No Longer Bound By Fear

"For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind." 2 Timothy 1:7 (NKJV)

As followers of Jesus Christ who have received the Holy Spirit, our inner man (spirit) is led by the Holy Spirit.

However, if our soul (mind, will and emotion) is more dominant than our yielding to the Holy Spirit we may end up doing things in our own might and power rather than by the Spirit of God.

Fear is not just a feeling but a spirit which we need to resist. Our weapons of warfare against evil spirits cannot be carnal (of the flesh) but must be spiritual such as the Word of God which is the sword of the Spirit.

If fear is not dealt with, it would imprison us and keep us from growing in our experience of God's grace and our knowledge of God. But, thanks be to God for giving us the Holy Spirit.

" "But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” " Acts 1:8 (NKJV)

"... the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us." Romans 5:5 (NKJV)

" "But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one. For “who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ." 1 Corinthians 2:14-16 (NKJV) This is the sound mind which understands the things of God and receives His instructions.

There is so much spiritual blessings that God wants to impart to us by the Holy Spirit. We need to stay hungry for the things of God such as the spiritual blessings of power, love and sound mind by letting the Holy Spirit permeate us and take over the driver's seat of our life to vanquish all ungodly fears such that the only fear that we know is the fear of the LORD.