Fear is one of the greatest tools satan uses to keep keep Christians defeated, complacent, controlled, stagnant, etc. When Goliath faced the Israelites, it was fear that kept them from victory...until David came along. David found is identity in God. He spent time with God. Fear had no hold on David. He trusted in God more than his circumstances. For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and sound mind!