YPJ "Hold your peace"

One of my favourite preaching check it out im sure it will bless you as it does me.

Fear: an unholy sanctification

Fear.........

The enemy put a thought into Eves head that led her to sin.

She disobeyed Gods commandment and led Adam to do the same. From then on their eyes were opened and they had knowledge of good and evil.

When Adam heard God walking in the cool of the day they hid themselves. When God called out for them, Adam answered that they hid themselves because they were naked.

The devil gave us the spirit of fear. It did not come from God. God gave us the spirit of power and of love and of a sound mind.

What knowledge does is make us be aware of what we can do and achieve but also of what can hurt or harm us.

Adam and Eve knew they were naked from the knowledge that they had, from eating of the forbidden fruit. From the knowledge came fear.

But it was not a fear of disobeying God. It was a fear of what they looked like and who they were. They sewed aprons together to cover their nakedness. All that time the knowledge to obey God was not retained in their minds but they were now going by their own understanding.

Adam did not say he hid because he was afraid of the punishment of what he had done, but because he was naked. It was about him and not about God. Fear makes us think about our selves and not about God.

Many in church do not fear God. It leads them to take lightly the penalty of disobeying God. It leads some to go back into the world or take on worldliness and bring it into the church. They are led to forget about God. They no longer reverence him. He becomes last in the list of priorities in life, making us forget that without him there is no life, just death.

From fear comes jealousy, hatred, pain strife torment. All the things that are not of God. In Gods love there is no torment.

1st John chapter 4 verse 18 "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."

Fear separates us from God because we no longer trust that God can save us or deliver us. We even forget about God altogether. When you do not trust God you are led to trust in things that cannot help or sustain and will not last like money, the cares of this world.

We begin to love things that we can find no comfort in. Things that make us yearn to feel safe and secure but are short term and quickly spent out. Gods love is strength in a time of trouble. It satisfies and comforts. It gives you warmth and identity. A place to call home. Knowing that someone loves you brings happiness and contentment. You know someone is always there for you.

The cares of this world, what we think is good and not Gods goodness, leads to more fear and you find yourself going deeper into ruin. You can love money. But the fear is that you will never have enough. The more bills you pay, the more stress you find yourself in having to find more money to pay the bills. Even if you find yourself mega rich you will find that the joy is not in money. You will still yearn to have substance to your life. You will desire a goal. Something to give your life meaning. Money cannot say I love you. Being rich and being alone is the worse thing that you can have in this life. setting your heart on money makes you deny yourself the happiness of being content with what you have. It stops you from relying on God to provide what you need. You will value money more then God and loosing that money, the FEAR of loosing that money, leads to covetousness which is not of God.

1st Timothy chapter 6 verse 10 "For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves though with many sorrows"

You have erred from the faith because you are afraid of loosing what you have instead of the greatest fear of loosing God in your life.

The enemy made Eve love and desire something not of God. And it led to her and Adam being thrown out of the garden of Eden and their relationship with God. Sin separated them.

The devil planted into us his thoughts his desires. The worst thing he did was give us an option.

Soemthing else to consider. An option that led us away from God.

You cannot love God and yet be in torment. If you love God, you are in him and he in you. There is no relationship with God if you are afraid. The perfect love of God casts out fear. If you love God your filled with his spirit and will be led by him into all truth. When you know the truth of something then you do not have to fear. All Adam and Eve knew was God. Until the enemy came and gave them something else to know. But what they knew made them afraid and so they hid themselves from God. The lie made them inherit fear. Faith in Jesus breaks that fear and re-establishes a relationship with God. Faith in Jesus sets us free from sin and being afraid. Faith in his promise of eternal life which can only be found in Jesus.

Do we in the church hide ourselves away from doing the work of the great commission? Are we afraid of change if we save the souls of people not of the same skin colour or from a different background? Are we afraid of change? Has the church programme, the routine of service, become our veil which we hide behind?? Is it our apron that Adam and Eve used to cover their nakedness what we use today to hide from God in the house of God??

Luke chapter 24 verse 47 "And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem."

When we are afraid to tell people about the gospel of Christ because of fear of what they might do or say then we are letting the enemy win and control us. We are being separated from God and doing his work, obeying his commandments. We cannot say we love God and yet not follow his commandments so fear separates us from loving God.

When we are afraid in church to go to the altar for deliverance we are letting the enemy win. Fear of passing exams, fear of failing, fear of not being good enough, fear of loneliness, fear to change, fear to step out, fear to declare our love for God, to speak in tongues, fear to live to the glory of God. Is fear killing our relationship with God??

Fear of David becoming king led Saul to jealousy and rage and hatred. Fear made Peter deny Jesus three times. Fear made The ten spies come back with an evil report about the land that God had promised them. (Numbers chapter 13) They were afraid of the people in the land. How big they were and how huge they looked and how they looked compared to them. But Caleb and Joshua had faith in God.

Fear delays our blessing and leads us to separate ourselves from God. How can he can help us in our lives to find happiness and peace if we are afraid to believe he can do it?? Trusting in God, having good courage and knowing God through faith is the way to overcome fear. In Jesus we have power over death itself. We have the promise of eternal life. We do not have to be afraid of death. It has no hold on us.

We have inherited it. But because of Jesus we do not have to live by it. For if you love God you cast out fear. And in the presence of God there is no fear but eternal peace.

Fear bound us, but now by grace we can bind it and be free. In Jesus we have liberty.

Generation Of David's Unexpected Heroes

Strictly For People After God's Own Heart

I actually wrote this blog a few years ago while we were all on the "Myspace" craze :)
Hope it's a blessing to you as it has been to me after reading it over again.


Jonathan B

God gave me this a few days ago. I thought I just share it with my fellow brothers and sisters in Christ. I was looking at a well known Bible story David and Goliath. We understand the moral of the story and how it affects our Christian lives, but I received something new from that portion of scripture a few days ago.

1st Samuel 17v 10-11 :

And the philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together. When Saul and all of Israel heard those words of the Philistine, they were dismayed, and greatly afraid.

Notice the words Saul and Israel were embolden. The entire country was afraid of this giant. These people had been delivered out of Egypt, given manna in the dessert and always had God's undivided attention throughout the ages but yet they were still afraid of the giant.




To be honest I think as a people they lacked to see that God was still and that God still saves because of their ungodly leader.

What I found unbelievable was that the so called King of Israel "Saul" was sore afraid also. Ideally Saul should have been the one who was to fight but he was afraid. Saul had a tall stature and good build and a good warrior, but yet he was afraid. Saul had good military knowledge but yet he was afraid. Saul HAD a relationship with God but yet he was still afraid this giant. As a leader of the people he should have fought the giant but didn't believe that God would deliver the Philistines into the hands of Israel.

God was telling me that the situation happened in the Old Testament with Saul and the people being afraid of the Giants and taking them on, is happening in this day and age.

The leaders of our churches have fought past battles and have been successful and have conquered some land and have acquired small amounts of the Kingdom. Just like Saul they have been good leaders and warriors and we are eternally grateful to them but yet some are afraid to take on a certain Goliath.

The leaders have led the people so far but are afraid to attack the Goliath of their church, town, home and country. If a leader is afraid it has a knock on effect on the people they are leading and in the case of Israel the whole nation were afraid.

2nd Timothy 1:7 For God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power,love and a sound mind.

God doesn't want his people to be fearful of Goliaths its not in his will. Since the leaders and the nation were afraid of Goliath someone had to step up to the plate and take on the giant defying God's people.


Cue David the humble shepherd boy, the youngest of the family, the psalmist. Who knows the God he serves and loves to worship him. David had experienced God's favour on his life since his early childhood. The reason why David had to be on the backside of the dessert is because God wanted him away from life's distractions. So sometimes you feel that nobody is around you or nobody seems to be talking to you, sometimes you feel you don't exist your voice is not heard its just because God wants you in the dessert for himself so he can shape and mould you into the image he wants you to be, to share intimacy with himself stuff you can't receive when in public. So understand when we enter the dessert and feel isolated we are in God's eyes and his shaping us into better people.

David in all innocence came to give food to his older brothers but overheard the taunt coming from the giant. While in the dessert remember that David had know built and had a better relationship with his God. So when the Goliath was taunting the Living God it upset God so because it upset God it definenlty upset the man after his heart little David!!! David knew that God had saved him from the hands of lions and bears and knew that the same God would protect him against this giant, in David's eyes Goliath was just a dog so didn't see much difference in the enemy.

As David had experienced lions and bears he had experience. Some of us have had lion and bear experiences upset and distress experience disappointment and false hope experience and all sorts. The only reason why we are here to tell the story is because we overcame by the blood of the Lamb through our testimony. That is why I urge the importance of having a personal relationship with Jesus.

So because David trusted in God and not in his ability neither King Saul he killed the giant with a small stone from a stream. The people were afraid of this giant but David killed him by his experience, his testimony and the pure goodness of God.

Youth camp (06) God reviled to us that he needed youth on the front line who are going to stand up for him. These youth will be tearing down some strong holds and building up the Kingdom. The stronghold of fear has to stop because it has no power and position over the people of God.

Notice that after David had slain the Goliath the entire army chased the Philistine back into their territory. The reason for this was because the thing that had imitated them and made them afraid had just been killed the very thing know had no power over them allowing the nation to attack. Therefore God wants a generation of David's who will kill Goliath(fear) so David's you know who you are be obedient to the call because its not just your life you will change but the lives of a generation, homes, churches, colleges, schools and the entire world.

God Bless You All JB