Decide that you will conquer fear in this final hour, that it will never have dominion over you or rule your life in any way. Why let fear rob you of God’s best, destroy God’s blessings, cause sickness or calamity to come upon you? Job had a fear of losing his family, of losing the material things God had given him. The sad day came when he said, the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me (Job 3:25). The devil works through fear; God works through faith. The Lord delivers through faith, and the devil robs through fear. The Lord edifies through faith, and the devil destroys, destroys, destroys through fear.

And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus (Philippians 4:7). Were the human race to combine all their understanding, they still could never comprehend the peace of God. His peace shall keep your heart and mind through Jesus, the Word made flesh. If your life is not directed, ruled by love, it will be ruled by fear, saith the Lord. You cannot allow fear to take hold.

The Early Church conquered fear; they did not let fear conquer them. Had they not decided in their hearts and minds who Jesus really was, had they not recognized all the greatness of Him, fear would have swallowed them up. All that He said was true; they knew they could trust His words with their very lives. Jesus was the very Son of God.

The Early Church used Jesus’ faith to destroy fear as they had seen Him do. We read of a miracle that happened one night out on a stormy sea. In their boat tossed by the waves, the disciples were in trouble. Suddenly they saw Jesus walking toward them on the waters, and they cried out in fear. But straightway Jesus spake unto them, saying, Be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid. And Peter answered him and said, Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee on the water. And he said, Come (Matthew 14:27-29). When Jesus identified Himself and said to be not afraid, fear was destroyed in the hearts of the disciples to the extent that Peter stepped right out onto the waters and started walking. But because Peter didn’t continue to use the faith of Jesus, fear conquered and he began to sink. And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and caught him, and said unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt (verse 31)? Jesus hates fear; He despises it—the kind of fear the devil sends.

Perfect Love Casts Out 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). The spirit of fear comes from the devil. Many experiences, many blessings have come to you from the Lord, but He has never given you fear. God has given you power over it: love. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear (I John 4:18). God’s perfect love casts out fear. The Early Church knew what it was to have fear cast out through God’s perfect love.

Don’t be deceived about fear, thinking that if it is in the mind, it is in the soul, too. This is true only if the soul has not found Jesus and accepted His salvation. Fear can instantly overwhelm the mind; the mind is gullible, changeable. What matters is that no fear lodge there, that the perfect love of God is stored in the reservoir of the soul for the mind to use. As long as the mind is supplied from a soul filled with God’s love, it will not be destroyed. As the mind yields, the Holy Spirit bridges the gulf between mind and soul, streaming God’s love-flow into the mind.

The love-flow of God destroys fear. When you are born again, you don’t have to pray for God to help you with fear; you have the love of God in your soul to draw on. Without the love of God in your soul, you could not be saved. Peace fills your soul because Jesus is there; He is the peace, joy and love of your life.

Many don’t understand how to use the peace of God in their souls, and they think they are victims of fear. They are victims of fear, I say again, only if fear is in the soul rather than God’s love. With the love of God in your soul, you can be delivered from fear, cleansed just like taking a bath when you are dirty. Feelings may give the impression that you are so dirty you can never be clean, but a good bath takes care of that. Feelings can also make you think you can never be free from fear, but the love-flow from the soul can cleanse the mind because there is no fear in God’s love.

Fear hath torment. The Lord did not come to torment you but to give you peace. He that feareth is not made perfect in love (I John 4:18). If fear dominates your soul, you are not made perfect in God’s love. Remember, fear can come to the mind, but that does not mean you are not saved. No one escapes fear at all times. But when Jesus is in your soul, you have the resources, the strength from Heaven to conquer that fear.

Your soul knows no limit in its capacity. The soul can hold the whole Godhead, all the promises of God, all the joy of the Lord. Coming from God, the soul is a part of God, limitless. The mind, however, is limited. That’s the reason it can be frightened, tortured with fear. When you are tortured in mind, look into the soul.

What Is in Your Mind?

Face yourself honestly. Ask yourself what really is in your mind. What do you have there? And if you were asked what is in your soul, what would you say?

Salvation. Are you really saved? Yes, I am. Are you really walking with God? Yes, I’m walking with God. Do you have the real Bible Holy Ghost? Yes, I have the real Bible Holy Ghost. Do you really believe all the Bible? Yes. Do you believe all the promises of God? Yes, I believe all the promises of God.

Then all the power, all the deliverance you need is right there in your soul. You have only to yield to it. By yielding, you accept the Word, what God has said, the promises He has given to you. The only way you can yield to God is through His Word.

Reason with the Lord

Many don’t know how to yield to God; they try to yield in ways that don’t work—through thoughts, through the human spirit. In every way they try to yield except through the Word of God. Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD (Isaiah 1:18). God never reasons outside His Word. If you reason with God, you reason through the Word. When you met God for your salvation, you met Him through the Word. Without the Word of God there would be no salvation, no deliverance from sin. It’s all in the Word.

The enemy tries to make you feel condemned if you have fear. Fear is normal, but never let that fear become bondage, destroying your will to yield to what is in your soul. That bondage of fear cuts you off from the Holy Spirit. It takes yielding to the Holy Spirit to bridge the gulf between the soul and mind. The soul feeds the mind. God’s love that overcomes fear in your soul feeds your mind through the Holy Spirit. The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us (Romans 5:5). Not only in your soul does the Holy Spirit shed abroad the love of God, but by your yielding, He bridges the gulf between mind and soul as a flow of His love bathes the mind.

Love Can Heal

Love can heal. A child may become bruised in play, but Mother with her great love can kiss the pain away. When I was a child my mother healed me with love many times when I was crushed or in pain. But I had to yield to her, to her voice, her touch, her embrace that erased the hurt out of my mind. When the hurt is out of the mind, you don’t feel it much in the body. Mama would say, “Honey, you’re going to be all right.” She never lied to me, so I knew I would be all right. Love does wonders. It can take away depression and oppression—human love can do that—if you yield to it.

You must yield to love before it can affect you. When a child of God blocks God’s love in the soul by not yielding to the Holy Spirit—He who dwells within—not letting Him flow love from the soul into the mind, that one has a great bondage. Bondage isn’t the will of God. Follow the example of the Psalmist who wrote, In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do unto me (Psalm 56:11). The real you who will live for eternity must put all trust in God.

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 didn’t say to not let your mind be troubled; He knew minds would be troubled. Jesus said to let not your heart—your soul—be troubled.

Christ Lives Within

Where will you get your help in those times your mind is troubled? Your help cometh from the Lord. Where is the Lord? Is He in your soul? Does He live on the inside of you? The Bible declares that He does if you have accepted Him into your heart. Paul wrote, I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me (Galatians 2:20). Don’t try to live the Jesus life; let Jesus into your heart, and He will live His life through you by your yielding, giving yourself over to Him. It’s divine living for you who have been made a partaker of grace, of divinity.

Hide His Promise in Your Heart

Jesus said, Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you (John 14:1,2). Hide that promise in your heart, in your soul so the devil won’t erase it by bringing fear. He’ll tell you that you could never have a mansion in Heaven. The devil uses fear to separate your mind from the love of God in every way he can. If you believe him, fear will take you over. But if you keep your soul supplied with the things of God, you will have plenty to draw on, no scarcity. The mind under attack from the enemy will be protected by the power of the Holy Spirit with the flow from the soul, and you will have peace of mind, joy in the valley.

Nothing Can Separate You from the Love of God

Through the Holy Ghost, Paul tells us wonderful things. 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, 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).

The Early Church lived in the shadow of death. Day after day they knew not whether they would be killed in the next moments. The tremendous battles of the mind would have defeated them had they not the divine resource to conquer and to more than conquer. Crushed down, trampled under by the world, they were “killed” the day long. How did they survive? Through Him that loved them.

Your mind can play tricks on you, telling you that you are not loved, but Jesus loved even sinners so much that He died to bring them into God’s Kingdom. Your soul knows you are loved with Heaven’s love. Paul was persuaded that nothing could separate him from the love of God which was in Christ Jesus.

Paul Kept the Faith

The secret of the Early Church’s overcoming power as they faced persecution, tribulation and death was Jesus. Paul learned that secret well. At the end of his journey he was able to say to Timothy, 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 (II Timothy 4:6,7). Paul was ready to die for the sake of Christ. He had kept the faith in his soul.

Paul underwent mind battles—that’s typical, I say again, of the human mind. But when the soul contains the plan and the power of God, the mind can be delivered instantly from frustration, fear and despair. Again and again, God’s children have experienced that deliverance. Like Paul, we must keep the faith. Dying deaths in the mind, you as a child of God can look to the Lord, asking for His help. In the moment that you yield to the Holy Spirit, a flow from your soul cleanses the mind.

Let Not the Sun Go Down on Your Wrath

You have plenty of God’s peace stored in the reservoir of your soul when you are born again, a peace you cannot afford to contaminate. If any bitterness should come to the mind, it’s time to let the love of God flow. That love cleanses the mind of bitterness, grudges. Yield to the Spirit of God, not to people and not to yourself. Remember, as you yield to the Spirit, He flows all the love of God you need.

A child of God cannot carry grudges in the soul; the soul is God’s territory, holy ground, holy like the Lord Himself because the Lord lives there. He’s made it holy, pure and clean. Jealousy, clamor in the soul won’t mix with God’s love. God and the devil are at war.

The Bible says to let not the sun go down upon your wrath (Ephesians 4:26). How can you get wrath out of your mind? Be ye angry, and sin not. Draw on the keeping power of the Lord in your soul. Instead of yielding to anger, yield to the peace of God in your soul. Yield to the Word, to the Holy Spirit so He can flow from your soul the things of God you need for your mind.

Wrong thoughts carried in your mind sundown after sundown can sooner or later drop into your soul and force out the Spirit of God. Resentment nourished in your mind over an extended period can very easily make its way into your soul. Bitterness may enter your mind—jealousy, envy, strife—but you must get them out before they drop into your soul and rob you of your salvation.

When the Spirit of God leaves, demons move in to take over. They can’t get into your soul as long as the Spirit of God is there, so they await their opportunity, hoping the wrong thoughts will cause God’s Spirit to lift.

Vengeance Is the Lord’s

Regardless of what anyone does to you, how badly you have been mistreated, for you to lose your soul because of others’ cruelty is truly a trick of the devil. Carrying a grudge will not even the score with anyone; it will just destroy you. Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good (Romans 12:19,21). Your mind wants vengeance, but your soul will cry that vengeance is the Lord’s. That’s the right spirit. Bitterness and desire for revenge are wrong. Wanting to get even—and more—is not the Spirit of the Lord.

As ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise (Luke 6:31). Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you (Matthew 5:11,12).

God is the one to handle your enemies. Were He not merciful, we all would have been destroyed long ago. But God is not a man, and He is longsuffering toward us. When people treat you in a way you don’t deserve, look to God’s Son and His nail-riven hands. Did He deserve such cruelty? Of course not. But in His dying moments, He said, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do (Luke 23:34).

Sweat as Drops of Blood

Jesus suffered because of you and me. He took our sins and sicknesses in the Garden of Gethsemane. That’s the reason for His agony, the reason He cried, Father, if it be thy will, let this cup pass. You will never know the torment He endured in the Garden that night. He carried our sins and sicknesses to Calvary, suffering that you might have redemption for the soul and health for the body. He seeks to be all reality to you, preparing you to take His message to those in the night, bringing them out of the darkness into His light of righteousness and holiness.

Jesus didn’t suffer for Heaven’s sake but for yours. He didn’t die for Heaven’s sake; He died for yours. He wore the crown of thorns not for Himself but for you. He was nailed to the Cross for you. On the Cross crucified, for you He died.

Tortured in mind, when Jesus needed the support of His disciples, they fled. The demons hammered His mind so furiously that He cried, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me (Mark 15:34)? His sweat fell as drops of blood. In His mind, Jesus felt forsaken in that hour He was bearing the sins of the world. In His soul, however, He knew the Father had not forsaken Him. The mind was saying it: God’s turned His back on you.

Let the sacrifice of Jesus be a reality to you. Yield to His tender, loving Spirit, His sacrificial death, and let the Holy Spirit take over and flow the power of the Word into your mind, cleansing it. No longer will you want vengeance. Instead, you’ll pray for your enemies, “God save them!” Like Stephen, you’ll say, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge (Acts 7:60). Stephen forgave his enemies, his murderers with his dying breath.

Of Whom Shall You Be Afraid?

Let nothing separate you from the love of God. Hide the Word of God in your heart and keep it there. 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). 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 (Psalm 27:1)? The Lord is your light, your salvation, your deliverance, your strength, your shield, buckler, high tower, your whole armor.

Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear (Psalm 27:3). The natural mind would fear seeing a host coming against it, but the heart in which the Lord dwells will not keep that fear. Again and again when the enemy attacks, fear will enter the mind, but remember from whence your help comes. Your help comes from the Lord.

Take On the Mind of Christ

Yield to the Holy Spirit. He is your helper, your guide and teacher. He bridges the gulf between the soul and mind just as Jesus bridges the gulf between God and mankind. How beautifully it is done! The Holy Spirit is there to give you that flow of God’s greatness any time.

Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus (Philippians 2:5). If you take on the mind of Christ which is offered you, you will not constantly live with fear. Those times when fear does attack, you will have the knowledge of what conquers that fear, how to be rid of that darkness, how to yield to the perfect light of God, to the arm of the Almighty. Tuned in to Heaven, you will receive everything you need as the Holy Spirit flows it to you.

Rivers of Living Water

Though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident (Psalm 27:3). The Psalmist wrote these words when He wasn’t battling fear in his mind; the Word flowed freely. Embrace the Word, receive the Holy Spirit baptism; and as the Lord said, rivers of living waters will flow in your soul, springing up into life everlasting. In your soul will be that which Jesus spoke of to the Samaritan woman by the well, recorded in John 4.

He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.) (John 7:38,39). There is no scarcity for you of the life of God, of His love, peace, healing balm through the Holy Spirit.

Noah Conquered Fear

Think of the fear Noah and his family had to conquer—fear for loved ones, misgivings about leaving everyone behind, fear of what loomed ahead. They were called fanatics, ridiculed. Noah and his family had to yield to the voice of God, had to have Him in their hearts. They couldn’t allow themselves to yield to people. The power of God purged them, helped them conquer fear. As they reached out to accept from the Lord, He flowed His greatness into their minds. Through the faith of God, their fear had to be conquered.

Many trials and disappointments came the way of Noah and his family. Some days everything seemed to go wrong. The ark wasn’t made in Glory; it was made on Earth where plans can’t always be carried through. God had told Noah to build the ark; when you obey God, the devil sends reinforcements. His unrelenting pressure causes many to back away from God’s will.

The mind says you are in trouble; the soul says you’re more than a conqueror. You have nothing to fear; nothing to worry about. Why worry, why fear? Let the soul talk to the mind. Let the voice of the soul, filled with the grace and power of God, shout victory, victory ahead! The mind may not feel victorious, but we are to walk by faith, not by feelings.

The Miracle Rod

Moses didn’t feel he was winning all the time. Imagine his emotions the first time he stood before Pharaoh on behalf of his people. He didn’t really want to be the one to lead Israel out of 400 years of bondage, but his rod gave him some security. God had demonstrated, through that rod, what miracles He could perform. Cast your rod on the ground, the Lord had told Moses. And he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it. And the LORD said unto Moses, Put forth thine hand, and take it by the tail. And he put forth his hand, and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand (Exodus 4:3,4). Moses, now before Pharaoh, remembered the miracle of the rod. Once more he cast down his rod, saw it turn into a snake. But all of a sudden, Pharaoh’s magicians stepped forth and threw down their rods. Their rods turned into serpents, too.

Moses’ mind must have trembled, must have thought he had misunderstood God. He probably wished he were anywhere else but where he was. Then the serpent of Moses opened wide its jaws and swallowed up the serpents of the Egyptians. When Moses picked it up, it became a rod again.

The truth will swallow that which belongs to the devil. It was the Word, the truth in action. When the truth went into action, fear left Moses’ heart. The truth spread into his mind, driving out the fear. In all faith he could say, The Lord is with me! The Lord loves me! God’s love destroys fear.

Elijah Fled in Fear

Elijah was a great man of God. It’s hard to imagine him afraid of anything. He had cut off the heads of four hundred fifty prophets of Baal. Faith and courage abounded in his soul, all the faith, all the power he needed; he had proved it. He knew how to call down fire from heaven, how to shut up the heavens. Anyone with faith like that has it in his soul. Then he heard Jezebel wanted his life. Elijah’s mind jumped to devilish Jezebel; her capabilities for evil were unlimited. Snorting a fire and brimstone rage of revenge, she wanted him dead.

Elijah could have said Bring her in! The same sword that cut off the heads of the prophets of Baal will cut off hers, too. Instead, he let fear control his mind; he didn’t wait for that flow from his soul.

Elijah fled, so afraid that he wanted to die. He told the Lord, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers (I Kings 19:4).

Elijah had been through a great ordeal; his exhausted mind didn’t function right. Thinking no one cared for the Lord, he was ready to go to Heaven because he was too frightened to stay on Earth. The Lord let him know others were left who hadn’t turned to idol gods. Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him (I Kings 19:18). The Lord understood Elijah, had pity and strengthened him.

If you have faith in your soul, you may run a little sometimes; but the Lord will be right there when you stop running. Your spirit will tell you tomorrow is a new day; get some rest. How many times has the Lord strengthened you, renewed your courage after you had fallen asleep depressed? During your sleep the Lord sent help; the Holy Spirit worked, using what was in your soul. He sent it into the mind, resting the mind, strengthening the mind. It might have been an angel of the Lord that came to strengthen you. You woke refreshed, thinking how good it was to be alive.

The Lord makes us a new day every morning; He never gives us a used one. Let the Holy Spirit work out the problem while you’re asleep. Rise up in the morning expecting to go in the power of the Spirit, in the direction of the Holy Ghost’s plain paths for you. His Spirit takes away fear.

God Was in Daniel’s Soul

Daniel in the den of lions—was he afraid? Could a person be thrown into a den of lions and not fear? Just one lion would be enough to terrify anyone. When fear reaches out, when you forget God’s love and yield to fear, the mind talks fast. You’re going to be destroyed; you’re going to be eaten! But in the soul is the promise of God. God was in Daniel’s soul. Daniel settled down because God reached over, got his attention and gave the lions lockjaw. They couldn’t even open their mouths.

Become acquainted with what is really going on in your mind. Some people don’t understand either their minds or their souls. Your eyes can’t find your soul, but God will let you see what is in your soul when you look through His eyes.

Step into the Miracle

The three Hebrew boys rejoiced in the fiery furnace with Jesus—a wonderful experience! But what went through their minds as the furnace was being heated seven times hotter than ever before? The normal temperature of the furnace would have been enough to roast them to a crisp.

They reached into their souls. Our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up (Daniel 3:17,18). They wouldn’t bow to the idol god. The faith in their souls told them that if God wanted to save them He would. Their minds were made up, determined.

When your hide is suffering, when you feel the fire of the furnace, the mind can bring fear. If you want the miracle, you have to step inside to the soul; the miracle is on the inside. Not until they stepped inside did the three Hebrew boys receive their miracle.

Many won’t step inside for the miracle; they start to feel the fear, and they back away. Sometimes it takes ten years to get back to that door leading to the miracle, sometimes just a few minutes. People are different. Receiving the miracle depends on how you yield to the Word, how you give over to God’s promises.

Looking into the furnace, the three Hebrew boys saw only the flame, one solid blazing flame. Their minds told them that their hair would probably be gone in an instant, but they yielded completely to God, deciding in that moment, no matter what, Lord, here we come! Open those pearly gates. They stepped right into the middle of a miracle. Not until after the Hebrew boys were thrown in did they see Jesus in the furnace. They were operating in pure faith.

Some of us walk by feelings, not faith. Lord, if you’re in there, I’ll come, too. Identify yourself, Lord! Let me see you with these eyes of mine. If He says, Yes, Child, I’m in here, and comes out to pull you in, you’ll go.

The ropes that tied the Hebrew boys’ hands were burned up. Those ropes didn’t belong to God but to the devil’s crowd, the only thing destroyed in the fiery furnace. With the faith of God in your heart and mind, you can stand the heat. The three Hebrews boys had that faith, and then they saw Jesus. Jesus is in every miracle. Oh, the faith that God has given us!

Strengthened According to His Glorious Power

Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness (Isaiah 41:10). God is speaking through that dear old prophet Isaiah to you. God will uphold you with His mighty, miraculous right hand of righteousness. As He holds you up, you are strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power (Colossians 1:11). That power, that faith conquers fear.

If you don’t let the power of God work in your heart and mind, fear will conquer you, render you helpless to do the will and work of God, rob you of being a testimony for the Lord. Testimonies for the Lord must be testimonies of His love and deliverance, not of bondage. His love, remember, will cast out fear.

For the joy of the LORD is your strength (Nehemiah 8:10). God’s love and joy destroy fear; when you are afraid, the joy of the Lord will not be bubbling in your mind. Fear wipes the joy out, but God’s perfect love wipes out fear. When the Word is your love, you are an overcomer.

Jesus said, Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you (Luke 10:19). Nothing can destroy your soul; nothing shall by any means hurt the eternal you, the real you that will live for time and eternity. The body is made of clay and will go back to the dust of the earth in exchange for a glorified body, but nothing can hurt the eternal you.

Walk by Faith

Why worry? The Lord is with you. Jesus came to conquer the enemy for you. For we walk by faith, not by sight (II Corinthians 5:7). When you walk by faith, fear is conquered and destroyed. Faith destroys fear, the faith of God. Faith has destroyed fear down through the ages, and it is still destroying it today.

If you walk by sight, you are in trouble. And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD (Exodus 14:13). The Israelites had to become quiet and use faith. Had they not obeyed, they would not have seen the salvation of the Lord. The Lord used what He had put into their souls to erase fear from their minds. They had been in slavery, and He loved them. They decided He loves us; He won’t let us perish now. He didn’t bring us here to kill us but to deliver us. He is the way-maker. He has promised. Full of faith they stood still, and the Word went into operation, flowing truth from souls into minds, destroying fear.

How do I know they had faith? When the Red Sea separated and the Israelites were told to move, they moved. Banked up on each side to the left and to the right like gigantic walls, the water towered over them as they, in faith, walked across on dry ground. It is believed the crossing through the Red Sea was twelve miles.

The army of Pharaoh watched that great host going through the sea, through waters heaped up high. They decided if Israel could cross, they could, too; if the water stayed back for their slaves, it would certainly stay back for them. The waters wouldn’t dare close in on Pharaoh’s army! Walking by sight alone, Pharaoh’s army followed the Israelites. But in the middle of the Red Sea, they saw faith step out on the other side. The last Israelite reached the opposite shore, and Pharaoh’s army was left with no faith. Walking that path without the faith of God would be a shattering experience—it was to the Egyptians who followed the Israelites. Let us flee from the face of Israel (Exodus 14:25), they cried, terror crowding out everything but thoughts of escape from that frightening place. So much fear paralyzed them that those who knew how to swim couldn’t do it. God drowned them all.

The events at the Red Sea’s parting paint a vivid picture of faith and fear. Fear shouts that you will never make it, but faith says this is God’s way. He has never failed one of His children yet, and He won’t start with you. You’re going to make it.

Living by Faith

Whose side are you on? Choose you this day whom ye will serve…but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD (Joshua 24:15). 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). Living by faith is the only living worthwhile. How do you do it? Revelation 12:11 tells us that they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death. By the power in the blood of Jesus, they overcame the enemy; and by the power in the blood of Jesus, you can overcome. Those who love God put the Word of God into their testimonies, yielding to the Lord.

If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you (John 15:7). Your mind says not so, but the promise of God in your soul agrees with the Word of God. This is the promise you have hidden in your heart: If you abide in the Lord and He abides in you, you are in Him and He is in you. You can ask what you will, and it shall be done.

Check Your Soul

And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work (II Corinthians 9:8). Your soul agrees, but your mind argues: The Lord isn’t going to do it; it isn’t going to happen. No need to get your hopes up. Take your soul to the thirteenth chapter of I Corinthians and bathe it in the love chapter. Stir up your soul to make sure all the love in that chapter is flowing there. If it isn’t, put in more love until it is. Then if any doubt, any fear lingers about a miracle, a healing for yourself, fear about anything, go to the eleventh chapter of Hebrews, the faith chapter. Take it not to your mind but to your soul. Your mind cannot absorb all that glorious chapter and hold it, but your soul can.

Check your soul with the gauge of the Word. Measure what you have in there.

When I was a little boy, the only way we could measure how much gas was in the tank of our car was to poke a stick down into it. If we waited for the car to show how much gas it had, we were in trouble. Today we have faith in the gas gauge on the dashboard, even though it may sometimes fail. But that which God makes never fails. It lasts for all time and eternity. The love that He has given to you is more than sufficient when you yield to it. Measure the love in your soul with God’s Word.

Live in God’s Love

Paul said nothing would conquer the love of God. You can’t be destroyed unless the love of God in you is destroyed. Live in God’s love, dine on it. The love of God is your armor, your protection. The love of God is your life, the perfect love of God.

You can be perfect in the love of God, although not necessarily in the eyes of people. Every time God looks at you covered with His love in perfection, He is delighted.

Use that great, great power, the greatest power, the power of love. The power of love made you sorry for your sins. God captured your attention and began to reveal: I died for you. I loved you. I knew you were a sinner, but I loved you. You might have thought you came to Jesus through fear. He used a lot of fear to bring me to Him, but deep down in my heart I knew God loved me. That kind of fear is a wonderful fear; it’s Calvary’s love-fear—not a destructive fear—Calvary’s love-fear.

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom (Proverbs 9:10). Calvary’s love-fear can flood your mind until you become helpless to fight against it anymore. Finally you say, I surrender, I surrender! I’m sorry, Lord, that I sinned against you. Why would you say you were sorry and ask God’s forgiveness if you didn’t believe He has love in His heart for you? He certainly would not forgive without love.

You Can Have Strength from Heaven

If you use this message you will win, saith the Lord. Aren’t you glad you can have in your soul that which wins, glad that you need have no weakness in the soul? You can have the strength of Heaven. Receive salvation and let the Holy Spirit flow His strength from your soul into your mind. Let Him flow that strength, that grace, that power, that righteousness, that holiness, that direction included in all of Heaven’s help. What a mind you can take on, the mind of Christ! How glorious it will be to take on His mind!

You don’t have to be bound with fear. When fear comes to the mind—if you have the right ingredients in your soul—it will be driven away, destroyed. Just a flow of Heaven’s love will destroy it. The mind suddenly will come to life in the love of Jesus. Suddenly the mind will accept the strength, the greatness and the joy of God’s promises. The mind is agreeing with the soul that Jesus never fails, Jesus never fails!

Do You Have Jesus?

You who are lost and undone without God, why not come to Jesus? Won’t you say this prayer with me now? Oh, God, I believe in Jesus Christ. I believe that He died for me, and I know that I am a sinner. I know that I am lost, but I confess all of my sins. I know that the blood of Jesus will wash away every sin, every sin. Come on in, Jesus. Come on in!

If you meant that prayer, He has come. He is yours.

Jesus Is the Healer

You who are sick and afflicted: Jesus loves you. You can be healed of that foul cancer, that heart trouble, the paralysis that has crippled you, that blindness—whatever your need. The little disabled one can be restored and made whole. The Lord is the One who can get you well. I’m not a healer; God is. I’m just a Jesus believer. Lord, I bring the sick and afflicted to you. You have given me your gifts to deliver the people. From your gift of miracles and gifts of healing it comes. In the name of your Son Jesus, heal! Heal, in the holy name of the Lord, in His righteous name.

The healing power is flowing. Diseases, afflictions are being conquered through the power of His holy name. Let that power work in your soul through the love of God. Let it flood in until your mind cries in faith believing: He loves me! He loves me! He is working with His healing power to get me well.

The Lord is preparing us a table in the presence of our enemies in this old world. He prepares for the children of God a wonderful table daily. Dine on it first of all in your soul. If you don’t dine in your soul, your mind won’t join in. As your soul is dining at the table of the Lord daily, your mind, conscious of what’s taking place, begins to yield to the Spirit. The Holy Spirit now can bridge the gulf between the mind and soul so Heaven’s flow is not blocked. Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness (Isaiah 41:10). Keep that flow, and you will conquer fear.

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear (I John 4:18).