Believing: Faith and Fear

There are two types of believing: (1) positive and (2) negative. We either have faith or fear. We must recognize that believing has both a negative and a positive side. We are what we are today because of our believing. We will be tomorrow where our believing takes us. No one ever rises beyond what he believes and no one can believe more than what he understands. We believe what we believe because of what we have been taught. We think the way we think because of the way we have been led. Believing is a law. As one believes, he receives. On the negative side, fear is believing; fear is believing in reverse; it produces ill results. There is basically only one thing that ever defeats the believer, and that is fear. Fear is the believer’s only enemy. Fear is sand in the machinery of life. When we have fear, we cannot believe God and have faith. Fear has ruined more Christian lives than any other thing in the world. If a person is afraid of not being able to hold his job, do you know what will happen? He will lose it. If one is afraid of a disease, he will manifest that disease because the law is that what one believes (in this case, what one believes negatively), he is going to receive. People have a fear of the future; they have a fear of death. Fear always encases, fear always enslaves, fear always binds. This law of negative and positive believing works for both Christian and non-Christian. When we believe, we receive the results of our believing regardless of who or what we are. The Word of God demonstrates negative believing in the Gospel of John. Isaiah had prophesied, hundreds of years before, that when the true Messiah came there would be one miracle which He would do that had never been done before. This one miracle, opening the eyes of a man who was born blind, would prove He was the Messiah of God. This is the miraculous record in John 9. John 9:1–8: And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. And his disciples asked him, saying, Mas