Fear Not, Believe Only
FOUNDATION
STATEMENT: Fear not, believe only is the process that believers must go
through to end at destination called victory. It’s a lifestyle of love and faith that
enable believers to walk in the fullness of what God has for them. – Luke 8
I.
Fear not, believe only is
the process that will access the anointing & manifest victory in your life
A. The only way to live a
life free from fear is to live a lifestyle of love (1 John 4:16)
1.
Anytime
we see fear not, we can insert in there, keep the commandment of love
a. Perfected love is the
only thing that gets rid of fear
2.
When
your frightened is not when fear started working
a. Fear starts working the
moment that you violated the law of love
B. This is always the process
that leads to victory 1.) Love/Fear not 2.) Faith 3.) Victory
1.
Luke
8:41-50 – 1.) Fear not 2.) Believe only 3.) She shall be made whole
2.
James
4:7 – 1.) Submit to God 2.) Resist the devil-1Pet 5:9 3.) He will flee
3.
Philippians
4:6 – 1.) Be careful for nothing 2.) In prayer believing that you receive
let your request be made known unto God – Mark 11:24 3.) The peace of God will guard your heart and minds
4.
1
John 3:22 – 3.) We receive what we ask from him because 1.) We keep his
commandments and 2.) We do faith – Hebrews
11:6
5.
Hebrews
4:14,16 – 1.) Come fearlessly to the throne of grace 2.) Holding fast to
the confession of your faith 3.) So that you can obtain mercy and find grace to
help
II. Using love as a tool to totally eradicate your life from fear
A. Fear is not okay. It’s fear’s job
is to contaminate your faith, so that you cannot connect to the anointing and
see results in your life.
1.
Revelation
21:8 – The fearful keep bad company
2.
Hebrews
2:15 – Jesus redeemed us from fear, so we have no business with it
3.
2
Timothy 1:7 – God has not given us the spirit of fear
B. A commitment to the
lifestyle of love will keep ur faith pure &
enable u 2 walk in victory
1.
1.)
You make a decision of quality over the communion table and settle it that
– You WILL to keep this commandment of love
a. The Blood Covenant
Ceremony
1)
Each
man takes off his coat and gives it to the other saying this coat stands for
“who I am, what I am, and all that I am, I give myself to you” – My
authority
2)
They
take off each other’s belt of weapons (girdle) saying, I’m giving you my
strength. Your enemies are
mine. Even if I die, I stand with
you and lend you my sword.
3)
The
walk of blood – Walk through the path of blood between the halves, twice
through, stopping together in the middle saying, “Even as this animal has died,
I will stand with you even in the midst of death. Standing in blood I make promises that I
will never break.”
4)
The
promises are made by each one
5)
Each
representative swears by God to keep his promises, making God the third party
& witness to the
6)
The
cutting of flesh
7)
The
hand is lifted as the oath is sworn, with blood running down the arm, to keep
the terms of the covenant “so help me God!” and the blood is mingled
8)
The
seal of the covenant.
9)
The
name change.
10) We have become friends. To be a friend a covenant must have been
made
11) The covenant meal is the
grand finale. The leaders are
together.
b. Why do those covenant
elements settle it? (Hebrews 6:16)
1)
The
bread and the wine was the last part of the covenant ceremony & once those
are partaken of, we don’t discuss the terms of this covenant any more
2)
When
you settle it where this commandment of love is concerned your obedience to it
is no longer up for discussion; You don’t discuss whether or not you should do
this
c. This is an act of your
will that’s got absolutely nothing to do with your feelings
1)
You
love him, by loving others B/C He first loved you, not B/C you feel like
loving-1 Jn 4:19
2.
2.)
You renew your mind to the commandment of love through meditation &
confession
a. 2 Pet 3:1-You know it but
it hasn’t been on the forefront of your mind
1)
You
got to develop a love-commandment consciousness where you are conscious of it
in everything that you do---How does that fit in where the love of God is
concerned
b. Deuteronomy 11:13
1)
16-Take
Heed to what you doing so that you’re don’t turn aside from this commandment
2)
17-You
don’t want to turn aside from this commandment of love shut up the Heaven or
stop the anointing, and get no results in your life
3)
18-Therefore-Do
whatever is necessary to get these words in ur
consciousness
4)
21-So
that the anointing can produce Heaven on the Earth
c. Romans 12: 2 – All
transformation begins with a renewal of the mind
1)
You
got to renew your mind b/c this lifestyle of love is the total opposite of the
way you’ve been trained to live
2)
You
say something different to think something different, until you don’t have to
say something different to think something different any more (2 Cor 10:5)
d. Joshua 1:8 –
Through confessing and meditation you’ll become doer
3.
3.)
Make a working agreement with the Holy Spirit (John 14:26)
a. He’s your partner, He’s
going to help you with this
b. He’s going to bring to
your remembrance what Jesus has spoke – The commandment of love
c. You ask Him to stop you
every time you do something that’s in violation to the commandment of love
4.
4.)
You acknowledge it & repent on the spot when u violate the commandment of
love-1 Jn 1:9
a. He’s faithful –
He’ll forgive you every time you come
b. He’s just – He has
a right to do this and he’s equipped to do this
c. Forgive – You won’t
be held accountable, and it won’t be held against you
1)
Isaiah
61:10 – Your rob of righteousness
d. Cleanse – That
means it’s like the sin was never there, there’s no evidence of it
e. It’s blotted out
(Colossians 2:13-14, Isaiah 43:25)
III. Believing Only
A. To believe only you have
to first of all get the Word of God on your situation because it carries the
anointing that’s going to set you free from the oppression (Romans 1:16)
1.
The
power is in the Word
B. To believe only you have
to make the quality decision to believe (John 20:29)
1.
Thomas
could have chose to believe as easily as he chose not to
2.
Go
back to the communion table and settle it – I choose to believe this
C. To believe only you have
to spend time with that Word (Romans 10:17)
1.
You
spend time looking at the word, hearing that word, and saying that word and
that develops your faith to believe that word
2.
Faith
to believe comes as you spend time in the Word of God
a. Faith for financial
prosperity comes as you spend time in the Word on financial prosperity
b. No Word = No faith = No
connection to the power
D. You have to make a
decision under pressure to give your attention to the Word (Proverbs 4:20)
1.
A
lot of people got in trouble because they gave their attention to the wrong
words under pressure (Peter, Israel)
E. To believe only you have
to hold fast to the confession of your faith (Hebrews 4:14)
1.
The
confession of your faith is always the commandment of love and then you release
your faith in the Word of God
2.
You
are calling things that maybe not as though they were (Romans 4:17)
IV. “Fear not,
Believe only,” is the necessary process in every conflict to see the impossible
accomplished
A. Jairus walked out the
lifestyle called love and faith
1.
Jairus
told Jesus that if you come and lay your hands on her she will live (Mark 5:22)
a. Jesus must have gave him
his Word because he was following him
2.
Jairus’
first opportunity to get in restless tormented fear was when Jesus stopped to
minister to the woman with the issue of blood (Lk
8:42, Mk 5:23-His daughter was at the point of death)
a. He had the opportunity to
be tormented here, but he has already spoken his peace, if you touch her she
will live
3.
Jairus’
second opportunity to fear came when he got the message that his daughter was
dead
a. Notice that Jairus didn’t
say a word
1)
A
word spoken at the time could’ve been a confession of the Word of God in fear
b. Jesus heard the evil
report, but didn’t pay attention to it
1)
Jesus
looked Jairus right in the eye & commanded him, Fear not, believe only &
she’ll be made whole
c. Believe what you already
said about this situation
1)
Sometimes
the vocabulary of silence is the best confession of faith that you can make
4.
Jairus’
3rd opportunity 2 be tormented came when he went into his house &
saw his family crying
a. Fear and torment came
three times to muddle up that life of love and faith, but Jairus turned them
down all three times and where there was no fear there could be no
oppression-Is 54:14
5.
Jesus
went into the house and did two things released his faith and got rid of all
fear
a. Jesus released his faith;
He called those things that weren’t as though they were; She’s not dead, but
asleep
1)
He’ll
do the same for you; he’s the high prelist of your confession of faith (Hebrews
3:1)
b. Jesus got rid of all fear
(Perfected love himself was casting out all fear)
c. He literally through them
out the way that love throws fear out