1. As I look over your X feed, the gift of discerning of spirits starts going off. It is plainly evident that you are operating in fear and causing others to live their lives in fear.
2. The Holy Spirit is asking me right now to tell you to stop.
3. I am not coming against God's prophets, but if a prophecy or teaching is wrong (or being applied wrong) I am going to speak the truth in love when necessary.
4. Jesus already won the victory for God's people on the cross. We no longer have to live in fear of the angel of death or anything related to it.
5. God does protect His people through warnings at times, but His true words do not cause us to live in a state of panic, anxiety, or fear. His words produce life and hope and peace.
Romans 5 17 says, "For if by the offense of the one, death reigned through the one, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ."
Some of those who are following you are living under a weight of fear, and God wants to break them free from that cycle.
Going inside a house or staying home for three days in a row will not protect people from God's judgement, but thankfully, God's people are not under judgement. We have passed from death to life. We get to live as overcomers in Christ.
Jesus says in John 3 18, "The one who believes in Him is not judged; the one who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God."
Why are we not judged? Because, for those who believe, Christ has taken our judgement. The same way the angel of death passed by the houses of God's people in Egypt because of the lamb's blood on the door, the wrath of God has passed by God's people today because of the blood of Christ that has already been paid to set us free from our sins.
Paul writes in Galatians 3 13-14, "Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law, having become a curse for us—for it is written: “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”— 14 in order that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham would come to the Gentiles, so that we would receive the promise of the Spirit through faith."
We receive the Holy Spirit by believing in the finished work of Jesus on that cross. The fruit of the Spirit in our lives is "love, joy, and peace." (see Galatians 5 22-23)
If we are living in fear, then the Word says we are not walking in line with the Spirit or will of God. 1 John gives a very clear warning about this.
1 John 4:1-4 says, "Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God; 3 and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God; this is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming, and now it is already in the world. 4 You are from God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world."
The Spirit which is from God exalts Jesus and His finished work. He causes us to believe we have already overcome through Christ. Jesus is greater than the angel of death and we do not need to live in fear of anything anymore. Instead, we walk by faith.
1 John 4:9 goes on to say, "By this the love of God was revealed in us, that God has sent His only Son into the world so that we may live through Him."
It promises life through Him, not fear of death. Not fear of a certain day.
1 John 4 17-18 goes on to say, "By this, love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment; because as He is, we also are in this world. 18 There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love."
Based on what the Word promises here, as believers in Jesus, we get to have confidence and assurance in the love of God poured out at the cross. His love casts out fear. It also warns us, saying, if we are walking in fear, that is a sign that we are not living in light of the love God has poured out upon us.
Finally, 2 Timothy 1:7 says, "For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind."
The spirit of fear you are giving a platform through your content is not healthy, it's not right, and it's not of God. God has given us a sound mind. I choose to live believing that I have the mind of Christ that 1 Corinthians 2 describes. I hope and pray that you choose to do the same.
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