Smith Wigglesworth: Three Keys to Overcome an Attack of a Spirit of Fear in the Secret Place
In this late hour, many believers are under major attacks, and one of the favorite strategies of the enemy is to attack with a spirit of fear. Paul told his spiritual son, Timothy:
“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
A spirit of fear should bounce off us like water on a duck’s back, especially if we abide in the Secret Place. So, let’s look at some keys from Smith Wigglesworth on how to overcome a spirit of fear as you abide in the Secret Place.
“Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves Him who begot also loves Him who is begotten of Him…For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world- our faith. Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?”
1 John 5: 1, 4, 5
Key 1 – Know Who You Are in Him in the Secret Place
As we read the above verses, we see it is about being found in Him, or in the Secret Place. Smith Wigglesworth wonderfully said regarding these verses:
“This is one of those wonderful and divine truths of God which brings to life, heart affection, which verifies in every condition of life that they are of God. This is one of those essential truths that shall give to us a clear discernment of our position in Christ. God wants us all to be built up in truth, righteousness, and the life of God that every person we come in contact with may know of a truth that we are of God. And we who are of God can assure our hearts before Him, and we can have perfect confidence.”
Do we know who we are in Him? Do we carry such confidence and evidence that in the natural and in the spiritual, all whom we encounter recognize it. Instead of us receiving a spirit of fear, we should like Jesus to put fear into the enemy.
Smith added:
There is something more in the believer than words. Words are of little effect without they have a personal manifestation of God. We must not look at the Word only as a written Word. The Word is a living fact to work in the human body living truths, changing it, moving it till the person is a living fact of God’s inheritance, till He is in the body reigning, in the world, over it. In conversation or activity, he is a production of God.”
As you abide in the Secret Place, you become like the company you keep. There is a transforming as we yield and dare believe that we are who He says we are. When the Word is not just a written book but the final authority in your life, it will carry final authority through your life. You can’t fake this, but when you walk in it, the devil knows and fears.
Key 2- You Are One with Him
When the devil convinces you that you are alone, he will seek to overwhelm you with fear. But you are not alone, for He is not just with you but in you. Further, as you abide in the Secret Place, you are in Him. That is, your identity in this world is lost, and you are wholly found in Him. Smith explained:
“There are hundreds of religions, so called, crowded everywhere. But look! All these differences of opinion wither away, and there is to be a perfect oneness and divine union, and it will surely have to come to pass. You asl, ‘How is it possible?’ This is truth, it is the Word of God. He Himself portrayed in Word. You see God in the Word. God can manifest Himself through that Word till we become a living factor of that truth because God is light and in Him is no darkness.”
If we are in Him as we abide in the Secret Place of His Presence, then we must understand that means there is no darkness. Fear is a liar and doesn’t belong to us.
“What is the outcome of being born of God? God’s life, God’s truth, God’s walk. God’s communion, fellowship, oneness, like-mindedness.”
Key 3- You Have a Spirit of Power, Love, and Soundness of Mind
Remember what Paul told Timothy. In the Secret Place of His Presence, we should become swallowed up in His power and His love. Smith explained:
“Again, it is an impartation of love, and expression of Himself, for God is love. The first breathing or revelation of light of the new creation within the soul is so pure, so unadulterated, so perfect and so righteous that if we go back when you were first enlightened and had the revelation, when you first believed in your heart, you felt so lovely, you felt you loved so much you were in a paradise of wonderment. You had no desire for sin and sin had lost its desire.”
We must remember, as Smith explained:
“It is impossible to be in the world without satanic forces trying to bid very loudly for your lives.”
But we must always remember who we are, and as Smith explained:
‘See how much God has for you in the Word! God wants people who are mighty in the Spirit, who are full of power. God has not such thing as small measures for man. God has great designs for man.”
So let the Word speak even louder as you abide in the Secret Place knowing who He is, who you are in Him, and your inheritance because of Him. It is time to stop allowing a spirit of fear to enter, stealing, destroying, and killing. It doesn’t belong in our lives, so kick it out!