Are you afraid?

Its obvious that Satan understands who we are in Jesus because of his repeated attempts to get us to submit to fear. But, when you are fully aware of the truth; the truth of who you are in Jesus, you wont be afraid. The only thing Satan can do is to distract you. He takes our focus off our identities in Christ, onto our seemingly fearful circumstances. Satan can't take away what Jesus has given you, so he tries to encourage you to lose sight of all you have and all you are in Christ.

God proves Himself faithful in our lives (Romans 8:37). Sometimes, you can allow intimidating circumstances to distract you from this truth, and then that causes you to submit to fear. Just like when the waves of the sea "distracted" Peter from Jesus' invitation to walk on water; The distraction caused Peter to be consumed by the waves. When you focus on the waves in life, overwhelming feelings of helplessness, Satan uses that to rob you of doing the impossible through Jesus. But, when you fix your eyes on Jesus, you will rise above all your fears and walk to Him by faith, on what previously were your fears! (Except for my fear of spiders… Im still working on that one…..)

All throughout the Bible, God instructs people to "not fear". Want to know something about "fear" in the Bible? When you add up all the instances in Scripture where it says, "do not fear," "fear not," and "be not afraid", it totals 365…… one occurrence for every day of the year. Makes sense, right? Maybe this is God's way of telling us that will never face a day where we will have a true reason to be afraid.