Good morning and welcome back to the Messy Masterpiece Podcast with Chad and Tori.

Today it is just Tori, Chad has a little cough and so we were having to pause it every

couple seconds and so he was like, babe, can you just take over on this good ol' Friday?

So you just got me today y'all and we are finishing up the study on rewriting fear and the

U-version Bible app. There is a link below if you want to follow along and we're just going

to jump right on into it just so you guys know what two of the verses that go along with

today is actually two chapters in the book of Joshua, Joshua 3 and 4 and so if you want to go

back and study those on your own I think that would be incredible but we're going to jump to the

third one which is Nehem 1 verse 7 and it says, the Lord is good a strong refuge when trouble comes

he is close to those who trust him and then the devotional says people of the world are gripped

by fear economic and financial pressure political uncertainties relational breakdowns crime health

issues job loss rejection abandonment all these exist in the realm of might possibly could this

is all speculative when we leave these fears unchecked when we don't fight fear with faith we

can find ourselves in a stronghold of fear capture starts with one subtle lie followed by another

and before we know it a lie of huge proportions has us in its grip the enemy uses these strongholds

of fear to entrap us and we become prisoners of fear Nehem 1 7 saying the following the Lord

is good a stronghold in the day of trouble he knows those who take refuge in him to be in God's

stronghold is to be fortified in a place of safety and refuge a place where he keeps the enemy

at bay in the biblical account of the children of Israel crossing the Jordan River imagine their fear

as they face the raging waters of the river perhaps they had forgotten that God had delivered them

previously or they doubted that he would do it again but he did once they had crossed over Joshua

issued a command to bring stones out of the river and these were to act as memorial stones to remind

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