Welcome to enjoying everyday life with New York Times bestselling author Joyce

Meyer. On today's program Joyce will be teaching us how we can embrace courage

and face our fears. Fear, it's everywhere and affects all of us. Fear is the

enemy's favorite tool to keep us from pursuing God's good plan for our life.

The enemy wants fear to rule our lives but it doesn't have to. When we open

our hearts to God and embrace courage we can face fear head on and do it

to free. Listen as Joyce helps discover a life of freedom by recognizing

confronting and conquering our fears today. Now here's Joyce with today's teaching.

Well welcome to enjoying everyday life I hope that you really enjoy yourself

today and I'm going to talk to you today about fear. We all experience fear in

our lives. Fear brings torment and God has not given us a spirit of fear but of

power and love and a sound mind and I don't know what you might be dealing with

right now but it might be safe to say that a good majority of people watching

today are battling with fear of some kind and you know the Psalmist David said

I will not fear what can man do unto me and I don't think that David was

talking about I'm not going to feel fear. I think he was making a declaration. I

will not fear and I think it's a decision that we all have to make and

possibly very often in our lives and there's really only one way to conquer

and overcome fear and that's with faith. When fear knocks on your door send faith

to answer. Fear and faith are two opposing forces. We receive everything from

God by faith and we receive everything the enemy wants for us by fear. So we

really must learn to choose to live by faith. In Romans 1423 there's a scripture

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