Fear: “The Devil’s Tool”

Fear, will activate the power of the devil in your life and short-cut you from the life of God. As a matter of fact, the devil’s trick is FEAR, which is to make false evidence appear real to you, which will of course paralyse and disorient you; thus, putting you in a state that I refer to as spiritual incarceration. If it goes undetected, it will bring about serious consequences in and through your life. Fear is based and feeds on your circumstances and insecurities.

“Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in? For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters. For the thing, which I greatly feared, is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.” Job 3: 23-25.

On examining the above scriptural passage, we discover that brother Job appears to have been entertaining fear in his heart before the devil’s assault on his life and his entire household. Understand this one thing, that the devil knows he would not have been able to besiege Job and his entire household, as long as the hedge of protection was in place and undamaged.

In his (devil) discourse with God, he said, “Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.” Job 1:10. This suggestively postulates the fact that the devil had tried in so many ways and supposedly at different periods to destroy Job’s life, only to discover that there was a hedge roundabout him. The scripture lets us understand that “As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even forever.” Psalm 125:2.

Apparently, Job was ignorant of this timeless truth, like many believers today, but as long as the hedge of protection is roundabout you, you are walking by faith and in obedience to God’s Word, be irrefutable of the truth that the devil knows that he will not and cannot touch you or anything that concerns you.

My Utmost For His Highest

Richard Onebamoi
http://www.power2prosperinfaith.com