not fear what man can do to
me." (Hebrews 13:6)
(15) Tiredness

, overwork and stress.
(16) Sickness

(17) Separation from God. (Isaiah 59:1-2)
(18) Curses

Answers

:

1. Be sure that you are born again

ie that Jesus Christ is your Lord and Saviour, that
you have totally surrendered to Him and confessed with your mouth and believed in your
heart that God has raised Him from the dead. (Romans 10:9)

2. Be sure that you have undergone the waters of baptism.

(Romans 6:4)

3. Be sure you have been baptised with the Holy Spirit

and received the gift of tongues
(Acts 2:1-4)

4. David and Goliath

The son of Jesse

Hears of Goliath
There was great fear in Israel
David knew the threats were empty
They were measuring themselves against Goliath

But David was measuring Goliath against God

All things are possible with God
Circumstances no problem to God
"Then David said to the Philistine, "You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with
a javelin. But I come to you in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of
Israel, whom you have defied." (1 Samuel 17:45)

"Then all this assembly shall know that the LORD does not save with sword and spear;
for the battle is the LORD'S, and He will give you into our hands." (1 Samuel 17:47)

5. Remind God of what He has done in the past for you

Remind oneself of the things God has done in the past

When attacked remind oneself of the things God has done in the past. This is what David
did, he reminded himself of how he had

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