So much could be said about sudden fear and how we must not let it impact our lives. I love how God teaches us to stand against sudden fear and how He leads us onto victory through and right in the midst of it. What a God we have.
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me (Oh, thank You, God): and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
Galatians 2:20
God can even use fear to motivate us to overcome fear and to live by faith in the Son of God.
Back in the 80s, one of our Oregon pastors, Gordon, told Annie and me to not make major decisions when we were getting hit with fear and enemy attacks. He told us that most of these kinds of attacks lasted for a day or two and to wait until the attack or fear subsided before making decisions. Gordon’s wisdom has always helped us and kept us from making many unwise and hasty decisions the devil’s sudden fear tried to scare us into making.
Sudden fear is everywhere today. The media is full of it. Left unchecked, fear will attempt to control your life. Fear can make you forget God’s Word and think and do things you would never do as a Christian and child of the Most High Who has set you free.
Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh. For the Lord shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken.
Proverbs 3:25-26
We never need to give in to lying sudden fear. Never. Let God’s liberating faith (Truth) lead you, not suffocating and confusing fear.
Hallelujah! Thank You, Jesus, for Your Word that sets and keeps us free.
Thanking and praising God in all things,
Mark