Good morning everyone and welcome back to the Messy masterpiece podcast with Chad and

Tori. Happy Friday. Happy Friday. Happy Friday. Happy basic weekend, everyone. Basically,

weekend is basically the weekend, right? It is the weekend. Friday is the weekend.

We are excited to be rounding out the week with you all and we're picking up on day nine

of our finding peace devotional from the Bible app. If you want to fall along with that,

there's a link in the description. Yeah. I'm going to read the scripture and then my

sweet wife's going to read the Devo. That's good. The scripture is first Samuel chapter 19,

verse 17 and it says this, why have you betrayed me like this and let my enemy escape,

Saul demanded of Michael. I had to, Michael replied, he threatened to kill me if I didn't

help him. The devotional is titled overcoming fear. Many people think the opposite of fear

is hope, courage or strength. The true opposite of fear is faith. When fear causes paralysis,

it not only quenches one's peace, but it attacks the foundation of that peace. Namely, our faith.

Peace goes out the window when fear is present. Much of fear is rooted in doubt that God will be

present, provide justice or help, or be capable of dealing with the crisis at hand. Faith says,

yes, God is here. Yes, God will provide. Yes, God is capable of all things. Much of fear is

rooted in threats, sometimes threatening words, sometimes threatening behavior. Faith says, I will not

be traumatized by threats. I will act wisely, not fearfully. I believe God will prevent whatever

the threat is from coming to pass. And if the threat does come to pass, I believe God will help me

deal with whatever is thrown at me. When Saul, King of Israel, realized that God had taken his hand

of anointing and blessing from him because of his arrogance and disobedience and had placed it

instead upon a young man, David, he was furious. He began a campaign to find David and kill him

to remove this threat from his life. On the other hand, David felt threatened by Saul's army

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