Francis Frangipane

“God has not given us a spirit of fear,” (2 Tim. 1:7 NKJV). Tormenting, debilitating fears are not from the Lord. Paul continues by saying that the nature of the Holy Spirit abiding in us produces a spirit “of power and of love and of a sound mind.” This means that our feelings of helplessness are not from God. We can be assured that, whenever our minds become darkened through self-condemnation, fear or tormenting guilt, we are living outside the realm of God’?s “love,” for God’s perfect love “casts out fear” (1 John 4:18).