The words I will are among the strongest in the English language. When you say, “I will not fear,” you’re taking on the nature of Christ and making a quality decision — one with no debate and no turning back. You’re declaring, “Regardless of what happens around me, I refuse to fear. I’m living a fear-free life.”
That’s a bold declaration. Yet as a believer, you can make it with complete confidence, for the very same reason the psalmist could: the Lord is on your side! God was so committed to blessing you that He sent Jesus to shed His precious blood to redeem you — spirit, soul and body — from every work of the devil. This is the Creator of the heavens and the earth, the Almighty One, the One for whom nothing is impossible. With Him on our side, nothing can overcome us.
Fear doesn’t even come naturally to us as believers. When we received Jesus as Lord, our old sin-and-fear-infested nature died, and we received the nature of Christ. In Him, we have “become a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new” (2 Corinthians 5:17-18, KJV).
Making “I Will Not Fear” a Common Saying in Your Life
As God’s born-again child, your reborn spirit doesn’t produce fear — it produces faith. God did not give you “the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, ‘Abba, Father'” (Romans 8:15, NKJV). If fear still feels natural, it’s only because you’ve been practicing it. But your spirit doesn’t produce it any more.
Abba means “Daddy” — a term of belonging, quite different from the more formal “Father.” Rather than backing away from God, we can run to Him the way a child runs to a father holding an ice-cream cone, crying out, “Daddy, I want some of that!” The very word daddy reveals the depth of a child’s trust.
Boldness Is Required in a Fear-Free Life
“I will not fear” doesn’t come from our own courage — it comes from living out our new nature in Christ. A child secure in their father’s love would never crawl in on their knees begging for crumbs. Yet believers often pray exactly that way: “Father, if I can just have the crumbs off Your table, that will be enough.” There’s no faith in that — only fear. If a child is afraid of their parents, something is wrong in that relationship. We defeat fear with our words, believing what we say when we tell the devil (and ourselves), “My Father loves me, I will not fear.
Different Laws, Different Results
Spiritual laws govern the spirit realm much like the laws of physics govern the natural world. God’s law of life produced nothing but blessing — until the law of sin and death perverted it, bringing forth the curse. That law is still active today, but you don’t have to live under it. Through the plan of Redemption, God established a higher law — the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus. It’s the law that took effect when you were born again, delivering you from darkness into God’s kingdom, so that even in a cursed world, you can enjoy His life and blessing.
And you will believe the next time you proclaim, “I will not fear!”
