Comments on: Spiritualizing Fear

By: bill lyall

bill lyall — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 00:09:04 +0000

God says he has not given us a Spirit of fear but of Love, Power and a Sound Mind. Many times we including myself forget who LOVES us (God); what we have (POWER) and the ability to use what we have ( A SOUND MIND )

By: Phillip

Phillip — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 19:01:10 +0000

I am finding most often that the very things i fear most are the things God is definitely calling me into. If I’m afraid of it, it’s almost a guarantee God is behind it. Then I become the world’s greatest theologian on why I can’t/shouldn’t…

By: Adam Lehman

Adam Lehman — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:42:06 +0000

Fear is wanting to give 100%, but being unsure if I’ll get that 100% in return.

By: Tammy Helfrich

Tammy Helfrich — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 03:11:06 +0000

Love this post. This is one of the many things you have helped me to realize and work on in my own life. It reminds me of your message on how we’re sometimes praying and asking God to fix something or take care of someone, when WE can often be part of the answer to that prayer. It’s typically fear that keeps us from stepping out and being part of the solution.

By: mo

mo — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 22:57:30 +0000

I know that most of my fears stem from insecurity, which is a pride issue at heart. That implies that there’s a need for repentance, even thought we don’t normally associate fear with sin.

By: Chris Brown

Chris Brown — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:58:12 +0000

For me “fear” has mostly been the unknown. Most days, when I am in my routine, I can predict what will happen (at least I think I can). But when I am faced with the unknown the feeling of fear comes. Whether it is speaking up when you usually don’t or moving out of a place or situation (good or bad) that we are used to (some call it comfortable), that is when the feeling of “fear” arises. I just watched Francis Chan’s new short film over on flannel.org. He speaks about the fear of God and how the Church has come to think of it as a bad thing. But actually when we fear God in his power and might he tells us “fear not”, and then we should have nothing left to fear. That is where I want to be.

By: Joni Ruhs

Joni Ruhs — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:24:27 +0000

OK, s/b “passed up an offer” not “passing up an offer”. Yikes. Usually not a typo hound but couldn’t let that one go.

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By: Joni Ruhs

Joni Ruhs — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:22:59 +0000

Totally true. A person in my brother’s small group was praying for a neighbor one day. Asking God to send someone to offer them help in a specific way. My brother offered to go help the neighbor right away but the other person balked at it saying they needed to pray about it. My brother couldn’t believe they passing up an offer of the very thing they were praying for.

By: Wayne Stapleton

Wayne Stapleton — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:22:26 +0000

I think you are right Scott. And I think the dynamic of calling it something honorable is troubling. What we need in those times are people that don’t ratify our fear, but who call it out for what it is… Perhaps part of the problem is that we don’t spend enough time in intimacy with God to have the confidence to trust Him so we CAN step out…