Perfect Love Casts Out Fear from 1 John 4:18

Fear is a main component that Satan uses as it is a life that God NEVER meant for you to have. But you must come to him and walk a life in him, as Perfect Love Does Casts Out Fear. As if we live in fear then Faith can't kick in. We walk by Faith and not by sight or our feelings along with circumstances. Many years Satan had be bound in fear, so I could never stand on the promises of the Living God. Satan remind me daily of fear and how my life was not right or doomed and that God was upset with me. You see unless you walk, and understand the word, Satan, WILL do a job on you. That’s why it says in the word that my people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge. And in this case knowledge is knowing the word of God, as when we are attacked, we bind and knock down Satan and his evilness with God word.

There is huge power in the word of God, so stand on the word and stop living a bound, fearful and a barely making it life. POWER folks are in the word, do you get it? His word shall never come back void? Pray against sickness, disease, poverty over and in your life. God never died that you would have a poor, sickly and angry life. He wants the best for you, as you are a child of the living God, your Father is the King of Kings so act as so. Folks get so very angry against Prosperity Preachers, with comments like they have a large home, nice cars and some with airplanes. But, why?  It's all in the word and for you as well he wants all his children to have and prosper in all things. How do you witness for the living God and a testimony if you are always ill, poor and struggling? Who would want to come over to a life you have if your life is twice as bad as there’s? Whatsoever you pray for, believe that you have, what you pray for and you shall have it. Stop the crazed thoughts that Satan lies to you as God, does not want you to be poor and sickly, yes be humble with who you are, but also never believed the lie of sickness, and poverty is Gods will. 

 

Stand on the word TODAY.

 

I type on here what I believe and seen and experienced in my own life. I lived day by day in fear, anger, poverty and always looking what might happen to me next. Sounds familiar to you? Well then stop and have and live the promises that God has promised you. His promises are not suggestions but, PROMISES? He shall never lie or promise something he didn’t mean, as it’s is for all his children that walk in him. Amen

 

I worried on a daily bases most of the times that I was going to stroke out as my family all died of strokes. So, when I would get any chest pain the fear would knock me to the ground. Also, I lived worrying of how to pay the rent and if all the bills would be paid, and much more as the list is too long to list on here. Satan had me controlled by fear 24/7. When we were children, my sister and I hustle to raise monies for mother to make ends meet at the age of 5, yes 5 as we NEVER had enough. Lack was a way of life and once a twice we would use what was extra to play Bingo in hopes to win more.  I also lived from one doctors’ appointment after another and last of all fear never allowed me to see the good in life. Not only did I need to pray more, but I needed to live and act on the word of God. Even watching yes, those prosperity Preachers, as I knew I could have what they had so I read, learned and watched Jesse Duplantis and Bill Winston as I now knew what God gave them that he would give me also. 

I didn’t by any means needed or wanted a Jaguar or a 18 room Mansion, but I sure did not want to continue struggling and thinking of death. I wanted and need Peace, and to shun death, in my thoughts and my life.

Well Praise God, that is where Perfect love casted out fear comes in as I learned to let go of and doubt and fear in my life. I stood VERY FIRM on God’s word in my life and knew what he said was for me also. First, His word, said Fear not for I am with you and nothing shall come against you, yes, even Satan. Praise God, death left my thoughts and now death is something I don’t fear anymore, but look forward daily to a bright and non-fear life.

 

And for the many years of my struggling and yes hustling for a buck it all left my life as only when I stood on God’s promises of prosperity, health and Faith. 

 

Faith is the key as it is impossible to please God without Faith. When the fear left and I stood STRONG in God’s word I also changed my life finically as I also had a struggling Street Ministry as well. I followed God’s words, and how my life changed for the good. From 137.oo dollars in my Bank Account, to becoming a Millionaire, where I was able to buy a new Truck for the Ministry also donating a Water Well for 2,000 people and still able to bless four struggling families by buying homes for them. And as for my health I was hit with EVERY sickness imaginable and even Cancer, but I went to the word of God and His mighty promises and heart my problems, along with the stress and even Cancer went away forever.

 

I trust in God with all my heart and never again leaning on My own understanding nor my circumstances again. Amen 

So, what ever you are lacking, missing or needing find the word of God that fits your problem and pray Gods promises over those circumstances and DON’T WAIVER and watch how you also can have what God has promised me and you. Yes, Satan will say, but it’s not for you, so then rebuke that thought and fight back with the word. 

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The apostle John tells us that God’s love is a perfect love that casts out all fear. But what does this verse mean? Here’s a deeper look at this beloved Scripture verse and the meaning of the passage.

Perfect Love Casts Out Fear from 1 John 4:18

"There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love." - 1 John 4:18ESV

“This is how we know that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God. And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.

God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world, we are like Jesus. There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.”

What Does Perfect Love Mean?

In James 1:4 it states, “Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.”

The word “perfect”, (teleia), in Strong's Greek 5046 is from telos; complete; neuter completeness. In Vincent Word Studies, he states, “Not perfected, as 1 John 4:17 but perfect as the result of having been perfected.”  We will not be perfect because of sin, but God chose us because of His perfect love.

God understands that we don’t have to strive for perfection because of grace. How wonderful it is to have a heavenly Father that loves us so much that He will not give up on us. His love is unfailing, (Psalm 36:5-7), and therefore it always perseveres us. His love pursues us (1 Cor. 13:7), and never grows tired of our imperfections and flaws.

Why Do We Fear?

In 2 Timothy 1:7, it states, “For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.” We have been given control over our thoughts and fears.

But Satan is the one who invites us into fear. For example, In Genesis 3 it talks about how the serpent (Satan), deceives Eve into eating the fruit off the tree of good and evil. As soon as she and her husband Adam ate the fruit, they saw that they were naked. They quickly began to sew fig leaves together because of the shame of being naked. And when they heard God walking in the garden, they hid (Genesis 3:10).

How many times does Satan convince you to fear in your life? We fear because we forget that God made us with His love. His loves drives, pushes, and casts away all of our tormenting thoughts and fears. Jesus felt all of the fears we deal with now, and an example is pointed out in Matthew 26: 36-39:

“Then Jesus went with his disciples to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to them, “Sit here while I go over there and pray.” He took Peter and the two sons of Zebedee along with him, and he began to be sorrowful and troubled. Then he said to them, “My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with me.”

Going a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will.”

Jesus began to be sorrowful. He was in a state of distress and depressed because He knew what was about to happen. His death for our life. But Jesus knew that God's love for Him is beyond any fear that tries to come in. So, if we can comprehend this, then we can trust in our hearts that God will not leave nor forsake us in our fear (Deuteronomy 31:6).

The Holy Spirit and Perfect Love

Romans 8:14-17 tells us  “For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God. For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received a spirit of adoption. When we cry, “Abba! Father!” it is that very Spirit bearing witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ—if, in fact, we suffer with him so that we may also be glorified with him.”

If we are being led by the Spirit of God, then fear should not overtake you. We are adopted when we accept Jesus Christ into our lives. But if we are being led by the spirit of fear, then we are being influenced and overwhelmed by fear alone.

Call to God and He will answer (Psalm 107:6). Live in God's love and let His love rule and be sovereign over your life so that fear will forever be cast away.

Never Give in or give up. God Richly Bless you

 

Trey Louis Olguin