Your outlook on the future is greatly shaped by the friends you choose, according to Holly

Aleph.

Find people who will speak truth into your life, who will foster hope.

I think the combination of faith and hope in our life is what allows us to get to God,

and that can be just as contagious as the fear

that the enemy so loves to use to get us to doubt that God is good.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Thursday, August 28, 2014.

Through several different series this year, Nancy is leading us through the story of Joshua.

We've been looking at the faith of Joshua and Caleb. They were ready to march into the promised land when the other children of Israel held back in fear. Nancy's

friends Kim Wagner and Holly Elif are pastor's wives and have faced many fearful situations. They've been listening to this series, and they're

going to talk with Nancy and some of our listeners about what we've been hearing about this week.

Nancy's here to get us started. You know, as I've been living in this passage over really the last

year, it's just been so interesting how at different points and seasons of my life,

I find applications here. And I think one of the reasons the scripture must give so much

attention to this incident at the border of the promised land was because there's so many

applications to us in different seasons of life. And this thing of fear paralyzing us and keeping us from

experiencing God's best, isn't this where so many women live a lot of their lives?

I think you're exactly right, Nancy. I think there are a lot of fears out there ruling women

that in many cases they don't even realize that they're being controlled

by fear and that that fear is causing them to try and manipulate and control the situations around

them. That's the tragic thing about fear is it's really a reflection on God and us trying to

usurp his authority, his control. And so by doing

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