Overcome your Fear of the Dark with this Truth

Overcome your Fear of the Dark with this Truth

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I think we’ve all been there: staring into a dark room or space and imagining frightful apparitions there. 

It’s our minds playing tricks on us. A result of all the scary things we’ve ever seen in life. 

My mind’s favorite imagination: a ghostly lady with long black hair, wearing a flowy white gown and floating outside the window. I’m sorry I didn’t mean to scare you - 
I’m just sharing how crazy the mind can get when imagining things. 

To set things straight, there’s no such thing as ghosts. 
The Bible doesn’t say that the spirits of the dead can return to earth to haunt humans who are alive on earth. 

However, there are evil spirits also called “demons” who are on earth - those are real. 

Contrary to a popular misconception, no, they are not in hell. Only those fallen angels who committed the sin of interbreeding with the human females (read about it in Genesis 6) are being tormented in hell:

“And the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day; as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.” (Jude 1:6-7 NKJV)

“For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment;” (2 Peter 2:4 NIV)

In the verse above, the word “hell” translated in Greek is “Tartarus” which is believed to be the lowest pit of hell which the worse offenders get sent to. 
Apparently the suffering there is the most painful! 

Even the devil is not in hell and has never been to hell. 
He is roaming about on earth and in outer space. 
He will only be thrown into the lake of fire at the end of time (Revelation 20:10).

After he’s thrown into the lake of fire, he won’t be the king there, sipping on champagne while sitting on a throne and laughing at sinners burn. 

He will be burning and tortured just like anyone else in the lake of fire, for all eternity. 
The King of the lake of fire is God Himself, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. 

Now that we have established the foundational truths, I want to share about my experience with the fear of the dark.
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When you're ignorant about the power and authority that you have over the darkness, that's when you feel fear. In the presence of true revelation, all fear melts away!

How I overcame my fear of the dark

As a child, I used to be so scared of entering a dark room that I would dash in to do what was needed, and then leave the room hurriedly with my heart pounding in my chest. 

Technically, we are not so much afraid of the dark itself, but rather what we imagine is hiding inside that darkness waiting to attack us. 
I would like to rename it as a “fear of demons” instead. 

The funny thing is that non-believers stand in the natural light thinking that they are safe from the dark, but that natural light is of no protection to them at all. 

Demons stalk about not in the cover of natural darkness, but spiritual darkness. They can attack an unbeliever at any time because unbelievers are legally part of the devil’s domain - the dominion of darkness which we once belonged to:

“For He has rescued us and has drawn us to Himself from the dominion of darkness, and has transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son,” (COLOSSIANS 1:13 AMP)

Ever since I received Jesus as my Lord and Savior and had the revelation that the Holy Spirit in me is greater than all the evil spirits out there, the fear of demons just evaporated like a puddle of water on a sunny day. 

This is the verse that did it for me:

“Little children (believers, dear ones), you are of God and you belong to Him and have [already] overcome them [the agents of the antichrist]; because He who is in you is greater than he (Satan) who is in the world [of sinful mankind].” (1 JOHN 4:4 AMP)

If you are a believer, the One indwelling you is the Holy Spirit, one of the three Persons of the Godhead. 
He is much more powerful than the devil, and He is as much a God as our Heavenly Father and Jesus. 

Do you know that because the Holy Spirit lives inside you, demons tremble in fear when you come near them? 

“You believe that God is one; you do well [to believe that]. The demons also believe [that], and shudder and bristle [in awe-filled terror--they have seen His wrath]!” (JAMES 2:19 AMP)

Demons are not afraid of you, but they are afraid of God who lives inside you. 

Every time fear tries to creep into my mind these days when I walk in the dark, especially after watching a scary horror movie, I picture the divine light of the Holy Spirit illuminating the whole space around me - where light is, darkness scatters. 

That’s what I believe it looks like in the spiritual world. According to our eyes of flesh, it may look dark, but to the demons, they probably see a blinding, holy light when they look at you. 
The glorious light of the Holy Spirit shines from within you. 

Not only do you walk around with this demon-deterring light, but you also have the powerful spiritual weapons of the name and blood of Jesus in your arsenal:

“He who has believed [in Me] and has been baptized will be saved [from the penalty of God’s wrath and judgment]; but he who has not believed will be condemned. These signs will accompany those who have believed: in My name they will cast out demons, they will speak in new tongues;” (MARK 16:16-17 AMP)

With them, you even have the authority to cast out demons. 
I believe that when these weapons are used directly on demons, they experience searing pain like being burnt by fire. 

“So submit to [the authority of] God. Resist the devil [stand firm against him] and he will flee from you.” (JAMES 4:7 AMP)

That’s why the devil and his demons will flee from you- There must be a strong motivation to cause them to flee and not take their own sweet time to walk away. 

Yes obviously spirits can feel pain, if not why would hell and the lake of fire be a torment to them? 

“And the devil who had deceived them was hurled into the lake of fire and burning brimstone (sulfur), where the beast (Antichrist) and false prophet are also; and they will be tormented day and night, forever and ever.” (REVELATION 20:10 AMP)

God has equipped us with powerful spiritual weapons to deal with demons. We don’t have to be afraid of them. 
They are hoping that we don’t have this knowledge. 

“among them the god of this world [Satan] has blinded the minds of the unbelieving to prevent them from seeing the illuminating light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.” (2 CORINTHIANS 4:4 AMP)

Demons thrive on deception and keeping people ignorant of the truth.

This is the truth: Because of the Holy Spirit inside you, as well as the power in the name and blood of Christ which you wield, demons are terrified of the time when you finally understand this and use this knowledge against them! 

Like Jesus said, when we know the truth, it will set us free - in this case, from the fear of the dark and what lies within it! 

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