The Operation Of Fear
FOUNDATION STATEMENT: Fear goes into operation
like this: The enemy speaks words in the form of a thought suggestion, a person
gives their mind & attention to it, and through their mind it is fed into
their spirit and with fear in a person’s spirit they’ll act in fear and
deactivate the anointing
I.
The third thing about the
operation of fear is that in the operation of fear, the origin (source,
starting point, beginning) of fear are the words of Satan
A. Romans 10:12-17-God set
the system up like this (Remember Satan is a perverter
of what God created; He looks at what God does, twists it and then does that)
1.
12-He
will be the answer to all those who call upon him in faith
2.
13-He’s
no respecter of persons; when faith is released He responds
3.
14-You
can’t call on God if you don’t have faith in Him
a.
When
you act in faith you’re calling upon him (“crying out” to Him, his not always
the same thing as calling on Him in faith; many people “cry out” in fear and
that’s why they get no response)
b.
Call-Prayer
(Mark 11:24-Believe you receive/act like you have it)
c.
Calling
on can’t come without believing
4.
14-You
won’t have faith in Him, if you haven’t heard His word
a.
Believing
can’t come without hearing
b.
How
shall they believe (whether it be faith or fear) without hearing?
c.
Fear
is a belief and how shall you believe in fear if you do not hear
5.
14-You
won’t hear those words unless somebody preaches them
a.
Hearing
can’t come without speaking
6.
15-They
can’t preach unless they be sent
a.
Speaking
can’t come without sending
B. This is the system God
uses to get the operation of faith working in your life so that you fully
persuaded and acting in faith, where faith is operative, so that the anointing
can be accessed and you can win
1.
EX:
If God wants to see people prosper financially this is the system He uses
a.
12-He’ll
be a God of prosperity to those who call upon Him in faith for it
b.
13-He’s
no respecter of persons; when faith for prosperity is released he responds
c.
14-You
won’t believe God for prosperity if you don’t have faith that He’s a God of
prosperity
d.
14-You
won’t have faith in Him for prosperity if you haven’t heard His words on
prosperity
e.
14-You
won’t hear those words on prosperity unless somebody preaches them
f.
15-They
can only preach them if they’ve been sent
2.
This
is how the system works
a.
If
God wants to see people prosper financially the first thing He must do is
infiltrate their world/life with His Word on prosperity
b.
Then
the somebody has to take those words and give their attention to them as they
do faith will arise
c.
When
faith arises they’ll call upon God for prosperity (with their acting faith) and
He is rich unto all those who call upon
3.
The
working of God’s system
a.
God’s
system says the first thing He has to do is have His words infiltrate that
person’s life, the region, or the place where I want to work
b.
Those
who give their attention to the Words He spoke will have faith developed in the
heart and lives
c.
Faith
then gives God’s power a way into their lives so He can get done what He desires
for them
d.
I’m
the God of prosperity to all those who call upon me; but they can’t call upon
me if they don’t believe in me; they won’t believe in me if they haven’t heard
my words; how can they hear my words of I don’t send somebody
e.
God
sends and a word carrying agent to infiltrate an area with His words
II.
Any time Satan wants to
do anything in your life he has to infiltrate your world/life with his words (Satan
didn’t reinvent the wheel; he copies God in a perverted form)
A. 12-Satan will bring
poverty upon those who call to him in fear
1.
When
you act in fear you are calling upon him to come and oppress
2.
When
Job got in fear he was calling on Satan in fear to bring the thing he feared to
pass (Job 3)
B. 13-Satan’s no respecter
of persons; those who operate in fear, saved or not, he’ll harm (Job was a
upright man before God)
C. 14-He knows you won’t
call upon him in fear (act in fear) if you, don’t have confidence/belief in him
to bring misfortune in your life
D. 14-He knows you won’t
have faith/confidence in him to bring misfortune in your life without hearing
his words
E. 14-He knows if you’re
going to hear his words somebody is going to have to speak (Satan seeks to have
a voice or an avenue through which he can speak)
1.
Numbers
13-He had he 10 spies
2.
1
Samuel 17-He had the men of Israel, Saul, and Goliath
3.
Matthew
14-He had the wind
4.
Mark
4-He had the storm
5.
Genesis
3-He had the serpent
III.
Satan’s
initial/preliminary attack is he always says something
A. Words are always the first
line of his attack (Genesis 3, Matt 4)
B. 1 Peter 5:8-He is a
roaring lion before he’s a devouring lion
1.
For
him to get involved in your life and oppress you, you have call upon him fear,
but you won’t call upon him in fear, if you have no fear, and you won’t have
any fear unless he speaks words first
C. Word are the
source/starting point of fear and w/o fear he has no access