How you respond to fear says a lot about where you place your trust. Here's Mary Cassian.

So when you are scared, when you were shaking in your boots and your knees are knocking because the circumstance is so big.

What your emotions are telling you that you believe the circumstance is bigger than your guard.

You're listening to the Revive Our Hearts Podcast for July 11th,

2023.

I'm Danna Gresh with Nancy DeMas Walgmouth, author of choosing gratitude. I think fear is something that almost everyone wrestles with to one degree or another.

Sadly, the wrong kind of fear can cripple our relationship with God and with others.

Yesterday we heard the first part of Mary Cassian's message from True Woman 22

where she gave us some ideas for winning the battle with fear.

Mary's written a book on this subject called The Right Kind of Confident,

The Remarkable Grit of a God-fearing woman.

And that's what we want is the right kind of fear, the right kind of confident.

You'll find a link with more information about that book on today's transcript.

And today Mary is going to continue the message we started yesterday and equip us to live

as the women God created us to be. Not women of fear, but women of confidence. To pick back up,

here's Mary reviewing the kinds of fear mentioned in the Bible. So the three different types of fear, apprehensive fear. Apprehensive

fear says, this is bigger and more powerful than me and it will likely harm me.

Okay, so that's a scary type of fear that we're really familiar with.

We don't even need to talk about that very much. But the other two parts of fear we don't often think about.

So respectful fear says, this is bigger and more powerful than me and beyond my control, and it is worthy of my regard.

It's worthy of me being respectful of it, the law authorities, the policemen, worthy of my regard.

Not because that police officer is the virtue of goodness,

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