Fear really is based on "False Evidence Appearing Real."
If we believe something that is not true, then we will be afraid.
Instead of trying to fix our feelings, however, we need to deal with what we are believing.
We have to focus on what we are thinking.
The AA cult teaches people to focus on their feelings. This program really is mind control at its worst.
The last thing that we need to believe is that our feelings are as arbitrary as the weather. No wonder so many people find themselves in terrible bondage.
What we think and feel may come and go, but who we are in Christ Jesus is based on different matters entirely.
We are called to renew our minds to the truth of God's Word, not rest on the fraud and deceit of the enemy, nor the opinions of men.
Belief is not about believing something long enough and hard enough, either. Faith is about resting in the truth, an intelligent submission to what is real, what God has declared about us. Not our feelings, not our thoughts, nor our inferences based on past experiences or present difficulties.
When you believe that your feelings block you from God, what happens? You spend time going around in circles trying to put out bad feelings. No, the answer is to rest in the truth of God's Word.
Instead of returning to what man thinks of us, let us rest in the truth of all that God says about us. Today, He sees us in Christ, and therefore we declare:
"Herein is love perfected among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment. Because as He us so are we in this world!" (1 John 4: 17)
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