God has established believers in Christ into a position of authority on this earth. We as the body of Christ must STAY in position
3 things take you out of position
Selfishness Fear Pride
Job 3:25-26(NLT) 25 What I always feared has happened to me. What I dreaded has come true. 26 I have no peace, no quietness. I have no rest; only trouble comes.”
31 Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, “If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. 32 And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.
2 Timothy 1:7(TPT)
For God will never give you the spirit of fear, but the Holy Spirit who gives you mighty power, love, and self-control.
Psalm 34:4(NKJV) I sought the Lord, and He heard me, And delivered me from all my fears.
Psalms 34:4(TPT)
Listen to my testimony: I cried to God in my distress and he answered me. He freed me from all my fears!
Psalm 34:4(AMPC)
4 I sought (inquired of) the Lord and required Him [of necessity and on the authority of His Word], and He heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.
Therefore I will look to the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation; My God will hear me.
Wait[e] on the Lord; Be of good courage, And He shall strengthen your heart; Wait, I say, on the Lord!
12 For this reason I also suffer these things; nevertheless I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to keep what I have committed to Him until that Day.
1 John 4:18(NKJV) 18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love.
2 Timothy 1:12(TPT) The confidence of my calling enables me to overcome every difficulty without shame, for I have an intimate revelation of this God. And my faith in him convinces me that he is more than able to keep all that I’ve placed in his hands safe and secure until the fullness of his appearing.
2 Timothy 1:13(TPT) Allow the healing words you’ve heard from me to live in you and make them a model for life as your faith and love for the Anointed One grows even more.
2 Timothy 1:14(TPT) Guard well this incomparable treasure by the Spirit of Holiness living within you.
2 Timothy 1:14(AMPC)
14 Guard and keep [with the greatest care] the precious and excellently adapted [Truth] which has been entrusted [to you], by the [help of the] Holy Spirit Who makes His home in us.