Welcome to enjoying everyday life with New York Times bestselling 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

to fear. 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.

To be a Christian means to be a Christian or to be a follower of Christ. If you're

not ready to follow Christ then stop calling yourself a Christian and get the

bumper sticker off your car. Amen? We're so concerned about our silly

reputation but what will people think? What if I'm what if I lose my friends?

You know I can tell you something and I don't I don't mean to be negative or

tell you something that's gonna scare you but if you're gonna fully follow Jesus

you can pretty much figure on losing some of your friends.

Matter of fact you might lose a bunch of them. You could even lose all of them.

And it's not even really that they think you're wrong because down deep inside

they know that you're not but they're not ready to make the decision that

you're ready to make so it's easier to find something wrong with you than to

admit that maybe they're lacking in something in their life. How many of you

when you made a decision to really fully follow God or even to just follow God?

Maybe you haven't even gotten into the fully part yet. How many of you lost

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