If you’ve been walking with me in this season of my life, you know I’ve been sharing what the Holy Spirit has revealed as He’s been putting the pieces of my life back together. In all of God’s love for me, He’s been bringing me into wholeness—into peace. My hope is that you’ll find something in my story that resonates with you and that the Holy Spirit might speak to you as well.
During one of my many heart-to-hearts with my mom, we found ourselves deep in conversation about deliverance. I shared with her what I believed God was delivering me from, but as we talked, it became clear that what I thought was the problem was actually just a symptom of something deeper. The root was fear.
Fear is a spirit that thrives on deception, keeping us bound by illusions of control, inadequacy, and uncertainty. It shows up in many forms—overthinking, avoidance, people-pleasing, procrastination—seemingly small things that mask its deeper hold on our lives. The devil uses fear to paralyze us, to distort how we see God, ourselves, and our future. Fear whispers that it’s safer to stay where we are, that change will only bring failure, rejection, or pain. It keeps us blinded to the fullness of God’s love and promises, holding us captive in a place where we’re too afraid to trust Him completely.
For so long, fear kept me trapped in people-pleasing, white lies, and indecision. I thought these things were just personality quirks or ways of avoiding conflict, but in reality, they were symptoms of fear. Fear made me believe that my worth came from making others happy, even at the cost of my own peace. It had me bending the truth to avoid rejection and kept me stuck in indecision, terrified of making the wrong move. Fear convinced me to settle for less than God’s best because the risk of waiting, of stepping out in faith, felt too great. But when I finally named fear for what it was, everything changed.
So now I ask you—what’s the root you need deliverance from? Maybe it’s fear, or maybe it’s something else entirely, a hidden stronghold that’s been keeping you bound. I challenge you to ask God to reveal it to you. What have you been treating as a symptom when the real issue lies deeper? The devil wants to keep you blind to it, but God wants to bring it into the light, to deliver you completely, not just partially. Take a moment to pray, to listen, and to trust that when He reveals it, He will also lead you into freedom. Fear is not your future—deliverance is.
-Chassitie L.
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