Have you ever watched other Christians evangelize & minister with supernatural boldness on the streets and you felt like you couldn’t do the same?…

Have you sometimes looked on TV or read books about men who were greatly used by God and then you feel inadequate?

As Spirit-Fileld warriors, we have everything we need locked up inside of us! We have the power of the Holy Spirit. We have the Name of Jesus Christ. We have Christ living and breathing inside of us. We have the gifts of the Holy Spirit. Why, on earth, is it so difficult to go out and lay hands on a lost individual in a mall, shopping centre, school or workplace, and pray for healing, prophesy or cast out a devil?

For a long time now I have worked with many Christians and young warriors in Christ. I motivated them, encouraged them, and showed them how to do Supernatural Evangelism on the streets. But for some strange reason I only see 1 out of 10 doing the works of God boldly and seeing results.

I have to be honest, this highly discouraged me. Until, a few months ago I received a revelation out of the scripture about The Ten Talents in Matthew 25.

Matthew 25:24-30 24“Then he who had received the one talent came and said, ‘Lord, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you have not sown, and gathering where you have not scattered seed. ²⁵ And I was afraid, and went and hid your talent in the ground. Look, there you have what is yours.’ ²⁶ “But his lord answered and said to him, ‘You wicked and lazy servant, you knew that I reap where I have not sown, and gather where I have not scattered seed. ²⁷ So you ought to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I would have received back my own with interest. ²⁸ So take the talent from him, and give it to him who has ten talents.  ²⁹ ‘For to everyone who has, more will be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who does not have, even what he has will be taken away. ³⁰ And cast the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

I have always been taught that the individual who received only one talent, and failed to multiply it, was lazy and unfaithful. Although it is true, but not 100%… For the first time I read that he actually said to his lord that the reason for him hiding his talent was because he was AFRAID!…

All of a sudden the Holy Spirit began to speak to me and showed me how FEAR can limit precious believers from operating in their talents, gifts, anointing etc.

FEAR will paralyze believers from going out and do the works of God with boldness. The Holy Spirit only operates in BOLDNESS as a rule.

The more serious part of this parable is that if we don’t use that which God has given us then we will lose it. A very powerful truth to the anointing is “If you don’t use it, you will lose it – If you use it, the you receive more” When I get a fresh impartation of the Holy Spirit then I must go out and release and give that to someone else, otherwise I will lose it. If I give it to someone else, then it will be multiplied!

FEAR paralyzes precious believers and don’t only allow them not to minister and operate in boldness, but also ultimately cause them to lose the anointing because of the principles in Matthew 25.

FEAR and INTIMIDATION is a spirit.

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

Let’s deal with the spirit of fear and become fearless warriors for Christ!

HOW DO I DEAL WITH THE SPIRIT OF FEAR?

Find a righteous Christian friend and let him pray for you the following points according to James 5:16-17:

1.) Confess your sins(fear) to your friend and be transparent.
2.) Repent of your sins(fear) to your friend.
3.) Renounce any work of darkness and demonic spirit associated to that sin and let your friend bind the influence of the enemy.
4.) Ask God to heal your heart and fill you with the power of the Holy Spirit

When you do this prayer in faith and boldness, then you will experience incredible freedom!

In His Love,

Leon du Preez