Creflo A. Dollar - Live Without Fear: Learn to Walk in Gods Power and Peace

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Books by Dr. Creflo A. Dollar

In the Presence of God

Live Without Fear

Not Guilty

Love, Live, and Enjoy Life

Breaking Out of Trouble

Walking in the Confidence of God in Troubled Times

Fear is a very serious attack that the enemy uses against the human race. It is imperative to learn how to defend ourselves against this evil. Fear intends to destroy our faith and harvest. Fear comes in many shapes and sizes, but the final outcome is the sameto steal, kill, and destroy.

Fear has gripped our generation like never before through terrorism. Believers cannot be moved by this attack. God has provided the ability to overcome fear at every turn and know that faith brings us the victory. It is God who fights our battles. When we are confident in that, fear cannot besiege us.

Before I published this book in 1994, the Lord spoke to my heart and said, Teach people how to drive out fear from their lives. Dont just address the surface issues, but teach them to dig up the root. That prompted me to do an intensive search of the Scriptures for what God has to say about fear and how to be free of it.

When I think about Gods people living in terror, in spite of the fact that they are in a literal kingdom of priests (Rev. 1:6) who wield the very authority of Heaven itself, I get angry. Fear has no place in the life of a believer. Gods Word gives us clear, practical principles that, if diligently applied, will banish fear from our lives forever.

Its time to declare war on fear.

F EAR, SIMPLY DEFINED, is a dread, uneasiness, or anxiousness. But from a biblical standpoint, fear is more than a feeling, it is a spirit.

Second Timothy 1:7 says:

God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

When a believer is influenced by the Holy Spirit, we call it an anointing. This anointing of the Holy Spirit empowers and emboldens (gives courage to, or causes to be bold). His empowerment enables a Christian to do things they could never do in their own strength and wisdom.

In a sense, the presence of a spirit of fear in your life also brings with it an anointinga negative, destructive anointing.

Instead of empowering you, fear paralyzes you.

Instead of giving you wisdom, fear causes you to make poor decisions.

Instead of the blessing of the true anointing of the Holy Spirit, the demonic anointing of a spirit of fear brings a curse.

You may be thinking, Pastor Dollar, do you really expect me to believe there is such a thing as a demonic anointing?

Yes, child of God, I do expect you to believe that, because it is biblical. Test all things by the Word of God.

Look at Mark chapter 5 where we are told about the madman of Gadara. Possessed by a legion of demons, this man was able to break chains and perform other superhuman feats. He was able to do this through the empowerment of the demons, or through a demonic anointing of supernatural power.

This satanic anointing also turned him into one of the most miserable, wretched creatures you can imagine. That is always the outcome of demonic anointing. The anointing that comes with a spirit of fear will make you miserable and wretched.

According to Romans 8:1,2, there are two basic spiritual laws in operation in the earth today. One system is dominated by life, and the other system is dominated by death.

There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

In those two verses, we can see the two basic domains under which Christians can and must operate:

1.One is called the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus.

2.The other is called the law of sin and death.

Every human being today is living his life under one or the other of these two laws. All human beings ever born have lived under one of these two laws. There are no other choices. The sad part is that even being born again does not mean a Christian lives his life under the right law.

A law is an established principle that can be expected to function the same way every time. For example, the law of gravity applies to everyone in every situation and every place. A rock dropped from the top of a building will fall the same every time.

The same is true of the two spiritual laws. If you are living under the law of sin and death, there is no way to avoid receiving sin-oriented and death-oriented results. Just like the falling rocks, this principle brings the same results for everyone who lives under it.

These two spiritual laws are very different from one another, but they are more than just different. They are reciprocals, as 2/3 is the reciprocal of 3/2. Both are fractions, yet one is the upside-down version of the other. They are opposites.

The law of sin and death is the upside-down opposite of the law of life in Christ Jesus.

For every spiritual force and substance in the realm of life, there is a reciprocal force or substance in the realm of death.

In the first, you will find the force of hope.

In the other, you will find its reciprocaldespair.

Under the law of life, you will find agape love, the kind of love that gives and gives.

Under the law of death, you will find the reciprocal of agapetotal selfishness.

One of the most powerful forces in the realm of the law of life in Christ Jesus is the force of faith. According to Gods Word, faith can move mountains and work miracles. The universe itself is the product of faith-filled words. (Heb. 11:3.)

Faith has a reciprocal under the law of sin and death. As you may have guessed already, it is called fear.

In fact, fear always rushes in when faith is not present. We get a clear picture of this very thing happening in one of the incidents in the ministry of Jesus. This is the familiar story of Jesus sleeping in a boat while the disciples were awake, weathering a storm on the Sea of Galilee.

And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us: we perish.

And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm.

Matthew 8:25,26

Do you see the connection Jesus made?

Why are you afraid? You have little faith.

He was attributing their fearfulness to a lack of faith. Mark and Luke related the same story in slightly different words.

And he said unto them, Why are ye so fearful? how is it that ye have no faith?

Mark 4:40

And he said unto them, Where is your faith? And they being afraid wondered, saying one to another, What manner of man is this! for he commandeth even the winds and water, and they obey him.

Luke 8:25

In all three reports, we can see Jesus declaring the reciprocal relationship between fear and faith. He could not declare it any plainer than this: