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I'm Joyce Meyer. I've seen God's power transform my own life, and he will do it for you.

Does anybody here ever experience any fear?

You think, you know, the main purpose of fear is to hold you back, to keep you

from going forward. And I want you to listen to what I'm going to say. We receive from God through

faith and we receive from the devil through fear.

I'll say it again.

We receive from God through faith,

and we receive from the devil through fear. If we fear the fears that he tries to put on us,

then we're giving him an open door into our lives. And there's only one reason the Bible

ever gives not to fear. It's in the Bible all over the place. God says, fear not for I am with you.

He doesn't tell us what he's going to do or when he's going to do it, but we don't really need

to know. We just need to

trust God that he will do the right thing at the right time if we continue believing in him.

Fear not, for I am with you. Now, he didn't say not to feel fear. He said not to fear. And the word

fear means to take flight or to run away from.

So the whole big thing about fear is nobody can stop you from feeling fear.

Nobody can stop the enemy from attacking you with fear.

But just because you feel fearful or you shake or you tremble or, know it's something you've never done before that

doesn't mean that you can't confront it come on fear is not going to just disappear unless you

confront it you have to learn to say no i'm going to do what god is asking me to do. I will not fear. You know, David said so often

in the Psalms, I will not fear. And I think he was making a statement that he needed to hear

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