The "Strong" Man in the Room?

Fear, doubt, and unbelief is the "strong" man in the room (or at least we've thought he's been strong).  There I said it!  He is the one who is standing in the corner holding your destiny hostage.  He is the one that is stopping you from walking through your open door.  He is the one that will intimidate you until you become stagnant and stop moving forward.  He is the one that aggressively needs to be addressed and taken down.  He is the one that only has as much power as you give him.

I say him because the traits of fear, doubt, and unbelief all travel as a package.  Fear causes doubt to show up and unbelief keeps feeding the other two.  If you allow it enter in and dwell for a while it can be a crippling thing to your growth as a Christian.  Fear is something that came in behind the package that Adam and Eve opened called sin-death.  Once they sinned, death showed up, and then fear reared its ugly head.  In Genesis 2 we see the fall of man.  They sinned and became spiritually dead when they were disobedient to the commandment that God gave them.  Specifically in verse 10 Adam said, "I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself."  We see that fear was right there behind sin-death. Adam realized he was naked so there had to have been some doubt about God's provision and he hid himself because he questioned his safety and security.  From this moment on mankind now had to deal with this entity.

So now that this so-called "strong" man has been identified in the room of our lives what do we do?  Let's take a look at 1 John 4:16-19:
"And we have known and believed the love that god hath to us.  God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.  Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment:  because as he is, so are we in this world.  There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear:  because fearth hath torment.  He that feareth is not made perfect in love.  We love him because he first loved us."

The only way that we can be strong enough to overtake the "strong" man is to have an encouter with Love.  In the passage above we can use God interchangeably with love; so if perfect love cast out fear the only way to be strong enough to cast fear out is to encounter Love. So how do we encounter Love?  We have to have encounters with His word.  In order for that to happen we must hear His word and have an encounter with His word.  When I say encounter I mean given an opportunity for God's word to manifest, come to full term, or proven.  When His word has been proven so has His love.  If we know that God is not a man that he should lie nor the Son of man that he should repent [Numbers 23:19] then having an encounter with His word that produces manifestation will secure in our lives the power of His love. 

When He manifests healing, peace, prosperity, wholeness, wellness, and everything else promised in His word then you are enabled to take down the fear, doubt, and unbelief in your life.  If there is no encounter with the word then the "strong" man will remain strong because he will try to exercise power that he truly doesn't have.  If I don't know why He loves me then I will question everything.  Why He loves me equates to what He wants for me.  He wants the best for me so that I can be in a place to manifest heaven on earth.  When I have constant encounters with His word then I am always at a place to combat the so-called strong man.

Now that this weak man full of fear, doubt, and unbelief has been knocked out and defeated, let's get to where we need to be!

Be More. Hear More. See More. Do More.
You can do anything [through Christ]