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

John by the way. If you've been following Follow Him Favorites this year, you know we take a

single question from each week's lesson. John, the lesson we're on this week is Isaiah 40 through 49,

and I wanted to take our question from chapter 43. It's where Isaiah says to Jacob and Israel to all

of his people, fear not. He says, fear not for I have redeemed thee. Yet I know a lot of young people

and a lot of old people that have a lot of fear. So John, what would you say to someone who says,

how do you fear not in a world that is a scary place? And the future is unknown. How have you feared

not? Well, what would you say is the opposite of fear. Hank, would it be hope? Would it be fear

faith? Yeah, faith is not really optimism. It's faith. It's faith in something really much bigger

and more powerful. And I believe it was Joseph Smith that said doubt and fear cannot exist in the same

mind alongside faith. One or the other will have to leave something like that. And I get a boost of

faith when I breathe the scriptures, when I watch general conference and see the faith and the

countenances of the church leaders that talk to us. It sounds like a real easy answer, but it's kind

of the big picture. We know God is really loves us. He has a plan and it's all going to work out.

In the meantime, we're going to have some ups and downs in life, but we kind of know the end. What do

you think? Yeah, I would say one, we can look to our past and see what the Lord has done. How often

in the book Mormon are we told to remember what God has done? And coming this far, I think Elder

Holland said, he's taken us this far. He's not about to just to leave us now. He has been with you

up to this point. You can assume that he's going to continue on with you. Isaiah 41, 10 says fear

thou not for I am with thee. Be not dismayed for I am thy God. I will strengthen thee. I will help thee.

I will uphold thee with the hand of my righteousness. So part of that, John, you said, is getting into

the scriptures and then highlighting a verse like Isaiah 41, 10, maybe putting it up on your mirror

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