Faith Course

By Tanaka Mupamhanga

This is a book where you get insight and learn how to make your faith work for you. Each day that passes your faith needs to be stronger . It's a compilation of short Sermon guiding and helping you setting you faith on course. With bible verse and guidelines tht help you navigate with easy through the bible

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tanaqua
• Release date: Jun 5, 2024
• ISBN: 9798227882523

Tanaka Mupamhanga

Tanaka Mupamhanga is self publisher and self motivated author. He writes action adventure novels. Movie scripts and a song wrotery. He is a Pastor. Loves to inspire mad edutain his audience as he writes and communicates with them.

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Acknowledgements

All praise to the most high and creator of all the universe. The master and my maker. For the power and the wisdom he gave me. 

I would love to thank my brother and father in christ Prophet Timothy Mupamhanga. You are my advisor and pillar of strength. The holy spirit is the comforter of us all. In him I have found favour. I would love to thank the lord for this opportunity and time to share this word with. I really hope it would change many lives for the better. The impact it has and the power in every word shall guide every one who reads  it day to day.

Let devine favour locate you where ever you may be.

God bless you in the name of Jesus

Fear of the Lord

Psalms 34:9

Oh fear the Lord, you His saints! There is no want to those who fear Him

Psalms 34:7  Angel of the Lord encamps all around those who fear Him, and delivers them

Psalms 112:1-2 Praise the Lord! Blessed is the man who fears the Lord, who delights greatly in His commandments. His descendants will be mighty on earth;

Psalms 25:12 "Who is the man that fears the Lord? Him shall He teach in the way that he should choose.

Psalms 25:14  The secret of the Lord is with those who fear Him, and He will show them His covenant

Psalms 31:19 Oh, how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have prepared for those who trust in you in the presence of the sons of men!

Psalms 33:18 Behold the eye of the Lord is on those who fear Him, On those who hope in His mercy

Psalms 85:9 Surely His salvation is near to those who fear Him, that glory may dwell in our land

Psalms 103:11 For as the heavens are high above the earth, So great is His mercy toward those who fear Him;

Psalms 103:13  As a father pities his children, so the Lord pities those who fear Him

Psalms 103:17

But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear Him, and His righteousness to children's children.

Psalms 111:4-5

He has made His wonderful works to be remembered; The Lord is gracious and full of compassion. He has given food to those who fear Him; He will ever be mindful of His covenant.

Psalms 115:13  He will bless those who fear the Lord, both small and great

Psalms 128:1-4  Blessed is every one who fears the Lord, who walks in His ways. When you eat the labor of your hands, you shall be happy, and it shall be well with you. Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine in the very heart of your house; Your children like olive plants all around your table. Behold, thus shall the man be blessed who fears the Lord.

Psalms 145:19 He will fulfill the desire of those who fear Him; He also will hear their cry and save them.

Proverbs 10:27 The fear of the Lord prolongs days

Proverbs 14:26 In the fear of the Lord there is strong confidence, and His children will have a place of refuge

Proverbs 14:27 The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, to turn one away from the snares of death.

Proverbs 15:33 The fear of the Lord is the instruction of wisdom, and before honor is humility.

Proverbs 16:6 In mercy and truth atonement is provided for iniquity; and by the fear of the Lord one departs from evil.

Proverbs 19:23

The fear of the Lord leads to life, and he who has it will abide in satisfaction; He will not be visited with evil.

Proverbs 22:4  By humility and the fear of the Lord are riches and honor and life.

Proverbs 23:17  Be in the fear of the Lord all the day

Ecclesiastes 8:12-13

Though a sinner does evil a hundred times, and his days are prolonged, yet I surely know that it will be well with those who fear God, who fear before Him. But it will not be well with the wicked; nor will he prolong his days, which are as a shadow, because he does not fear before God.

Ecclesiastes 12:13-14

Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep His commandments, for this is man's all.

I believe it is obvious from the above that we are dealing here with a very important subject. What is the fear of the Lord that all that have it are subject of the so many promises we read? What does it mean fear the Lord? Does it mean to be afraid, terrorized, in the idea of God? Could it be that this subject of the fear of the Lord is a kind of not valid today as today we are children of God? Furthermore doesn’t I John tell us that there is no fear in love? Could it be then that this fear of the Lord is something for the Old Testament only? The purpose of this article is to answer these questions.

1. The fear of the Lord: it is not a simple respect but it is not a terror either

Depending on somebody’s background, there are those who understand the fear of the Lord as a kind of terror, of being afraid of God. Others again they understand it like a simple respect, like the respect for example they show to their colleagues or... they do not understand it at all as they consider it not relevant for the present age of grace. I don’t think that any of these views is correct. Starting with the simple respect: the respect that may exist between equals is not the same with the respect towards the Most High One. In a kingdom a subject does not respect his king the same way he respects his colleagues. Even if he has full boldness before the throne, as we, through the blood of Christ, have before the throne of God, even if he is a child of the King, as we are through faith, he continues to also be a subject before the King. And as to every King, let alone to the King of kings, deep respect is due. In other words, the fact that we are children of the King does not annul the fear, the deep respect that is due to the King, to the Most High One, nor does it convert it to a simple respect, like the respect due to co-equals.

On the other hand, a son of the king would indeed not approach the king the same way a stranger would approach him. A son would approach the king not with terror but with boldness and confidence, knowing that the one he is speaking to is His loving Father. At the same time and as we already said above he would also approach Him with deep respect recognizing that he does not approach a colleague but His Father, who at the same time is the Most High, the Lord of Lords and King of Kings. In other words, the fact that we are children of King it also means that the fear of the Lord should not be understood like a terror, like being afraid, of the King. Instead it should rather be understood like the very deep, the highest respect that is due from kids to the most loving Father, who at the same time is the Creator of everything, the Most High One.

Having clarified the above let’s see some passages that show the majesty of God and are associated with the fear of God. I use these passages as an indication of the majesty and highness of God and not to say that Christians should be afraid, terrified, of God. As we already said and as we will see later fearing God does not mean being afraid of God. I believe in our age, where Jesus Christ has bridged the gap between God and man, fearing God means approaching Him both as a Father (with boldness and without being afraid of Him) and as the Most High One (with the deepest respect). Turning now to the passages we mentioned, let’s start with 

Jeremiah 10:6-7:

Jeremiah 10:6-7 Inasmuch as there is none like You, O Lord. You are great, and Your name is great in might. Who would not fear You, O King of the nations?

and Revelation 15:4 Who shall not fear You, O Lord and glorify Your name?

and Jeremiah 5:22-24

"Do you not fear Me? Says the Lord. Will