THE SNARES OF FEAR
Proverbs 29:25, "The fear of man
brings a snare, But whoever trusts in the
Lord shall be safe." Fear is opposite of faith. Fear is so
terrible that it destroys life here on
earth and in eternity. There are two
major snares of fear people usually
fall into, which Satan uses to ruin lives: SNARE OF SIN
Majority of sins people commit are as a
result of fear; Satan ensnares people
with sin through fear. Why have you
not totally surrendered your life to
Jesus? It is because of fear of what people will say and how it will go
with you. Why are you still covering a
particular sin of your past? It's because
of fear of what people will say. Why
have you not done the necessary
restitution till now? It is because of fear of what will happen after. Why are
you still in a sinful relationship or in
ungodly profession or company? It is
because of fear of uncertainty. If you
should be sincere with yourself, why
do you tell lie? It is because of the fear of how people will respond to the
truth? Why did you forge or falsify
your document, your age to get job or
your paper done? It is because of fear
of what to eat and how to survive. Why
did you steal and embezzle? It is because of fear of life. Why do you find it
hard to confess and open up what you
did wrong? It is simply because of the
fear of how people will respond. Why
do people keep displeasing God in order
to please men? Because of fear of men. Why are you still in the occult group?
It's because of fear. And you know
what? If you don't loose yourself now
by the Truth, Satan will use that fear to
hold and ensnare you till you land in
hell. Before sin is fear. As it is impossible to
please God without faith, it is
impossible to remain under Satan
bondage without fear. There are
different types of satanic fear: There
is fear of uncertainty, fear of men, fear of the future, economic fear, egoistic
fear, surviving fear, unknown fear, etc.
Devil uses these to keep people under his
bondage of sin until no chance for a
second chance. It is a sin to fear any man or anything,
only God alone is to be feared; fearing
any one or anything less than God
Almighty only brings snares. But the
truth is that it is easier to be free from
fear that to fear, it is so easy to get freedom from fear than to remain in the
bondage of fear. All you need is
FAITH! If you have faith in your
self or in any religion, you will be
seriously disappointed, but the faith
you need is faith in Jesus Christ. By faith you receive salvation; after
salvation, by faith you work out your
salvation, you work away from sinful
things; by faith you open up, by faith
you reject sinful benefits and hold on
to God. By faith you do restitution, by faith you silent fear and free yourself
through faith in Jesus Christ. By faith
you please God. Faith will make you
free from snares of sin, while others
are compromising and falling into the
snares of sins because of fear, you will stand firm in faith in Christ without
compromise. SNARE OF SATANIC ATTACK
2 Timothy 1:7, " For God has not given
us a spirit of fear, but of power and of
love and of a sound mind." Do you wonder why many genuine
children of God are being attacked by
demonic people? It is because of fear.
You can be a child of God and still
remain under bondage of Satan and evil
people, why? Because of fear! Without fear, it is impossible for a child of God
to be attacked by Satan. When you
genuinely give your life to Jesus
Christ, you have power and authority
over Satan, demons and all demonic
people Matthew 10:1. But while you are suppose to command authority over evil
spirits, they can exercise authority over
you if you are afraid of them. You can
be a child of God and your ship of
marriage, health, family and finance
can sink if you are afraid, simple. Many children of God think they need
special anointing before they can
overcome principalities and power, no,
what they need is faith in Jesus Christ.
If you call the name of Jesus without
faith in that name, it may not always work for you. You can be a sinless
Christian and remain in the snare of
satanic attack, simply because of fear. If you have been attacked by evil people
before you gave your life to Jesus, and
after you are saved, you are still afraid
instead of you to exercise authority in
Jesus name, you will remain under the
attack. Do you know how Satan brings children of God under his snare of
attack? It is by scaring, he scares people
by dreams, by negative thoughts and
evil utterances of demonic people;
instead of such children of the most
high God to exercise authority to resist the devil, reject the thoughts and rebuke
those dirty demonic people and cast
down every evil imagination, they
become afraid and fall victim. You know what? It will be biblically
impossible for you to overcome what you
are afraid of, it is just God's mercy that
preserves us most times. Fear brings you
into the snare of what you are afraid
of; if you are afraid of wizards and witches, you will be ensnared by them.
Churches and pastors who preach and
pray mostly about demonic attacks are
under the bondage of Satan. It is also
one of the major distractions of Satan in
the churches today; while we ought to be praying for more of God's grace and
righteousness in our lives, we are busy
chasing after witchcraft; while we
suppose to be running away from sins,
we are running away from enemies, and
while we ought to be running after God's kingdom and His righteousness,
we are running after "so called"
deliverances. If you always have the consciousness
and awareness of demonic attacks in
your life, if you always pray and fast
against attack of the enemies, it means
you are already under the bondage of
Satan. Christians who pray every time against attacks of witches, wizards, or
demonic people are under the snare of
the devil, they will never be free,
because they will never stop such
prayers. Churches and Christians who
pray "demonic and enemies" prayers are never free because they never stop
praying such prayers. Some of them
have been praying such prayers for the
past 20 years and they still pray it till
today; they believe enemies are siting on
their destinies, and so it happens, they believe enemies are covering their
destines and so the enemies do; they are
never free from the bondage of witches
and demonic people, they will never be
free until they have faith in Jesus
because It will happens to you according to your faith. If you are a child of God, your priority
is purity of life, because purity gives
power over sin, Satan and all his
demonic and human agents. You cannot
run away from sins and run away from
Satan at the same time; you cannot run away from unrighteousness and run
away from witches and wizards at the
same time. When you surrender your life
to Jesus and run away from sin, Satan is
under your feet and demonic people will
see you and run away. Today, Christians run away from demonic people, because
of fear. Many are so afraid that they
don't go to Barbing shop to cut their
hair, being afraid of the demonic
barbers using their hair. Churches who
preach and pray always on demonic attacks are teaching the doctrines of
demons, Bible only teaches us to exercise
authority over them and focus on
righteousness and evangelism. Running
from pillar to post because of problems
of enemies is because something is wrong with you; you are either under the
bondage of sin or snare of fear. In Jesus is freedom and total freedom.
You need total freedom from bondage
of sin by repenting and surrendering
your entire life to Jesus. You need total
freedom over Satan and his
principalities by faith in Jesus Christ. The name of Jesus Christ, the Blood of
Jesus Christ and fire of Holy Spirit are
three spiritual weapons for every child
of God which no Satan, no powers, no
principalities, no personalities, no
people or person can withstand in our lives. Philippians 2:10, 11. Revelation
12:11. Hebrews 12:29. When you are saved and serving God,
you must "fear not" lest you fall into
the snare of Satan. Fear is a sin of
disobeying, disregarding and
disrespecting God, as if God's power is
not enough to preserve you, as if Satan is more powerful than your God. So
why are you afraid? God warns us about
365 times to "fear not", disobeying that
only brings danger. You don't need
specialized deliverance minister or
church, what you need is faith in Jesus Christ for your deliverance. You don't
need to go to special mountain or special
program, what you need is faith in the
power of Jesus Christ for your total
freedom and protection, simple! It is not
your prayer or your power that will do it, so you need not to worry, it is the
power of Jesus that will do it. Be free!
1 John 3:8, "He who sins is of the
devil, for the devil has sinned from the
beginning. For this purpose the Son of
God was manifested, that He might
destroy the works of the devil." Have Faith
Colossians 2:13-15
And you, being dead in your trespasses
and the uncircumcision of your flesh,
He has made alive together with Him,
having forgiven you all trespasses, 14 having wiped out the handwriting of
requirements that was against us, which
was contrary to us. And He has taken it
out of the way, having nailed it to the
cross. 15 Having disarmed
principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing
over them in it. This message is from Revelation of
Truth Evangelical Ministries, RTEM.