How To Conquer The Demon of Fear!

All of us have had some run-ins with the demon of fear, but do you know what to do when the demon of fear attacks you?

Let’s talk about three different ways that fear may appear in your life.

The first type of fear would be considered the good or beneficial type.  This kind of fear protects us.  For example: not running a red traffic light even though you’re in a hurry; not jumping off a building thinking you just might be able to fly; not hitting someone even though you’re mad at them because you don’t want to get hit back; not committing a crime because you fear going to jail, etc. So even though you are tempted to do something, this kind of fear speaks caution to us to keep us safe.

The Bible talks about fear too.  The second kind of fear is “the fear of the Lord” and its blessings and benefits.  You can see some of these benefits in Psalm 111:10 (amp) – The reverent fear and worship of the Lord is the beginning of ^[a]Wisdom and skill [the preceding and the first essential, the prerequisite and the alphabet]; a good understanding, wisdom, and meaning have all those who do [the will of the Lord]. Their praise of Him endures forever.  In this scripture “the fear of the Lord” does not mean that we are to be afraid of God but we should respect and honor Him.  This allows you to have a personal relationship/connection with God so you can get to know Him for ourselves, get to know His ways and His voice.  This way you can hear His instructions for every area of our lives.  This allows God’s wisdom and power to flow through you and bring success and victory to your life!  Check out these scriptures in the amplified translations for further insight: Proverbs 1:7, Proverbs 19:23, Proverbs 14:27, & Proverbs 14:16.  All of them speak to the importance of bringing God into every area of your daily life, getting Him as involved as you can.  They also speak to how it makes you foolish not to.  No one is perfect, and many mistakes will be made in this life, so if there is a way to keep that number low, you should take full advantage of it, right?  You need this type of fear.

However, the third type of fear is demonic in nature.  This type of fear is so dangerous to you.  The Bible refers to this demon as “the spirit of fear”. The demon of fear will manifest and appear in your life in any way that it can.  The most commonly known way is through phobias.  The goal of this demon is to freeze you where you stand, preventing you from moving forward.  But have you noticed that it will allow you to run backwards?

God has placed scriptures in the Bible to encourage us because He is well aware that this demon will attack us.  He also tells us in 1 Timothy 1:7 that this demon does not come from Him.  For God did not give us a spirit of timidity (of cowardice, of craven and cringing and fawning fear), but [He has given us a spirit] of power and of love and of calm and well-balanced mind and discipline and self-control.  So who do you think sends him?

God has not left you on your own to deal with this demon.  Let’s look at Isaiah 41:10 (amp) – Fear not [there is nothing to fear], for I am with you; do not look around you in terror and be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen and harden you to difficulties, yes, I will help you; yes, I will hold you up and retain you with My [victorious] right hand of rightness and justice.  As you can see God loves you too much to leave you without help.

Defeating and overcoming fear is really simple – trust God!  Sounds too simple right?  This is what David said after he was captured by the Philistines in Gath in Psalms 56:11 (amp) – In God have I put my trust and confident reliance; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?  If you are anything like me, if I were captured by my enemy I know that fear would be right there too.  But in that moment I get to make a choice about whom and what I believe.  There are many things that happen to you in this life but you too get to make the same choice each and every time something attacks you.  Can this be scary?  Of course fear comes in the form of scary; God would not tell us in the bible to not be affair if that was not the case.  But you now know what your response to the demon of fear is to be.  You make the choice not to give into fear because you know that God is with you in that dark scary situation.

But I want to take this a step further.  Demons don’t move until you move first.  Trusting God means turning to God at the first sign of the attack for His instructions, then you have to do whatever God has instructed you to do.  This means you pick up your foot and step toward whatever God has said.  This means stepping through the demon of fear.  You have to walk right through it!  Yes, your knees will be shaking, yes, your hands may be sweating, my hands get very cold, my stomach gets very tight, but I simply hold onto God’s hand and walk right through the demon of fear.  Then you will notice just like I did – that in that very moment I stepped through that demon, he backed up off me and in most cases he just disappears; thus freeing me to reach my goal.

Praise God!  God gave us the power to take dominion over everything in any form on this planet and He fully expects us to do just that.  So stop asking God to do something that He has fully equipped you to do.  Learn to develop & equip yourself. Your stronger than your know in God!

Yes, Satan will attack you, but God tells you that in Isaiah 54:17  that as long as you are connected to Him NONE of them will ever defeat you! Believing this is the beginning of how you conquer the demon of fear.  Then you simply trust God, get and follow His instructions, then step out following those instructions.

Do you know how to conquer the demon of fear?  Now you do!