THE LIFE OF FAITH AND THE GLORIOUS CHURCH - 2009
                                                     FEBRUARY 11th

THE ONLY REASON A CHILD OF GOD IS HELD IN BONDAGE BY FEAR IS BECAUSE THEY HAVE A LACK OF REVEALED KNOWLEDGE OF GOD'S WORD


          ...."The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the defense of my life; whom shall I dread?"....

                                                                                                                                                                                              Psalm 27:1 NASB

          David is saying quite clearly here that the Lord alone is his light and his salvation - his all - and as he considers these facts he asks the questions "Whom shall I fear?....Whom shall I dread?" In other words, David had come to the realization that he had no reason to fear anything as he lived his life in the center of the Father's will. These questions are questions that every Christian must ask themselves and, in asking and seeking, come to the deep realization that they have no need to fear or worry - for indeed the Greater One resides within them [1 John 4:4]. The only reason a child of God is "held" in bondage by fear is because they have a "lack" of revealed knowledge of God's Word, and they have also failed to take the necessary steps in obedience to the Holy Spirit that would allow perfect love to both expose and cast out every ground of fear within them.

THERE ARE TIMES IN THE LIFE OF EVERY BELIEVER WHEN THEY MUST WALK THROUGH CIRCUMSTANCES THAT WILL CAUSE THEM TO PUT THEIR FAITH AND TRUST IN THE FATHER AND HIS WORD - ALONE

          We must keep in mind as we study this portion of scripture that David walked "experientially" through great persecutions. He was pursued through the wilderness by Saul and his army. He was forced to hide in caves even though he had been "Anointed" king over Israel - and, yet, through all of these things he continued on - trusting God that His Word was true regardless of any circumstances he himself had experienced. It was in those "precious" times that David learned to depend entirely upon God. In the same way, there will come times in the life of every believer when they must walk through circumstances that will cause them to put their faith and trust in the Father and His Word - alone. It is as one consistently perseveres in these times - continually standing in faith [love and obedience] - that ALL ground for fear to work will be removed from their lives. To the degree that one "knows" the Father and His Word intimately, it is to that degree that fear will be removed from their lives. So, therefore, if one is aware of ANY ground of fear remaining within them they need only seek the Father and His Word to a greater degree - and He will SURELY lead them and guide them into all [absolute] truth, and protect them and deliver them from ALL fear with a view to their entrance into the place of an abiding faith and trust in Him, alone.

Related Scriptures: Hosea 4:6a; 1 John 4:18; 2 Timothy 1:7;


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