FAITH NOT FEAR

 FAITH IS THE PATHWAY TO RECEIVING YOUR  MIRACLE. FAITH IS OF GOD. FEAR IS OF THE DEVIL. FEAR TORMENTS,OPPRESSES,CONTROLS,MANIPULATES,IMMOBILIZES,STEALS,KILLS, AND DESTROYS. ALL FEAR COMES FROM NOT TRUSTING IN GOD'S WORD. THERE ARE OVER 4,000 FEARS.  FAITH IS THE KEY THAT OPENS THE DOORS TO OPERATE AND FUNCTION IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD. FAITH IS CONVICTION, CONFIDENCE,TRUST,BELIEF,  RELIANCE, TRUSTWORTHINESS,AND PERSUATION IN GOD AND IN ALL THAT HE SAYS.   2TIMOTHY1:7 SAYS "FOR GOD HAS NOT GIVEN US A SPIRIT OF FEAR, BUT OF POWER AND OF LOVE AND OF A SOUND MIND."    1JOHN4:18 SAYS "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."   1JOHN 5:4 SAYS "FOR WHATEVER IS BORN OF GOD OVERCOMES THE WORLD. AND THIS IS THE VICTORYTHAT HAS OVERCOME THE WORLD-OUR FAITH."   ROMANS 10:17 SAYS "SO THEN FAITH COMES BY HEARING, AND HEARING BY THE WORD OF GOD."     HEBREWS 11:1 SAYS  "NOW FAITH IS THE SUBSTANCE OF THINGS HOPED FOR, THE EVIDENCE OF THINGS NOT SEEN."    HEBREWS 11:6 SAYS "BUT WITHOUT FAITH IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO PLEASE HIM,FOR HE WHO COMES TO GOD MUST BELIEVE THAT HE IS A REWARDER OF THOSE WHO DILIGENTLY SEEK HIM."   HEBREWS 12:2 SAYS "LOOKING UNTO JESUS, THE AUTHOR AND FINISHER OF OUR FAITH, WHO FOR THE JOY THAT WAS SET BEFORE HIM ENDURED THE CROSS, DESPISING THE SHAME, AND HAS SAT DOWN AT THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD.   JAMES1:6-8 SAYS "BUT LET HIM ASK IN FAITH, WITH NO DOUBTING, FOR HE WHO DOUBTS IS LIKE A WAVE OF THE SEA DRIVEN AND TOSSED BY THE WIND. FOR LET NOT MAN SUPPOSE THAT HE WILL RECEIVE ANYTHING FROM THE LORD; HE IS A DOUBLE-MINDED MAN, UNSTABLE IN ALL HIS WAYS.   SMITH WIGGLESWORTH-THE APOSTLE OF FAITH, A PLUMBER IN ENGLAND WHO LIVED FROM  1859-1947 HAD UNWAVERING FAITH, ACTIVE FAITH, LIVING FAITH, A FAITH THAT LEAPS, A FAITH THAT LAUGHS AT IMPOSSIBLITES, A FAITH THAT ACTS.   MARK11:22-24 SAYS "SO JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID TO THEM, HAVE FAITH IN GOD. FOR ASSUREDLY I SAY TO YOU, WHOEVER SAYS TO THIS MOUNTAIN, BE REMOVED AND BE CAST INTO THE SEA, AND DOES NOT DOUBT IN HIS HEART,   SEE PAGE 2


BUT BELIEVES THAT THOSE THINGS HE SAYS WILL BE DONE, HE WILL HAVE WHATEVER HE SAYS. THEREFORE I SAY TO YOU, WHATEVER THINGS YOU ASK WHEN YOU PRAY, BELIEVE THAT YOU RECEIVE THEM, AND YOU WILL HAVE THEM."    MARK 5:25-34 SAYS "NOW A CERTAIN WOMAN HAD A FLOW OF BLOOD FOR TWELVE YEARS, AND HAD SUFFERED MANY THINGS FROM MANY PHYSICIANS. SHE HAD SPENT ALL THAT SHE HAD AND WAS NO BETTER, BUT RATHER GREW WORSE. WHEN SHE HEARD ABOUT JESUS, SHE CAME BEHIND HIM IN THE CROWD AND TOUCHED HIS GARMENT. FOR SHE SAID IF ONLY I MAY TOUCH HIS CLOTHES, I SHALL BE MADE WELL. IMMEDIATELY THE FOUNTAIN OF HER BLOOD WAS DRIED UP AND SHE FELT IN HER BODY THAT SHE WAS HEALED OF THE AFFLICTION. AND JESUS IMMEDIATELY KNOWING IN HIMSELF THAT POWER HAD GONE OUT OF HIM, TURNED AROUND IN THE CROWD AND SAID WHO TOUCHED MY CLOTHES? BUT HIS DISCIPLES SAID TO HIM YOU SEE THE MULTITUDE THRONGING YOU AND YOU SAY WHO TOUCHED ME? AND HE LOOKED AROUND TO SEE HER WHO HAD DONE THIS THING. BUT THE WOMAN FEARING AND TREMBLING KNOWING WHAT HAD HAPPENED TO HER, CAME AND FELL DOWN BEFORE HIM AND TOLD HIM THE WHOLE TRUTH. AND HE SAID TO HER DAUGHTER YOUR FAITH HAS MADE YOU WELL. GO IN PEACE, AND BE HEALED OF YOUR AFFLICTION."   MARK 10:46-52 SAYS "NOW THEY CAME TO JERICHO. AS HE WENT OUT OF JERICHO WITH HIS DISCIPLES AND A GREAT MULTITUDE, BLIND BARTIMAEUS, THE SON OF TIMAEUS, SAT BY ROAD BEGGING. AND WHEN HE HEARD THAT IT WAS JESUS OF NAZARETH, HE BEGAN TO CRY OUT AND SAY, JESUS, SON OF DAVID,HAVE MERCY ON ME! THEN MANY WARNED HIM TO BE QUIET, BUT HE CRIED OUT ALL THE MORE, SON OF DAVID, HAVE MERCY ON ME! SO JESUS STOOD STILL AND COMMANDED HIM TO BE CALLED. THEN THEY CALLED THE BLIND MAN, SAYING TO HIM, BE OF GOOD CHEER. RISE, HE IS CALLING YOU. AND THROWING ASIDE HIS GARMENT, HE ROSE AND CAME TO JESUS. SO JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID TO HIM, WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO DO FOR YOU? THE BLIND MAN SAID TO HIM, RABBONI, THAT I MAY RECEIVE MY SIGHT. THEN JESUS SAID TO HIM, GO YOUR WAY:YOUR FAITH HAS MADE YOU WELL. AND IMMEDIATELY HE RECEIVED HIS SIGHT AND FOLLOWED JESUS ON THE ROAD. WHEN WE FACE OUR FEARS WITH FAITH AND BOLDNESS THEN WE WILL BE VICTORIOUS, TRIUMPHANT,AND MORE THAN A CONQUEROR. WE NEED TO WALK BY FAITH AND NOT BY FEAR.