“I will send My fear before you, I will cause confusion among all the people to whom you come, and will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.” (Exodus 23:27)

FEAR OF GOD
God spoke to the children in Exodus 23:27, “I will send My fear before you, I will cause confusion among all the people to whom you come, and will make all your enemies turn their backs to you. 28 And I will send hornets before you, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite from before you.” With the fear of God ahead on every journey of life, confidence will be in place to keep your feet from being caught. (Proverb 3:26) Deuteronomy 10:12 states, “And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways and to love Him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.” When the fear of God goes before you, you will know to walk in all His ways.
Walking in the way of God is to love the Lord God. To love the Lord God is to serve Him. It can be accepted what the word is saying, you cannot love Him if you do not fear Him. Also, if you do not love God it is not possible to serve Him. To fear God is to love God; to love God is to serve God. By this it is evident that a believer will be in a position to please God. Jesus said in John 8:29, “And He who sent Me is with Me. The Father has not left Me alone, for I always do those things that please Him.”
What is holding you down from having the father always with you? Is it the inability to fear Him? The more you grow in faith the more you know to fear Him and have His fear go before you in every step of life. We are made to understand in Hebrews 11:6, “But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.” If without faith it is impossible to please Him, with faith it is absolutely possible to please Him. Faith is not what you have to look for in the store but it is what you have to seek for and it will come. Romans 10:17, “So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”  You might have heard the word sometime ago but yet faith does not have its place for you to fear Him enough. What the word is saying is about hearing, hearing, hearing and hearing. It is not for a time or two but it is of consistence and continuity. When there is no failure in hearing, faith will pass you on to fearing Him and having His fear go before you.
FEAR DESCRIPTION
The fear of God is described in Proverbs 9:10, “The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.”  This verse is saying with the fear of God going before us on the journey of life, the wisdom that is not of this world; wisdom from above will be leading us all the way into our victory. Also the understanding of His mighty act will be generating the boldness and character to deny every force of hindrance. The promise of His fear going before the children of Israel will make confusion the portion of their enemies on their ways. Also, the enemies will have their backs turned to them and hornets shall be the pursuant of their enemies. In the fear of God we have all that it takes to be able to compete and to complete on the journey of life. God wants us to have the fear in our going and He does not exclude any age or group from having His fear when He commanded, “Gather the people together, men and women and little ones, and the stranger who is within your gates, that they may hear and that they may learn to fear the LORD your God and carefully observe all the words of this law, 13 and that their children, who have not known it, may hear and learn to fear the LORD your God as long as you live in the land which you cross the Jordan to possess.” (Deuteronomy 31:12)
HEAR AND LISTEN
Are you going to be hearing what it takes to learn to fear Him so that His fear will begin to go before you? What is it that could possibly deny you from hearing and not learn how to fear Him? Jesus, in one of His speeches to His disciples pointed out the solution to not being able to hear when He posed a question and responded with the answer, “Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word.” (John 8:43) The avoidance of hearing disability will lead to the abundance of having His fear reign and rule in our lives. The evidence of listening and hearing the word indeed is in the manifestation of His word in our life. God wants us to have all the blessings available but the fear of His holy name has to be in place. He promised in Jeremiah 32:40, “…I will put My fear in their hearts so that they will not depart from Me.” The fear of God going before us will deliver it all of His blessing. Ask God to overtake you with His fear.

To fear God is to love God; to love God is to serve God.
When there is no failure in hearing, faith will pass you on to fearing Him and having His fear go before you.
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