FEAR NOT, BELIEVE ONLY

FOUNDATION STATEMENT:  Fear not, believe only is the process that believers must go through to end at destination called victory. 

I. Fear not, believe only is the process that will access the anointing and 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

b. 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. Phil 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

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 live a lifestyle of love will keep your faith pure and enable you to 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. This is an act of your will that’s got absolutely nothing to do with your feelings

2. 2.) You  renew your mind to the commandment of love through meditation and confession

a. 2 Peter 3:1 – You know you’re supposed to do this, but it hasn’t been on the forefront of your mind

i. You got to develop a love-commandment consciousness where you are conscious of it in everything that you do

b. Deuteronomy 11:13

i. 16-Take Heed/Pay attention to what you doing so that you’re don’t turn aside from this commandment of love

ii. 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

iii. 18-Therefore-Do whatever is necessary to get these words in your consciousness

iv. 21-So that the anointing can produce Heaven on the Earth

c. Romans 12: 2 – All transformation begins with a renewal of the mind

i. You got to renew your mind because this lifestyle of love is the total opposite of the way you’ve been trained

ii. You say something different to think something different, until you don’t have to say something different to think something different any more (2 Corinthians 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 the commandment of love

c. You ask Him to stop you every time you violate the commandment of love

4. 4.) You repent on the spot when you violate the commandment of love (1 John 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

d. Cleanse – That means it’s like the sin was never there, there’s no evidence of it

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)

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. 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

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

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

a. Luke 8:42, Mark 5:23 – His daughter was dying or at the point of death

b. 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 from his house that his daughter was dead

a. Notice that Jairus didn’t say a word

i. A word spoken at the time could have very easily been a confession of the Word of God in fear

b. Jesus heard the evil report, but didn’t pay attention to it

i. Jesus looked Jairus right in the eye and commanded him, Fear not, believe only and she’ll be made whole

c. Believe what you already said about this situation

i. Sometimes the vocabulary of silence is the best confession that you can make

4. Jairus’ third opportunity to be tormented came when he went into his house and saw all of 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 (Isaiah 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

i. Jesus called those things that weren’t as though they were; "She’s asleep"

ii. He’s the high prelist of your confession of faith (Hebrews 3:1)

b. Jesus got rid of all fear when he put the family out

i. Perfected love himself was casting out all fear

ii. He literally threw them out the way that love throws fear out