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.

Well thank you for joining us today on enjoying everyday life. You know the more

you learn about the word of God the more you will be able to enjoy every single

day of your life even on those ones that are difficult and hard to endure. I've

been talking about fear and overcoming fear with faith and learning how to do

it afraid. So just in case you haven't been watching what do I mean when I say

do it afraid. Well the word fear actually means to take flight or to run away

from. And there's many places in the Bible where it says fear not for I am with

you. Now God wasn't telling the people that he was talking to not to feel

fear. We're always going to feel fear at different times in our life for

different reasons on different occasions but keeping in mind that we don't

have to bow down to every feeling that we have we can do it afraid even if we

feel afraid. Don't let fear control you and keep you from doing the things that

you believe that God wants you to do are the things that are really in your

heart that you want to do. Now you know I don't believe in being foolish I'm

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