Fear vs. Faith

"Fear is a fruit of holding onto your life -- faith will be there when you let go."

Geri McGhee
Abiding Life Ministries
www.abidinglifeministries.org
Lindale, TX

John 12:24 "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat (representative of our life) falls into the earth and dies (to the flesh), it remains by itself alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit (Galatians 5:22,23)."

Gal 5:22-23 "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, FAITH, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law."

Gen 22:2-13 "And he (God) said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of. And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him. Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off. And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you. And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together. And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering? And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together. And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood. And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son. And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I. And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me. And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son."
(ABRAHAM LET GO OF HIS LIFE. HE IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF A MAN WHO HAD THE PERFECT LOVE THAT CAST OUT FEAR)

"There is no fear in love; but perfect love (trust) casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
I John 4:18