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.

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 not saying if you're afraid of water, if you can't swim and you're afraid of deep water,

I'm not suggesting that you should go jump off the deep end of a swimming pool just to do it afraid.

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