Good morning everyone and welcome back to another mornings with the masters.

We devote ourselves to the Lord daily with you.

We're picking back up with new morning mercies, I'm just going to take from here.

It says this, I think one of the dirty secrets of the Church of Jesus Christ that many of the things that we do are done out of fear and not out of faith.

Fear happens when I look at myself, assess my resources, and conclude that I do not have what it takes to do what God is calling me to do, or to face what I have to face.

Fear and a believer is a function of forgetfulness. To the degree

that you forget who God is, who you are as his child, and what you have been

given by his grace, fear is your default emotion.

I am deeply persuaded that the only solution to fear is fear.

In other words, fear is only defeated by a bigger fear. In other words, fear is only defeated by a bigger fear, a greater fear. Here's what I mean. When the fear of God overwhelms and controls your heart, it protects you from the paralyzing and debilitating fear of the fear of God. and you could ever face in this fallen world that your heart is able to experience peace

even when you don't understand what is happening and you don't have the power to solve it

if you did. So meditate on these passages. Psalm 23 verse 4, even though I walk through

the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil for you are with me.

Psalm 27 verse one,

the Lord is my light and my salvation,

whom shall I fear?

Proverbs 19 verse 23.

The fear of the Lord leads to life and whoever has it rests satisfied.

Isaiah 4110. Fear not for I am with you. Be not dismayed for I am your God.

I will strengthen you.

I will help you.

I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

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