I used to “repent” and feel so bad when I messed up, asking God to forgive me. I used to think that He would end up coming back the moment that I just sinned and without enough time to repent and ask for forgiveness, I would go to hell. I had very little knowledge of the scripture. When I came to understand repentance, things changed. I used to feel bad, beat myself up, cry, use emotion and promise that I would never do it again lest I fall into “false repentance”. All these ideas I believed were far from the Truth. My ideas were mostly derived from Old Covenant history, rather than New Covenant reality. The word...

There is no reason that anyone would choose a life of fear on purpose, especially if they have experienced freedom. The problem is, most people only know fear and have to be shown freedom to understand or even accept it. When someone lives in fear for so long, they begin to believe that it’s normal. Fear is not normal. Fear is a prison. I used to be bound by fear. Religion is a great proponent of fear. Fear is used to control, intimidate and manipulate people and ironically used by those who are living in fear themselves. Fear is truly putting “faith” into a possible negative outcome. Fear is the opposite of love and has no positive...