Come Spirit of Courage Fear No More

I have found myself asking, “Is this my life?” a great deal lately. Here in Romania I have had tons of time to process the past four months because we spend a lot of time traveling in the car to surrounding cities to evangelize. Our ministry is literally hitting the streets handing out the Gospel of John in Romanian and speaking truth over people. Never in my life would I have felt bold enough or even equipped to speak to random people on the street, but God has broken some major chains in my life (the main one being fear).

Let me just tell you I have struggled with the word fear the past couple of days and well my whole life really. It has even taken me to a process of looking back in my life where fear has been so heavy on my spirit. I can remember times when I was a little girl where I ran screaming at the top of my lungs proceeding to wake every one in my house up because something had set off a fear deep within me. My parents and my brothers will tell you that I was a scared little child. I was scared of the loud southern summer lightning storms or even just the smallest noise of a car driving past our house at night.

I never realized that my fear started when I was a child, but continued on into my adulthood. It just manifested itself in different ways than it did when I was little. I am still slightly scared of thunderstorms; however, I think my biggest fear has been the fear of being rejected or the fear of my voice being shut down. I know now this was satan’s way of sneaking His lies into my life. A huge thing that we as humans should come to realize is the importance of not excepting these lies and literally rebuking them back to hell where they came from. We as God’s children have the authority. This is something you don’t hear often, but why not scripture talks about our authority as believers. Matthew 17:20 says, “For truly I say to you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible to you.”

Before I understood the power I have as a believer to cast off chains in my life I would just sit with my chains on. God is now telling me to rise up child. Sit in bondage no more. “It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery.” Galatians 5:1

I am no longer a child of fear!!!! I cast fear off in Jesus name and I invite the spirit of courage, the spirit of bravery, the spirit of power over my life. I am a fearless woman.