If you’re stuck somewhere you don’t want to be, doing something you don’t want to do, you may be bound by fear. You can be so afraid of failing that you give up on your dreams before you begin. Take courage! Our God is greater than the fear you’re facing. In this message, Jentezen Franklin reminds us, not only does God say, “fear not”, He says, “I am with you”. He hasn’t brought you this far to let you fail.

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Joshua chapter 1 is where I want to go

and just highlight a couple of

scriptures and I’m going to give you

some things that you can take with you

today that I believe will loose you from

the fear particularly of failure the

fear that can hold you back the most the

fear that can stop you from doing what

you were put on this earth to do verse 6

be strong and of good courage for this

people you shall divide as an

inheritance the land which I swore to

the father’s to give them only be strong

and very courageous that you may observe

to do all that I’ve commanded you that

you may prosper wherever you go don’t

let the book of the law depart out of

your mouth then you will make your way

prosperous and you will have good

success verse 9 he’s going to say it

again have I not commanded you be strong

and of good courage do not be afraid nor

be dismayed for the Lord your God is

with you wherever you go in that a great

verse verse 17 just as he heeded Moses

in all things so he will be with you

only the Lord your God be with you as he

was with Moses whoever rebels against

your commandment does not heed your

words and all that you command him shall

be put to death only be strong and of

good courage

it’s like Joshua and the children of

Israel were postured as never before as

never before and I believe that I’m

speaking to people today who are in

transitions and you’re on the brink of

some great things that God has planned

for your life and as they were after

wandering 40 years in the wilderness

about to cross over into the promised

land postured is never before to move

forward there was unleashed against

Joshua a real enemy that is called in

2nd Timothy the spirit of fear for God

has not given us

the spirit of fear but of power and of

love and of a sound mind so God could

have said a lot of things to Joshua at

this transition he could have said

here’s how you preach and here’s 12 tips

to be a great leader here seven things

that you need to teach the people about

being a great people he didn’t do any of

that he said four times in the same

chapter if you’re going to fulfill the

purpose and call that I have on your

life it’s all contingent upon you

getting free from a spirit of fear so

four times he says the same thing be

strong and be of courage and do not be

afraid do not be afraid do not be afraid

only be strong and be very courageous he

knew that if he could stay free from a

spirit of fear stay bold to obey what

God told him to do that he would

continue to win over and over and over

again and that’s why he kept saying to

him be strong be courageous don’t be

afraid fear seeks to paralyze your faith

fierce seeks to stop your destiny every

time he’s commanded you to fear not he

couples it with the greatest promise in

the scripture for I am with you for I am

with you for I am with you the key to

your conquering is locking down on a

bold courageous spirit that says I can

do what God has called me to do and I

can win and no man and no demon and no

circumstance in life can hinder me from

taking the god-ordained ground that he

has called me to take God said to Joshua

four times the same words for four

different reasons

the first time he said it in verse 16

fear not only be strong and very

courageous listen to what he said for

the people’s sake notice that in that

verse be strong and courageous for this

people I have ordained to inherit the

land please understand that when you are

called by God to do something and all of

you are there are people connected to

you overcoming the fear of doing that

thing in other words a lot of people

benefit from it if you do what you’re

supposed to do family friends an

ordained people will go in it’s not just

you going into the promised land Joshua

but if you can be bold and courageous

and overcome your fears and insecurities

if you go in there’s a lot of people

that are connected to you that are going

to enter into things that they’re

supposed to enter into because of your

bold act of courage and fearlessness for

the people’s sake do not fear for your

children for those that are around you

do not fear because if you’re dominated

with fear your children are going to be

dominating the people that are supposed

to connect with you in life they won’t

come they’re going down with you or

they’re going up with you I tell you

when I read that the first time many

years ago that there there are people

who are connected that are depending on

me to overcome my fears and when I

understood that that that if I don’t do

what I’m supposed to do then then the

people that that will only get into

their promised land if I obey God do you

understand the same is true for you in

the destiny in the plan of God and when

I look at this congregation and I see

the people the spirit of fear attacked

me many years ago and said you can’t

pastor a church you don’t you’ve never

passed her to church you don’t know how

to pastor Church and I could have let

that fear stop me but it wasn’t just

about me the fear that I was feeling was

connected to a lot of people fear not

for the people’s sake and then secondly

the second time he says it he says fear

not

for your own sake for I will give you

listen to this good success for I want

to prosper you and give you good success

you he doesn’t just want to use you to

bless other people he wants to bless you

I know the plans I have for you says the

Lord plans of good and not evil to give

you hope Jeremiah and to give you a

future but he says you’ve got to believe

this enough to overcome your fear and

start that business or go to college or

get that education or don’t go through

that opportunity and won’t through that

that open door take that promotion don’t

draw back from it but believe that I can

raise you up and I can do things in you

and through you that can be greater than

anything you can’t imagine so that you

have good success and so that you

prosper for your own sake listen to me

God’s got a lot invested in you he

didn’t bring you to this place to have

you stall out he didn’t get you through

everything you’ve been through the

miracles that he’s worked in your life

to cause you to fail now our God is a

finisher the last three words of our

Savior on the cross was it is finished

the Apostle Paul said I fought a good

fight I finished my course listen to

this verse being confident in this very

thing that he who has begun a good work

in you will perform it until the end

until the day of Jesus Christ he started

something in you and he’s not gonna

bring you this far and let you become a

failure so lose that fear of failure and

say God I can do anything you tell me I

can do and I’m not gonna draw back in

two minute II and fear and worry you’re

either gonna be a warrior are you gonna

be a worrier and you have to decide if

you’re gonna war or you’re gonna worry

you can’t lose if you won’t quit

I wish I could get this in a syringe and

shoot it into your spirit I wish I could

stab it into your veins and shoot you up

some of you been shot up on a lot of

stuff you need the spirit that says I am

bold and of a good courage and I will

not be afraid the day you lose is the

day you shrink back the day you lose is

the day you draw back the day you lose

is the day you say I quit I can’t do

this but as long as the spirit of

courage is there you will move forward

from faith under faith for your sake

God’s invested a lot in you Joshua he’s

put you under Moses you’ve walked

through the wilderness for 40 years he’s

trained you he’s mentored you he’s let

you experience things in life God has a

lot invested in you it’s your time you

can’t be paralyzed with the spirit of

fear at transition the fear of failure

the fear of lack in every major

transition in life there must be a fresh

baptism of courage that says I will

stand up and do it and you know those

first few times that I spoke I was

absolutely terrified but I just kept

doing what I knew and you are moving

forward if you’re if you’re going into

his presence and saying fill me with

boldness fill me with courage break this

fear that’s holding me back Lord let me

do what you call me to do

everything you’ve been through has

brought you to this moment would you

tell somebody that you won’t help me

preach whether you want to or not

turn to somebody and say everything

you’ve been through has brought you to

this moment fear not for the people’s

sake that are connected to your life

that if you get yours they’re gonna get

theirs and fear not for your own sake

coz God believes in you and he’s gonna

prosper you and he’s gonna give you

good success does anybody believe God

loves you enough to prosper and give

good success Tevan you

don’t fear for God wants you to prosper

that’s good news and he wants you to

have good success then thirdly he gives

another reason he says it again only be

thou now that I’ve got you thinking

about people now that I’ve got you

thinking and knowing that I’m for you I

love you I love to see you prosper and I

love to see you succeed but now that you

got that he says it again don’t be

afraid only be courageous and bold why

for the Lord’s sake the

commander-in-chief that’s put you where

you are and let you face the challenges

that you’re facing his reputation is on

the line notice he said be strong and

courageous for the Lord your God is with

you he’s saying it’s not just your name

that’s on the line my name is on the

line my reputation goes with you when

you step out and do what I’ve told you

to do

David had mighty men that were that were

amazing

and these they were called mighty men

because of their amazing feats that they

accomplished for example one of them

named a dino slew 800 men he got between

the crevice of a rocks of two rocks so

that the enemies would have to come in

single file and he killed 800 men in

other words against insurmountable odds

he stood and he fought and he defeated

800 for listings and had you run out

with a microphone and said tell me a

dino how and why in the world did you

fight against insurmountable odds he

would have said because my king told me

to my king put me there and I wasn’t

just fighting for myself I was fighting

for my king for his sake fear not

another one named Ellie a czar one of

David’s mighty men say

indefinable fatigue for the scripture

said he fought until his hand clave to

the sword and they had to pry his

fingers off of the sword he said I stood

there for my king and I fought against

indefinable fatigue and the other one

against insurmountable odds and then

there was another guy who fought for

insignificant reward his name was Shama

and all he fought for was a bean patch

insignificant reward why are you doing

that he would have told you because my

Kings honor is at stake and the king

gave me this assignment and it doesn’t

look like much to you but the king told

me to defend this field appease my king

put me here my King’s honor is at stake

so fear not for the people’s sake fear

not for your own sake fear not for your

Kings sake because he’s he’s put you

there and his name is on the line when

you do what he tells you to do and then

lastly he said fear not for the enemy’s

sake notice what he said

that you’ll have rebels who come against

you but only be strong and courageous

the last time he told him to be strong

and courageous it was connected to

enemies in other words what God is

saying is don’t be afraid fear not for

your enemy’s sake I’m not gonna let you

fail because you’ve got so many people

that hate you you have so many haters

I’m gonna bless you

that’s why david said thou prepares the

table before me in the presence of my

enemies you prepare a table before me in

the presence of my haters one time David

had this guy follow him around and he

threw rocks when David was going through

the hardest time of his life he threw

rocks at him and cursed him and cursed

him and one of David’s mighty men said

if you’ll let me hit him one time I

won’t have to hit him again can I hit

him and David said no leave him alone

this is strange he said it may be that

God will hear him cursing me and put a

blessing on me because he cursed me fear

not for your enemies safe sometimes God

will bless you because so many people

are against you and so many people are

telling you you can’t be anything and do

anything he says I want to bless you and

show your enemy how I can take nobodies

and raise them up and cause them to eat

in the presence of their haters come on

and shout if you believe in a God who

wants you to be free you if you’re going

to do what God has called you to do must

break free from the paralyzing spirit of

fear the disciples were in the boat the

storm came

and they were terrified you may be in

the same condition you may be facing

circumstances that are terrifying we’re

not denying that fear is real we’re not

acting like what there aren’t things

that we should that we should naturally

have a fear against in life but here’s

the deal the boat that Jesus told them

to get in and go to the other side in

was designed to float on the thing they

were afraid of the only reason that a

boat sinks is because what’s on the

outside starts getting on the inside

it’s not that we don’t have things that

we fear but we’re not to let the fear on

the outside get on the inside and I can

tell what’s on the inside of you by

what’s coming out of you for out of the

abundance of the heart the mouth speaks

so what’s in you some of your going

through a storm right now and the boats

that make it over the top of the storms

are the ones that have sealed themselves

off enough to not let what they’re going

through get in the boat get in your

thought life get in your faith get in

your spirit we go through it and we

don’t deny the storm is real but we have

so much of the promises that said you’re

going to the other side I promise you

you’re going to the other side and when

Jesus came walking on the water it’s one

thing to be afraid of the situation but

here comes Jesus walking on the water

and now they’re even more afraid and

terrified they said it’s a ghost they’re

afraid of the solution sometimes we’re

not just afraid of the of the situation

we’re in

we’re equally afraid of the solution

because we it’s just easier to stay

where I am on the boat then get out and

say Lord if you’re out there let me walk

on the water with you sometimes the

solution is more terrifying than the

situation it’s like a man in a burning

building and he runs to the window and

the fires coming coming coming coming

and in the and he looks down ten stories

down and there’s a fireman saying John

will catch you and you have to decide at

the moment at that place most people

freeze they paralyze but here’s the

here’s the key to the story and I’m

closing but listen when Jesus came

walking on the water when Peter saw him

he asked one question Lord is that you

in other words I’m with these guys but

their boat people I’m with them but I

I’m not like them I don’t want a normal

life I don’t want to ride in the boat of

mediocrity the rest of my life and I

don’t want to miss super out

supernatural opportunities because I’m

so comfortable on the boat with all

these boat people so Lord there’s one

question I need to ask is it you that’s

bidding me to come and Jesus gave a

3-fold answer that I want to close with

he said three things number one fear not

number two it is I number three be of

good cheer and watch this he told him

what not to do

don’t be afraid he told him who he was

it is I he told them how to go in to the

challenge cheer up

get excited it’s me there’s only one

question you need to ask Lord

what if I don’t have enough to pay for

Lord what if what if I get out there and

I’ll start sinking Lord what what what

if people start talking about me and

laughing at me Lord that’s not the

question there’s only one question you

need to answer Lord is it you have you

told me to do this did you tell me to

start this business did you tell me to

dream this dream did you tell me to

marry that person did you tell me to do

that’s all you gotta ask and if he told

you then the answer is twofold fear not

and cheer up

because if he said come some I said well

but Peter started sinking and you’re

right he started but he didn’t finish

and some of you may be starting to sink

but you won’t finish sinking because

before you look up you’ll see one

walking on the water coming to see about

you and he’ll reach down his hand and

love will lift you up and he’ll say let

me show you what we can do together when

you trust me without fear but today I

proclaim over your life that in Jesus

name you can be free from the fear that

has been stopping you from crossing into

your destiny and into the plans that God

has for your life how many of you

receive this this morning you don’t have

to be afraid you don’t have to get up

every morning and worry what in the

world is going to happen today I only

tell you something else you don’t have

to fear God and you don’t have to be

afraid of eternity and you don’t have to

be afraid of your sin because Jesus

nailed it to the cross he conquered the

grave hell and death for you and today

you can know his freedom and you need to

hear this message of fear not because he

has he has a plan of redemption and

forgiveness for your life some of your

facing some of the scariest moments of

your life maybe bad reports things have

hit your life turn it all over to Jesus

all of that worry all of that stress all

of that fear David said I sought the

Lord and he delivered me from all of my

fears seek him right now ask him into

your heart say Lord Jesus say these

words Lord Jesus I give you my life

today I receive you as my savior in

Jesus name Amen

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