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Pastors’ response: Well, In James 4:7 “…Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. How do you resist the devil? You stand your ground on God’s word. You’ve got to know the word of God first and stand on it. That means put your faith in God’s word, stand on God’s word. Now fear actually is trusting in the ability of your adversary or in the ability of your enemy or in the potentiality of all that is negative against you, that’s what fear is. It means you trust everything else that can make you fail or that can destroy you. You trust in the negative, don’t trust the ability of your enemy trust in God. Now, trust in God is faith, faith in his word. Trust in the ability of... Read More Pastors’ response: Well, In James 4:7 “…Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. How do you resist the devil? You stand your ground on God’s word. You’ve got to know the word of God first and stand on it. That means put your faith in God’s word, stand on God’s word. Now fear actually is trusting in the ability of your adversary or in the ability of your enemy or in the potentiality of all that is negative against you, that’s what fear is. It means you trust everything else that can make you fail or that can destroy you. You trust in the negative, don’t trust the ability of your enemy trust in God. Now, trust in God is faith, faith in his word. Trust in the ability ofur enemy or your adversary or in adversity is fear. That’s what produces fear, you know the more you hear about destructive situations or negative circumstances, adverse circumstances the more you hear of them the faith you have in the ability to accomplish their purposes and that produces fear in you. A lack of confidence in yourself, a lack of confident in God’s presence, a lack of confident in God’s love. Now to deal with that, you need to hear God’s word, the bible says 2 Corinthians 5:7 “…we walk by faith, and not by sensory perception, not by sight and then the bible says while we look not 2 Corinthians 4:18 “While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. So, our faith must be on those things that are not seen by the optical eyes then again there is something very important that I will like to read to you, 1 John 5:3-4 “for this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous. For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith”. He says this is the love of God that we keep his word, we keep his commandment, now the commandment does not refer to the commandment of Moses but the instruction giving to us and the new testament. Is about his commandment is the instructions that he’s giving to us, his word that is. So, the love of God is proved by keeping his word. Then he says “…his commandments are not grievous, (1 John 5:3), then secondly he says “For whatsoever is born of God overcomes the world: this is the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith (1 John 5:4). No matter what you hear no matter what produces fear in your life, our faith overcomes the world. Our faith overcomes the world, says this is the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith. (1 John 5:4). Lastly, there is another scripture I want to read to you. 1 John 4:18 “There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth our fear: because fear hath torment, He that feareth is not made perfect in love. Vs 19 we love him, because he first loved us”. If you love God you will prove it by doing his word, you do whatever he’s told you to do in his word that’s the proof that you love God. You don’t say you love God just because of an emotion in your heart. You prove it in your action, then he says this 1 John 4:18 “There is no fear in love; if you love God and you know that he loves you because he says in the 19th verse “we love him, because he first loved us. So, there is a reciprocal love here, he loves you and then you love him. So, he says here, 1 John 4:18 “There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear… So, here if you live in fear you are not perfected in love, that’s what he said 1 John 4:18 “There is no fear in love; but…He that feareth is not made perfect in love”. I will read that 18th verse again 1 John 4:18 “There is no fear in love; but…He that feareth is not made perfect in love”. So, you don’t really have to fight fear, you don’t have to fight doubt, he says perfect love casteth out fear. No need for an effort on your part if you would walk in love, trust in God’s love and love him, you have no fear. That’s what he says perfect love is proved in your life as you walk in his word. That’s what we read in the third verse of the fifth chapter. He says 1 john 5:3 “For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous. 1 John 4:18 “There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear; because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love”. Same thing with doubt, your doubts drown, your doubts flee from you when you increase your faith in God’s word and to increase your faith in God’s word is to hear God’s word. God’s word produces faith, says Romans 10:17 “…faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. The more of God’s word that you hear the more faith comes to you and then you doubt precipitated. So, faith is what you. Less