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FEAR FACTOR

by Katopeka Nkhoma
3/28/2017 / Christian Living

Prepare to fly high in the coming year, for it is your year of greatness. Build up your expectations, spread your wings and fly high.

As with everything that gets airbone, there are a few factors to be considered for your flight to be successful and these will be our main focus in the posts ahead.

Fasten your seatbelt and prepare for a glorious ride!!!

The main challenge in flight is to overcome downward forces like gravity and drag by applying the forces of lift and thrust. We will deal with the downward forces first so that we may gain the freedom we need to fly.

FEAR

This is the force of gravity itself! Fear will always hold you down and cripple your wings.

In the classic story of David and Goliath, we learn some interesting facts about fear.

1) Fear stifles creativity

Non of the Israelite soldiers thought of rushing Goliath at once. Non of them thought of alternative methods or weapons to bring down Goliath. Their creativity was stifled.

David on the other hand was creative, he used unconvental weapons; a slingshot and a stone! Boy was Goliath surprised!!!

Don’t let fear stifle your creativity. It takes a creative mind to fly high. A creative mind is a fearless mind!

2) Fear halts progress

For 40 days they did nothing but wait in fear. Waiting for Goliath to go away! This is exactly how many people live. They bury their heads in the sand like an ostrich and hope their problems go away. Sorry, but it won’t!
Your Goliath will not go away on it’s own, you have to be proactive like David and face it head on. It may look invincible but it’s not.

1 Samuel 17:48

So it was, when the Philistine arose and came and drew near to meet David, that David hurried and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine.

David didn’t wait for Goliath, he ran toward him. Don’t wait for your problem or challenge to run it’s course, run toward it and face it head on. Take the proverbial bull by it’s horns.

3) Fear exaggerates the situation

Come on guys, he is not as big as he looks! You can take him!

Fear always exaggerates the situation, and if you don’t deal with it, you will even see things that don’t exist!

Numbers 13:31—33

But the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.” And they gave the children of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, “The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature. There we saw the giants (the descendants of Anak came from the giants); and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight.”

The land devours it’s inhabitants? Really?? That was the foolish talk of fear. “We were like grasshoppers…..”. That is the extent to which fear can exaggerate. Fear will make you belittle yourself. It will make you underrate yourself.
ARE YOU SURE THAT INSURMOUNTABLE PROBLEM IS REALLY INSURMOUNTABLE? Or has fear exaggerated it.

4) Fear traps you in a world of impossibilities.

Numbers 13:31
But the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.”

“We are not able…”. Fear will always show you want you can’t do, it traps you in ” it’s impossible ” mode.

Despite the handsome reward offered for Goliaths head, fear had trapped the Israelite army in it can’t mode. No one even dared give it a try!

Every Goliath has a good bounty on his head, go get him!!

Mark 9:23

Jesus said to him, “If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.”

Get rid of fear, all things are possible. You just have to believe. Believe in God and believe in yourself. You are not a grasshopper, you have greatness in you! You are well able to defeat Goliath, or whatever your challenge is called.

Get rid of fear and you will fly high!

Kato Nkhoma is a seasoned Pastor with circa 15 years under his belt. He is also a prolific teacher of the word, author and freelance writer. A husband to 1wife and father of 2 amazing children makes him a happy family man.

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