AFRAID—I want you to keep that word in your mind in big capital letters as you read this message. The Lord moved on me in such a definite way as I was preparing this for you to let me know that it is time for you to clear out all fear and to conquer everything that makes you afraid. Some of you are afraid and full of fear; but you don’t know what is causing the condition you are in, saith the Lord. In this last hour, God wants to open your eyes to any fear you may have; and He wants you to know whether or not you are afraid of anything you should not be because the Bible throbs with the message, Be not afraid!

It is not the will of God for those who are living pure and holy before God to walk in fear. The ones who should be afraid are those who are not walking in the divine will of God, not living pure and holy before Him in every way and not using sanctified ears, eyes and a sanctified tongue; but those who should be afraid are not because they have allowed the enemy to deceive them. The devil does not want them to have any fear of God, so he tells them they are all right.

If you are right with God, you should not have any fear; but you have to make sure you are Bible right. The Lord tells us the “all rights” and the “all wrongs” in His Word, and you cannot measure or judge yourself by the way you feel. You can only measure yourself in the right way with the Word of God because that is what you will have to face at the end of the journey. Nobody can get into Heaven except through the Word.

Job Had Fear

Job said, For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me (Job 3:25). Job was very wealthy, but his children were more important to him than all the wealth of the land. There was a time when Job had very little, and he may have been afraid of one day losing everything he had gained; but I feel his greatest fear was losing his children. He was so afraid that they would not get into God’s Heaven and that one of them might be lost that he would sanctify them daily just in case they had done anything wrong.

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil. And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters. And his sons went and feasted in their houses, every one his day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them. And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually (Job 1:1,2,4,5).

When Job lost his children, he cried out, “The thing that I greatly feared has come upon me.” How did that tragedy come about? The Bible explains, Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them. And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought? Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land. But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face. And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD. And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them: And the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house: And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped, And said, Naked came I out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD (Job 1:6,8-12,14-21).

The Devil Makes Fear Reality

Job had lost all of his possessions and all of his children, but Satan was not yet finished. Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them to present himself before the LORD. And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? and still he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause. And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life. But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face. And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thine hand; but save his life. So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown. And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes (Job 2:1,3-8). After all of this, Job also lost his good health; and being helpless might have been another thing he was afraid of because Job had been anything but helpless until the enemy afflicted him.

You have to watch being afraid of things because fear is one of the devil’s greatest bondages that he uses on God’s people. Man and woman were not created in fear of any kind; and they were never to have been afraid, especially not of Lord God Almighty. They were never to fear looking right into His face and into His eyes because their eyes were as pure as His. They were never to have been afraid to hear the voice of God because their ears were as holy as His.

Disobedience Brings Fear

Israel had great fear, but they had a reason to be afraid because they were disobedient to God. And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off. And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die (Exodus 20:18,19).

The Israelites were used to worshiping the golden calf, and they still had that spirit when they left Egypt. After all the miracles they had seen and the great parting of the Red Sea, some of them still held onto the golden calf; and they proved it. The Lord had called Moses to Mt. Sinai to receive the Ten Commandments; but Moses did not come down from the mount when the people thought he should have, so they made a golden calf and gave themselves over to the devil by committing all kinds of sins.

And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him. And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me. And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play (Exodus 32:1,2,4,6). The Israelites degraded themselves before the very mount where God had revealed Himself to them.

Earlier, the people had seen the mountain shake under the great impact of God standing upon it, and they had heard the voice of God roar forth. And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly. And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice (Exodus 19:18,19).

Even after seeing that, the Israelites had held onto the gods of the Egyptians; and they were afraid to journey to the land that God had told them about, and you cannot journey like you should when you are fearful at heart. When you know you have any fear, you have to get rid of it.

Born with Fear

How did fear come about in the first place, and why do we have to fight it so much? If Adam and Eve had not sinned, we never would have tasted of fear or of the spirit of being afraid; but because of their sin, we were born in fear. As babies, we were afraid of being alone, afraid of not being cared for; and we cried before we could even talk—and fear caused a lot of that crying.

As children, we were afraid of all kinds of things; and our parents would many times use fear on us to keep us from being hurt. They made us fearful of germs, of fire, of storms, of poisonous spiders and snakes and of other things that would harm us because it was necessary for our safety; and if we had not had any fear, we might have been totally destroyed.

I had good discipline as a child, but many children today don’t have that discipline and have been killed because they were not taught to be afraid of certain things. They were not afraid of drugs or of what they would do, and many people are dying of cancer today because they were not afraid of smoking. The Lord moved on me years ago to deliver people from the nicotine habit because it is destructive to the body.

When you come to Jesus, you have to grow up in Him. Paul said, When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things (I Corinthians 13:11). You are not to look back; but some of you are afraid of the past, and that fear draws you back. You will not let God love you because you were not loved in the past, and it made you feel afraid. Some of you cried yourselves to sleep many nights because you were unloved, lonely and afraid of the night. Today, some of you are still afraid of being neglected; but if you are, you have to get rid of the fear and depend entirely on the Word.

Some of you grew up with tormenting fear, but are you going to let that same devil torment you now? Paul said, Forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before (Philippians 3:13). Paul had to close the door on his family and friends when he accepted Jesus, so he is one who could definitely tell you about closing the door on all of those things of the past.

Fear of Sickness and Disease

Some of you are afraid of certain diseases because they run in your family, but the Lord has told you again and again in His Holy Word not to be afraid. Many people bring diseases upon themselves through fear, and I have seen it happen. While I was conducting a crusade in a church in North Carolina, a girl kept running to me and crying that she had cancer. God let me know that she didn’t have cancer; but because she had a great fear of it, God told me before the crusade closed that cancer had set in. The wall of faith had been there for her, but she tore it down with fear.

Fear is the reason that so many diseases come upon the children of God today. Through fear, the devil can afflict people with deadly afflictions like cancer, diabetes, heart trouble, lung disease and strokes. If you have the blood, why are you afraid of getting sick? The Lord has taught me what fear can do to people; terrible diseases, troubles, heartaches and despair have come upon some of them because they feared them. Just because your heart skips a beat does not mean you will have a heart attack; coughing a few extra times does not mean you will die with TB; and sneezing two or three times does not mean you are catching a cold. God can heal you of anything.

Stop being afraid of diseases and realize that you have the blood. The Bible tells us that faith in God heals the sick. And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up (James 5:15). Jesus said, And these signs shall follow them that believe…they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover (Mark 16:17,18).

You must think deep. The Bible says, O LORD, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are very deep (Psalm 92:5). When you think like God, you will think good health. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts (Isaiah 55:8,9).

Some of you make yourselves victims to diseases because you yield to them. The Bible says, For as he [a man or a woman] thinketh in his heart, so is he (Proverbs 23:7). When you yield to a disease, it is just like meeting a lion and then falling over and saying, “I am too scared, so go ahead and eat me.” Instead of fighting back against that disease, you are saying to it, “Just take me over; I’m going to die sometime anyway.”

Fear Hinders Healing

Many of you could get your healing, but you have fear. The Lord will give me visions of you being healed; but when you have another pain, fear wipes your miracle right out. Then you wonder why you don’t get your healing when the reason is that you have fear and don’t realize it; but God wants you to recognize that you are afraid of a disease, an affliction or whatever else is working in your body. You are afraid to trust the healing promise of God and to hold onto it without any reservations when the Bible says, Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths (Proverbs 3:5,6). I trust God with my whole heart, and I make no room for doubt; but some of you still lean to your own understanding, and you have your own plans. There is no room for doubt in the Bible; it does not have a doubt chapter or a fear chapter, and fear makes you doubt.

I was in a dying condition when I was twenty-three, and I had asked God to heal me so many times; but I was getting worse all the time. I knew I had not committed one sin since God had saved me, so I didn’t know why He would let me die when I wanted to preach His Gospel. Then one night, Jesus came and healed me all over; and I decided, “God, if I’m not healed now, I never will be. I am launching out into the deep, and I will never go back to the shore. I have the miracle; it is mine.” All the devils in hell could have come at me at one time, and I wouldn’t have had a speck of doubt or fear; and I have always held on to that miracle.

Don’t tell people you are healed unless you believe it with all of your heart, and don’t let the devil scare you out of holding on to that promise. The Bible says, Hold fast that which is good (I Thessalonians 5:21). When you hold fast to something, you don’t let go. Some of you could have had miracles that you have never gotten, saith the Lord, because you were afraid to hold on to the promise He gave you.

When God gives you a promise, you have to hold on to it and fight for it. You have to stake your life on that promise and never let it go. That promise must mean life to you because it came from the life-giving Savior, Jesus. But instead of carrying the promise, some of you carry depression, oppression and fear. You are afraid God is not going to bring you out of the condition you are in or that you are going to get in the same condition that you see other people in. Don’t you know that God said it is His will for us to be in good health? Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth (III John 1:2).

In spite of that promise, some of you still fear sicknesses and diseases; and you think every little symptom is going to develop into something bigger. Fear plays on your imagination and magnifies things that you don’t need. That is why a devout child of God should have no fear. When something shows up in your body, just say, “I have Jesus for this,” and put it under the blood. Do you trust the blood or don’t you? If you do, then don’t lose sleep over your trouble. If you do not trust the blood, then stay awake until you decide to trust in it; and instead of taking a sleeping pill, take a Bible pill—the Word. God’s Word destroys all fear, frustration and despair.

If you need a miracle, ask God and the Holy Spirit to reveal any fear you may have and what is causing it. Then find the roots of that fear and let it be destroyed through the blood of Jesus. Some people who have struggled to receive their miracle have realized after definitely receiving it that they did have some fear and just didn’t recognize it. Don’t be afraid to stand before the mirror of God’s Word every day you have left and say, “Holy Spirit, search me.” Don’t tell Him you are all right; listen to what the Spirit is saying and let Him tell you if you are all right or all wrong.

You Can Live Holy

Are you free of fear or do you court it? When your sins were all forgiven, you didn’t have any fear; so why do you think you need to have it now? Fear brings depression, oppression, despair, confusion and so many things that are all wrong. Fear is destructive, and again I say that it is one of the devil’s greatest instruments that he uses against God’s children—fear of being a failure, fear of not making the Rapture, fear of not going to Heaven. Some people who are pleasing God walk in fear of not pleasing Him so much so that they tiptoe around like they are walking on eggs when they should be marching around with victory.

Without faith, it is impossible to please God. But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him (Hebrews 11:6). You must believe that God is God, but you will not believe that if you are not living holy. If you did believe it, you would live holy and walk uprightly before Him; and it is easy to please God when you live holy. The Bible says, Be ye holy; for I am holy (I Peter 1:16).

Some of you are afraid to recognize in your own heart that you have actually been made that holy even though you know you have not committed one disobedience or sin. The Lord wants all of that fear to go, and He wants you to stand on His promises. The Lord said you are not to be troubled because He is your greatness. The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower (Psalm 18:2). He is your everything!

Divine Love and Faith Have No Fear

Are you bound with fear or are you surrounded with love? Some of you have a hard road to travel in this final walk because you have taken on fear instead of love when love is the answer. Some of you try to get rid of fear by praying, but you will never pray fear away; you have to defeat it with perfect love. The Bible says, There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear (I John 4:18).

God gives us love, not fear; and if you have your first love that you received at Calvary, it will work to get rid of fear. Love brings peace and satisfaction; love is everything. A home without love is no home at all no matter how expensive the house and the furnishings might be. A marriage that is not built on divine love is not a real marriage in Heaven, and that is why there is so much arguing in some marriages. The Lord said we are nothing without divine love. Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity [love], I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity [love], I am nothing (I Corinthians 13:1,2).

Through love, not fear, the world recognizes you to be a child of God. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another (John 13:35). You win the lost with love, not with fear. Show people love; and if they don’t accept that love, they will not be saved. If love can’t save people, they will be dumped into hell whether they have any fear of it or not.

What do you declare among the people? The Bible says, Sing praises to the Lord, which dwelleth in Zion: declare among the people his doings (Psalm 9:11). In God’s love language, there is no room for gossiping or for even listening to it. You are to listen only to what the Spirit is saying. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches (Revelation 2:7). God is doing so much now that we should have no time to talk about anything else. We are to be witnesses, but are we witnesses to what the devil is doing or to what God is doing?

Jesus came with the great voice of “be not afraid”; but when the disciples saw Him walking upon the waters toward them, they were afraid. And straightway Jesus constrained his disciples to get into a ship, and to go before him unto the other side…and when the evening was come…the ship was now in the midst of the sea, tossed with waves: for the wind was contrary. And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them, walking on the sea. And when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, It is a spirit; and they cried out for fear. But straightway Jesus spake unto them, saying, Be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid (Matthew 14:22-27).

Some of you are afraid when the Lord manifests Himself to you, but He does not want you to be afraid. The Lord wants you to feel close to Him and to feel free to come to Him. Adam and Eve lived without fear. Why?—because they lived in perfect love. He that feareth is not made perfect in love (I John 4:18).

Be Not Deceived

Some of you may be afraid because you have not tithed everything to the Lord, and you have a right to be afraid. If there is anything in the Bible you should be fearful about, then you have to do something about it. The Lord said we are not to be deceived about ourselves. Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap (Galatians 6:7). There can be no deceit in God’s children, yet so many people deceive their own hearts; and it is sad when people don’t know their own spirit. If you allow even one seed of deceit to govern your life, then you will come up lacking; and how sad it will be to miss Heaven.

Some of you who are not ready for the Rapture don’t even have any fear of it. You think you are going to make the Rapture, but you are not. However, the devil is giving fear to some of you who really are going to make it, saith the Lord. You are sensitive and have a meek spirit, and the devil takes advantage of that; but don’t pay attention to him. You must know you have the Word and the promises of God and not be afraid to stand on them and use them.

God will give people a home, and then they are afraid they will lose that home or that it will be destroyed. Why walk in fear when the Lord said the just shall live and walk in faith? For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith (Romans 1:17).

Live by Faith

Some of you walk in fear instead of walking in faith when God sent Jesus with divine faith—one of the nine fruits of the Spirit as well as one of the nine gifts of the Holy Ghost. You use your faith one day, but the next day you are troubled beyond words. Fear and faith have nothing to do with each other, so why carry something in your heart that is unlike Heaven and is destructive? The Lord brings you what you need through divine faith, and He feeds you on that faith.

Faith gives you perfection; but fear is worse than dynamite, and it can cause an explosion in your life at any time. Faith, however, will destroy trouble and let you know that you have nothing to fear, that God will see you through everything and that He will bring you out. If somebody is mistreating or troubling you, it is because you are allowing them to. I get away from people like that.

Some of you are so full of questions that they load you down; but when you are full of answers from God, you will be light enough to fly to Glory when the time comes. Don’t depend on others for your happiness because your happiness depends on Heaven, and that will settle your troubled heart. This is no time to have a troubled heart; it is a time to have a wonderful, glorious, happy heart.

You will not be faithful to the Lord with a troubled heart because a troubled heart will hinder you. Some of you fast, cry and pray, not for lost sinners but for your troubled heart; and many of you don’t even know what is troubling you. Fear creeps in, and you feel like something is about to happen that will destroy your happiness, your health or your home.

The Bible says, Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice (Philippians 4:4). When you do that, you will have nothing to fear and nothing to worry about; and the joy of the Lord will be your strength. For the joy of the LORD is your strength (Nehemiah 8:10).

Happy people are not afraid; they are contented with the Gospel and with the plan of God, and they plan everything according to God’s will. When you take the plan of God for you, you take it without fear. When I got saved, I wanted nothing but the will of God. I wouldn’t sing any worldly songs, and I wouldn’t go to any worldly places. I lived with God, and God lived with me; and you can do the same thing. The things God tells us to do are reasonable, and they are our reasonable service. I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service (Romans 12:1).

Trust in the Lord

If you are afraid of losing what God has given you or of what may happen to you and your children, then where are the sheltering arms of Jesus in your life? You are afraid to claim all of God’s promises and to meet the obligation of each one when the Bible says to be anxious (and that includes being fearful) for nothing. Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God (Philippians 4:6). You are afraid to depend on God’s promises as much as you depend on money even though His promises are far greater than money. Money can be lost or stolen in a hurry, but nobody can ever steal the promises of God from you. The devil will try to rob you and cause you to give them up, but you do not have to give over to him. Why do you let the devil trouble you?—because you listen to the wrong voice, the voice of the enemy.

Some people are afraid to believe and trust God when the Lord said all things are possible if you believe, but you have to keep on believing. If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth (Mark 9:23). Are you afraid of anything today or do you trust God for everything?

Some people are afraid to go all the way with God. You are afraid to leave loved ones behind or to take your stand with them, and you let them run over you and put you down. You are afraid to take your place with God and to wear His armor because you know if you put it on, you will have to stand. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God (Ephesians 6:13-17).

When you claim the armor of God, you must stand and not be afraid of devil or man. The Bible teaches that you are to fear only God.

Draw Nigh to God

The Lord told you to come and reason with Him, but some of you do not do that because you are afraid. Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD (Isaiah 1:18). Some of you are afraid to be in His presence in any great way. You are afraid that He will not agree with all of your plans and all of your opinions, saith the Lord; and so you pass Him by. When you get into trouble, never blame God because He will not take the blame for what you have done.

In a visitation with the Lord in the past, He told me, “I have taken the blame for so much that I was not to blame for; but in this last and final hour, I will no longer take the blame.” That means truth is going to override everything else. If you are wrong, you are wrong. If you are spewed into the Tribulation Period, it will be because of your lukewarmness and disobedience; so you had better decide to reason with the Lord.

Some of you who are seeking the Holy Ghost baptism are bound with fear and afraid that you will not get the real Holy Ghost when that is the only kind God gives. I have seen people who were about to receive; but then fear took them over because the devil was fighting so hard and screaming, “You are getting into the flesh.” However, in the flesh was where they had been living, and they were about to go into the Spirit.

There is no need to seek the Holy Ghost baptism if you are not living holy because you cannot receive it until you first get saved. There is no need to go through the motions if you are not holy because the Holy Ghost can only use a holy tongue. Then He will take it over 100 percent and use it like His very own to speak in different languages.

The Lord has taught us so much about the divine blood, and yet you are afraid to use that blood in perfection. You may be a part-time user, but you are afraid to use it all the time. When you put things under the blood and then go back to worry and fret about them, it shows you are afraid that the blood won’t take care of them.

Take on the Divine Nature

Some of you are afraid to live in divinity when Jesus came and lived in divinity as very man; and by doing so, He made us partakers of His divine blood and His divine nature. Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust (II Peter 1:4).

We do not have the Adamic nature if we have been re-created in righteousness and true holiness. Many preachers down through the years have taught that the Adamic nature is never destroyed completely, but I knew it had to be destroyed or we would still be the same person, the old self. The Bible teaches that if you are in Christ, you are made brand new. Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new (II Corinthians 5:17). How could you be brand new and not have a new nature? You have to take on the nature of divinity, God’s divine nature.

We are human just like Adam and Eve, and God created human beings to be a little lower than the angels. What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour (Psalm 8:4,5).

God did not make men and women to be angels, and we will never become angels; but the Bible is not meant for angels. The Bible is for you and me, so stop being afraid to use divinity and the Holy Scriptures. The Lord did not give the Bible for the devil, either; He gave the Bible to us so we could defeat the devil, so why are you afraid?

Some of you who are unsaved are afraid to give your heart to God because you don’t think you can live free from sin, but Jesus taught freedom from all sin. He said, Go, and sin no more (John 8:11). You cannot be both a sinner and a righteous person, but some of you are afraid to leave everything of the world behind because you don’t think you can be happy without a little bit of it. How ridiculous!

Live in God’s Will

What is the will of God concerning you? Are you afraid to face it? Many people are afraid to face God’s will because there are certain things they want to do, but how can anything be worthwhile if it is not in the divine will of God? The new you will fit into the divine will of God if you do not let it become contaminated, and the new you will fit into the new and living way that Jesus brought and taught. Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh (Hebrews 10:19,20).

Do you think God fears the devil? He does not because divinity has no fear. For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind (II Timothy 1:7). Fear comes from the devil; but God gave you power, love and a sound mind through divinity. Those things are willed to us in the New Testament, which is God’s will for us.

The Lord can’t use a troubled mind; He can only use the mind of Christ—the same Earth mind that Jesus had when He became very man—and you must take on that mind. Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus (Philippians 2:5). If you are lacking anything in your mind, Peter says you can add to it. And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ (II Peter 1:5-8). Some of you have been afraid to really take on the mind of Christ, but the mind of Jesus is such a wonderful mind to have.

For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren (Romans 8:29). We are to be in the image of God’s Son, and Jesus came as the first and Only Begotten to make it possible for there to be other sons and daughters of God. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons [or daughters] of God, even to them that believe on his name (John 1:12).

We can have all the benefits that Jesus had as the Son of God when He was here on Earth. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption (Romans 8:15). Jesus brought deliverance, not bondage.

Psalm 91

He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust (Psalm 91:1,2). We are to trust God and not have a worried heart. The Bible says, Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me (John 14:1).

He [the Lord] shall cover thee with his feathers (Psalm 91:4). That means the Lord will cover you with His softest love, His gentle touch and His gentle kindness. And under his wings shalt thou trust (Psalm 91:4). Some of you are afraid to declare to yourself that you are under the wings of the Almighty all the time.

His truth shall be thy shield and buckler (Psalm 91:4). Truth is our protection from our enemies, and the Lord furnishes His shield and buckler for you. Truth protects and destroys everything that is false.

Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day (Psalm 91:5). Thou shalt not be afraid—start saying that until you decide you are not going to be afraid. Fear will come, but you do not have to keep it. Fear will strike suddenly, but don’t let it stay. You have the blood—the blood promises, blood love, blood peace, blood encouragement, blood courage and blood power.

We do not have to be afraid of the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday (Psalm 91:6). We do not have to be afraid of what is taking place in the world around us. When you have God, you have Heaven and all the powers of Heaven backing you up.

A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee (Psalm 91:7). This verse shows the great protection you have. No matter how many people are killed around you or destroyed by tragedies, you will have God and His strength.

There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling (Psalm 91:10). God will keep plagues away from us just as He promised Israel He would keep sickness away from their door if they would obey Him. If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that healeth thee (Exodus 15:26).

Would you dare believe God to keep sickness away from your door? Would you dare accept such a promise?

Working with Angels

For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways (Psalm 91:11). God will send His angels to protect us. The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them (Psalm 34:7). But some of you are afraid to think that an angel is around you at any time. You are afraid to declare that promise to yourself, saith the Lord; so you are not angel conscious.

The Bible says that angels will minister to us. Are they [angels] not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation (Hebrews 1:14)? The first time an angel actually comes to you, it may scare you; but before I had ever seen an angel, I didn’t think that. I thought it would be glorious to see an angel; but when an angel actually came to me in the early part of my healing ministry, it scared me. I thought God had come down—and He had—but He had not come down to do me any harm.

When something startling suddenly happens to you, you may fear for the moment; but it should not last, and my fear of the angel did not last. The angel did not speak to me that day; he just touched me. I held a miracle service that evening; and for the first time, I saw the healing virtue falling upon people as liquid fire.

I am not afraid of angels; I love to work with them, and I love the one who stands by my side in every miracle service. He tells me about people who need help, about miracles that are taking place and about what God is doing in the service. The Lord takes me into people’s pasts to help them so they will believe that God is working for them.

Be not afraid of sudden fear (Proverbs 3:25). The Lord tells you that you will have sudden fear; but don’t be afraid of it, and don’t think there is something wrong with you because you were fearful for the moment. There was nothing wrong with me the day the angel came to me. At the time, I had been fasting for twenty-one days before God in all humility, and there was not one speck of anything in my life that was unlike God; yet that sudden fear came.

Do Not Fear People

We don’t have to be afraid of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh (Proverbs 3:25). When people confront you with something to try to destroy you, hurt you or put you down, don’t be afraid. For the LORD shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken (Proverbs 3:26). When people rise up against you, the Lord must be your confidence. No one can put you down or destroy you when you are of God.

In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far from oppression (Isaiah 54:14). If you are righteous, oppression will not even be close to you. Jesus came to destroy oppression and depression. God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him (Acts 10:38). The reason you are depressed and oppressed is because you are afraid, and you must be aware of that.

God dealt with me in a great way about this subject, and this message will help you so much to bring you out of whatever battles you may be facing. It will edify all of you who are sincere and holy before God; but if you are unholy or disobeying God in anything, you need to be afraid.

For thou shalt not fear: and [you shall be far] from terror; for it shall not come near thee (Isaiah 54:14). The Lord will keep terror from you, so don’t be afraid because those things you are afraid of won’t even come.

Some of you are afraid of what others can do to you, maybe somebody right in your own family; but the Psalmist said, In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do unto me (Psalm 56:11). No matter what people say, you must stand for God unafraid. You must go to church, pray, fast and live in the Word. You cannot be afraid of people’s criticism or how awful they may say you look when you are fasting and what an idiot they say you are for doing it.

You are not going to be afraid, saith the Lord. You are going to trust in God. Why?—because the Bible says, Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over (Psalm 23:5). I expect tables from the Lord every day for me and for you who are living holy, so believe for those tables.

What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us (Romans 8:31)? If God is for you and you are in the truth, it will not matter who or what comes against you because you will be standing with God. Nothing can destroy God, His strength or His power.

In that same chapter, Paul goes on to say that nothing must ever separate you from God. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels [This refers to the wrong kind of angels.], nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord (Romans 8:35-39). That should take away all your fear so you can walk without it. Suddenly it comes, and suddenly it has to go because you have what God gave you to use. If you live in those things, you will have the strength of God. Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the LORD (Psalm 31:24). Be of good courage, and God will give you the strength to do that.

Be Children with No Fear

Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid (John 14:27). Jesus plainly said, Neither let it be afraid.

The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident (Psalm 27:1,3). This refers to God’s confidence. A whole army may come against you; but always remember that the Psalmist said, “My heart shall not fear.”

So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me (Hebrews 13:6). How many times in these scriptures I have given you did the Lord tell you to be not afraid? Fear will come, but you have to get rid of it to be all God wants you to be and for Him to be able to use you in this hour. God wants to use you as He uses His very hands, His eyes, His ears and His tongue. Just like the Holy Spirit takes your tongue and uses it as His very own, it is the same Spirit, the same Lord and the same God.

The more you give yourself to the Lord, the more peace you will have. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus (Philippians 4:7). The more you give yourself to divinity, the more you will find yourself being the person that God created in Eden—the same Adam and Eve in spirit, love and truth.

The only fear children of God should have is the fear of God, which means you respect Him. The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding (Proverbs 9:10). Since the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, that is not the kind of fear God wants you to be free of. That kind of fear is respect for God.

Escape Eternal Fear

This is the pouring-out time, and it is not a time to fear. If you are afraid today, you need to humble yourself before God and say, “Lord, I am staying here until I get enough of the love of God in me that fear cannot take me over in anything. I am ready to do whatever you want me to do; I am ready for the lions’ den; I am ready for the fiery furnace; I am ready to be one of Gideon’s 300; I am ready!”

Paul said he was ready to be bound and to die for Jesus’ sake, and he proved that he really meant it. I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus (Acts 21:13). Paul told Timothy, For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing (II Timothy 4:6-8).

Sinner, Backslider, don’t you want to get saved? Aren’t you miserable? You become so weak when you give over to sin, so let’s become strong in the Lord. Say this prayer right now. Oh, God, I am so sorry that I have sinned against you. Lord, you said if I would confess my sins, you would forgive me and your blood would cleanse me from all unrighteousness. I beg for your forgiveness. I want you, Jesus! I want your holiness, your sanctification and your baptism of the Holy Ghost. I want your strength, power, love and grace. Come into my heart, Jesus! Come on in! If you meant that prayer, He is yours; and you will never be the same. Put on the shoes of Jesus and walk like Him, talk like Him and live in the Word of God. Get a good King James Version of the Bible and study it. I think it is the best translation of the Bible, and it is the only translation I use.

Jesus Brought Healing

Jesus came with healing in His wings. But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings (Malachi 4:2). Millions of people have been helped, blessed and delivered through this Jesus ministry. Here they are, Lord. The power in your blood heals everything. You took our sicknesses and diseases as well as our sins, and you are the Healer of all. Heal! in the all-powerful, blood name of Jesus. Heal!

Did you feel His power and Spirit, and did His promise of making you whole ring inside your soul? Now, get well and watch your children get well. Expect yourself and your loved ones to be healed of any deadly diseases, and then write and tell me about it.

God be with you is my prayer. I love you, and Jesus loves you. Be not afraid.