Be Strong and Courageous - I Will Not Be Afraid!: God is My Rock and Protector, Part 1
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 28 January 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
“Courage is fear holding on for one more minute.” That is a great quote! But when fear takes hold, we often need more than just words of encouragement. Join Chip as he uncovers the biblical path to conquering fear, revealing how God alone provides true hope, security, and lasting protection. Don’t let fear dictate your life—embrace the incredible strength that faith in Jesus can provide!
Main Points
Declarative statement: I will not fear.Psalm 27:1-3
- You can feel afraid – that’s just an emotion – and choose not to respond to that feeling, but to act instead in a way that makes a difference, that is brave.
- That word when we feel afraid and, yet, we act in the confidence of God, that’s called courage.
- The source of David’s confidence, despite danger, war, and odds was focus and passion.
- David’s intimate knowledge of God’s character flowed from his personal worship and it transformed his perspective.
- David prays specifically and practically.
- David’s basis: 1. I want You to answer me because when You told me what to do, I was obedient in the past. | 2. Please don’t forsake me and turn me away. | 3. Lord, I want you to know that if You don’t help, no one else will either.
- David’s prayer was two-fold: Don’t just deliver me, but bring me into a deeper relationship with You.
- David was tempted to be afraid, but he declared, “I will not fear,” because the Lord was his light and deliverer.
- Wait = Where is your hope? Where is your confidence?
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About Chip Ingram
Chip Ingram’s passion is helping Christians really live like Christians. As a pastor, author, and teacher for more than three decades, Chip has helped believers around the world move from spiritual spectators to healthy, authentic disciples of Jesus by living out God’s truth in their lives and relationships in transformational ways.
About Living on the Edge
Living on the Edge exists to help Christians live like Christians. Established in 1995 as the radio ministry of pastor and author Chip Ingram, God has since grown it into a global discipleship ministry. Living on the Edge provides Biblical teaching and discipleship resources that challenge and equip spiritually hungry Christians all over the world to become mature disciples of Jesus.
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| 0:00.0 | It's been said that courage is fear holding on a minute longer. |
| 0:06.0 | That's a great idea at all. |
| 0:08.0 | But when you come face to face with something that cause you to truly tremble, you need more than an inspirational quote. |
| 0:14.0 | Stay with me and discover today how hope and safety comes from God and how you can get it. |
| 0:20.0 | Welcome to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. |
| 0:25.6 | The mission of these daily programs is to intentionally disciple Christians through the Bible teaching of Chip Ingram. |
| 0:31.6 | And in just a minute, he'll dive back into his latest series, Be Strong and Courageous. |
| 0:36.6 | For the last handful of programs, |
| 0:38.7 | Chip's highlighted a few of the more powerful emotions we'll encounter in life, anxiety, inadequacy, |
| 0:44.8 | doubt, and offered a biblical remedy from the Book of Psalms. Now, if you missed any of those |
| 0:49.8 | messages or want to pass them on to her friend, you can easily listen and share through the |
| 0:54.2 | Chip Ingram map. But today Chip shifts his focus to the broader subject of fear and what |
| 0:59.7 | we can learn from David's response to his terrifying circumstances in Psalm 27. So with that, |
| 1:05.6 | get your Bible and notes ready for Chip's talk, I will not be afraid. |
| 1:11.2 | If you and I knew each other a little bit better, and we were maybe in the corner of a coffee |
| 1:15.8 | shop somewhere, and we'd had a great conversation, and you felt safe with me, and I said, |
| 1:21.9 | what are you most afraid of? |
| 1:23.9 | I mean, where do your fears show up? |
| 1:26.8 | What is it that when it comes to your mind, or maybe it's in your life right now, maybe it's |
| 1:31.3 | a person, a circumstance, something in the future, but what are you afraid of? |
| 1:36.3 | I share that because fear is a very, very powerful emotion. |
| 1:41.3 | It's a response to a perceived threat or danger in which we feel like we're |
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