It's very difficult to preach on the subject of fear and faith without injecting oneself in the process.

Because I don't think there's a single person who does not know what fear is, any form of fear, some form of fear.

In fact, I have learned of late that there is a new type of fear that just been added to the official

list of phobias, and it is the fear of the day Friday the 13th. It is called Triskedecaphobia,

and it means the fear of number 13. And it is in the sense the latest in this list of phobias that are officially recognized as a form of anxiety.

Hydrophobia known as the fear of water.

Clostrophobia known as the fear of being closed in.

And acrophobia is the fear of heights.

And then there is another phobia.

It's called pobophobia, which is the fear of fear.

But I want to tell you at the outset that there is no such thing as a fearless person.

Now, you can take that and think about it a long time and you might want

to contradict it but that's your privilege. There is no such a thing as fearless person.

But I tell you what there is, there is a distinction between those who take counsel of their fears

and those who refuse to do so. There is a difference between those who let their

fears possess them and those who by faith let their faith overwhelm their fears. There are a

distinctions and a difference between those who allow fears to hold them like chains and those who by faith break the

chains of fear. There is a distinction between those who get too chummy with fears, who nurse

their fears all the time, and those who by faith throw away their fears.

Someone said fear is the only thing that multiplies faster than rabbits.

And by the same token, I want to say that fear always falls before the fortress of faith.

In fact, courage is not the absence of fear. Did you hear me?

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