Victory over Fear

I am not a medical professional or expert in any way, I am only sharing my experience of how I was given Victory over fear in the hope that I will help others.

to overcome fear you must have faith…

I recently found an old booklet of mine about fear and in this booklet, the author made it clear that fear is the opposite of faith and that if you let fear in, it will push out faith. This author made it clear that to overcome fear you needed faith and you needed to refuse to let fear in. Once fear is in and by in I mean in your mind it is difficult to get fear out like a thief in your house. The author made it very clear that to overcome fear you needed faith in action which activates the promises of God.

I believe in the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob the God of Israel and the Holy Bible, I believe in Jesus Christ, He is my Lord and saviour.

You can read as much scripture as you want but until you put it into action it is not faith.

Take heed that faith grows by studying scripture and spending intimate time with God (Romans10:17). I read and heard a lot of scripture but was unable to overcome fear and I wondered why this was. I always thought that I did not have enough faith and needed to read more scripture until I realised that I need to put my knowledge of scripture into action for it to become faith or else it was only head knowledge.

Your word is a lamp to my feet And a light to my path. Psalm 119:105

During my struggle with fear, I had learned that the cause of fear was a lie hidden somewhere deep in my mind and once I would shine the light of truth Psalm 119:105 on the lie, fear would disappear immediately. I would still have the side-effects of joint pain but the fear was gone. I have also learned that instead of running away from the fear I need to run towards it, almost like exposure therapy for OCD.

how do you know you are looking in the right place? the closer you come to the lie the worse the fear gets…keep going, the awnser is nearby.

On Christmas day 2021 I was really struggling with fear and anxiety I went for a walk in the African bush, I walked and walked while talking to God but I was angry. I was angry that God would not cure me or take the fear and anxiety away. I prayed begged and pleaded that God please reveal to me the truth while also asking for forgiveness for being angry and questioning His will.

A few days later God started showing me evidence that I was not trusting completely and entirely in Jesus Christ but I was also trusting in the earthly possessions that God had actually blessed me with over the years.

I knew I had a fear of making a mistake, what I could not figure out was, what mistake I was fearing that is when God took me all the way back to the day I got my first panic attack and fear episode and revealed to me my fear was making a financial mistake that would cause me to lose all earthly possessions. This is when I discovered I was trying to serve two Masters, mammon and the only true God.

24 “No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and [a]mammon. Matthew 6:24

The cause of my fear and anxiety was becasue I was trying to serve two masters, I need to come to a place of Job and loose all for God

At first, I could not believe it, it was impossible I do not have a problem with Mamon… or did I really? As the days went by God revealed to me more and more proof of this and I started to realise that it was true. I was relying on Jesus Christ for my salvation but for everything else… I was relying on money.

25 “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?Matthew 6:25

In the days that followed 1 John 4:18 kept popping up in my head and I saw the scripture a couple of times and I realised that God was trying to tell me something.

18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love. 1 John 4:18

I needed to fully rely on and place all of my hope in Jesus to be made perfect in love and cast out all fear!

According to this scripture, I have not been made perfect in love. What did this mean? That’s when a switch went on in my head: Only Jesus is perfect because he is incarnate God. I needed to fully (completely; entirely; without lack) rely on and place all (the whole quantity) of my hope in Jesus Christ alone.

my lack of assurance was proof that no all hope was placed on Jesus Christ

This is also when I realised that this is also why I sometimes struggled with assurance of my salvation. I was not placing all of my hope on Jesus Christ.

I was not only looking for evidence of salvation in my life but I was basing my assurance on this evidence. In other words, my faith was the Gospel of Jesus Christ plus evidence of my salvation instead of placing all of my hope onto Jesus Christ only.

God had revealed the cause of my fear and anxiety to me, but the fear did still not go away. Why? By this time I had really expected the fear to be gone. What was I missing?

I needed to beleive!

God lead me to Romans 10:9 and the word believe jumped out at me, and although I have read it 100 Times this time it was different. I felt something in my spirit shift when I read the word believe. When I read it I had not yet realised what it meant but somewhere in the day, I clicked. I know it sounds strange and it is difficult to explain as this is something spiritual.

To Believe means, to have confidence in the truth, the existence, or the reliability of something,

The best definition of “believe” I could find was that it is to have confidence in the truth, the existence, or the reliability of something, although without absolute proof. But as Christians, we do have absolute proof, which is the Holy Spirit because Jesus rose from the dead. Luke 11:29

29 And while the crowds were thickly gathered together, He began to say, “This is an evil generation. It seeks a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah [a]the prophet. Luke 11:29

The Holy Spirit is the witness the proof that Jesus Christ is who He says He is. The Holy Spirit was poured out after Jesus rose from the dead and once you believe this you will receive the Holy Spirit and be born again and be sealed by God forever.

faith in action

I was the whole time waiting for something to happen in my life to show that I was saved but what need to happen was that I need to show that I believed. I need to put my faith in action I need to show God that I believed so that all the promises in the Bible that God has given us was YES and AMEN.

20 For all the promises of God in Him are Yes, and in Him Amen, to the glory of God through us. 2 Corinthians 1:20

Why am I telling you all of this? What does this have to do with fear? Because this is how I conquered my fear, by putting my faith into action which is to believe in Jesus Christ.

believe is to put your faith into action

The moment that I realised that Jesus Christ is everything and I placed all of my hope in Jesus alone fear was cast out and I was free. For whomsoever, Jesus makes free is free indeed.

36 Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed. John 8:36

So believe and be free