Do It Afraid-FULL SERMON | Joyce Meyer

Discover how to overcome fear with faith in Joyce Meyer’s sermon, “Do It Afraid.” Learn practical, biblical insights to confront life’s challenges, even when fear tries to hold you back. If you’re ready to take bold steps and trust God’s promises, this message will inspire you to move forward courageously. – – – – – – – Follow Joyce: WEBSITE: https://joycemeyer.org FACEBOOK:   / joycemeyerministries   INSTAGRAM:   / joycemeyer   X (Formerly Twitter): https://www.x.com/JoyceMeyer/ – – – – – – – Joyce Meyer, one of the world’s leading practical Bible teachers and New York Times best-selling author, shares encouragement and advice to help us enjoy our daily lives. With a heart to share Christ and love people, Joyce’s messages help people in all walks of life to grow in their faith, learn to study the Bible, find healing from the wounds of life, get answers to life’s questions and encounter the love of God in a powerful way. #JoyceMeyer#EnjoyingEverydayLife

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well welcome to Enjoying Everyday Life I

hope that you really enjoy yourself

today and I’m going to talk to you today

about fear we all experience fear in our

lives fear brings torment and God has

not given us a spirit of fear but of

power and love and a sound mind and I

don’t know what you might be dealing

with right now but it might be safe to

say that a good majority of people

watching today are battling with fear of

some kind and you know the psalmist

David said I will not fear what can man

do unto me and I don’t think that David

was talking about I’m not going to feel

fear I think he was making a

declaration I will not fear and I think

it’s a decision that we all have to make

and possibly very often in our lives and

there’s really only one way to conquer

and overcome fear and that’s with faith

when fear knocks on your door send Faith

to answer fear and faith are two

opposing forces we receive everything

from God by faith and we receive

everything the enemy wants for us by

fear so we really must learn to choose

to live by faith in Romans 14:23 there’s

a scripture that is just astounding to

me and every time I look at it I have to

just go wow and it it ends by saying

whatever is not of faith is sin now just

imagine that God wants us to live from

Faith to Faith to Faith to Faith to

Faith not from Faith to fear and doubt

and unbelief and Dread and then throwing

a little more faith he wants us to

consistently live by faith and that just

simply means putting your trust in God

believing that he loves you that He sent

Jesus to die for you that he has a good

plan for your life and that he’s

promised to never leave you or forsake

you many of the places in the word of

God where the Bible says do not fear the

only reason that they give for not

fearing is because I am with you God

sayso not fear for I am with you and I

want you to just get a handle on that

right now just grasp that fact that God

is with you Jesus said I will never

leave you nor forsake you and you know

most of the time the things that we fear

the fear we experience is actually worse

and more tormenting than if the thing

actually did happen but fear f a r

sometimes is said to stand for false

evidence appearing real the enemy can

make us afraid of things that will

actually never happen in our life and

cause us torment that whole time and so

we’re always going to experience the

feeling of fear but we can learn how to

do it afraid I heard a story many years

ago that really really helped me

concerning fear I had taught on fear a

lot but I always kind of felt like I was

missing something and I didn’t know

exactly what it was and then I heard a

story about a woman who had

really just let fear rule her whole life

and I don’t know where you’re at in the

area of fear or what level of fear you

have or maybe you don’t have any but

maybe you’ve got so many fears that you

could never even write them all down on

a piece of paper but this poor woman she

was afraid to drive at night she was

afraid of heights she was afraid of the

dark she was she was just afraid of so

many things and she was a Christian she

was a believer

and one of her Christian friends stopped

by and she was doing what she did a lot

she was complaining about what all had

been stolen from her because of fear and

she was talking about some particular

thing that she had wanted to do but she

was afraid to do it and you know how how

bad she felt that she was robbed of that

and her friend looked at her and simply

saidwell why don’t you just do it afraid

well because God was trying to teach me

something I mean I got that right

away but I want to try to unpack that

for you today you know when God says

fear not he’s not telling us not to feel

fear I actually think it’s kind of a a

warning that you will feel fear and I

don’t know if this is 100% accurate or

not but I’ve heard it said that there

are

365

different scriptures or references about

fear in the Bible so that would be one

for every day of the week and I think

that fear is the main thing that Satan

uses to try to control people fear keeps

you from going forward how many things

do you think that the enemy has stolen

from you are kept you from doing just

because of fear and so we have to learn

that we don’t have to bow down to fear

just because we feel fear do it afraid

well what does that mean you may shake

you may feel nervous you may sweat you

might feel like you’re going to faint

and fall over but that still doesn’t

mean that you can’t do it while you feel

that way courage is

actually taking Forward Motion in the

presence of fear courage is not not

feeling fear courage is feeling the fear

and doing what you believe God wants you

to do anyway and I’ve had many instances

in my life where I’ve had to do that

actually I would not be in Ministry

today had I not been willing to step out

and do it

afraid and so I want to talk to you a

lot about faith and also some about fear

and I’m hoping and praying that the word

is going to penetrate deep into your

heart and that you’re going to really

find some help with this area of fear I

believe that whatever the word is

preaching on that there’s power to

deliver people in that area so I’m

believing today that as you hear this

word there’s power available to deliver

you if you’ll reach out and take it

Hebrews

11:6 and without faith it is impossible

to please God for whoever comes to him

must believe that he is and that he is

the rewarder of those who diligently

seek him so God wants us to believe to

believe first of all that he is that he

exists and he wants us to believe that

he’s

good believe that God exists and believe

that he’s good that’s the beginning you

know so often we wonder what does God

want from us sometimes I say I think

there’s a little demon that is sent to

sit on our shoulder every day and just

whisper in our ear here all day long

what are you going to do what are you

going to do what are you going to do you

know everybody seems to want to know

what we’re going to do and some of the

disciples went to Jesus and asked this

is recorded in John 6:28 2728 29 what

must we do to please

God what must we

do to be doing the works that God wants

us to

do and the answer came back this is the

work that God requires of you

that you believe in the one whom he has

sent can you imagine that what does God

want me to do he wants me to believe

well yeah I know that but what does he

want me to do well yes there are things

that God will give us to do but Faith

always has to come

first first you have faith and that

Faith enables you to take bold steps to

do whatever it is you believe that God

has asked you to do

I’m always amazed when I think about

when Joshua was going to take the

children of Israel into the promised

land he had to cross the Jordan well it

was too deep for them to

cross and so God told them to go forward

well you got this whole Jordan River in

front of you but the thing I find so

interesting is the water didn’t part

until he put his foot in it you’ve heard

people say well I put my foot in it now

and what they mean by that is okay I’m

out into this now if God doesn’t help me

I’m going to surely fail and God wants

us to do that he wants us to take steps

of faith based on what we believe that

he has spoken to us whether we feel like

it or not and many times we feel like

God doesn’t show up right until that

very second when we take that step but a

lot of people are not ever willing to

take that step they want to feel like

they want to feel courage they don’t

want to have to have any fear while they

do it and that’s just not the way that

God works I can tell you that every time

that I step up on the platform I don’t

know exactly what God is going to do

until I open my mouth and see what comes

out now by now I’ve had a lot of

experience with God and so I know that

he’s not going to let me down but you

know a lot of times no matter how much I

study or what kind of plan I make it

comes out differently than what I

thought

that it

would what must we do to be doing the

works of God this is what God requires

of you that you

believe you know when lazarus’s family

was waiting for Jesus to come and they

had called for

Jesus when Lazarus was still alive and

was just sick but the word of God says

that he purposely

waited until

Lazarus was dead actually by the time he

got there Lazarus had already been dead

four days and the Bible says that he

loved Lazarus so in our Natural State we

might think well what kind of love is

that you know you didn’t come and help

me when I needed you so when he did show

up of course Martha said if you would if

you would have been here my brother

would not have

died and Jesus told them have I not told

you to only believe and you would see

the glory of God the glory of God is a

manifestation of his

Excellence Jesus of course was not

threatened by the fact that Lazarus was

dead because he knew that he had the

resurrection power to raise him from the

dead but I like the fact that he said to

them have I not told you if you would

only believe that’s what the classified

Amplified says if you would only believe

you know I think a lot of times that all

we need to do we just need to only

believe just keep believing that God is

going to do something you know he

doesn’t always do exactly what we want

him to do but God always does something

and he always does the thing that’s

right for our lives it may not be what

we thought he should do but we can learn

to trust him more than we trust

ourselves I was thinking this morning

how how sometimes when we greet each

other

when we greet each each other sometimes

somebody will saywell how do you do and

I thought you know that’s really kind of

a a goofy way to greet somebody you know

we need to care more about the person

than we do what they do but we are so

doing oriented we feel like that that’s

how we get approval from God by doing

and that’s how we get approval from

people by doing and yes God wants us to

do things but first he wants us to have

faith and then when we have the faith

the things that we do coming out of that

faith will be much easier for us than if

we had tried to do them without that and

you might say well wait a minute Joyce I

just I just don’t have faith for that I

just I I just don’t have any faith and

you know what that’s absolutely untrue

because the Bible says in Romans 12:3

that God has given unto every man The

Measure of Faith you say well what does

that that mean that means that everybody

has enough Faith to do whatever it is

God assigns them to do for by the grace

given unto me I say to everyone among

you do not think of yourself more highly

than you ought to think but think with

sober judgment each according to the

measure of faith that God has assigned

him you know we look at some people and

we see the things that are going on in

their lives and you

know I mean maybe I see someone

and there was a car accident and they

lost three of their children at one time

and I think I I don’t know how I don’t

know how you do that I I don’t know how

you ever recover from that well see I

don’t have the grace to do what they did

so naturally I can’t understand it or I

see somebody

who’s living with an alcoholic husband

and trying to hang in there and pray for

him because she believes that’s what God

wants her to do and I think I I don’t

know if I could do that but see what

whatever God wants us to do he gives us

the faith the grace to be able to do

that people say to me all the time how

have you done everything that you’ve

done well it’s because I had the grace

of God on me he put the faith in me to

do it I look back and I think H how did

how did I ever do this I had didn’t have

the education to do it I didn’t have

anybody to help me do it I didn’t have

any money but I remember one of the

first really big opportunities that I

got I had taught small Bible studies and

done a few things but I was really

believing God to get to do bigger things

and I got invited to a conference at the

last second because one of the speakers

had cancelled which is not too exciting

to get it was exciting to get invited

but it’s not exciting to think that you

were an afterthought that you were like

the emergency person to bring in and so

a lot lot of the other people that were

at that conference were well-known

bigname people and they all had fancy

titles doctor and Reverend and prophet

and prophetess and and then there was

Joyce well there were 900 people at this

conference which looked like 9 million

to me and I was only a workshop speaker

I

wasn’t one of the main speakers and so

they ask on the opening night for all

the workshop speakers to come up and

just give a about a one minute synopsis

of what they were going to talk about

the next day and I was so

scared so

scared

shaking

trembling mouth was dry I was so

frightened that actually when I opened

my mouth to try to say something all

that came out was a

squeak and you know I’m I’m pretty bold

so for me to say that my voice I was so

frightened that my voice wasn’t working

working I mean I was pretty frightened

well you know I still look back at that

night and I had a decision to make I

could either run off the stage in

embarrassment pack my stuff up and go

back to Fenton Missouri where I live

which is what the devil wanted me to do

or I could try one more time and believe

that God would come through and since

I’m still here it’s obvious that I tried

one more time and the next day my U

Workshop was completely full people

standing out in the hall trying to

listen and so God honored that step of

faith that I took but the waters didn’t

part until I put my foot in

it when fear comes to you you need to

open your mouth out loud and say I trust

God I trust God I don’t care if you have

to do it a thousand times every day you

say I trust God and remember we are

given enough Faith to do whatever it is

that we need to do but we

must choose it you know God has given us

Free

Will and that means that we get to make

choices about what we’re going to

believe and what we’re going to do and

you know if you really think about it

there’s a lot of opposing forces in the

world there’s good and evil there’s love

and hatred depression and joy harshness

and kindness noise and quiet positive

and negative and so really we we are

constantly making decisions about what

we’re going to do and I think that the

only acceptable attitude that a believer

in Jesus Christ can have is the same one

that the psalmist David had I will not

fear and I want you to get that on the

inside of you today I will not fear I

didn’t say I will not feel

fear you you’re going to feel fear at

different times in your life I do you

will everybody does and it’s probably

going to last as long as we live but we

don’t have to give into it we can answer

that fear with faith take a step and go

ahead and do what we believe that God

has asked us to do that’s the only way

that you’re ever going to be successful

in life you know God has planned a great

life for you and I want you to know that

think about that God is good and he has

planned a great life for you John 10:10

Jesus said the thief comes only to kill

steal and destroy but I came that you

might have and enjoy your life and have

it in abundance to the full until it

overflows we read in many different

places in the Bible that God wants to

bless us and and he wants to use us in

Mighty ways and he wants to meet our

needs

and he wants to do great things for us

and through us he’s good and God has a

good plan for your life and I feel that

somebody really needs to grab hold of

that today because right now it doesn’t

look to you like your life is very good

ever has been very good and the enemy is

telling you it never will be any good

but I want to say to you only believe

and you will see the glory of God see

believing is your choice what you

believe is your choice you can believe

well nothing Good’s ever going to happen

to me or you can believe something good

is going to happen to me today that’s

something that I try to say every day

something good is going to happen to me

today and something good is going to

happen through me today and to stay in

faith Romans 1:17 says in the in the

word of God there is a righteousness

revealed which is a a position that we

have with God by his grace and mercy

because we believe in Jesus he makes us

right with him even though we don’t do

everything right he views us as being

right with him do you know that every

time you come to the father in jesus’

name what you’re saying is that you’re

presenting unto the father everything

that Jesus is thank God when I go to him

in prayer I’m not presenting everything

that Joyce is because I fall very short

of being what I’m sure God would want me

to be but because I have my faith in

Jesus faith faith faith faith because I

have my faith in Jesus I don’t have to

approach the throne with fear and

trembling thinking God doesn’t want to

hear from me you know what God gets so

excited about hearing your voice every

time you come and every time you pray

he’s so excited to hear what you have to

say and he wants to help you and he

wants to do things for you but you have

to believe and believe all the way

through in Mark 11 it says that we can

speak to mountains and they’ll

move that when we pray

whatever we ask for if we believe we

have received it we will get it and I

love that so there’s a space of time

between believing that I’ve received it

by faith and actually getting it and

it’s during that testing time when I

need to keep my faith strong and I need

to keep saying I’m believing and I

believe that God is working you should

try that when your faith starts to feel

weak say I’m believing and I believe

that God is working there’s scripture

that actually says as long as we believe

God will keep working in

US walk in

faith a walk is many

steps many decisions what are you going

to do if you don’t trust God you’re

going to be

miserable it’s time to start trusting

God more and more doesn’t matter how you

feel you say I’ve trust God I trust God

I put my faith in God I will not fear

what can man do unto

me

Joshua chapter 1 it’s actually nine

verses but I’m not going to read them

all it says after the death of Moses the

servant of the Lord the Lord said to

Joshua the son of none Moses’s

assistant Moses my servant is now dead

so so therefore arise go over this

Jordan you and all these people into the

land that I am giving to them to the

people of

Israel now listen to this and every

place that the soul of your foot will

tread upon I have given it to you just

as I promised to Moses so God says I’ve

already given it to you but you’re going

to have to go in and take it I love that

there’s such a good plan for your life

laid out in front of you

but you’re going to have to shake off

that Despair and depression and

discouragement and the negative attitude

and the negative thoughts and the

self-pity and the being mad at everybody

who’s ever hurt you and say I’m going to

live the life that God wants me to live

he’s there to help

you God is in you the holy spirit is in

you he’ll give you the strength to do

what you need to do so he said the good

plan is already there you just have to

go out and take it and then a couple of

in verse five he says be strong and

courageous for you shall cause this

people to inherit the land verse n have

I not commanded you be strong and

courageous don’t be frightened nor

dismayed for the Lord your God is with

you wherever you

go he had a good plan for their life and

all they had to do was be bold enough to

take steps of Faith to go out and take

it God said as I was with most Moses I

will be with you he didn’t tell him go

be like

Moses sometimes I think we get caught in

the Trap of thinking well you know I’m

not like them and I’m not like them and

I’m not like them but you don’t have to

be like somebody else as long as God is

with you whatever you’re lacking God

will make up for that he’s more than

enough for every single one of us and he

can help us do whatever we need to do in

life you need to forgive somebody and

you feel like you just can’t do it God

can give you the grace to do

that you need to you really feel like

you want to apply for a new position at

work but you’re afraid that you’ll get

rejected well do it afraid if you let

fear rule your life you’re never going

to find out about the wonderful life

that God has for you we’re talking about

fear something that we all experience at

different times in our life some people

have a lot of fear others may not have

as much but but as long as we live there

will always be times when fear will

visit us and fear is from the devil God

has not given us a spirit of fear but

he’s given us a spirit of power love and

a sound mind and the only thing I think

that actually defeats fear is Faith when

fear

comes that doesn’t mean we can’t do what

we believe we’re supposed to do or what

we want to do it’s simply simply means

that that fear is trying to prevent us

from doing it but you can still do it

even while you feel

fear thus the title of the message that

I preach a lot and have written a new

book on called do it

afraid you can do things while you feel

afraid I have a friend who was afraid to

fly and her husband flies all the time

for business and their kids were grown

gone and she could have gone on so many

trips with him and they could have added

some days for personal time or vacation

or whatever but she wouldn’t go unless

they could drive so sometimes they were

taking like long I mean like 20 plus

hour drives just in order for her to go

and so she had heard my message on do it

afraid and at some point she decided

that she was going to do just that she

was going to do it afraid and she shares

with me that the first few times she got

on an airplane she felt like she was

going to throw up she was nervous she

just didn’t know if she could do it felt

like she was having a panic attack but

she kept pressing in and saying no I’m

going to do this even if I have to do it

afraid and you know what now she has no

fear of flying at all and she goes with

her husband all the time and they have

such a wonderful time don’t let fear

steal your life life don’t let fear

steal your relationships don’t let fear

steal your joy God wants you to have a

good life but one thing’s for sure you

have an enemy his name is Satan or the

devil and he does not want you to enjoy

your life he wants you to be afraid all

the

time one some of the times when we are

afraid the most is when when we’re

waiting for God to do something in our

life maybe when you prayed about it you

just felt full of faith and you were

sure that God was going to come through

for you and do what you needed him to do

but it’s been a long time since you

prayed that prayer and so doubt is

seeping in and the lies of Satan are

coming on a regular basis it’s not going

to happen it’s not going to happen uh

there’s no telling us what all you might

hear God’s mad at you he’s not going to

do that for you your faith isn’t strong

enough there could be numerous so many

lies that you couldn’t even count them

all but that’s exactly when you need to

have

faith Paul wrote to Timothy and said you

have to fight the good fight of faith

and we do fight but it’s a different

fight than the kind of fights that

people have in the natural we lift up

the shield of Faith which is a piece of

armor that God has given us Spiritual

armor talked about in Ephesians chapter

six and we say no matter what I feel

like no matter how long it’s been I

believe God you know I can’t tell you

why some things take longer than others

do sometimes I’ll pray a prayer and

it’ll be answered within a day or so and

then sometimes I’ve prayed prayers that

by the time God answers them I forgot I

even prayed it and he has to remind me

don’t you remember back when you prayed

that prayer I don’t know only God knows

timing and I think if you ever want to

have any peace and enjoy your life you

have to believe that God’s timing is

perfect for you the psalmist said my

times are in your hands and one of the

things that we go through all the time

is we have this this question all the

time God when God whenn when God when

when are we going to get there well you

know to be honest that’s part of the

baby stage of Christianity if you recall

if you have children when they were

small and you went on a trip are we

there yet are we there yet when are we

going to get there when are we going to

get there and God would rather

hear I know that you’re going to come

through at the exact right time you know

just because God hasn’t manifested your

breakthrough yet doesn’t mean that he’s

not working on it and so one of the

things that I’ve learned to say when

doubt comes to me is God is

working instead of God aren’t you doing

anything or why aren’t you doing

anything

don’t say that because God is always

working in your behalf say God is

working you know God gives us desires he

gives us dreams and hope for our

lives but he hides the exact timing of

when these things will

Manifest this he reserves for his

wisdom why does God withhold information

from us about timing well first of all

sometimes if we knew how long we had to

wait we would give up before we ever

really got

started sometimes if we knew what we

were going to have to go through while

we’re waiting we would give up before we

ever got started and I personally

believe that God likes a little mystery

I think it’s good for us to not know

everything one of my favorite types of

movies to watch is our mystery movies I

love that watching and being on edge and

waiting to see when it’s going to happen

and waiting to see the outcome who did

it or whatever the case might be and I

think that

mystery actually gives us some

excitement I mean we always think we’d

love to know the future but would we

really would you really want to know

everything that was going to happen to

you the rest of your life and exactly

when it was going to happen I don’t

think so because first of all if you

knew all about the good things you

wouldn’t be as excited when you get them

and if you knew all about the more

difficult things you would be frightened

all that time and the thing is is when

you know things ahead of time you’re

looking at them without the grace of God

but when the time

comes for something to really happen

that you do have to deal with or go

through then you have the grace and the

faith to do that God never leaves us

without the help that we need to do

whatever it is that we need to do and I

can tell you that every everybody waits

you’re not the only one that Waits

everybody waits it’s part of our test of

faith and believe it or not you’re

growing spiritually while you’re waiting

especially if you learn how to wait well

you know patience is not just the

ability to wait but it’s how we behave

while we wait come on now somebody needs

to get a hold of that today patience is

not just

waiting if God says you’re going to wait

then you’re going to wait but you can

wait the right way or you can wait in a

way that makes you

miserable so waiting is not just sitting

around waiting for something to happen

or patience is not just waiting for

something to happen but a patient person

knows how to behave while they’re

waiting so one of the things we need to

do while we wait is keep saying God I

trust you I believe your plan for my

life is good and I believe that your

timing

in my life is

perfect Moses waited 40

years for God to use him to bring

Deliverance to his people God spoke to

him and he jumped out ahead of time

and tried to help the people before the

time was right and he ended up getting

in trouble and being accused of some

things and he he fled and ran from Egypt

and lived out in the wilderness for 40

years and then

God called him to do what he had put in

his heart to do 40 years previously

remember he ran nobody told him to run

but he ran he ran out into the

Wilderness do you know that the word

fear doesn’t mean to shake or tremble or

to be nervous the word fear means to

take flight or to run from so when God

says in his word do not fear for I am

with you what he’s really saying is fear

is going to come to you but when you

feel it don’t run stand still and see

the salvation of the Lord which he will

work for you today I wonder how many

opportunities God has put in front of

you to do great things and yet you were

afraid of the

unknown so you stayed in what you think

is the safe

Zone but then if you look at your life

you feel

like it’s been boring no Adventure

no excitement well you know what it’s

your own fault because if you’re not

going to step out into the things that

God calls you out into you’re never

going to really experience the life that

he has for you I always say step out and

find out a lot of times people don’t

know what it is God wants them to do

well I don’t know what God wants me to

do with my life you know when I got into

a serious relationship with the Lord

back in the 70s God had touched my life

and filled me with the power of the Holy

Spirit and I’d been a Christian for a

long time but now I was an onire

Christian I mean I wanted to serve God

but I didn’t know what he wanted me to

do I didn’t know at that particular time

that I was called to teach the word of

God and I tell you what I did any

opportunity that came in front of me I

stepped out and tried it one of the

first things I did as a Ministry for God

was I went out with a group of people

from my church on Saturday mornings into

downtown St Louis which is the city that

I live in and we passed out gospel

tracks to be honest I wasn’t called to

Street evangelism it was hard for me to

do but it was an opportunity to do

something so I took a step to do it one

of the next things that I did was I

tried to work in the nursery they were

asking for nursery workers to help on

Sunday mornings and you know that lasted

about two weeks and me and the kids both

knew that I wasn’t called to Nursery

work but the first time I tried to teach

oh my I had found my slot you know you

got to find your place you got to find

the place that fits you the place that

fits inside of you and where you fit and

where you feel comfortable God’s not

going to call you to do something where

you have to be totally miserable all the

time while you’re doing it so I say step

out out and find out what God wants you

to

do you would be surprised what you’re

capable of if you would just step out

and find out what God can do through

you you’re never going to find out if

you’re right if you’re not willing to be

wrong come on I want somebody to hear

that you’re never going to find out if

you’re right if you’re not willing to be

wrong and it won’t be the end of the

world if you step out and try something

that you feel like you want to do or

that God wants you to do and it just

doesn’t work and you have to step back

and say well I made a mistake but at

least that’s something you can cross off

your list and say well I know now that’s

not what I’m supposed to do and I

believe there are people watching right

now that you really need to hear what

I’m saying because you are not happy

with your life but it’s because you’re

not taking any steps of faith

you you don’t have any Adventure because

you live too much in fear your

new attitude toward life has to be I

will not fear I didn’t say you wouldn’t

feel fear but you’re not going to give

into fear because God is with

you Joseph waited 14 years God gave him

a dream and I mean from there things got

bad you ever feel like God spoke to you

and then it’s just nothing but one

problem after another after another well

I’ve had that experience and so did

Joseph he had a dream and he shared it

with his brothers and they were jealous

so they went out hunting with him and

they ended up selling him to slave

Traders and killed an animal and rubbed

blood all over his clothes and took his

coat back to his father and said that an

animal had killed him well he ended up

in Egypt and everywhere that J Joseph

went God gave him favor I love the way

the Bible says it that Joseph’s brothers

hated him and they hated him all the

more but God was with

him God was with him do you see no

matter who’s against you and no matter

who tells you that you’re not enough and

you can’t and you’ll never be able to if

God is with you you can do anything that

God asks you to do it’s time for you to

live a braver life

it’s time for you to step out and find

out what all you’re capable

of Abraham waited 20

years after God gave him a promise that

he would have his own child and you talk

about somebody who was had reason

to doubt and not believe what God said

it was Abraham and Sarah I mean she was

past childbearing

age he was was almost hundred years old

and by then was not able to father a

child and yet God said I’m going to give

you your own child and the Bible says

that Abraham believed God and it was

counted to him as

righteousness you want to be right with

God

believe being right with God is not

about doing everything right it’s about

believing in the one whom he sent

John 6:

27-29 gives us a a wonderful explanation

of this when the disciples said what

must we do to be working the works of

God what must we do to please God and

the answer was this is the work that God

requires of you that you believe on the

one whom he has

sent so Abraham had an impossible

situation but all those things are

impossible possible with man all things

are possible with

God but he

waited 20 years he

waited well that’s a long time to have

to stand against

fear but he believed God and it was

counted unto him as righteousness let me

say it again you want to be right with

God trust him believe

him always believe that God is on your

side and he’s got a good plan for your

life and even when you sin and mess up

believe when you pray and ask for

forgiveness that God forgives you and he

removes your sin as far as the East is

from the

West you know sometimes I can teach a

message on faith and then find myself

later doubting whether or not my message

on faith was right so we all have to

make decisions all the time to stay in

faith you know I received a call from

God to do what I’m doing now in February

of 19

1976 and if you can count you know

that’s been a long time

ago 45 years 46 years something like

that and I started with very small

Beginnings don’t despise the day of

Small Beginnings for five years I taught

a a Bible study in my home with 25

people five years and I had quit a

full-time job where I made good money in

order to study and prepare to be able to

teach because I hadn’t been to Bible

College I didn’t have the education I

didn’t know how to do it but God assured

me that he did and if I would step out

in faith he would make it work and he

did and for five years the people came

and then I felt like God wanted me to

lay that down so I laid it down matter

of fact I thought I heard God say lay

this down behold I do a new thing well I

thought surely the new thing was going

to be that I was going to go to the

world now I was going to my dream was

going to be fulfilled and I was going to

teach large amounts of people in huge

meetings and travel overseas and do all

these things well the next thing that

happened was for one year I did

absolutely nothing it was just like God

set me up on a shelf and said let’s see

what you believe during this

year and you know what I didn’t know

what in the world was going on but I

look back now and I can see what God did

in me in that year was something that

had to be done before he could promote

me to another level because I had some

problems with comparing myself with

other people and God had to give me the

confidence to be

myself before he let me go to the

ministry that he had for me he didn’t

want me to go into Ministry and try to

copy and be like somebody else he wanted

me to follow him then the next thing I

did was I worked at a church for 5 years

under somebody else’s leadership and

that was wasn’t always easy because I

couldn’t just do everything I wanted to

do I had to come under

Authority and I say real often that

you’re not fit to be in Authority till

you know how to come under Authority so

I worked there for five years had a

great job had a women’s meeting there

that four or 500 people every week came

to and I got to do a lot of the

preaching when the pastor was gone and I

taught in Bible College and had a lot of

friends and it was a good job and then

God told me he was finished with me

there and I was to go North Southeast

and West the only problem was nobody

knew me North Southeast or west and so I

thought well where am I going to go oh

my gosh when I left I was so excited on

the inside and so frightened on the

outside have you ever felt like that

well see you have to go with the inside

what God gives you peace about inside

and what you know is right on the inside

is the thing you want to do not the

thing your flesh is telling you to do

and yes I was very frightened it took a

long time for us to start getting

speaking engagements and we started by

going on few more radio stations and

then we would travel to places where we

could drive to because we couldn’t

afford to fly and I won’t tell you the

whole story but it’s been a long journey

and it was a Journey of Faith and you

know today sometimes I just wish I could

sit down with some people and tell them

the whole story because people just they

think you know they should have money

and they should have this and they

should have that and something else and

I I think just faith I remember somebody

said to uh Mother Teresa before she went

to India because she didn’t have

anything she said I’ve got three pennies

in God and that’s all I need and she

went over there and did such tremendous

tremendous work you know don’t look at

what you don’t have look at the fact

that you have God and put your faith in

him and let your faith overcome those

fears and so now here I am all these

many years later doing what God called

me to do 46 years ago and I have been

doing it now for about 20 years but it

didn’t just happen

overnight God led me the long hard route

even though there was a place that was

near when God brought the Israelites out

of Egypt the Bible

says in Exodus 13:17 when Pharaoh let

the people go God did not lead them by

way of the land of the Philistines

although that was near for God said lest

the people change their minds when they

see war and return to Egypt now that

that’s very important because the thing

you have to understand is sometimes when

God leads you the long hard way it’s

actually an

education for what you’re going to do a

little bit later you have to go to the

school of the holy spirit before you’re

ready to be released into whatever it is

that God is calling you to do and so God

had told them that he was going to take

them to the promised land and that they

had to go in and possess it well you

know that sounds like well just go in

and there it is it’s yours but I was so

amazed when I studied the word possess

to find that it means to dispossess the

current occum occupants and that’s why

he said he led them the long hard way

because they were not yet Ready for War

they were going to have to take the land

God had given it to them but they had to

take it and God has arranged already

such a wonderful life for you but you’re

going to have to take it you can’t just

sit back and wait for everything to fall

on you you have to listen to the word of

God that comes to you in your heart and

make sure it lines up with scripture and

then step out in faith and do whatever

it is you believe that God has asked you

to do and he will never leave you nor

forsake forsake you well God trained

them while they were out in that

Wilderness and things were tough they

had to depend on God for every time for

everything they didn’t have food they

didn’t have water and they spent many

years with God sending food called Mana

every day and they couldn’t even gather

up a bunch of it and save it for later

they could only gather up one day supply

for one day except when it came to the

Sabbath and because they couldn’t work

on the Sabbath they got to gather two

days the day before well if you really

think about some of these things just

imagine how difficult that would be

because the thought would natur be there

well what if God doesn’t send any

tomorrow but if they gathered more than

what they needed for that day it would

rot and

stink and I think some people have

stinking lives because they’re not

willing to follow the leadership of God

and they’re always trying to provide for

themselves what only God can give them

if they will put their faith in God I’m

going to say that again because somebody

needs to hear it some people try to

provide for themselves what only God can

give and you need to start trusting God

and living by

faith I’ve been talking about fear and

overcoming fear with faith and learning

how to do it afraid so just in case you

haven’t been watching what do I mean

when I say do it afraid well the word

fear

actually means to take flight or to run

away from and there’s many places in the

Bible where it says fear not for I am

with you now God wasn’t telling the

people that he was talking to not to

feel fear we’re always going to feel

fear at different times in our life for

different reasons on different occasions

but keeping in mind that we don’t have

to bow down to every feeling that we

have

we can do it afraid even if we feel

afraid don’t let fear control you and

keep you from doing the things that you

believe that God wants you to do are the

things that are really in your heart

that you want to do now you know I don’t

believe in being foolish I’m not saying

if you’re afraid

of water if you can’t swim and you’re

afraid of deep water I’m not suggesting

that you should go jump off the deep end

of a swim swi pool just to do it afraid

what I’m talking about are things that

actually make sense things that you

really know that God is asking you to do

and things that you need to do I don’t

want anybody to hurt themselves because

Joyce said do it afraid but there’s so

many things that people miss out on

because like how many people get invited

to a party and they won’t go because

they’re

afraid they won’t know anybody there are

they’re afraid that they’ll be rejected

or there’s going to be somebody there

that they’ve had an issue with in the

past and they’re afraid to face them

again you probably have so many

opportunities to be in fear that you

can’t even imagine how many you have but

every time fear comes knocking on your

door you need to answer with faith but

to live without fear we need to learn to

also live without doubt now I’m not

saying that God gets mad at us every

time we doubt Thomas doubted and he said

I won’t believe that it’s you unless I

can put my

hands in your wounds and so Jesus let

him do it he he showed them to him but

then Jesus also said blessed are those

who believe and have not seen and I

think that’s the place we want to get to

I mean if you have a real doubt you can

talk openly to God about that but then

also stay in prayer that you’ll get to

the point where you’re not tormented

with those doubts we need to learn how

to doubt our doubts because every time

doubt comes it means that the enemy is

trying to steal something from us and I

like to say that doubt is like baby fear

it’s it’s not full grown tormenting fear

yet but it’s the beginning of it and so

if we can catch it in the beginning then

we have a greater chance of overcoming

it Abraham had

faith for the

impossible God told him he would give

him his own child but he and Sarah were

both Beyond childbearing

years and during the time that he

waited yes I said waited during the time

he waited for God to bring that promise

to pass in his life let’s read what the

Bible says about him Romans 4:18 through

21 in Hope Abraham believed against hope

that he should become the father of many

nations some translations read all

Reason for Hope being gone he hoped on

in faith in other words he had no

natural reason to hope there was nothing

for him to look at that said well that’s

hopeful I mean he could look at

Sarah’s almost

dead Barren body and think well I don’t

have any hope in that he could look at

himself who was 100 years old and think

well I don’t have any hope in this you

know we don’t need to try to find Our

Hope in things here on the earth we need

to find Our Hope in God and I really

think it’s time for us to really go back

to believing that all things are

possible with God and sometimes I don’t

think it’s so much that we doubt that

God can do it but we doubt that he will

do it for us we have doubts about

ourselves and we’re going to talk about

that

today so all Reason for Hope being gone

he hoped on in faith that he would

become the father of many nations just

as it had been promised to him now

listen listen to this he did not weaken

in faith when he considered his own body

which was as good as dead since he was

about a hundred years old or when he

considered the barrenness of Sarah’s

womb so he didn’t hide from a

circumstances he looked at his

circumstances but he said God is greater

and I think that’s what God wants you to

do don’t be afraid of your circumstances

look at him stare him in the face and

say

I see this I see this I see this and I

see this but none of you are greater

than my

God With God all things are

possible no

unbelief some translations say no doubt

or unbelief made him waver concerning

the promise of

God but I get this but he grew strong in

faith as he gave praise and glory to God

he grew strong his faith got strong

longer as he continued to praise God and

thank him ahead of time for what he was

going to do you know when you’ve asked

God to do something that seems like it’s

impossible in your life one of the

things to do every time doubt comes to

you is just open your mouth and say I

believe that God is working in my life

and my victory will come at just the

right time the Bible says this is the

victory that overcomes the world even

our faith faith brings a victory into

your life what what is faith faith is

the substance of things hoped for the

evidence of Things Not Seen now let’s

think about that what is it it’s the

substance of things that you hope for

but don’t see it the evidence of things

that you do not see let’s think of an

example okay I my husband and I own a

house here in our city

well you might saywell how do I know you

own a house I can’t see your house I

can’t bring my house here to the studio

and say see here’s my house but I could

bring the title to my home and I could

show you the title deed and then you

would say yes I believe that you have a

house well the Bible says that faith is

the title deed to the things that we

hope for that we have not seen yet but

fear is actually

believing for the

negative it fear is the evidence of

things we don’t hope for and the

substance of things we don’t want to see

happen and I believe that faith has

creative power but I think that fear has

creative power too and I’m not going to

say that every time you fear something

you cause it to happen but I think if

you stay in fear long enough about

something that it can actually affect

your

circumstances was it job that said the

thing I greatly feared came on

me we can do Warfare with our words when

Faith

Comes Abraham said no unbelief made him

waver concerning the promise of God but

he grew strong as he gave praise and

glory to God fully convinced that God

was able to do what he promised and I

think that’s where we need to draw the

line today are you fully

convinced that God loves you

that he will always do the very best for

you do you believe that all things are

possible with

God see I’ve learned to trust God to the

point where if I ask him for something

and I don’t get it then I

know that my prayer wasn’t right it’s

not that God’s not right what I ask for

was not the best that God wanted to give

me and so he’s not giving me what I

asked for because it’s not going to be

the best for me you know a lot of times

we ask for things that we think would be

just right but really it might be

something that you’re not ready to

handle yet or God’s got something better

in mind for you and you just don’t even

know how to ask for it yet I think God

has got so many great things for us and

we just don’t have the nerve we don’t

have the faith to ask God to do them why

because we doubt ourselves we doubt that

God would do that for us but you have to

remember that you’re no surprise to God

he knew everything about you before you

were ever born every day of your life

was written in his book before he ever

formed you in your mother’s womb he knew

every mistake you would make he knows

every mistake you ever will make and as

long as you believe in

him as long as you walk in faith and you

trust that Jesus died for your sins you

admit your sins you repent of them and

you want to live a Godly life your sins

are forgiven and removed as far as the

East is from the West God’s not mad at

you and he wants to help you in the Book

of James it says

that if we don’t know what to do we can

go to God who gives all

wisdom and he will help us without

reproach or fault

finding that means that I could have

done some foolish things and gotten

myself in trouble but I realize what

I’ve done and I go to God and say I know

that I open the door for trouble by

doing this this and this and God I’m so

sorry I ask you to forgive me and I need

you to help me show

me what I can do to get out of this mess

or if there’s nothing I can do then just

do it for me and he won’t say well you

know you did this or that says he gives

without reproach our fault finding you

know people in the world may find plenty

of fault with you but God doesn’t remind

you of your mistakes he’s merciful to

us Abraham

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believed hope against

hope he didn’t weaken in

faith but he grew strong as he gave

praise and glory to God

now I want to share a story with you in

Mark

5 where Jesus actually

ignored the voice of doubt and unbelief

and you know I think we’re going to have

to learn how to recognize when God’s

speaking to us and when the enemy is

speaking to us and if it’s the enemy

we’re just going to have to say well I

know you’re a liar so I’m going to

ignore you and not pay any

attention Mark 5:22 and I want you to

try to insert yourself in this story

sometimes we just read these things we

don’t really think about it I as I go

through this I want you to pretend like

you’re here and you’re seeing all

this one of the rulers of the synagogue

J Iris by

name seeing Jesus fell at his

feet and implored him earnestly saying

my little daughter is at the point of

death come and lay your hands on her so

that she may be made well and Alive

imagine the

intensity of this man’s prayer my little

daughter is almost dead but I believe

you will you come and lay your hands on

her so she might get well well Jesus was

full of compassion and so it says he

went with him but there was a great

crowd that was following them because

there were crowds that followed Jesus

everywhere that he went and in that

crowd there was a woman who had been

bleeding for 12 years and she’d been to

every doctor nobody made her better made

her any better and it had cost her all

the money that she had but she had heard

about Jesus and the Amplified Bible says

she kept saying to herself if I can only

Touch the Hem of His Garment I know I

shall be healed I love that you know if

you’re going to talk to yourself you

might as well talk about something

positive I believe if I can just get to

Jesus and touch him that I shall be

healed and so he’s on his way to heal

this man’s daughter who’s almost dead

and now he

stops to help somebody else think about

how that would make you feel think about

if you were J irus what kind of doubt

and fear would have attacked your mind

at that

time when she touched Jesus immediately

the flow of blood dried up and she felt

in her body that she was healed of her

disease and Jesus felt the power go out

of him this power of God is a real thing

it’s a tangible thing you you know when

the power of God is working in your life

and Jesus turned to the crowd and said’

who touched me well the disciples

thought that was a foolish question

there’s such a big crowd here who what

do you mean who touched you there’s all

kinds of people touching you but you

know they this woman touched him with

her

faith can you touch god with your faith

today and believe that no matter what

kind of problem you have that God is

great enough to get you out of the mess

and bring restoration into your life

but the woman knowing what had happened

to her came with fear and trembling and

fell down before him and told him the

whole entire truth and he said to her

daughter your faith has made you well go

in peace your faith faith does things

Faith brings Deliverance Faith brings

change Faith brings

healing Faith brings that job that you

need when there’s no jobs to be

had while he was still speaking someone

came from Jar’s house and said your

daughter is dead you don’t need to

trouble the master any longer oh my

gosh how did he

feel

Jesus why did you have to stop for her

right now I told you what a desperate

situation I was in I’m not saying that’s

what he said but he might have felt like

saying that but now listen to this in

verse 36

Mark 5:36 but overhearing the Amplified

Bible says but

ignoring what they said Jesus said to

the ruler of the synagogue do not fear

only believe wow he’s

asking I mean that’s a

lot just keep your eyes on

Jesus what does it say I think it’s

Hebrews 12 that says looking away from

all that will distract unto Jesus Who is

the author and the finisher of your

faith God do didn’t just start faith in

you for

something to leave you destitute and

without an answer he’s the author and

the finisher of your faith but sometimes

you need to keep believing when

everything looks like nothing is going

to work and you’re never going to get

what you asked God for I just sense in

my heart today that there are people who

have given up your dream

there’s people that the enemy has talked

into just forget it it’s never going to

happen just forget

it you’re just full of bright ideas none

of this is anything God spoke to you

listen turn your head off for a few

minutes and go back and see what’s in

your heart if you did miss it and you

made a mistake then admit it and say so

but if you say no I I believe that

that’s what God wants to do I believe

this is something that God spoke to me

then you need to stir your faith up

today fan that flame that once burned on

the inside of you and go back to saying

I believe God and I don’t care how long

it takes I’m not going to give up on God

because I’ve got his word on this and he

is faithful

so he Allowed no one to follow him

except Peter and James and John now why

was that you know what Jesus was going

to go in and raise this girl from the

dead and he didn’t want a bunch of doubt

and unbelief around him he wanted Faith

around him and you know what when you’re

in a desperate situation and everything

looks like nothing’s going to work you

don’t need a bunch of people around you

that are negative and always telling you

what’s not going to work you need

surround you need to surround yourself

with positive people people of Faith

people that would encourage you and

believe God with you I know certain

people when I need somebody to pray I

know who to call because they’re not

going to just say oh sure I’ll pray for

you I mean they’re going to pray they’re

going to really pray and I have

confidence that God hears

them they came to the ruler’s house and

there was a great commotion people

weeping and wailing

loudly and when he entered into them he

said why are you making such a commotion

the child is not dead but she’s just

sleeping and they laughed at him but

look what he did but he put them all

outside once again he got rid of the

doubt and unbelief he put them all

outside and took the child’s father and

mother and those who were with him Peter

James and John went to where the child

was and of course he raised her up and

she got up made totally whole you know

what some of you could change your life

if you would just simply get away from

some of the

negative doubtful people that you hang

around with all the time you know I

can’t stand understand negativity and

that’s interesting because at one time

in my life I was a very negative person

I always say if I thought two positive

thoughts in a row my brain got in a

cramp now I mean I had grown up around a

negative father he didn’t trust anybody

he didn’t like anybody everything had an

ulterior motive and I grew up being

taught how to be negative and almost

being made to feel foolish if I was ever

positive so it took a while for God to

get me turned around Dave and I had been

married a short period of time and he he

said to me why are you always so

negative and you know what I said to him

I said well if you don’t expect anything

good to happen then you won’t be

disappointed when it doesn’t I’d had so

many disappointments in my life I

thought I was protecting Myself by

believing for bad thoughts for bad

things I actually had what the Bible

calls in Proverbs

15:15 evil for boings there was always

this feeling around me kind of in my

atmosphere like I was waiting for the

the hammer to drop so to speak you need

to be careful about letting yourself get

into that situation and so if you’re in

if you’re having problems right now

don’t let your friends be people that

always just want to do nothing but talk

about your problem and then on top of

that talk negative about your problem

surround yourself with people that will

bring some Joy people that’ll make you

laugh people that will encourage you and

tell you that God can do anything the

word doubt if we Define it means to be

without a

way to be without

resources to be embarrassed to be in

doubt perplexed at a loss doubt can also

mean to stand in two ways implying

uncertainty about which way to take it’s

said of Believers with little faith to

be in midair think of the phrase

everything is all just up in the air

well you know what God wants us to know

that he’s good and that he wants to help

us like I said in James 1:

5-8 he says if any of you lacks wisdom

let him ask of God who gives generously

to all without reproach and it will be

given him but let him ask in faith

without

doubting for the one who doubts is like

a wave at the sea tossed and driven by

the wind for that person should not even

suppose that they will receive anything

they ask for from the Lord so I want to

say to you right now make your mind up

what you believe and stick with

it I want to say it again make your mind

up what you believe and stick with it

and don’t think for one minute that you

won’t be tested because you will you may

have to wait it may look like nothing’s

going to work but that’s when you fight

the good fight of faith and you keep

saying I will not fear because God has

not given me a spirit of fear but of

power and love and a sound mind and I

know God loves me and he’s got a good

plan for my life now as I said

earlier I think a lot of

times we doubt ourselves more than we

doubt

God so let let’s talk about that just

before our time is up

today do you judge every fo every move

that you

make are your thoughts I shouldn’t have

done that I shouldn’t have said that I

shouldn’t have bought that I shouldn’t

have gone there I shouldn’t have eaten

that I didn’t pray long enough I didn’t

read the right chapter in the Bible I

didn’t confess the word enough today I

read the Bible but I didn’t understand

it anyway oh I forgot to hug my kids

this morning I talk too much I should be

quieter I should be a better mother I

should be a better

father I’m not I’m not I’m not the devil

always wants to tell you what you’re not

but see whatever you’re not Jesus will

make up for it and make you more than

enough if you put your faith in him and

don’t don’t always go around saying I

shouldn’t have done that I mean how many

times in my life did I get up early in

the morning to spend time with God and I

would pray and study the Bible and I

mean every time I would get done the

devil would make me feel like I prayed

wrong I didn’t pray in the right posture

I didn’t pray in the right right

position I didn’t pray long enough God

didn’t hear me and I had to learn to

stop believing those lies and stop

doubting myself and you know what that

may be one of the most important things

that you’ll hear for a long time stop

doubting yourself you know what God

believes in

you but it’s not going to do you any

good if you don’t believe in you too and

I’m not saying to have a hoty prideful

attitude that well you know but God I’m

all this and all that but what I am

saying is get up every day intending to

do your very best for God knowing ahead

of time that you’re not going to hit the

mark 100% perfect but believing that God

is more than

enough to cover your sins and take care

of them God doesn’t want you to live in

the torment of self-doubt believe you

can hear from God believe God loves you

believe he’s got a good plan for your

life believe that there’s no mistake

that you can make that is too great for

God to turn it around and make it a

miracle in your life the fear of

rejection the fear of being rejected by

people is a it’s a terrible

thing and to be honest with you

rejection is very painful you know I can

stand here now and gly say that I got

asked to leave my church I lost all my

friends and and even family members who

did not totally did not agree with our

decision

to leave the denomination that we were

in I mean they just did not agree and

you know I’m not I mean I would have

been happy to have stayed but they put

me

out so it wasn’t you know it wasn’t

really like leaving it was like go or

shut up and shutting up wasn’t an option

for me then

so and I probably didn’t I I probably

didn’t use the most wisdom in the world

you know sometimes when the fire of God

hits you you’re not you don’t act like

the

smartest Block in the box but

it’s but you know I think God would

rather have a little Wildfire than no

fire at all and so I mean you know it

took a while but I kind of got

straightened out and got on the right

track and I you know I look back now and

think well I probably shouldn’t have

said that I probably shouldn’t have done

that but my heart was right and

certainly it wasn’t worth everybody

rejecting

me but here let me tell you I can stand

here and tell you you now well I lost my

friend you know it’s like oh

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well but it was

painful I mean it was

gut-wrenchingly

painful rejection is

painful and to be honest I look back

now and I I have to honestly say that I

really don’t know how I did it because

back then I cared a lot about what

people thought of me it had to only be

by the grace of

God that I was able to do

that but I

remember I actually remember kneeling

down in my kitchen floor and I had just

listened to a teaching about

righteousness

and I mean I I never heard anything like

that I’m

righteous I never I never heard that all

I ever heard was I was a terrible

miserable rotten sinner

I’m right with God I’m not wrong with

God so I’d listen to a teaching on

righteousness and I didn’t even really

understand it my head didn’t really

understand

it the teacher was teaching out of 2

Corinthians 5:21 he that knew no sin

became sin that we might be made the

righteousness of God in Christ it’s not

when we say I’m righteous it’s not like

I’m righteous in my own works I do

things wrong all the time but we’ve been

given the righteousness of God and and

the B says we need to put it on and wear

it like a

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robe so if you’re going to put it on and

wear it you got to claim it and you got

to know who you are in

Christ and it’s in Christ in Christ it’s

not in us it’s in Christ but anyway I

had listened to this teaching and man

something was happening in

me my head didn’t even understand it but

something was happening in me now I had

all these threats of

loss and I had a decision to make

I had a decision to

make and I don’t know if it’s somebody

watching by television or somebody in

here but you know that God’s trying to

do something in your life perhaps you

know that God has a call on your life

perhaps you know that God is asking you

to step out and do something that you

know that people are not going to

understand you’re not even 100% for sure

that you’re hearing from God but it just

seems like he won’t leave you alone

now we’re going to talk a lot more this

weekend about that fear of making

mistakes let me tell you something

interesting if you’re never willing to

be at

risk you will never mature

spiritually I was very much at risk and

very vulnerable

and I say when I made that decision but

really it was Dave and I

together and you know Dave doesn’t

really care much what people think so he

had a Plus on his side and I don’t mean

that in a bad way he just doesn’t he’s

like why not my responsibility what they

think I wish that I had that but I’ve

had

to suffer it through with Jesus probably

just so I could teach you it’s your

fault it’s not mine

but I’m trying to make a point that that

was hard for

me to not

just

okay I’ll be

quiet sure y understand don’t want to

make any waves I’ll be

quiet but I made it through the

middle and now I’m enjoying the

End

Amen I love that whole thought of making

it through the

middle so many great

scriptures in the word of God so many

wonderful

things the devil uses

rejection at every place of progress in

your

life to try to get you not to take the

next

step how many of you sense that there’s

a Next Step coming up for you

well I hope

that what you’re hearing tonight the

word of God that you’re hearing

is helping you make a decision to live

courageously and go ahead and step out

and find out and I’m not suggesting at

all doing foolish things or silly things

or or or crazy things you know if

20 spiritually mature people are telling

you you’re making a mistake then maybe

you better back off and pray a little

bit more

but if it’s just a bunch of people

that aren’t following God anyway and you

know I mean you got to you got to look

at the

source of where your opposition is

coming from I’m not advocating being

rebellious and never listening to

anybody but I don’t think there’s

anything worse than trying to live the

life you think somebody else wants you

to

live trying to be like they want you to

be and like they want you to be and like

they want you to be and like they want

you to be and pretty soon you don’t

you’ve lost yourself you don’t even know

what you’re supposed to

be doing hard things is good for

us it really

is don’t think that because something’s

hard that means you ain’t supposed to do

it God purposely puts hard things in our

path and the Bible says in Isaiah 41 I

will harden you to difficulties

let’s look at Isaiah

41:10 you know what does your baby want

to chew on when they’re cutting

teeth something

hard what does your puppy want to chew

on when they’re cutting

teeth well we’re cutting spiritual teeth

and we have to do it on hard

things difficult things

amen where’ I tell you to go Isaiah 4

110 this is such such a great piece of

scripture fear not there’s nothing to

fear for I am with you you know that’s

really the only reason God ever gives to

not live in fear is I’m with

you don’t look around you in Terror and

be dismayed for I am your God I will

strengthen and Harden you to

difficulties I will strengthen and

Harden you to

difficulties I will strengthen and

Harden you to difficulties you know what

that means things that are really hard

for you right now 5 years from now won’t

bother you at

all I mean they won’t bother you at

all but they’ll continue to bother you 5

years from now if you run away from them

now so it really depends do you want to

be the as you are 5 years from

now or do you want to go through with

God live at risk a little bit you know

why I say it’s good for us to be at risk

because that’s the only way we can ever

find out what God will do for us and

what he

want I put myself out

there when I walked out of my job when I

felt like God was telling me to go

into this

ministry and by the way I I was 42 when

I started this ministry and had three

teenagers and a

baby so please don’t tell me you can’t

do anything for God because you’re too

old or you got too many kids or you let

me tell you something passion for God

will drive you to do crazy

stuff

amen but I found out that God would

support me I found out that God would

open doors for me I found out that God

will replace those friends that I lost

because I put myself at risk I found

that yes there was a possibility that I

was wrong and maybe God wouldn’t come

through at

all but there’s no place worse to live

than in that gray

area in the safe

Zone fear not there’s nothing to fear

now

in closing this evening I’m going to

read you four scriptures we’re going to

I’m actually not going to read them to

you we’re going to look at them together

and I’m trusting God that as we look at

these something is going to happen in

your

heart that’s going to help

you make a

decision that God is greater than any

person that you

know and if God is for you which he

is I said which he is

yes I’m talking to

you yes even you sinner God is for

you to be honest with you even the

person who hasn’t even committed your

life to Christ yet God is for

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you he’s calling you tonight he’s wooing

you

tonight God is for

you and if God be for me

who can be against

me if God is on my

side Whom Shall I Fear now patiently

let’s look at these Romans

8:31 and

32 now the word of God has power in it

to set you free if you receive it in a

spirit of meekness

What then shall we say to all of this if

God is for us who can be against us who

can be our foe if

God is on our

side Psalm

1186 the Lord is on my side I will not

fear what can man do unto

me I mean really think about

it I mean I wrote down okay what can man

do they can talk about

me they can think bad things about me I

mean people you’re around thinking bad

stuff about you all the time anyway so

you

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know they can reject me they can say

they don’t want to be my friend they

they cannot invite me to the

party maybe it’s my boss that doesn’t

like me he cannot give me a promotion or

not give me a

raise you say well what if they hurt me

what what what if somebody even killed

me you know there’s a scripture where

God says you better not just fear the

people who can kill your

body but you better fear the one who’s

in charge of etern

amen Psalm 271 the Lord is my light and

my salvation Whom Shall I Fear or

dread the Lord is the Refuge and the

stronghold of my life of whom shall I be

afraid and if I haven’t pushed you over

the edge yet here comes the last one

Hebrews

13:6 so we take comfort and we are

encouraged and we confidently and boldly

say the Lord is my

helper I will not be seized with alarm I

will not fear or dread or be terrified

what can man do to

me amen come on give God a big praise

tonight

well today I’ve been teaching about

conquering fear so let me ask you are

you choosing to live your life by faith

or are you letting fear rule instead the

devil wants to use fear to destroy the

amazing plan that God has for you but

with the spirit you can choose courage

and do it afraid we’ve collected some of

your questions on fear and ginger joins

me to discuss them and prayerfully they

will encourage you through your own

fears hi Ginger hello how are you I’m

doing great thank you you’re looking

good as always oh well I appreciate that

you’re always looking fabulous kind of

like that hair behind pulled back thing

I’d pull mine back but I don’t have

enough of it so well you don’t have to

worry about it getting your face which

is a really good thing yeah that’s true

well you talked about encouraging people

to have courage and do it even afraid

when they need to and so the first thing

we have today instead of a question is a

little bit of a praise report that

someone sent in we get many questions

but we also get a lot of Praises this is

Joanne from Iowa and she says I was

recently diagnosed with cancer talk

about a scary word right and underwent

surgery during that time God told me go

forth with no fear so I did and I’m

still standing on those words even when

I feel fear they’ve brought tremendous

peace comfort and courage to me that’s

great I think it’s so important to hear

that God’s promises are not empty words

right and you know I think the thing

that people don’t always realize about

fears we want it to go away God take

this fear away but the feeling of fear

is really never going to go away I mean

you may get over one thing but then the

enemy will throw something else at us

because just like we receive from God

through faith we receive from the enemy

through fear yeah but we can conquer

fear

by not being concerned about how we feel

but just being concerned about what

God’s word says and going forth based on

that right yeah so what kind of

questions you got for me well we’re

going to start off with a question from

Michelle she says a lot of fears I can

normally hand over to the Lord but I

have one fear in particular that I

struggle with I know that there are so

many bigger things out there but I have

a fear of the

dentist and um for some reason this is

one that I really have not been able to

shake so if there’s just that one fear

that you have not figured out how to

conquer what advice do you have for

Michelle with the dentist and everybody

else well I think you just have to keep

at it you know I mean I have one thing

in my life too that I won’t even get

into what it is but it’s just been kind

of a LIF long thing and I still just

have to each time I have to go through

it and the thing is is even though she

is afraid of the dentist every time she

goes she is Conquering fear yeah because

she’s not refusing to go and get the

dental work done that she needs right to

get done and um I think one thing that

she could do is ask God to maybe show

her the root of the problem where did

that come from I mean why yeah you know

did something

happen that made her that afraid of the

dentist did she have a bad experience as

a child that that got rooted on the

inside of her to understand it yeah and

uh of course just continue to pray that

she’ll be able to be courageous and go

do it and I have a feeling that one of

these days it’s just not going to be

there yeah I think you’re right well

here’s another question this comes from

Kayla from New Jersey I’m afraid of

change I left an abusive engagement in

2019 I’ve since found a new job friends

and a relationship but I feel

disconnected I feel like I’m living

someone else’s life my heart wants to go

back to what I knew but my brain is

saying to move on um how can I embrace

change and at the same time confront my

past well I think one of the things

about change

is you really don’t have a choice to be

honest because everything is

always changing yeah

relationships change our bodies change

what we like

changes you know you you

can you can have a favorite restaurant

if you ever had like a favorite

restaurant that just there’s two or

three things on the menu you absolutely

love but you just you’ve been there so

much that now all of a sudden you can’t

even hardly stand to go to that place

yeah it happens so change is a fact the

only thing that doesn’t change is God

and so she has to change her

attitude toward change I mean really who

would want to live a life where there

was never any change I don’t think

people really want that and it’s not

really the change that she’s afraid of

it’s the unknown that’s a good point

it’s like we always want to go back to

what was safe but but if she looks at it

she was miserable yeah in that safety so

the only way to have a a new door of

opportunity opened up is to go forward

and you know I’ve found with God in my

experience with

God that what he does next is always

better than what he did previously and I

want to say that again because that’s

important what he does next is always

better than what he did previously ly I

don’t even if it’s like losing your

favorite hairdresser or whatever you

know we’re so you’re afraid it’s not

going to look right and I’ve yet to have

God fail me and not make the next thing

better than the last thing was yeah

that’s good we can Embrace change

because we can trust him right that’s

great all right Christina from Texas

says this I know it sounds odd and this

is probably small to some but I’m

literally afraid to succeed I have all

these plans and ideas but I always make

excuses putting my foot forward to make

anything come to life I can feel there’s

something that the Lord wants me to do

but I fold over like a coward all the

time you know the thing that comes to my

heart so this would probably be more

like a word for her

um I think maybe she doesn’t think she

deserves

success there may be just something in

there that she’s she’s afraid of it

because she doesn’t really think that

she deserves it or should have it and uh

really that’s what God put on my heart

so I’m going to let it go with that I

just think that she needs to search her

heart and do some praying with God to

see how does she feel about herself how

how does she feel about what God wants

to do for her you know is he wants her

to have a great life he wants her to

succeed you know there’s a scripture

that says everything I Lay My Hand to

shall prosper and succeed nobody wants

to fail and so certainly if God’s trying

to give her a success it’s not a matter

of deserving or not deserving everything

God does for us we don’t deserve

everything is a gift from him so receive

your success and be

blessed that’s

powerful all right this one is from Lori

in Canada she

said I need a way to to let my sister

know how much I want to be close with

her like sister should be sadly a high

wall of past hurts keep us um both only

speaking to each other when we have to I

want to be a family again but my fear is

that she and I will far fall further

apart and never get back the years that

we’ve

wasted well you can’t go into anything

with fear and it ever be a success and

so communication is so vital Al

important and really in this

situation probably I don’t know who’s

right or who’s wrong or yeah both were

equally but it’s probably better to

approach it from an attitude of humility

you know not making any accusations or

you did or just just say listen you know

I’m I’m sorry I take

responsibility what can I do to make it

better I really want to have a

relationship with you and uh

uh pray about it ahead of time you know

I’ve discovered over the years that you

know when you need to talk to anybody

about something that potentially could

be

volatile the timing is just as important

as the conversation yeah and so she

needs to start praying about it and if

she needs to take a while pray that God

will prepare her sister’s heart and uh

maybe her sister has the same desire

and just doesn’t want to be the one to

come forward and say so and so pray

about it and then when she feels like

the time is right you know we can even

watch for doors to open in our life like

when God puts them in a situation where

they’re going to be together or to pray

about what would be a good situation

should I invite her to lunch should I

ask her to come over to the house you

know what what would be the best setting

and the right time to do something this

would definitely be a do it afraid

situation absolutely she doesn’t know

how her sister will respond and really

she’s already The Situation’s already

bad right so trying to make it better is

not going to make it worse you know

worst case scenario it’ll stay the way

it is yeah but if God’s putting this on

her heart and it’s really important to

her then God doesn’t put things on our

heart so they’ll fail mhm I have a

feeling that he’s got to healing up his

sleeve and she just needs to not miss it

by being afraid well we would love to

hear about that when it happens too yes

we would thank you

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