Proverbs 2925 says, the fear of man lays a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord is safe.

What happens when we fear man?

Why does fearing the Lord bring freedom and peace into our lives?

How do we fear God?

Today we are looking at the difference of fearing man versus fearing God and learning the blessedness of allegiance to the Lord of hosts.

Welcome to the Sheproves Faithful Podcast, episode number 111, truth and encouragement to live

gospel-centered lives every day. I'm your host, Lauren Lushak.

Hey, everyone, I'm back. I took a month off to get refreshed, rest, and get some content cranked

out to get a little of head. Well, I will tell you what actually happened. I did the first two

things really well, the whole refreshed, rest. Yes. I even pieced out from

Instagram, not even on purpose. People were sending me messages like, I hope you're okay. I'm really

praying for you. I was like, I don't know. I just entered the twilight zone of stepping out of,

you know, being outside my home. It was very nice. But somehow I did not get ahead. I did not

crank out content. But I did soak up a month of no deadlines and those free nights. And it

was really wonderful. So thank you so much for praying for me and sticking with me. It was

really blessing. And I thought this first episode back, what if I talk about three things I learned during my time off?

Like I had this big self-revelation, I don't know, these things that I discovered, but I didn't, I didn't even learn much, especially in the Enlightenment department.

I did learn, though, that it is possible to fall asleep at 9 p.m.

Yeah, I've had this inner rebellious preteen in fall asleep at 9 p.m. Yeah, I've had this inner

rebellious preteen in me that thinks 9 p.m. is for babies, but I realize that I'm tired. And if

you just get in bed and turn off the lights, it's quite possible to fall asleep even if it's 9 p.m.

So all you early bedtime people, cheers to you. You know the true secret right there. All right, before we

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