Transforming Fear and Anxiety

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Some of Satan’s most deadly weapons against the life of the believer are fear and anxiety. He specializes in paralyzing our faith by casting the darkest shadows over the difficulties, impossibilities, uncertainties, and potentialities of life, and fixating our focus on people and circumstances around us. He imprisons our mind in an endless orbit of “What if…” and “If only…,” making us to believe that our lives are at the mercy of chance and happenstance, while God stands absent, impotent, and uncaring. 

We often believe that if we had more answers to life’s questions, or more control over life’s circumstances, we could live free of fear and anxiety.  We assume that if we only felt more adequate and more capable to meet the challenges that emphatically punctuate our insecurities, we would finally live beyond weakness and inferiority, and be emancipated from gnawing fear and anxiety. But the longer we live, the more we realize how weak we really are and how little we really can control.

The answer to fear and anxiety is not reducing our world to one we feel we can control. It is not numbing our restless souls with medication and coping mechanisms to escape life. It is not resigning ourselves to fate and passivity that condemns us to a life of depression and suicide. 

The answer is in discovering and magnifying the loving care and enabling power of our Heavenly Father. Our propensity to fear and anxiety is directly hinged on our view of God. The bigger our view of God is, the smaller life’s difficulties become; and the more anemic our view of God is, the more overwhelming life feels.

God recognized the human propensity to fear and anxiety when He commanded, Fear Not. This command in all of its forms unequivocally stands as the most repeated command in the Bible! In a world of difficulties, impossibilities, uncertainties, and human inadequacies, this command could not be more relevant!

This non-optional imperative reminds us that fear and anxiety are not just inevitable emotional propensities. They are sins of the spirit that give Satan advantage in our lives. Fear is a monster that will eat us alive from the inside out if we give it any place in our thinking. 

In commanding us not to fear, God is not calling us to a brazen callousness that ignores cautions and concerns or lives in denial of real burdens and pressures. God is not calling us to just “believe in ourselves” to compensate for our inadequacies. Nor is God calling us to blind optimism that presumes upon the future as though we are beyond the need for divine guidance. 

The command to Fear Not is a call to soul rest in the face of life’s turbulence. It is a call to lift our burdens and concerns in prayer with thanksgiving before the Lord. It is a call to trust and obey rather than fret and delay. It is a call to fixate our focus on Jesus rather than on the people and circumstances of our lives. It is a call to trade the heavy yoke of performance-driven acceptance for Christ’s easy yoke of grace-empowered obedience. 

God never promises more answers to life’s uncertainties, or easier opportunities to accommodate our abilities, or brighter pathways to escape turbulent difficulties. He simply promises, “I am with you,” and “I will help you.” These two promises are a perfect match for every impossibility and potentiality, and offer a divine peace to a restless soul that a thousand explanations could never appease.

Please contact us if you would like to host this Spiritual Life Conference in your area. Whether you are seeking to know greater peace in your own soul, or helping others find freedom from these plaguing emotional bondages, this seminar will be an encouragement to you.

May the Prince of Peace fill you with His peace!

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