Good morning everyone and welcome back to another morning with the masters where we devote

ourselves to the Lord daily with you. Good morning you guys. We are back and are live on

purpose devotional and we're just going to go and hop on in. Yes y'all let's do it. Today's

devotional is titled on the other side and the verse is Isaiah 35-4 it says,

say to those with fearful hearts, be strong and do not fear. For your God is coming to destroy

your enemies. He is coming to save you. How many thoughts of fear consume your mind? On a scale of

one to ten with ten being off the charts high. How fearful would you say you are? When you're

afraid and struggling to face your fears it's vital to trust God while you're still afraid.

You see your peace is often waiting for you on the other side of trust. I have had a lot of

experiences where God met me once I stared down my fear, pushed through it and did what I

needed to do. When we're afraid we tend to pray and ask God for peace before we'll step out and

do it frightens us. But most of the time we need to simply move forward. Once we break through

the fear God gives us the most amazing sense of peace but it doesn't always come while we're

deciding whether to conquer it or not. If you're waiting for a sense of peace to come so you can

deal with your fear you could be waiting a long time. If you will be brave and march straight into

that fearful situation having faith that God will bring you through it that's probably where

you'll find the peace you're looking for. The first step is to name your fears. Why? Because in order

to move beyond fear you have to know what you're afraid of. Only then can you face those fears

and trust God to see you through to the other side. Here's the amazing part. Once you get to the

other side of fear once you've had that breakthrough you need you'll look back on the things you

are once afraid of and ask yourself why was I so scared of that and that's the power of God in

your life. Let me ask you this. What are you afraid of? This is really interesting to me because I

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