Congratulations. Your gift of a new day is here. Ready to live it big. You're listening to the Big Life

Devotional podcast. Now, here's Pamela to get you fired up for all God has available for you

today. Well, good morning, beautiful. Welcome to a brand new day of life.

Happy Tuesday, my friends.

It is a great day to get to be alive.

Look at that.

You get to wake up.

You are surrounded by beauty and blessings.

And I know everything's not perfect.

I know there's some things in life right now that are hard.

And today it might not be easy for you to get up out of bed.

It might not be easy for you to face this day.

But there is still beauty and blessings all around you.

And I'm so thankful we get to share this time together. The title of today's episode of the Big Life Devotional podcast is, it's not over. I may not know what you're going through,

but I know fear has been knocking on the door of your heart and threatening to overwhelm your mind.

Fear renders us incapable of taking the next steps of faith.

Fear leaves us stuck.

Fear keeps us in the darkness.

Fear robs us of the opportunity to see God's faithful hand at work right here in our situation. Fear makes us say no. Fear makes us shut down.

Fear makes us tell stories in our head that grow bigger and bigger

while our ability to do anything about the situation seems to grow smaller and smaller.

But that fear you feel does not come from God. Second Timothy 1 verse 7 says, for God has not given us a spirit of fear,

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