My Testimony

Saved : August 22, 2010 
Baptized : October 29, 2011


The Fear of the Lord, your Lord Jesus Christ.

The fear of the lord is something that not everyone wants to face. The people I know when I talk about God, they feel they won’t be accepted by God because of what they did in the past or what they are doing now. God loves everyone and wants everyone to fear him. In fearing the Lord you will find that people think you are crazy. When in reality you’ll find that you will get further in life because god is helping you with what you are facing. God has given me strength with what I have been facing in my life to be a stronger individual in my faith. In Isaiah 41:13 it says: “For I am the Lord your God who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, Do not fear; I will help you.” -God is saying that you don’t have to fight your battle alone, I am here with you. The fear of God works in different ways:

I.                   The fear of god is strong.

It’s strong because it has the power to destroy the wrongs and turn them into blessings. The fear of God is also strong because he has the strength and the will to change and save thee. Verse: In Deuteronomy 28:1-3 If you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations on earth. ² All these blessings will come on you and accompany you if you obey the Lord your God: ³ you will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country. Illustration: The fear of god is strong like changing a person that has a medical condition but it doesn't affect them anymore. When I was younger I had epilepsy when I was 13 months old. I had multiple seizures after that until the age of 5 or 6. I have been seizure free for about 13 years and have been off my medication for it for about 3 1/2 years.

II.                The fear of god has a lot of strength.

God’s fear has a lot of strength because half the things that God can do we can’t do.  God’s strength is powerful, lovely, and when you have his strength you will have self-confidence. 

Verse: Philippians 4:13 I can do all this through him who gives me strength. Illustration: The strength that the fear of god has is like a drug addict using drugs but with the strength of god it can change everything. I used to smoke marijuana for two years while my parents didn’t obey him, and now I obey him. I am in more of a serious relationship with him and he is my everything :)

III.             The fear of god has a lot of power.

When we fear God we need to realize that our power isn’t strong as god’s is. God has a lot more power than we could ever imagine. Once you feel the strength of God’s power you will realize there is something out there that has a lot more strength and authority. The way the earth is going most people who don’t believe in God and don’t realize that he is much more powerful than themselves. Verse: Joshua 4:23-24: ²³ For the Lord your God dried up the Jordan before you until you had crossed over. The Lord your God did to the Jordan what he had done to the Red Sea when he dried it up before us until we had crossed over. ²⁴ He did this so that all the peoples of the earth might know that the hand of the Lord is powerful and so that you might always fear the Lord your God.” Illustration: what did God do with Joshua?  The fear of god has a lot of power like an avalanche in the winter of Antarctica.  

                                   IV.             The fear of god is the beginning of wisdom.

In fearing of the lord also is the beginning of understanding and wisdom. Fearing the Lord leads to understand, what you never knew. Everybody doesn’t know everything in the world ,especially about God. Over half of the world doesn’t know about god and thinks that he is something totally different than he really is. The people of the world that don’t know Jesus fall way harder than the people who know who he is. Once you understand and learn to fear the Lord you will begin to become wise. People who fear the lord and are wise will gain wisdom and understanding and become wiser. Verse: Proverbs 1:7 : The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. Illustration: The fear of the lord brings wisdom like a parent telling their child or children not to get pregnant but some kids don’t listen. The kids that don’t listen to their parents instructions 
will fail and lack wisdom.


                                 V. The fear of God, should be the center of your being. 

In the fear of God, it should be the center of your being. Fearing the Lord leads to understand, that he needs to be the center of your being at all times. Not everyone knows that he's lives, he became sin, he who knew no sin. To be honest, I've been in and out sometimes with my relationship with Jesus. I just came to realize at 20 years old, I was sexually abused at the age of 8. I went to talk with my father last year, he was not on my side. I exposed something dark, he didn't want to talk about it. He wanted to keep it a secret. Thinking it wasn't a big deal to be honest. I was in complete shock with his response. I thought he would have advocated for me and brought it to the light and came around a different way. He wanted to take his sisters side, instead of his daughters. He wasn't protecting, something that God gifted him to love, protect, and grow in the Lord. He was dark, nothing that I could control, Jesus is in control. 
Verse: Ephesians 5:11  Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.

Application:  Deuteronomy 6:1-2 These are the commands, decrees and laws the Lord your God directed me to teach you to observe in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess, so that you, your children and their children after them may fear the Lord your God as long as you live by keeping all his decrees and commands that I give you, and so that you may enjoy long life.

In life you need to obey the lord in all he does because he knows what he is doing. Once you start obeying him you become wiser in life. In my life I found that obeying him was much more rewarding than getting lost in the world which was what happened before I really obeyed him. My parents didn’t follow and obey him, they got lost and so did I.

Conclusion: In fearing the lord it is hard to understand at first. Once you have the words and strength to tell god that you can’t do it alone. He will help you, and once you feel the lord, you will have to make sure you obey him too. My tip for you would be to surrender to him everything you have or what you have gone through.