YOUR FEAR AND YOUR BEAUTY: THE DISTANCE
TEXT: Isaiah 61:3-10,Heb. 11:6,
Dear believer, The Lord has promised us Beauty, but the distance between you and your splendour is Fear. Fear in the Life of a believer is a wood that needs to be burnt. It may interest you to know that until God finds ashes on ground, you are not ready for beauty; because His promises remains BEAUTY for ASHES, the ashes consequently I believe is the remains of the WOOD which represent your fears after they are burnt. This is highly revelational. This message help us identify all our fears and get them destroyed by God’s help. And as all our fears are gone, the remains will be ashes and the ashes God turns into Beauty.
Isaiah 61:3
….to give them beauty instead of ashes…,
and clothes of praise instead of a spirit of weakness….
REFERENCES: Pro. 3:5-6,Rom. 8:15-16, Rom. 8:31,
Rom. 8:37-39, Rom. 13:2-4, Phil. 4:8, Heb. 13:5-6.
* Joel Osteen said,“Fear and faith has something in common, they both tells us something is about to happen that we cannot see”.
* It takes the same amount of energy to believe and to doubt.
* Fear is contagious, worry is contagious.
* Fear makes things look worse than they really are
* Fear has its root from our belief systems.
* And Dr. Fagbemi puts it this way “Faith and fear are equal and Opposite”.
* “When you let fear help what FAITH is doing, Faith will give up to fear”.
* FEAR is man trying to help himself with all the weak systems he knows around. The question is will he succeed.
COMMON FEAR(S) IN LIFE
FEAR of Lack (poverty).
FEAR of Rejection.
FEAR of not being respected.
FEAR of Dying
FEAR of Losing
FEAR of Giants
FEAR of Opposition
FEAR of Commitment
FEAR of Failure
FEAR of Public Speaking
FEAR of being HURT (intimacy)
FEAR of Prosperity, success or heights
FEAR of being provoke
FEAR of change
FEAR of Destiny Doctors/Mentors/Critics etc
FEAR of abandonment
FEAR of relationship (losing or being harmed by it)
FEAR of re-occurrence of a negative experience
FEAR of Conflict
FEAR of Making Decisions
FEAR of being loved
FEAR of being mocked or intimidated
FEAR of being disrespected
FEAR of Uncertainty (about the future)
FEAR of loneliness
FEAR of stupidity, ignorance and lack of knowledge
FEAR of ill-health
FEAR of Giving
FEAR of being ruled
FEAR of result
FEAR of Pastor (The fear of Pastor or Spiritual Authority is the beginning of SIN consciousness)
PHOBIA an overwhelming and unreasonable fear of an object or situation that poses little real danger but provokes anxiety and avoidance.
PHOBIA in clinical psychology, a phobia is a type of anxiety disorder, usually defined as a persistent fear of an object or situation in which the sufferer commits to great.
Burning YOUR FEAR or Overcoming FEAR: I JOHN 4:4-5
“….you come from God and belong to God. You have already won a big victory …..,
for the Spirit in you is far stronger than anything in the world”. (MSG)
Burning is a process of lighting fire on a consumable object. So what that tell us is that conquest over fear is a process.
Now here this, the FIRE here is real, as you light literal fire on wood so you use the force of the WORD and the fire of PRAYER.
The Word is the Fuel, and Prayer is the Match box. Now just begin to strike the matches sticks and let your spirit rule your mind.
1. Use Prayer and the Word of God. Believe only what He says.
2. Fear says believe the negative (Don’t say negative)
3. Faith says keep on expecting positive (Keep saying positive)
4. Mind what you pounder, because what we often meditate on naturally comes around us.
ONE FEAR YOUR MUST ALLOW
But the FEAR of GOD is the beginning of wisdom.
What I believe God wants to achieve. In making you BEAUTIFUL.
1. It’s a reality of Heaven on earth, Heb. 6:5
2. The Law can’t do it, Heb. 10:1
3. Wood Burning assignment, Matt. 3:10-12
4. 2 Tim. 3:16-17 (thoroughly furnished) Luke 22:12.
For some of us what we are carrying is not enough ashes already, it has not even being burnt, so we are still with our Wood (fear); fear is what represents wood in the life of a Christian, therefore, Now that spiritual-WOOD called fear need to be burnt up spiritually, that way we can produce ashes. God’s word says to give them BEAUTY (a colourful, vibrant, glamorous, excellent, glorious life here on planet earth) for ashes (the remains of our burnt fears of all sort as it relates to the areas we are expecting).
What should be our disposition, its simply:
1) Dispel fear and allow God do what no man can do.
2) Crumble rough believe systems.
3) Make demand for the increase of your FAITH.
4) Make demand for GRACE and FAVOUR these are the captains in the journey into Beauty.
Grace and favour leads the way through our journey to Beauty and glory.
So burn-down your fears and worries, set your anxiety ablaze to produce ashes, and then God through the power of his Grace will then convert them to your beauty.
Nonso David 