Hello everyone, welcome to Follow Him Favorites. My name is Hank Smith. I'm here with the

incredible and amazing and wonderful John, by the way. Hi John. Hey, how are you?

We are answering a question from each of this year's Come Follow Me lessons. The lesson

this week is in the beginning of first Samuel, chapters 8 through 18 roughly. John, the

question we're going to take on today is one that I get from my own children and from my students.

And that is how do I overcome fear? Fear can be paralyzing where I'm scared of making a wrong

decision. I'm scared of something bad happening. I'm scared. So I just don't do anything. How do you

help young people overcome fear? How did you yourself overcome fear? I just ran and hide and

got under a blanket. And I survived until this day. There is such great advice in, oh Hank,

is it section 38? If you are prepared, you shall not fear. Just to practice, to go through it,

I mean like giving talks or something. When I was maybe seven or eight or nine or something,

the astronauts were landing on the moon in those days. And I remember reading something about

all of the things that Neil Armstrong said when he was on the moon, one small step for man,

giant leap for mankind. But something else he set up there that I didn't know, but it's in a talk

I heard somebody give. He said, just like drill. Oh, really? They had practiced it so many times before

that he was so prepared that this is going just like drill. I'd already prepared for it in my mind.

And so I think that's a great advice. If it's the type of thing you can prepare for,

then prepare for is nothing wrong with getting up, practicing, giving your talk to the piano,

give your talk to the fridge before you have to do it. Practice asking that girl out on a date.

Yeah. Try to prep for the test. There's a sense of calmness that comes on. Hey, I worked hard.

I prepared for this. I think I can do this. Sometimes we just forget we're among friends in

certain situations. You're going to give it talk at church. Hey, you're among friends.

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