The battle's over, yet in the resistance stage, even when the danger of the fear is gone, you are still geared up for fight or flight.
Matthew 6:25 "Therefore I say unto you, take no thought." The keyword is thought. Fear projected into the future involves thought. You can be programmed to fear.
Over 4,000 fears have been named. That list includes fear of disability, fear of pain, fear of suffering. Most people are not aware that the fear of pain can produce pain.
The fear of evil is common in Christians. They are afraid if they talk about what the enemy is doing, it will give him power. Christianity also thinks that if we ever speak of anything that's evil, we are giving it power in our lives. We don't want to talk about anything negative. So we have another type of fear. It's time to talk about it and not be afraid anymore of talking about the enemy.
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Yes! The enemy can program our thinking. When we practice fear or anxiety, the law of sin is at work in us. Through an element of long-term memory called protein synthesis, that fear or anxiety thought becomes a permanent part of our biology. It develops a pathway in our brain.
The terms for fear in today's society are stress and anxiety, so we don't recognize it as fear.
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