Fear and the Failure Factor

"For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind." - 1 Timothy 1:7

Note to myself, but I don't mind if you read:

STOP FEARING. It's makes Him out a liar.
STOP FEARING. It saps your power, the power He gave you, for His purposes. You can't minister in fear!
STOP FEARING. It gets in the way of love. You can't be afraid to love _______ (fill in the blank, usually a person).
STOP FEARING. It is poluting your mind, which is called to be 'the mind of Christ.'

What do you fear? Name it. Face it. Tell it in the name of Jesus Christ to go to . . . uh, well, to leave, because He Who is in you is more powerful than he who is in the world, who is the same one conjuring up all this fear, from the pit of hell, that so weakly opposes the glory, majesty, POWER and PURPOSEFULNESS that reigns down from heaven, where your residency papers say YOU reside!

Piper quoted M'Cheyen on twitter earlier, and I loved it: "If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies."

He is closer than the next room. Have you read Romans 8? Among the vast riches of truth in that chapter, it is made clear that the Father, Son and Holy Spirit meet together to intercede for us with groanings we can't understand. That's right, they a) care enough about you, one of about 12 billion people who have ever lived, to meet about you when you don't even ask them to, and when  you do, b) pray, plan and shape you and all around you with such depth and perfection that what they say we cannot even comprehend.

He's got you! Don't fear. Go in POWER. Test it. Now.