Faithing Down Your Fears

4 The Faces of Fear As we saw in the previous chapters, fear is man’s oldest spiritual and emotional enemy. It has dogged mankind since the Garden of Eden. After Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden, fear has stalked their children and descendants to the very ends of the earth. That’s why there are no fearfree zones anywhere on planet Earth. Every country, climate, and culture is plagued by fear.

Freud, the Jewish messiah of psychoanalysis, said, “I have never met a man who was not thoroughly afraid!” As we saw earlier, Jesus, the true Jewish Messiah, the Master of spiritual analysis, said that one of the characteristics of the “last days” would be the growing universal phenomenon of people fainting from fear (Luke 21:26).

When a person faints, they lose consciousness and control.

They cease communicating. Life stops for them for a while.

They lose touch with reality. Jesus was saying, then, that people would be increasingly immobilized by fear on a global scale. Sadly, that is an apt description of millions of people on planet Earth today.

However, God does not want people, especially His children, to be immobilized by fear. He wants them to immobilize fear through their faith in Him. His desire is for each of us to faith down all of our fears through the authority of His Word and the power of His Holy Spirit. Only then will we 27