More than Conquerors

  Christ having been crucified and resurrected has given you power to conquer all your fears with help from the Holy Spirit. You are more than a conqueror and were designed to have dominion over everything as God first set up Adam and Eve in the Garden. This is  amazing! A true cause for celebration. As someone who lived in fear a large portion of her life, this is so freeing.

I’m going to get very personal. You’ve read my post, Fear Factor on the overwhelming fear of bees I’d had since childhood.  You may think that a very small thing.  So let me describe a different kind of fear.

My ex-husband was manic bi-polar. He was an orthodontist and very, very good at what he practiced. His practice was thriving. He was a perfectionist when it came to his career. One of his patients had NOT brushed her teeth or kept them clean while in braces. She’d gone to her Dentist which told her she had gingivitis and would need gum surgery.  She convinced him, my husband was to be held accountable.

He called me at work that afternoon, bereft and despairing. I tried to encourage and cajole. We met friends at a local restaurant later that evening and he seemed fine.

In the wee hours of the morning, I awoke to a horrible sound. He was throwing things in our living/dining area against the wall, expletives breaking the sound waves of the like I’ve never heard before or since. It was numbing fright that kept me coiled up in bed unable to move. I played out all kinds of scenarios in my mind. A 57 Magnum was in the top drawer of our chest of drawers. I whispered prayers of protection around me, realizing he was completely overtaken by his anger.  I laid there for several minutes until I heard him crash onto the sofa on the other side of the wall from where I was sleeping, obviously exhausted.

The next day, the only remark he made about the incident was if the Dentist had been standing in front of him, he would have killed him. Can you imagine how fearful for my own life, I’d been? It was a LONG time before I felt safe again.  The Holy Spirit had to come comfort all those broken, fearful spots. Even typing this out, it brings it all back so vividly. This is not who I am any more.

You don’t have to be either! In Christ we are made free and whole.

Romans 8: 15-17, The Living Bible, So you have not received a spirit that makes you fearful slaves. Instead, you received God’s Spirit when he adopted you as his own children. Now we call him , “Abba, Father”. (16 )For his Spirit joins with our spirit to affirm that we are God’s children. (17) And since we are his children, we are his heirs. In fact, together with Christ we are heirs of God’s glory. But if we are to share his glory, we must also share his suffering.

We live in a broken world which affects us in the natural state. You will encounter things that can deposit themselves in nests already built, like fear, anxiety, worry, anger, resentment and low self worth. Ask the Holy Spirit to show you how to eradicate fear out of your life and step into the magnificent role of conqueror!

Repeatable prayer: Papa God, I know you designed me to be a conqueror but I have so much (fear, anger, anxiety) in my life, I feel anything but. I break away  those emotions from myself and ask you to  send your Spirit to comfort and heal all the places those lies have attached themselves. They are no longer a part of who I am. I claim, through Jesus Christ, I am free and whole.