This article will help you overcome fear in every area of your life. Fear is paralyzing. It prevents you from taking steps in any direction, bars you from making sound decisions and stops any and all progress in every area of your life. It lowers your quality of life dramatically and opens you up to all kinds of destructive and debilitating things. There is a potent saying: "Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed."

The Bible has a wonderful, liberating stance when it comes to fear. God's word is clear:  "There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment." (1 John 4:18) In fact, there is a tremendous cure for all fear but before we take a deeper look at the cure, let's identify this horrendous affliction that keeps so many people in a place of defeat and failure.

In classical Greek the word phobos (used in 1 John 4:18) signified flight. Later it came to denote that which causes flight; hence fear, terror of dread.  According to Strong's Greek Dictionary it also means alarm or fright.It is interesting that verse 18 ends with the statement: "fear involves torment." The word torment means punishment or penal infliction. A life lived in fear is a life lived in punishment. Isn't that one of the reason's Jesus died for us on the cross; to remove the penal punishment of our sin from us? Make no mistake; the enemy's main weapon against you is fear.  Sharon always says: "FEAR stands for - False Evidence Appearing Real. You will do well not to allow the enemy to fabricate evidence against you. Stand on the truth of God's word, especially when it comes to the fear factor in your life.

There are 7 types of fear we will look at:

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