Fear or Faith?

 Good morning family it’s such a pleasure to get to speak to you this morning. I have a reply to “feed your faith” this morning., we absolutely must feed our faith just as pastor said yesterday. What is faith? The dictionary says faith is 1. complete trust or confidence in someone or something. 2. strong belief in God or in the doctrines of a religion, based on spiritual apprehension rather than proof. We all tend to live in faith or doubt, or you might even say faith or fear. Simply put we put our beliefs in God and have faith, not proof faith in Him and God feeds our faith. We put our faith in fear, and we believe in that fear and the enemy feeds our fear or doubt.  Are you hungry? Are you thirty? What are you eating? What are you drinking? Are you feasting at the Fathers table or the enemies? Simply put it’s your choice. Both take belief. What are you feeding yourself? We think, man! It's so much easier to have belief in the fear, or in the enemy. Why? Fear weighs on you and holds you down. Now faith will lift you up and make you strong. Why does that seem harder? The enemy lies and we steadily feed our fear rather than faith. So we just gullibly believe him and fall into fear and doubt rather than faith. 

 

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

 

2 Timothy 1:13-14 - ¹³ Hold fast the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which are in Christ Jesus. ¹⁴ That good thing which was committed to you, keep by the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.

 

There is scripture after scripture on fear not doubt not and so on and so forth. Then there is scripture to build us up as well, be strong, have faith, hold fast. All are true, all are relevant. It all comes down to your choice, your belief! I know for me personally I’m preaching to myself, but I know the answer God has given it to me directly over and over and through others over and over. The enemy continues to attack and continues to discourage. We must continually pick up our pants from our ankles and not try to run until they are buckled. We buckle them by being in the Word daily. Daily prayer. Regular fasting as we face difficult situations were not just pushing through. God is more faithful than we are, and He will honor our faithfulness. Yes! As pastor said, “feed your faith”. 

 

Father help our belief to feed our faith and quit feeding our fear or doubt. In the holy beautiful amazing wonderful precious humble name above all names, Christ Jesus, Amen!