Does God give Christians a spirit of fear about the future?
No. Scripture declares that God has not given believers a spirit of fear. Instead, Christians need not shake in their boots or be scared about tomorrow or what lies down the road. God gives a spirit of power, and He is the Creator who spoke the Word in the universe.
Les teaches from 2 Timothy 1:7 that God has not given us the spirit of fear. This is a comfort: believers do not have to sit and shake in their boots, scared to death of what will happen tomorrow, the next day, or down the road. We are not living under a spirit of fear, but we operate under a spirit of power. Les reminds us that our God is the one who spoke the Word in the universe, and he illustrates God's greatness by noting the vast number of stars compared with grains of sand.
For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.