This posts topic is about fear,
The reason I'm making these posts is because the enemy uses your lack of knowledge against you, and while I personally stay out of person to person fights, I think you deserve a fair chance in at least becoming familiar with what you could come up against in this world.
Fear is something the enemy uses against you. It can come in either the form of an attack that makes you fear, or the spirit of fear itself.
The tactic of fear is to lie to you about what you do not know. It comes into your life through a legitimate concern, but it stays to oppress you and take all things from you until you only have it. It starts working very quickly when it comes.
When fear finds you with a concern, it surrounds your head so that all your thoughts happen within it's presence, in this way it "laces", then eventually guides your thoughts into fearing more and more.
For example, you may be trying to solve a problem, lets use the example of learning about spirits, and trying to find ways to be safe with their existence, fear would come to you, and in the energy of it's spiritual body, influence you to think about all the possibilities of a way a non-physical entity could be too far outside what you can deal with to have a way to defend yourself. It would bring up that they're not visible to most people, so they could sneak up on you anywhere, it would bring your attention to the fact that they are not made of a solid state of matter, so you can't conceivable fight them off physically like you could a person or animal if they came to attack. It would bring your attention to how long they have been around and how much experience they have hurting people, to make you think you are inferior in intellect and could not fight them physically or with intelligence.
From all of these conclusions it has led you to, it then leads you to the conclusion that you are powerless to defend yourself from them, and are at their will whether or not you become a victim of them. Fear now has you at the point of hopelessness, thinking there's nothing you can do against the concern. It then walks with you where you go, again influencing you with energy. It causes your mind to think very fast, which it wants you to believe is good because you could reach conclusions and break throughs quicker, you are on guard, looking for what your fearing to come to you at any moment. Whether it is people looking to do harm, spiritual attack, animals, you try to be ready if it comes at any moment, you want to see it before it gets into position, so you are on guard waiting for the concern to come. Well you are thinking the faster pace of thoughts is helpful, the result of it is you are not putting as much thought into each thought, so fear can place thoughts in you and you can accept them accidentally, because you did not screen for them. Fear uses this to bring your concerns outside of what you would accept as possible if you were calm. Now suddenly, you think thoughts of people who are actively trying to find you, or that there are many potentially harmful animals lurking just beyond view, or the quarter you found on the ground back there has some kind of spirit attached to it which is just watching you from inside your pocket to figure out how to harm you. Continuing on like this, you will eventually run into a person or see an animal, and there's already a spirit near you harming you, so it will try to make sure your ready to react how it wants when you do come across one of these things. You come across a person, he sees you are looking like you are in distress, he says something to you, but you've been walking around for a while expecting something to attack you, so when a person you have never met tries to talk to you, or a dog tries to sniff you, or you encounter anything else you are likely to eventually run into, you flee. Does the thing chase you? probably not, but do you turn to look around to notice this? probably not, you escape a situation you were not in threat of anyway, but the spirit of fear, which is still invisible, takes your biased recollection of the incident, and tries to make you think how "lucky" you were to escape what just happened. but luck is not reliable, so it directs you to be even more cautious, on guard and ready to defend yourself for the next time something happens. You go home.
Over time, it has psyched you up to the point where you can hardly see anything, anything that moves becomes, even if it is just for a moment when you are unsure of whats moving, a perceived threat. It has made your mind flow too fast for a long time, fear can now do other things to you it could not do when it first came to you. It suggests there is things that do not exist that can harm you, if it can, it will lead you to or lead to you, people who believe in similar things, to reinforce the idea of these new potential threats as existing. Looking into the dark, it whispers the suggestion that there is something in their you do not see, and it is staring right at you, with your mind weary it can be manipulated, you can be woken up in the night to perceive things in the dark near you that are not there, you can be woken up suddenly and into a state of sleep paralysis, which is where your body has not turned on yet and your dreaming mode is still occurring because you woke up so suddenly, and see what appears to be a demon on top of you, which is the most common thing seen during these episodes, your dreams can be made realistic, and scary, and to a weary enough mind, could be confused for a real event which you simply can't remember when it happened, at this point you are usually in a state of borderline panic constantly. The impact it has on you can make you see visions, hear noises which are illusion or not there, and you might not even realize it, but there's little or no other things going on for you anymore, the fearful obsession has taken everything from you and replaced it, so all you know is fear. At this point, you are not putting focus on getting your needs met, getting wants accomplished, improving yourself, or healing your brother, you are completely consuming this fear and nothing else is occurring to you except you occasionally have to stop and eat something, but you might not even have time to think about if it is what you need.
this is how fear comes and takes over, the circumstances and things feared could be different, but generally this is how it happens. It ends with the person completely useless to themselves and everyone, many do not come out of their homes, some are driven so far into deception that even most healers, unless they are some of the best, see their fearful delusions and recognize them as so far from their senses they give up on them before even attempting to heal them. Fear can even lead a person to be so beyond the point of reason, they attack people and the spirit of fear can use this to drive away any potential help for the person, keeping them trapped in the state until they die.
So, how do you keep secure with this spirit in the world. "keep watch for the enemy prowls like a lion, seeking who he can devour." now that you are aware of what it is and what it does, be vigilant against it, if you have a problem or concern, have faith that you are not thrown into the world to be devoured, but that you have or are given what you need to survive, and have peace, the problem can be solved. and if you feel a slight disorientation, and your thoughts become focused on what could go wrong, resist the temptation to believe in those thoughts, think of how well off you have been in the land so far, have things been perfect? but are you now thinking of a level of fear you do not have basis for believing is present? or are you only thinking about what there could be to fear? resist the temptation to suddenly entertain new thoughts, of fear, and if you need to, call upon those you trust in and believe in to help you fight this spirit.
if your ever not sure, but you but your feeling uncomfortable, do not be afraid to ask for help, and do not change the way ou are interpreting the world until you know it will be worth changing your view.
The reason I'm making these posts is because the enemy uses your lack of knowledge against you, and while I personally stay out of person to person fights, I think you deserve a fair chance in at least becoming familiar with what you could come up against in this world.
Fear is something the enemy uses against you. It can come in either the form of an attack that makes you fear, or the spirit of fear itself.
The tactic of fear is to lie to you about what you do not know. It comes into your life through a legitimate concern, but it stays to oppress you and take all things from you until you only have it. It starts working very quickly when it comes.
When fear finds you with a concern, it surrounds your head so that all your thoughts happen within it's presence, in this way it "laces", then eventually guides your thoughts into fearing more and more.
For example, you may be trying to solve a problem, lets use the example of learning about spirits, and trying to find ways to be safe with their existence, fear would come to you, and in the energy of it's spiritual body, influence you to think about all the possibilities of a way a non-physical entity could be too far outside what you can deal with to have a way to defend yourself. It would bring up that they're not visible to most people, so they could sneak up on you anywhere, it would bring your attention to the fact that they are not made of a solid state of matter, so you can't conceivable fight them off physically like you could a person or animal if they came to attack. It would bring your attention to how long they have been around and how much experience they have hurting people, to make you think you are inferior in intellect and could not fight them physically or with intelligence.
From all of these conclusions it has led you to, it then leads you to the conclusion that you are powerless to defend yourself from them, and are at their will whether or not you become a victim of them. Fear now has you at the point of hopelessness, thinking there's nothing you can do against the concern. It then walks with you where you go, again influencing you with energy. It causes your mind to think very fast, which it wants you to believe is good because you could reach conclusions and break throughs quicker, you are on guard, looking for what your fearing to come to you at any moment. Whether it is people looking to do harm, spiritual attack, animals, you try to be ready if it comes at any moment, you want to see it before it gets into position, so you are on guard waiting for the concern to come. Well you are thinking the faster pace of thoughts is helpful, the result of it is you are not putting as much thought into each thought, so fear can place thoughts in you and you can accept them accidentally, because you did not screen for them. Fear uses this to bring your concerns outside of what you would accept as possible if you were calm. Now suddenly, you think thoughts of people who are actively trying to find you, or that there are many potentially harmful animals lurking just beyond view, or the quarter you found on the ground back there has some kind of spirit attached to it which is just watching you from inside your pocket to figure out how to harm you. Continuing on like this, you will eventually run into a person or see an animal, and there's already a spirit near you harming you, so it will try to make sure your ready to react how it wants when you do come across one of these things. You come across a person, he sees you are looking like you are in distress, he says something to you, but you've been walking around for a while expecting something to attack you, so when a person you have never met tries to talk to you, or a dog tries to sniff you, or you encounter anything else you are likely to eventually run into, you flee. Does the thing chase you? probably not, but do you turn to look around to notice this? probably not, you escape a situation you were not in threat of anyway, but the spirit of fear, which is still invisible, takes your biased recollection of the incident, and tries to make you think how "lucky" you were to escape what just happened. but luck is not reliable, so it directs you to be even more cautious, on guard and ready to defend yourself for the next time something happens. You go home.
Over time, it has psyched you up to the point where you can hardly see anything, anything that moves becomes, even if it is just for a moment when you are unsure of whats moving, a perceived threat. It has made your mind flow too fast for a long time, fear can now do other things to you it could not do when it first came to you. It suggests there is things that do not exist that can harm you, if it can, it will lead you to or lead to you, people who believe in similar things, to reinforce the idea of these new potential threats as existing. Looking into the dark, it whispers the suggestion that there is something in their you do not see, and it is staring right at you, with your mind weary it can be manipulated, you can be woken up in the night to perceive things in the dark near you that are not there, you can be woken up suddenly and into a state of sleep paralysis, which is where your body has not turned on yet and your dreaming mode is still occurring because you woke up so suddenly, and see what appears to be a demon on top of you, which is the most common thing seen during these episodes, your dreams can be made realistic, and scary, and to a weary enough mind, could be confused for a real event which you simply can't remember when it happened, at this point you are usually in a state of borderline panic constantly. The impact it has on you can make you see visions, hear noises which are illusion or not there, and you might not even realize it, but there's little or no other things going on for you anymore, the fearful obsession has taken everything from you and replaced it, so all you know is fear. At this point, you are not putting focus on getting your needs met, getting wants accomplished, improving yourself, or healing your brother, you are completely consuming this fear and nothing else is occurring to you except you occasionally have to stop and eat something, but you might not even have time to think about if it is what you need.
this is how fear comes and takes over, the circumstances and things feared could be different, but generally this is how it happens. It ends with the person completely useless to themselves and everyone, many do not come out of their homes, some are driven so far into deception that even most healers, unless they are some of the best, see their fearful delusions and recognize them as so far from their senses they give up on them before even attempting to heal them. Fear can even lead a person to be so beyond the point of reason, they attack people and the spirit of fear can use this to drive away any potential help for the person, keeping them trapped in the state until they die.
So, how do you keep secure with this spirit in the world. "keep watch for the enemy prowls like a lion, seeking who he can devour." now that you are aware of what it is and what it does, be vigilant against it, if you have a problem or concern, have faith that you are not thrown into the world to be devoured, but that you have or are given what you need to survive, and have peace, the problem can be solved. and if you feel a slight disorientation, and your thoughts become focused on what could go wrong, resist the temptation to believe in those thoughts, think of how well off you have been in the land so far, have things been perfect? but are you now thinking of a level of fear you do not have basis for believing is present? or are you only thinking about what there could be to fear? resist the temptation to suddenly entertain new thoughts, of fear, and if you need to, call upon those you trust in and believe in to help you fight this spirit.
if your ever not sure, but you but your feeling uncomfortable, do not be afraid to ask for help, and do not change the way ou are interpreting the world until you know it will be worth changing your view.