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.

I want you to think about the courage that it took for some of these people that

we read about in the Bible to do the things that they did. How much courage did it

take for Esther to go into that palace? How much courage did it take for Ruth not

to run back to her idol worshipping family but to stay with her poverty-stricken

mother-in-law after her husband and her father-in-law and her brother-in-law

had died? How easy is it to go do the easy thing instead of doing the hard thing?

How easy would it have been for Moses to have stayed in the palace instead of

trying to help his brethren? How easy would it have been for Paul to have had a

little secret relationship with Jesus? Well you know I just believe religion is

a private thing. Well you just try to find that in the Bible. I'll be happy to

have the discussion with you. Everybody who got radically saved immediately

went and told somebody. Let me tell you something when you love Jesus you have a hard

time keeping your mouth shut. John 1242 and in spite of all this many even

of the leading men, the authorities and the nobles believed and trusted in him

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