DON'T MAKE THE FEAR CONNECTION !

DON'T MAKE THE FEAR CONNECTION ! Here's why fear is such serious business: just as faith is the spirit connector to God and THE BLESSING, fear is the spirit connector to Satan and the rest of the fallen foul and the curse. We've already seen throughout the Bible, faith is what activates the operation of God and THE BLESSING in one's life. Faith releases the anointing of God in people's lives. When Jesus ministered on earth, and preach peace (shalom: which includes healing, deliverance, prosperity, and soundness, and a life with nothing missing and nothing broken), the people who believed what He preached connected with Him and received that peace and all the Blessing. They were healed. They were delivered from demon oppression which is a form of the curse. They ate their fill of loaves and fish. Those who didn't believe the Word's that Jesus spork, didn't make that connection. The people in Nazareth, for example, didn't get much at all from Jesus. He wanted to help them so much that He laid hands on them anyway. Doesn't that sounds like many of the religious institutions that are called church ! Jesus tried His best to get at least a little of THE BLESSING to to operate in them. Where the spirit of fear is you will operate in unbelief; But He couldn't do much for them because instead of making the faith connection, they got mad at Him and tried to kill Him. What made them so angry ? He said some things about their religion that frightened them. Even today, if something is said that does not agree with their traditional religious ideas of their alternate Christianity they get mad. Jesus wanted to show that doing the Old Testament time when there were many widows in Israel, God didn't send the prophet to them. Instead, He sent the prophet to a Gentile widow: now keep in mind a Gentile is a person that is not under the covenant of God. This Gentile widow who would respond to His words in faith. The idea that just being Jewish wasn't enough to assure favor with God, it created an on holy fear in them. That fear separated them from Jesus, remember; God has not given unto us the spirit of fear, but of love, and of power, and a sound mind. So He couldn't do any mighty works among them. Doesn't this sound familiar even today ? Most of the other places He went, however, people believed what He said, and their faith open the door for Him to go about "doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil." Remember, the Scripture says where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty ! The word oppressed is an important scriptural word. The Bible use it to describe all the manifestations of the curse Satan puts on human beings. Sicknesses, for example, is satanic oppression. So is poverty. Every manifestation of the curse is a form of the devils oppression; and (Isaiah 54:14) shows us exactly what opens the door to it. In this verse, the Spirit of God, prophesying to the body of Christ about THE BLESSING that would be ours through Jesus, says: "in righteousness shall thou be established: thou shall be far from oppression; for thou shall not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come near thee."