Faith.” I have been looking forward to this series for weeks now. This morning we began our sermon series on “Fear vs. If you start claiming the Word of God and speak freedom, eventually your mind is going to believe what your mouth is speaking. I don’t care what you feel like, we don’t walk by feelings, we walk by faith. It is time that we stand up as a body and simply declare to the devil: “I am free!” Well I don’t feel free. The church of this generation is so bound by what people think and what people say. My soul is resting it’s such a blessing, oh! Praise the Lord! Hallelujah! I am free.” We need to start singing that song every day: “I’m free, praise the Lord I am free, no longer bound, no more chains holding me. You can’t have a sound mind if you are fearful of things and people. The devil wants nothing more then to destroy you, but you have not been given the spirit of fear, but of power and love and of a sound mind. Don’t give place to the devil through the spirit of fear. I want to encourage every one of you that are here tonight to allow faith to rise up in your heart in the next few weeks. Genuine faith and fear cannot co-exist in the same body.” “God wants to stir up the gift that is within you, but if you want the gifts of the Spirit that the Lord has for you, you cannot allow the spirit of fear a place in your life. Paul was telling Timothy, God has given you a genuine faith. Paul tells Timothy, “Because your mother and grandmother had unfeigned faith, you will have it too.” What does that word unfeigned mean? Synonyms for this word are sincere or genuine. Paul admonishes Timothy in our text to be a man of faith and not of fear. I didn’t explain our Scripture text too much this morning, so I want to take a moment and expound on our text for this series. For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.” Therefore I remind you to stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands. “When I call to remembrance the genuine faith that is in you, which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am persuaded is in you also.
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