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. Welcome to enjoying everyday life. I'm so glad that you're with us

today because it wouldn't do me any good. Just talk to people if there was

nobody out there watching. So thank you for tuning in. We're talking about fear

something that we all experience at different times in our life. Some people

have a lot of fear. Others may not have as much but as long as we live there

will always be time. It's when fear will visit us and fear is from the devil.

God has not given us a spirit of fear but he's given us a spirit of power, love,

and a sound mind. And the only thing I think that actually defeats fear is faith.

When fear comes that doesn't mean we can't do what we believe we're supposed to

do or what we want to do. It simply means that that fear is trying to prevent us

from doing it. But you can still do it even while you feel fear. Thus the title

of the message that I preach a lot and have written a new book on called Do It

Afraid. You can do things while you feel afraid. I have a friend who was afraid to fly

and her husband flies all the time for business. And their kids were grown and gone

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