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 fear. 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. I was thinking this morning how how sometimes when we greet each

other when we greet each other sometimes somebody will say well how do you

do and I thought you know that's really kind of a goofy way to greet

somebody. You know we need to care more about the person than we do what they

do but we are so doing oriented we feel like that that's how we get approval

from God by doing and that's how we get approval from people by doing and yes

God wants us to do things but first He wants us to have faith and then when we

have the faith the things that we do coming out of that faith will be much

easier for us than if we had tried to do them without that and you might say

well wait a minute Joyce I just I just don't have faith for that I just I just

don't have any faith and you know what that's absolutely untrue because the Bible

says in Romans 12-3 that God has given unto every man the measure of faith you

say well what does that mean that means that everybody has enough faith to do

whatever it is God assigns them to do for by the grace given unto me I say to

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