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with it. We must not tolerate its presence. We must seek its removal even though it
comes at great personal cost. We must be ready to adopt radical means to see that it
does not overpower us and lead us into sin.

This is the same attitude we should have toward fear. As rampant as lust and sexual
immorality is in the present day, and even in the church, I suspect that far more
wrong has been done because fear been left to run unchecked in the members of the
body of Christ. People have abandoned their faith. They have denied Christ. They
have caved into the pressure of peers who were urging them to sin. Untold millions
of times the saints have failed to obey God’s will for them when fear assailed them.
They have seen pain and ridicule or some form of persecution before them and they
have turned back from the course of faith. To do so is to miss the will of God and
those who allow fear to reign unchecked in their members will suffer great loss.

Hebrews 10:38-39
But My righteous one shall live by faith; and if he shrinks back, My soul has no
pleasure in him. But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of
those who have faith to the preserving of the soul.

Revelation 21:7-8
"He who overcomes will inherit these things, and I will be his God and he will be My
son. But for the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and
immoral persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part will be in
the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death."

Does it not speak volumes that the Scriptures place the cowardly even before
murderers, immoral persons, sorcerers, idolaters and liars, as those who will have
a part in the Lake of Fire? The cowardly are the first on the list. God’s soul finds no
pleasure in those who allow their fears to turn them back from a path of obedience.
This is why we must treat fear as an enemy.

As I have been writing this book the Father has allowed me to experience a great
onslaught by the enemy. Many fears have buffeted me and have tried to take up
residence in my soul. He has led me to a very vulnerable place where if He does not
come through for me, both I and my family could very well suffer. The enemy has
been allowed to come attack with his lies and deceit to cause me to abandon the
course of obedience laid before me. We have been given instruction as to what our
response should be in such circumstances.

Ephesians 6:12-13
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the
powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of