God has given us a spirit of power. The fearful spirit is determined to convince us of our powerlessness. It wants us to meditate upon impossibility. “Can’t” is among it’s favorite words. Is that the word that recurs in the silent monologue of your mind? “I can’t.” Ah, then you have found it: the spirit of fear. God clearly calls us to meditate upon the possibility of the impossible. To the one who believes: all things are possible. I CAN do all things through Christ who strengthens me

There is a way that things seem, and then there is the way that things are. We walk by faith, not by sight. Circumstances tell a certain story, but the Spirit tells another tale. Fear seeks to confine us to what is seen. It stalks hope in order to choke it. Fear would rob us of what we see in the Spirit: that thing hoped for, confidently expected, yet not seen. Fear tells us that we can do nothing about the current situation and therefore we must surrender to it.

Fear will often masquerade as “practical wisdom” or “common sense” (the true versions of which are indeed valuable commodities.) Fear will tell you, “That’s just the way it is. This is how things work. Some things never change.” The deceiver always mixes truisms into the batch of falsehood: it helps the lies go down easier.

I have dreams in my heart placed there by the Holy Spirit; things i have not yet seen in the natural, and yet they are more real to me than this present, passing age. You do too. When we walk in the spirit of power, we are able to believe for these things and that God is powerful enough to bring them to pass. When we succumb to fear, we slip back into the impossible despair that is oh-so practical and reasonable.

It is hard to believe that God will do a work that has never been done before or that He will fulfill a calling that has never been seen before. It is hard to believe that God will fix a shattered relationship, restore an abused heart, heal a broken body. It takes power to believe such things. It takes power to pursue them. It takes power to walk in them. God gives us a spirit of power. Fear would convince us that we are powerless. This couldn’t be farther from the truth: we are conductors of the greatest power in creation. We have flowing through us the very same power that raised Jesus Christ from the dead.

I speak to you today, and i speak to myself. i speak to our hearts and minds, to our bodies and to the dreams of God that are gestating within us; and i speak it all in the hearing of the fearful spirit that cowers in the shadows, terrified of the possibility of the people of God walking in power: God has not given you a spirit of fear, but a spirit of power. Believe for your impossible today.