I cannot tell you how many times I've seen people's entire lives disrupted and ministries of God completely destroyed when people are moved by fear to do things they would never do without it. We humans are suckers for this spirit of fear. It paralyzes us and takes us over like a tsunami takes over a coastline village. The heart rate can go from 60-150 in a matter of seconds and this new and elevated stress causes the brain to make irrational decisions that can be as devastating as a category 5 hurricane.
2 Timothy 1:7 says that “God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.”
In order to be qualified to carry the power and the throne of the Almighty with us everywhere we go, we must maintain the course that the Spirit decides to take. Ezekiel 1:20 says, "Wherever the spirit wanted to go, they went..." It's not where we want to go. It's where the Spirit wants to go. Where the Spirit is, there is "power, love and a sound mind." If someone is not being led by the Spirit, they are being led by the flesh, which leads only to destruction.
THE PURPOSE OF FEAR
The purpose of life's obstacles is to increase our faith and cause us to be more intentional about where we're looking. It prevents us from being lazy since there are only two ways to grow spiritually: through prayer or through pain. And because most of us do not spend enough time in prayer, using that spiritual eye within us, we must learn through pain. Ultimately, obstacles are good, from the Creator, and are designed to cause us to cleave to Him in ways we would not have before the obstacle appeared.
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