FEAR IS TORMENT, BUT IT'S REMEDIES ARE HELL!
Fear is inner torment that works on every part of your body. All bodily functions are negatively effected by fear. Everything from your digestive system to your reproductive organs, from your metabolism to your immune system, from your emotions to ability to ration, is negatively affected. If you have any fear at all you are under some form of attack from the enemy. Fear eventually changes from weapon to the enemy itself. Soon fear becomes your worst enemy and the only thing you fear is fear itself.
Fear is a triple edged sword, it destroys your body, your soul, and it carries an eternal death sentence. Most people skip over the following verse pretending they did not see the first category of condemned souls. "the fearful, and unbelieving,... shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death".Revelation 21:8 (KJV) No matter how fast you read, or skip over it, or tear it out of your bible, I have a category called FEARFUL.
The enemy offers a solution, to the fear he is tormenting you with, a way to escape quickly and easily, called addiction. No one knowingly accepts addiction so he calls it pleasure, but he has removed the label from the bottle that says, EXTREMELY ADDICTIVE POISON... RESULTING IN DEATH. "There is a way which seems right to a man and appears straight before him, but at the end of it is the way of death. [13] Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful, and the end of mirth is heaviness and grief". Proverbs 14:12-13 (AMP)
The first words that comes to mind when you hear addiction is drugs, alcohol, tobacco, or sex. However their is a far more subtle addiction that seems relatively harmless, and accepted by most Christians, called entertainment. The four that are listed as most recognized addictions but they all have a mind numbing effect that soothes the mind bringing temporary relief from tormenting fear. Likewise Video games, apps, movies, TV and the computer all have a mind numbing effect. The bigger picture reveals satan's ultimate goal, is to kill. The only thing the human being has on this earth is a limited amount of time. Satan comes ... "only in order to steal and kill and destroy... (time)" John 10:10 (AMP) When your time gone so are you. If he can't end your time instantly, then he has a plan to get you to waste the time I gave you, until it's all used up and you are gone naturally.
Sure he wants to steal your money, health, and children, but why should he waste his time going after each one separately, when he can take them all at once, by stealing the only thing you have, time. If he steals your time, he gets your kids, your money and your health. If he robs your time he has taken your creativity, your attention, and most of all your only source of power and life, he has taken your mind off of Me. "Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: [31] But they that wait upon (Me) shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint." Isaiah 40:30-31 (KJV)
By occupying your time with an addiction to being entertained, satan has eased your fears while stealing large chunks of your life. Look at it, day after day and night after night, on your breaks, on your lunch hour, no one can even converse because their mind is addicted to some form of meaningless entertainment. In effect they are saying, "I cannot stand the fear of reality any longer so take me out of reality into a land of make believe". All pain relievers become addicting, simply by repeated use.
Now for the worst addiction, second generation entertainment addiction. By starting at an early age, you can get your kids hooked on entertainment, to the point that to them, silence is torment. You have turned your TV into a nanny, robbing them of precious mentoring and bonding time. Far worst you have addicted their developing brain to the mind numbing drug of entertainment. Now the TV must be playing, the radio blaring, an iPod bud in each ear, while texting on their cell. Think how hard it will be for them to ever "Be still, and know that I am God:" Psalm 46:10 (KJV)
When punishment for wrong doing is, taking away their Xbox, lap top or cell phone, you can be sure they are addicted. The only way you can break their addiction is to break yours. The only way to break your fear is to destroy it, not numb it. Faith in small doses destroys fear, even "if you have faith that is living like a grain of mustard seed, you can say to this (fearful) mountain, Move from here to yonder place, and it will move; and nothing will be impossible to you." Matthew 17:20 (AMP)
Faith is not an option for the human being, it's a must!! Without it, your dead any way you look at it. Your short time on earth boils down to one choice, destroy fear by having complete faith in your creator, or numb it with temporary addicting pleasure leading to eternal death. Always remember, "without faith it is impossible to please and be satisfactory to (Me). For whoever would come near to (Me) must necessarily believe that (I) exist and that (I am) the rewarder of those who earnestly and diligently seek (Me) out." Hebrews 11:6 (AMP)
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Jim Hammerle
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