How do you handle your fears?
The fear of God is the one fear that eliminates all others.
Handling Fear
Fear is a good safety emotion.
1. Alerts us to danger
2. Common sense
Fear can be perverted
1. Procrastinate
2. Paralyzed by fear
3. Fail to obey
How fear works:
1. An experience is highly unpleasant.
2. We attach that experience to all similar situations or locations.
3. Thinking about similar situations or locations cause the same highly unpleasant feeling.
4. We become afraid of another fear experience.
How to overcome fear:
1. Love overcomes fear.
1John 4:18
2. Don't try to stop a fear experiencing from reoccurring.
1Peter 3:14
a) Obey God's commands, anyway.
b) Do the loving thing, anyway.
The fear of God is the one fear that eliminates all others.
Deut 6:13
Eccl 12:13-14