Hi, I'm Susie Larson.

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Welcome to Susie Larson Live. Always so honored to get to spend this time with you.

In fact, I look forward to bringing you conversations every single day that hopefully inspire you in your faith walk, that deepen your understanding of God's word and that heightens your awareness of his very real presence in your life. Well, today we're

talking about what to do with fear. What do you do with fear? What do you do with the fear that if

God allowed this to happen, what else is he going to allow to happen in my life? What do you do with the

fear that another shoe's about to drop? What do you do with the fear that, given the certain state of a particular relationship in your life, that others are going to reject you and walk away? What do you do with that fear? Or what do you do with that dream in your heart, that your fear keeps silencing? That's what we're talking about today. What do you do with the fear? You've heard it said before, and I'll say it again. Our good friend, Dr. Lee Warren, always says the thing you do most often, you get better at. So if you're ruminating on the scary aspects of your life, you're actually getting better at it. If you're rehearsing all the painful things God is allowed without looking also at his mercies, his kindness, his faithfulness, and the fact that you've come through it oftentimes stronger, if you're ruminating and rehearsing the painful things,

that's what you're getting better at. If you're imagining people you love rejecting you and walking

away and then catastrophizing what your life might be without them, you're getting better at that.

If you're fighting for freedom and wholeness and though the road

seems long, you keep persevering, guess what? You're getting better at it. Our good friend,

Dr. Lee Warren, returns to the program today to talk about practical strategies for managing fear.

We're going to talk about how to practice embracing redemptive perspective. He's known for the

phrase he's coined, self-brain surgery. So we're going to talk about what does self-brain surgery look like when you fear man and fear rejection? What does self-brain surgery look like when you fear the future? What does self-brain surgery look like when you're so afraid to take risks and to dream new dreams? We'll get him on in just a moment, a couple quick announcements. First of all, you may know this if you're a veteran listener, but we've got new listeners

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