“Surge in COVID-19.”  “New Delta variant, racing across the U.S.”  “Death’s soar.”  “Hospitals are once again full!”  “Vaccinations are not safe!”  The unvaccinated are causing the issue!”  Everywhere we turn, fear-mongering news headlines and evil forebodings are peddled on us by both the news and social media. 

Weeks ago, when this began, I started praying against fear. It seems to me that the end-goal is to create fear, so that we will buy anything they say without question and do whatever told without researching it for ourselves. 

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I wish we had a government we could trust to tell us the absolute truth; unfortunately, we do not. It would be nice if we could trust the news to report only truth—but I don’t believe that is happening either. 

As I prayed this week concerning how to help others combat fear, God gave me a dream. 

In my dream, grasshoppers had been brought into the house through an outside source. At first there were only a couple of grasshoppers jumping around. Because there were only a couple, people ignored them believing they would go back out the same way they had come in.  

But they did not. 

The next morning, they had multiplied tremendously. Now there were dozens and dozens of grasshoppers everywhere—all varied sizes. 

The grasshoppers were getting in homes everywhere—one or two at a time. Because they were not immediately dealt with, they multiplied until they were taking over the house. People could no longer live peacefully in their own homes due to the massive number of grasshoppers. 

Then I woke up. 

Grasshoppers are often used to symbolize an insignificant crowd of people who lived in fear of those bigger and mightier than them, symbolizing inferiority, timidity, and fear. 

We see this truth play out in Numbers 13:33 which says, And we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight.  

God told Moses to send out twelve spies to check out the land He promised to give them. The spies went out and sure enough the land was just as God said. It flowed with milk and honey and with wonderful fruit; fruit so big that they had to carry one cluster of grapes between two men. However, if you remember, ten of the twelve spies only saw the problems. They saw the giants and walled cities. As a result, they appeared small in their own eyes.  

What they were seeing reflected the faith that was on the inside of them. This alone kept them from every promise that God had delivered them out of bondage for. Instead, they wandered around the wilderness for forty years. 

Fear of the giants kept them from their promise. Will we, as the Church, allow that same thing to happen to us? They feared those they thought were more powerful than their God. 

I see many similarities today. I believe we are in a season where our Promised Land is once again before us. It is the promise of God to heal our nation, just as His Word says.  

However, those we perceive as being more powerful than us or having more authority than us are doing everything in their power to keep us out of that land of promise. 

These are our giants—at least many perceive them as such. They are using the same weapon we saw in the scripture—fear.  

It is the enemy’s weapon of choice. If he can get us into fear, we will be paralyzed and will not continue to move forward. Have you ever seen a fearful animal? It stops in its tracks and refuses to move. This happens to us spiritually when we allow fear to dominate our life. 

For this reason, we MUST resist fear with everything inside of us. We cannot allow fear to come into our hearts and into our homes. If we do even a little bit, just like the grasshoppers in my dream, fear will quickly multiply until it consumes us and our household. 

God commanded us 365 times in the Bible… DO NOT FEAR…FEAR NOT…DON’T BE AFRAID. 

God never wanted us to be timid or fearful. He has given us a Spirit of power, love, and a sound mind. We are above and not beneath. We fight from a place of victory. 

Grasshoppers also represent—the devourer. They devoured everything in their path in the Old Testament.  

The Bible says, Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. (1 Peter 5:8) 

Seeking whom he may devour. He cannot devour anyone that will not allow him to. Therefore, do NOT fall into the trap of fear. If you do, you may very well be devoured. 

Just as in the days of Moses, God has given us the land. But we must go in and take it. How do we do that? 

Refuse to fear.   

Don’t allow the news or social media to be the greatest influence in your daily life. That place belongs to God alone. Keep your eyes on God and His promises.  

You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You. (Is 26:3) 

Believe God and His Word.  

In the story referenced above, God told His people that He had given them the land. They simply needed to believe God more than what they could see. 

Blessed is she who believed, for there will be a fulfillment of those things which were told her from the Lord. (Luke 1:45) 

Resist the devil and everything he brings with him. 

The Bible teaches us to resist satan and he must flee. Remember, he is seeking someone he may devour. That someone does not have to be you. You can choose to keep your eyes on God, submit to Him and resist the devil. As you do, he must go. That is a promise from God. 

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. (James 4:7)

Once again, we stand at the precipice of our Promised Land, just as the children of Israel did in their day of crisis. Will we go in and possess the land? Or will we allow fear to keep us out? I say we go in with prayers and decrees blazing! How about you?  

Kim Potter is a writer and the founder of A New Thing Ministries, which sends a daily teaching to thousands of people all around the world. Her articles have appeared on The Elijah List, Charisma, Spirit Fuel and iBelieve.com. Kim’s message is one of hope. She speaks to the heart of those who have grown discouraged or disappointed by the circumstances of life, imparting hope. To receive her daily inspirational writings, go to www.anewthingministries.com. (Photo Credit: Boris Smokrovic).