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Freeing July 26, 2007

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Fear is said to be the biggest enemies of mankind. Almost every minute a person is fearful about something, not realising that the negative emotion is self-created and does not come from outside.

Parents for example will tend to fear that their children will not do well in their examinations, will perhaps meet with mishaps while going or coming back from schools or turn out to be bad hats when they mix with the wrong group of friends and they fear they will lose their children. Men or husbands fear for their wife’s safety when they are at work or fear making wrong business decisions at work and incur loss of business and money.

Fear has become a behavioral pattern of many people today due to the stressful lifestyle they lead. Abnormal fears will disturb your days and haunts your nights. It draws off energies, destroys inner peace and blocks power. Its also hinders us from trying out new ideas and techniques thus depriving us of opportunities to improve our lives and those around us. It makes life literally a hell! Prolonged fear would bring negative physical impacts to our health such as:-

1) Heart rate increases
2) Breathing faster
3) Muscles get tensed
4) Indigestion
5) Mouth dries up
6) Blood pressure increases
7) Immune system becomes ineffective
8) Stomach ache and diarrhoea
9) Eating disorder
10) Depression and poor mental concentration
11) Sleep disorder
12) Fatigue

But you can be FREE from such fear. Abnormal fear can be CURED! Just like when we are sick, our doctor would prescribe us with medicines in the form of liquid or pills for consumption and similarly we would need medicine to cure our fear. However, it is neither in liquid nor in pellet form but in the form or words that are found in Biblical text.

In the Bible there is a powerful teaching that says, “If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.”(John 15:7) That is to say, if a person abides (meaning of long-term, habitual, complete mental immersion) in communion with Christ, and allow Christ’s words to “ABIDE” (that is, to allow to sink deep in thoughts and mind permanently), he will develop such a potentiality that life will flow toward him rather then away from him. He will be released and his powers functions efficiently. If you could believe in Christ and His words, take this medicine which comes in the form of His healing words if you are troubled by fear:-

“For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of sound mind.”(II Timothy 1:7)

But what is the “medicine” that is compounded in these words?

One of the words is POWER. What power? The power of FAITH, which is the only power that can counteract fear. Faith is not merely a form of belief or imaginative but rather it is something active and alive. It is a vital substance like sunlight, which is needed for growth of our beings and also acts as a medicine. It is a healing property for the mind, soul and our body. Normally, we would consume medicine either through our mouth or injections into our blood stream but there are other entrances through which medicine may be inserted.

ONE is through the eye. When we pick up the Bible and read some of the Great Words, a reflection is made on the retina of the eye. This image changes into the form of an idea: a positive idea of faith. The idea passes through the mind until it arrives at the infection point caused by fear. There it throws its healing influence around the center of infection. It drives off infection and cast off the diseased idea from the mind. One therefore, has taken medicine through the reading of the Scriptures.

TWO is through the ear. Go to church and listen to the sermon. Every Sunday morning, in the Church where I attend, our congregation will declare together out loud the Bible verses for the month printed in the bulletin. Hear the Bible being read aloud through proclamation. Sound waves fall upon your ear and are admitted into the brain in the form of spiritual idea. By a similar process the healing idea makes its way to the diseased center and fights the fear thought. Owing to the superior power of faith, fear will be driven out and faith takes control. The mind having been cleansed, the center of infection heals rapidly until a normal condition again prevails.

The second ingredient in the medicine against fear is LOVE. The word is often misused or misunderstood as sex but love is not that at all. Love is a strong, dominant, curative emotion or force. It is the power by which through it we are able to help other people or even for other people to help us. It is also a power by which through God loving us, gives us strength and power.

“Perfect love casts out fear”(1 John 4:18) because perfect love is COMPLETE TRUST. When a human has the basic love relation with God, he can move through this world unafraid. He knows that he can trust this someone to protect and watch over him. Trust God, believing He will see you through. Just like a little child who will stop crying when carried into the arms of his or her parent, develop a simple childlike trust in God and see how your problem of fear clears up.

The final ingredient in the medicine for the cure of fear is a “SOUND MIND”. Obviously, the reason we have fear is because we develop an unsound mind or twisted mind. It may be developed while in our childhood when our parents unconsciously implant their own fears into the child’s mind or from moral breakdowns. Men often will breakdown and blames it on overwork not knowing that the real cause may be due to a sense of guilt. They allow their mind to be infested by foreign substances that are destructive to their mind. They are afraid that they will be found out for their wrong doings and afraid of the future and have completely lost confidence on themselves.

The only way to be released is through the discipline of spiritual morality. Follow it tightly and you will not be afraid of man nor the devil. Your mind will be sound, stable and rational. When you understand why you react in a certain way, improvement often will begin. Self-knowledge leads to self-improvement. Lead a healthy lifestyle through prayer, meditating upon God’s word day and night, participate in church activities and fellowship with the members of the church and you will find all of these helpful in keeping our mind healthy, protected and sound.

Finally, don’t dwell on fear all the time. If you do so, you will never be happy and effective. There will be no success and happiness for you. Have faith in God and undertake challenges in life and view failures as opportunities to learn new approaches. Remember, there is a cure for fear.

Say confidently to yourself, “THROUGH GOD’S HELP, I WILL BE FREE FROM FEAR.” Believe that – PRACTICE IT AND IT WILL BE SO.

Article by: Reuson Seet