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🗓️ 16 September 2022

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Hank Smith and John Bytheway answer a question from this week's Come, Follow Me study.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone, welcome to Follow Him Favorites. My name is Hank Smith. I'm here with the incredible
0:10.0	John by the way. If you've been following Follow Him Favorites this year, you know we take a
0:14.9	single question from each week's lesson. John, the lesson we're on this week is Isaiah 40 through 49,
0:21.6	and I wanted to take our question from chapter 43. It's where Isaiah says to Jacob and Israel to all
0:29.2	of his people, fear not. He says, fear not for I have redeemed thee. Yet I know a lot of young people
0:37.5	and a lot of old people that have a lot of fear. So John, what would you say to someone who says,
0:43.2	how do you fear not in a world that is a scary place? And the future is unknown. How have you feared
0:51.2	not? Well, what would you say is the opposite of fear. Hank, would it be hope? Would it be fear
0:58.8	faith? Yeah, faith is not really optimism. It's faith. It's faith in something really much bigger
1:05.0	and more powerful. And I believe it was Joseph Smith that said doubt and fear cannot exist in the same
1:10.7	mind alongside faith. One or the other will have to leave something like that. And I get a boost of
1:17.5	faith when I breathe the scriptures, when I watch general conference and see the faith and the
1:23.1	countenances of the church leaders that talk to us. It sounds like a real easy answer, but it's kind
1:29.6	of the big picture. We know God is really loves us. He has a plan and it's all going to work out.
1:36.0	In the meantime, we're going to have some ups and downs in life, but we kind of know the end. What do
1:42.0	you think? Yeah, I would say one, we can look to our past and see what the Lord has done. How often
1:48.4	in the book Mormon are we told to remember what God has done? And coming this far, I think Elder
1:55.6	Holland said, he's taken us this far. He's not about to just to leave us now. He has been with you
2:02.2	up to this point. You can assume that he's going to continue on with you. Isaiah 41, 10 says fear
2:08.3	thou not for I am with thee. Be not dismayed for I am thy God. I will strengthen thee. I will help thee.
2:16.7	I will uphold thee with the hand of my righteousness. So part of that, John, you said, is getting into
2:22.8	the scriptures and then highlighting a verse like Isaiah 41, 10, maybe putting it up on your mirror
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