Deliverance from Fear

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. (1Jn 4:18)

Fear is a very real experience that can paralyze the strongest person. Fear is when the person is faced with an unknown or situation when they do not have personal control over. The apostle tells us that fear involves torment; hence there is a danger of an open door to spiritual oppression.  A person living in this state does not have the peace or the confidence in God and live in hopelessness and possibly fall into depression.

We have to ask God to make us complete or whole in His love. The first and greatest commandment and the second commandment concerns loving others, there isn’t any commandment to love self or to demand love. Demanding love from others invite the sense of insecurity as well as fear. God’s love is all sufficient and available to everyone; it is up to us to believe that He really does. If we truly believe and have the faith that God loves us, the whole outlook of life would be entire positive and giving. 

To Love God

And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. (Deu 6:5)

The call to love God is sandwiched between the declaration of Unity of the God-head and our obedience. John declares the astounding truth that God is love (1 John 4:8), and love cannot take place unless there is the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit (1 John 5:7). Genuine love is not about the ability to love one’s self, but considers others above self and yielding to the other.

To love God is beyond rational thinking, because God cannot be comprehended by human thought nor can be concluded into a creed or form but a matter of faith. To love God is beyond human emotional sentimentalism, because the heart is deceitful above all things and subject to inconsistency; it is not situational and wishy washy, but loving God despite….. To love God with our strength is not just about demonstration lest love can be worked for or bought; it is about Him working in and we work out with trembling and fear. Emphasizing one over the other two will not suffice and may lead us astray.

If ye love me, keep my commandments. (John 14:15)

If obedience is not founded on love, it becomes legalism. Obedience is not out of blind faith, but of the knowledge of the complete truth; don’t test God (Matt 4:5-7).  The motivation for our obedience is out of love with reverence for our Father and Holy God, for He is Love.

Kol Berama By Simcha Leiner

This song is taken from Jer 31:15, 16. But the hope for the people of God is in verse 17.

God has not forgotten His covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. And we, gentiles have been grafted into the vine and made one in Messiah through the cross (Rom 11:17, Eph 2:14-17). 
Shalom Israel.


Jer 31: 15-17

¹⁵ Thus says the Lord:

“A voice was heard in Ramah,
Lamentation and bitter weeping,
Rachel weeping for her children,
Refusing to be comforted for her children,
Because they are no more.”

¹⁶ Thus says the Lord:

“Refrain your voice from weeping,
And your eyes from tears;
For your work shall be rewarded, says the Lord,
And they shall come back from the land of the enemy.
¹⁷ There is hope in your future, says the Lord,
That your children shall come back to their own border.

Seek the LORD While He May be Found (Isa 55:6-9)

Isa 55:6-9

⁶ Seek the Lord while He may be found,
Call upon Him while He is near.
⁷ Let the wicked forsake his way,
And the unrighteous man his thoughts;
Let him return to the Lord,
And He will have mercy on him;
And to our God,
For He will abundantly pardon.

⁸ “For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord.
⁹ “For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
So are My ways higher than your ways,
And My thoughts than your thoughts.