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Second Timothy chapter 1, verse 7, for God gave us a spirit, not a fear, but of power and love

and self-control. As we prepare to pray according to this verse, I just want to ask you, encourage you

to examine your heart and your life, your mind, your way of life right now and just ask the question,

are there any ways that a spirit of fear is operating in your life? Just ask the question,

in what way or ways are your thoughts or your desires or your actions or your lack of actions,

your perspective driven by fear? And what are you afraid of? Or where does a spirit of fear

show up in your life? And I'm kind of hesitant to list examples because I don't want to limit

where your mind and your heart might go and question, but just as a couple of examples to kind of

get you going, just think about how fear relates to anxiety and worry when we are anxious about

something or worried about something. It's usually tied to fear of what might happen if or fear

of where this will go or fear of the unknown or fear of lack of control that leads to anxiety

and worry. Or maybe it's fear of sharing the gospel, fear that you'll say the wrong thing,

fear of what someone else might think about you. And then I think we pray all the time on this

podcast for unreached people in the world. Why is it that there are three billion unreached

people in the world who don't even have access to the gospel? Why have we not gotten the gospel to

them? Is it because we're afraid of what it would mean for us to be intentional about spreading the

gospel and Afghanistan or Pakistan or Somalia or Yemen? So just ask the question, where does fear

show up in your life? And here God's saying right now he doesn't give a spirit of fear. So that

fear does not come from him. And here God's saying he wants to set you free from that spirit of

fear and listen to the language here. He wants to replace it with a spirit of power greater as he

was in you than he was in the world when you realize the Holy Spirit is in you. The spirit God has

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