Welcome to 15 Minutes in the Word with New York Times best-selling 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 afraid. 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 to 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 times 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,

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