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Fight that Fear

Writer's picture: Dr. Simon OlatunjiDr. Simon Olatunji

Daily Scripture Threshing for Wednesday, December 6, 2023


Today’s Text: Judges 6:1-21


Key Verse: Judges 6:10 (NKJV): “Also I said to you, “I am the Lord your God; do not fear the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell.” But you have not obeyed My voice.”

I don’t know what you are doing right now, or wherever you are in your journey; but God wants to use the story of Gideon to illustrate what fear can do to us if we don’t fight it. The devil, our arch enemy and all his cohorts have mastered the use of fear to box us in and limit our blessings from God.

And, why does it matter to God that we fear or not? It does, because many times, it is not about the fear itself, but about what it brings upon or out of us. Fear imposes things upon us that limit God’s ability to bless us and give us peace in our lives.


Today’s scripture starts us out to begin to see ourselves in the family album of faith. Don’t we see our different existential realities in the experience of Gideon and the rest of Israel until the angel of the Lord came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah? Don’t our fears put us in the winepress when we are supposed to be in the threshing floor? Don’t we hide and run from mountains to valleys to keep the things we cherish from the enemies, whom we fear may come in and take everything from us? Don’t we, like Gideon, get down in the pit, and are kept there by fear while trying to scrape out livelihood? But God is sending you this devotional message today just like He sent the angel to Gideon, admonishing him to “do not fear…” for “…the Lord is with you, mighty warrior.”


Quote for the Day: “Christians who know their Lord, know who they are in Christ, and know the enemy would not fear the results of any battle.”


Prayer: Almighty God, Your word says, the defense of my life of whom shall I be afraid. I thank You Lord for Your victory in my life, for you have not given me a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and sonship. I will no longer be a slave to fear — in Jesus’ name. Amen.


With all my love and prayers,


Rev Simon Wale Olatunji, Ph.D.

Your Darling Bishop (DaBishop)


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[Daily Scripture Threshing is a devotional guide of The House of Prayer Evangel Church USA distributed for free use by individuals, small groups, families, and Christian churches]


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