Be Strong and Courageous - The Power of 'The Path': Overcoming the Fear of Failure, Part 2

Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast

Living on the Edge

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🗓️ 21 January 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Are you tired of feeling inadequate or fearing that you might disappoint others? Join Chip in this inspiring program, where he will empower you to face your fear of failure head-on. Learn to release the unrealistic expectations weighing you down, and discover how to step into the vibrant and joy-filled life God has planned for you.

Main Points

Three times God says, “Be strong and courageous”:

God makes a promise that His people will inherit the land. – A promised future
God gives Joshua the resource that will give him power. – The Book of the Law
God says, “I will be with you.” – My presence

Two ways/paths to live:

God's way. --Psalm 1:1-3
The world's way. --Psalm 1:4-6

Verse 1: How blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand in the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers!

Three negatives in verse 1:

This person doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked.
This person doesn’t stand in the path of sinners. --Proverbs 13:20
This person does not sit in the seat of scoffers.

Verse 2: “But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and in His law he meditates day and night.”

Bible reading: Though it may start as a duty, with help and discipline, it becomes a delight as you learn.
Meditation: To engraft truth into your heart and life so you begin to think God's thoughts and look at the world through His perspective, seeing fears and challenges in light of His promises and presence.

Verse 3: He will be like a tree firmly planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in its season and its leaf does not wither; and in whatever he does, he prospers.

In a world where people are trying to overcome their fear, I will choose to thrive.
God assures that following His path will produce a life of blessings and success over time.

Verses 4-6: The wicked are not so, but they are like chaff which the wind drives away. Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous. For the LORD knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.

The wicked, like worthless chaff separated from wheat, will be blown away and rejected in judgment.
God, the all-knowing creator, promises to shepherd those who reject the world's messages and say "yes" to Him through His Word, guiding them through mistakes as they seek a righteous life.

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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	Have you ever sat down with someone and said, you can do this?
0:05.0	And they just look at you and say, no, I'm not good on the internet, or I'm not good with my hands.
0:10.0	How many times have we had one of our children, or maybe a friend, be unwilling to even try
0:17.0	because they so are afraid to fail?
0:20.0	Overcoming failure is absolutely necessary. because they so are afraid to fail.
0:26.5	Overcoming failure is absolutely necessary for every child of God,
0:32.2	and we're going to learn from David how you and how I can do that.
0:32.9	Stay with me.
0:39.3	Thanks for joining us for this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. Chip's our Bible teacher for this international teaching and discipleship ministry focused on helping Christians live like Christians.
0:47.3	Well, could you relate to the scenario Chip just described? Do you often feel like you don't measure up or are disappointing those around you, including God?
0:56.0	Then you're not going to want to miss today's program as Chip picks up in our newest series,
1:00.0	Be Strong and Courageous.
1:02.0	He'll continue explaining how to shrug off the fear of failure and unrealistic expectations
1:07.0	and embrace the joy-filled life God wants for you. And let me encourage you to stick around after Chip's message as he shares some deeper application
1:15.6	for us to consider. Okay, let's join Chip now for the second half of his talk from Psalm
1:20.6	chapter 1, verse 2.
1:22.6	The average follower of Jesus has never gotten into the Bible in a way and gotten enough help to get into the Bible and away, where it goes from, yes, maybe it's a duty as you start, and then pretty soon you develop a discipline. But as you do that and as you learn, I will assure you it will become a delight. It took me a few years for that to occur in my life. But, you know,
1:45.8	it took me a lot of years to have delight in some other things. It took a lot of years of practice
1:51.1	to have a delight in my marriage and communication because we didn't know how to do that.
1:55.2	It took me a lot of years to delight in being a parent when mostly I was overwhelmed with fear.
2:00.7	He says here that blessed is the man
2:03.6	or blessed is the woman who delights in God's word. In other words, your truth is precious to me.
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