"Fear Tolerated, Is Faith Contaminated"

The above is a powerful quote regarding fear. In a prior blog we talked a little about the dangers of it. Fear was the open door of attack in the life of Job. We must be caustious and careful to resist it at every corner! Satan is the "spirit of fear" and God tells us in and through the mouth of James RESIST the devil and HE SHALL FLEE FROM YOU(Jms 4:7) Notice the word YOU! This word is the very understood subject of the whole verse. We must all understand that no one can resist fear for anyonelse except ourselves. We can pray and exort with the word, however ultimately the choice is ours whether we dig in our spiritual kleets and pull up are spiritual bootstraps and DO IT! Fear has the capability to contaminate our faith. The book of Mark gives us a powerful illustration. Jarius was a ruler in the synogogue. His daughter was very near death, ane he heard of Jesus and bid him to go to his house and heal her. At that time the woman with the issue of blood pressed through the crowd touching the hem of his garment. Jesus turned around and said WHO TOUCHED ME? now let me pause to ask a question and make a statement. Are delays denials? Could've Jarius been bothered by getting into fear? The answer is ASOLUTELY! However Jesus tells Jarius a most profound word in season FEAR NOT, BUT BELIEVE ONLY(Mark 5:36) Just because theres a delay doesent mean theres a denial. Danial found this out in praying for twenty one days in a row resisting the prince of persia withstanding him. Will there be attempted obstacles that come to try to twart the answer? YES! We have to be bold and brave and fling the sword of the spirit under the unction of annointed prayer until theres breakthrough. The angel came to Danial telling him for the first day you chastened your heart before God He heard and answered, but the prince of persia was withstanding(Dan 10:12-14) Even through Danial was dealyed, HE WAS NOT DENIED! When jesus told Jarius this it became a steadfast anchor of hope to his soul. Would this word from Jesus be a walkway that Jarius needed to stay free from the contamination of faith? Yes! We see it as the story unfolds. Two of his helpers come saying Trouble not the master, thy daughter is not sleeping but DEAD. Than they get into his house and people were there and Jesus says that the girl is not dead, but sleeping. The people there began to mock and JESUS PUT THEM OUT(Mark 5:40) We stated earlier that fear is TRANSFERABLE. We must resist and be willing to seperate ourselves from that atmosphere ASAP! Gurad the gates and dont allow reports of fear to come into your ears. The Lord said to me one time Brian "Theres one thing better than resisting and thats never having to resist."! Isint it true that we so can make things harder on ourselves. Jesus said that his yoke is easy and burden light(Matt 11:30), however its what we allow ourselves to be subject to that makes things hard. Why did Jesus act in these two circumstances in that way to protect Jarius faith? Its because it was dependant upon his faith whether the miracles was going to happen. This girl had not yet gotten to the place where faith was developed enough to recieve on her own. While children are at that level, parents can use their faith for them. However the season in which that can be done varies. It depends on how much word that child gets taught and understands. Once light comes, were responsible to walk in it. So Jarius faith had to be preserved against the assualt of fear. Fear is not just outright panic. There are different shades and when its operative will be dangerous. "Torment is the dashboard confessional of fear" when theres something knawing and crawling with ya, like some sort of fear, ITS AT WORK! The enemies obejective at that point is to get us to ACT ON IT! We can feel fear without yielding to it! Well Jarius resisted and RECIEVED! We will too! in closing lets the answr the question is A little fear ok? There are many that think the answer is a resounding YES! The bible provides a list in the book of Revelation The fearful and unbelieving and the abominable, murderers, whoremongerers, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake of fire(Rev 21:8) Notice what tops the list. FEAR. So saying that a little fear is ok is like saying that a little whoremongering is ok. now were talking here about the spirit of fear here,not the fear of the Lord. They are completely different. This is so important because you'll here people say that everyone gets afraid NOT TRUE! feelings of fear dont equal actions of fear! we can feel alot of things and refuse to act!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! In the next blog by Gods grace and direction, we'll discuss some of the biggest deadly fears.