How to Profit from Your Fears (1)

Dear reader, do you know that some people are profiting from the fears of others? They way it is done is this: first, they create fear in people’s mind. Second, they announce that they have the solutions to what the people are afraid of. And third, they sell the solution to the people.

Some marketers are using this method to sell their products. They create fear in you and then they sell their products to you as solution to what you are afraid of.

But dear reader, do you know that you can profit from your own fears? Do you know that there are biblical principles you can apply to leverage on your fears? You don’t have to allow fear to ruin you. You need not allow fear to hold you down from making progress in life. Profiting from your fears is an art you must master, if you really want to achieve great success in life.

The Truth About Fear

The whole truth about fear is that when it comes to success, prosperity, breakthroughs and victories, there is nothing to fear at all.

The starting point to profiting from your fear is realizing that over 98% of those things we fear never happen. Fear is a weapon satan uses to hold us back from getting to where God wants us to be. Prolific playwright, William Shakespeare wrote: “Our doubts are traitors. They make us lose the good we oft might gain by fearing to attempt.”

Outstanding Lessons from the Four Lepers

The story of the four lepers during the great famine in Samaria vividly illustrate how to handle fears and profit from it (2 Kings 7:3-10).

These four lepers were slowly dying of starvation caused by the famine in the land of Samaria. At the entrance of the city where they sat, they deliberated on what to do to survive. But they were afraid of taking an action. They were filled with apprehension of the negative consequence of each action they wanted to take.

As a result of this, they argued among themselves. But the argument was not helping them. They must do something quickly or else they starve. At last, they summoned up the courage to move from the place they were sitting to the enemies’ stronghold (Syrian camp).

It was a big risk they took, but it paid off! The dreaded Syrian troops were not there. Their camp was empty. They left their food, clothes, silver and gold and ran away.

This risky decision they took landed them in fame and fortune as they took as much silver, gold, food and clothing as they could. They also saved the entire country of Samaria when they informed the king of their discovery.

There are great lessons we can learn from these four lepers, which we can apply in our own lives for our own profit. Below are some of these lessons:

1. Take Decision Quickly

Every important decision you wish to take is laden with risk. The fear of risking one’s life and fortune and the fear of failure are responsible for people’s underachievement in life. Many people prefer doing nothing at all to attempting to do something and fail.

Dear reader, the greatest mistake you can make in life is doing nothing for fear of making a mistake or fear of failure.

Don’t waste your time debating on what to do or not to do. After you have considered both decisions, quickly decide on better steps to take and take the steps right away. 

Never sit down doing nothing because of fear of failure or fear of making a mistake. Regardless of all the decisions you are contemplating, the fact is, no decision is entirely free of risk. Every decision has its risk and apprehension, but the worse thing to do is to sit down and do nothing.

To profit from your fears, the first step to take is to decide quickly on what to do. REGARDLESS OF YOUR FEARS, TAKE A DECISION THAT YOU BELIEVE WILL YIELD GREATER DIVIDENDS. You need to ask yourself: “In spite of my fears, apprehension and doubt, do I stand to profit greatly from the decision I want to take?

Once you are convinced about what you stand to gain from the decision you are about to take, never allow fears to hold you down from doing what you planned to do. Ignore your fears. FOCUS ON THE BENEFIT YOU WILL GET FROM THE DECISION YOU WISH TO TAKE. LET THE BENEFIT YOU WILL ENJOY INSPIRE AND MOTIVATE YOU TO TAKE DECISION QUICKLY.

2. What You Fear Holds the Treasure You Are Seeking

It was Walt Disney that said: “The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you are seeking.” Disney knew this from personal experience. When he set out to build the greatest entertainment park in the world, he had some apprehension about the great project he wanted to embark upon. But he never allowed the apprehension to hold him down from actualizing his project.

He kept working towards achieving his goal. It was reliably reported that Disney approached 301 banks for loan to enable him execute his project, but they all turned him down. The banks were afraid of losing their money if Disney’s project failed.

But Disney kept focusing on the great benefit of his project to humanity and kept searching until a bank finally gave him the nod.

What is that cave you are afraid of entering? What is it you want to accomplish that you are afraid of embarking on? The truth is, what you are afraid of holds the treasure you are seeking. And the way to miss the treasure is to allow fear to hold you down from doing something tangible to acquire the treasure.

TO PROFIT FROM YOUR FEAR, YOU MUST FOCUS ON THE TREASURE. The four lepers focused on the benefit they would obtain from the decision they wanted to take. This gingered them to move from their stagnant position (poverty situation) to prosperity position.

Disney also focused on the great benefit of his project and this gingered him to minimize his apprehension and increase his faith until he eventually found a way of accomplishing the project.

Dear reader, don’t allow fears to rule you. YOU CAN PROFIT FROM YOUR FEARS AND THE WAY TO PROFIT FROM YOUR FEARS IS TO MINIMIZE THEM AND FOCUS ON THE TREASURES THAT LIE BEYOND THOSE FEARS.

Mary Morrissey said: “YOU BLOCK YOUR DREAM WHEN YOU ALLOW YOUR FEARS TO GROW BIGGER THAN YOUR FAITH.”

To profit from your fears, you must minimize them and focus on the profit. When you focus on the profit, fears can’t hold you down. The profit you are focusing on will motivate you to do what needs to be done to obtain the profit you are seeking.

3. Most Fears Are Illusion

One truth you must establish in your mind, if you want to achieve great success in life is that most fears we entertain in our mind never happen.

Someone defines FEAR as “False Experience Appearing Real.” Most things we fear all the time never happen. This is one reason you should not entertain or allow fear to hold you back from moving forward into prosperity.

Why sit there until you die? This is the kind of question the four lepers pondered before they finally summoned up the courage to move into a seemingly danger-zone, but which eventually turned out to be a prosperity-zone.

The four lepers stood the chance of being killed by the Syrian army, but they did not allow the fear of being killed to stop them from getting to their camp. Hear them: “…Why sit we here until we die. If we say, we will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.” (2 Kings 7:3-4)

And when they got there, were they killed? No! In fact, the blood-thirsty Syrian armies were not there in their camp. You see, sometimes the thing we are afraid of is just an illusion, they rarely happen. FEAR IS A WEAPON SATAN USES TO HOLD US BACK FROM GETTING TO WHERE GOD WANTS US TO BE.

Don’t fold your arms doing nothing because of fear of failure, fear of making a mistake or fear of danger. The truth is, WHENEVER YOU REFUSE TO STEP OUT AND DO SOMETHING WORTHWHILE BECAUSE OF FEAR, YOU ARE MISSING GREAT TREASURES GOD HAS PACKAGED FOR YOU.    

Dear reader, it is true that people who understand this principle are making fortunes from their fears. It is true that you also can make fortunes from your fears. You need not allow fear to hold you down from making progress in life. The way to make fortunes from your fears is:

• Don’t waste too much time vacillating, or moving back and forth. Take decision quickly and act on that decision quickly.

• Never sit down doing nothing because of fear of failure, fear of making a mistake or fear of danger. Be ready to fail, be ready to make a mistake and be ready to encounter risk.

• Regardless of your fears, take a decision that you believe will yield greater dividends and act on that decision quickly.

• Focus on the benefit you will obtain from the decision you have taken and never turn back from working hard to achieve your set goal.

• The very cave you fear to enter is the cave you must enter because that is where you will find the treasure you are looking for.

• Fear should ginger you to find ways of executing your project.

• Minimize your fears and focus on the greater benefit of the project you wish to accomplish.

Start making fortunes from your fears by practicalising the instructions contained herein. You are on the path to abundance, success and victorious living!

Until I come your way soon, go and live victoriously!

NB: the second part of this article will be coming your way soon. Watch out for it. You must not miss it!