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afear is everywhere and affects everyone

including me but with God’s help I’ve

learned how to move forward in the

presence of fear and do it afraid I

wrote this book because I want you to

experience the peace that Jesus died to

give you in these Pages you’ll learn how

to understand and confront fear and

change your mindset for lasting Freedom

if you open your heart to God he’ll help

you Embrace courage in the face of fear

find your strength and walk in Freedom

From Fear today when you order Joyce’s

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hurt Psalm 862 David said this and I

wrote after this very

good preserve my life oh God for I am

Godly now this is a guy who committed

murder and

adultery and he said God I’m

Godly I mean he’s like come on man give

me a

break but you know what this proves to

me he

understood the power of forgiveness of

sins he understood the power

of what God did for

him and man he let go of

it and there’s some people in here today

and watching my TV you need to let go of

some

stuff you need to leave the crowd behind

and you need to let go of some stuff

from

behind come on I’m preaching

good and I am not teaching you anything

that I have not had to do in my life I

don’t make up sermons I’ve lived

them and I know I know that the word

works I know it because I’ve seen it

work in my life but I do know there will

be

waiting and there will be

testing and there will be doubts that

will

come and there will be feelings that

will make it rough but I also know that

I know that I know that you can do

whatever God tells you to do because he

is not going to tell you to do something

that you can’t

do preserve my life for I am

Godly and dedicated oh my God save your

servant for I trust in you leaning and

believing on you committing all and

confidently looking to you without fear

doubt some common fears we deal with

you’re going to like

this and some of them are probably

things you’ve never thought of you know

one of the fears we deal with is the

fear that we’re not going to get what we

want come on just just think about

it maybe somebody thinks you know you’re

single you think well I want to get

married and I just don’t think I can be

happy if I don’t

well then there’s other people that are

married and think I can’t be

happy all we really have to have to be

happy is

God now yeah some of the other stuff is

nice but you know here’s what happens

when you’re afraid that you’re not going

to get what you want you start taking

matters into your own

hands and boy that’s when the trouble

starts

oh I went around that mountain so many

years I was strong willed and

independent and

determined and if God wasn’t going to do

it I

would oh I was so

frustrated Lord I didn’t like stuff that

Dave did and I tried so hard to change

him and it just wouldn’t

work and I had a son that was just like

me and I did not like him and

I come on you can laugh at me you got

kids you don’t

like come

on and I didn’t realize he was strong

willed like me so our Wills were always

just button up against each

other and now he’s the head of our world

missions and every Mission thing that

we’ve done he’s had his hands on it some

way shape or Farm come on don’t write

your kids off too

early I’m afraid I won’t get what I want

well you know what if you don’t get it

you’re not supposed to have

it I mean if God can’t give it to you

youer can’t get

it come on Abraham and Sarah Sarah tried

that they got tired of waiting on God’s

promise and so they got a bright

idea I’m good at bright

ideas Sarah said I know what we’ll do

I’ll give you my handmaiden Hagar to be

your secondary wife now what kind of

stupid is

that nobody gives their husband another

woman and sure enough when she got

pregnant then she got an

attitude and and then Sarah blamed it on

Abraham oh there’s some funny stories in

the

Bible do you know that Jesus did not

want to go to the Cross you know

that you don’t have to want to do

everything that you do that’s

right I I did a message a couple weeks

ago called The Power of restraint and I

was talking about the restraint

that Jesus

used to stay Meek and

humble when he people would spit on him

and make fun of him

and when he was in The Garden of

Gethsemane and all those soldiers came

in to take him and old Peter you know

he’s pulls out his sword and whacks off

some guy’s

ear I guess Jesus had to pick it up and

put it back on his head I don’t know

but he said to Peter Peter what are you

doing don’t you know that if I wanted

to I could

call Legions of

angels Legions of angels there when you

multiply up was like 72,000 angels I

could call and my God would deliver

me and really it was God in Christ

reconciling us to him so it wasn’t even

just Jesus who who did this for us it

was God

himself who did this for

us how could you ever think that God

doesn’t love you for God so loved the

world that he sent his only

son to die for

you but the discipline the restraint the

humility that he showed and when he was

in The Garden of Gethsemane

praying he went off by himself not once

not twice but three times he prayed the

same prayer three

times father if possible take this cup

away from me nevertheless your will be

done and not

mine not once not twice three times he

prayed the same prayer I think he really

didn’t want to

do what he

did and I want to tell you we don’t have

to want to do everything God wants us to

do Hallelujah

when my parents got older and weren’t

really able to take care of themselves

properly God put it on my heart to move

them to our city to buy them a house and

to take care of them until they

died at first I rebuked it I thought

that’s the

devil you know what I thought there’s no

way God would ask me to do that well

you’d be surprised what he might ask you

to do

long story short and make a whole sermon

but it took three years but my dad got

saved I got to baptize him and he’s in

heaven today going

wo the same man who abused me and told

me I’d never amount to

anything oh our God is an awesome

God but but we have to do things his way

don’t be afraid you’re not going to get

what you want tell God I don’t want what

I want unless it’s what you want me to

have come on learn how to pray a little

different way stop spending all your

time trying to get God to give you what

you want delight yourself in the Lord

and He will give you the desires of your

heart

amen another fear we have is the fear of

failure which is the fear of

imperfection

oh we just want to look so good to

everybody you’re always going to make

mistakes

always and you have not failed until you

stopped

trying that’s what failure is you give

up and you quit you don’t try

anymore you will make

mistakes and you need to get kept

comfortable being imper

perfect this may sound nutty to you but

I remember years ago one time God said

to me I’m giving you permission to make

mistakes that didn’t mean he was

inviting me to sin but he was trying to

teach me I don’t expect you to be

perfect if I could be perfect I wouldn’t

need Jesus and neither would you why do

we put all this pressure on

ourselves you have Jesus because you

can’t do it all right you have Jesus you

have his name to pray in because you

don’t deserve the things that you ask

God to do for

you when we pray in jesus’ name the

Amplified Bible says we are presenting

to God all that Jesus

is oh that’s so

good I ask you to do this in Jesus name

now if it’s clear in the Bible that it’s

God’s will you don’t have to say if it

Be Your Will but but if if it’s not

clear well God I want to marry that

person you better say if it’s your

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will cuz you may think you want to marry

them and really you

don’t Dave and I had five dates and got

married and I always say that he had to

marry me real quick before he found out

what he was

getting but I’ve been worth it haven’t I

been

he’s not talking up down

there oh we had some rough years in the

beginning we’ve been married three weeks

he looked at me one day and he said

what’s wrong with

you well I thought what was I thought

some everybody else had a problem I

thought if everybody else would just do

what I wanted them to do everything

wouldd be

okay

that’s why it’s so hilarious that God

called me to

preach get comfortable being

imperfect there was only one of the 12

disciples that got out of the

boat the other 11 were

afraid Peter eventually started to think

but at least he tried

at least he tried and I tell you what

God would rather that you try and fail

than not to try at

all did you hear me God would rather you

try and fail than not to try at

all but we’re so afraid that we’re going

to fail and somebody’s going to think

something which brings us

to another fear the fear of

man Lord have mercy you’ll never leave

the crowd behind if you’re afraid of

them Margaret Thatcher said if you set

out in life to be

liked you will be prepared to compromise

on anything at any time and you will

achieve

nothing I’m must I’m going to say that

again if your goal in life is to be

liked then you are prepared to

compromise on anything at any time

because that is the only way that

everybody’s going to like

you is if you’re willing to compromise

your moral values and come down to their

level well I’ve said for years that the

spelling of the word fear f a AR stands

for false evidence appearing real so the

key to facing fear is accepting the

truth about who you are in Christ and

confronting situations in in Truth and

Love Jinger is joining me today with

some of your questions on how to face

fear well fear is a big thing for a lot

of people it definitely is and it’s one

of those things that we we all deal with

yeah so it’s not something that there

should be shame connected to at all but

it’s so common because there are so many

things in our world now right that can

spark that fear and in our life so we

have some great questions good well

let’s have them okay okay this comes

from Karen in New York she says I wake

up in fear and worry every day I’ve

prayed for a healing I do the work but I

have to do it all day every day and I’m

exhausted when does it just kick in well

I believe that persistence is a key and

I I just she didn’t say that she does

this but it just came to my heart to

tell her not to say I’m

afraid I think a lot of times we’re

praying for something but then claiming

the opposite you know she may talk to

her friends about how much fear she has

or you know just so often we just talk

about how we feel almost stirring it up

yeah we talk about how we feel and you

know our words have power I don’t know

how much Karen knows about the power of

her words but in Proverbs 18:21 it says

the power of life and death is in the

tongue and we can speak life or we can

speak death and so it’s very important

to call things that be not as though

they were according to Romans chapter 4

we have we serve a God who calls things

that do not yet exist as if they already

existed so I just want to encourage her

she’s

praying that and you know you can’t just

pray that you’ll stop feeling afraid you

have to confront it and there may be

several things that she’ll have to

confront I grew up rooted in fear

because I was was always afraid of my

father who abused me and I had so much

fear in so many different areas and it

it wasn’t something that just went away

all at one time I had to confront

different things and my little phrase do

it afraid is a very key thing and as far

as that that feeling of fear sometimes

we just pay too much attention to the

way we feel so I would encourage her to

say I don’t care how I feel I will not

live in fear God has delivered me from

Fear yeah I think that’s so encouraging

because it is in the face of fear that

sometimes God really works and amazes us

yeah so it doesn’t mean when when you’re

talking about our our words having such

an important um weight to them and

speaking God’s word has such power that

comes as well it doesn’t mean that she

she has to lie to someone or anything

like that it’s not not being realistic

but it’s speaking the possibilities of

what what God is doing in well she can

even say you know I feel fear but I

don’t don’t live by I feel I believe

that God has delivered me from it and

not focusing on that feeling my feelings

are going to catch up with my decision I

love that I love that that’s so good

okay here’s another question from Keith

in Alabama I’ve been struggling lately

with my own death um like having a death

crisis it’s kept me awake and I have

really bad panic attacks worrying about

what comes after death I read the Bible

for answers but maybe I’m just not

looking in the right spot I just

wondered if you could give me some

advice or some

help well the Bible says to live as

Christ to die as gain and we really

don’t have to be afraid of death

actually there’s a scripture that says

that one of the reasons that Jesus died

was to Deliver Us from the fear year of

death I mean Heaven is going to be so

awesome No More Pain No More Tears no

more crying no more sorrow no more

sadness I you know I think

sometimes I wonder how what the

atmosphere of Heaven is going to feel

like oh yeah you know like I’m so

curious yeah I don’t think we realize

how much just there’s so much evil in

the world

and it if you you don’t have a strong

faith in God it can really pull you down

it can drag you down and you know even

just certain atmospheres that you get in

you can feel this just like I don’t like

this atmosphere but the atmosphere of

Heaven is going to be wonderful so I

don’t know if he has something wrong

with him that may be life-threatening or

if he’s just in general afraid of death

but you don’t have to fear it if you

have received Jesus Christ as your

savior

you are going to go to heaven and it’s

going to be an awesome Place much better

than being here yeah having that

confidence in Christ right and what he

says he will do he will do Katie from

Texas asks how do I overcome my

paralyzing fear of the end times I find

myself having no hope for the future not

wanting to have children and see no

point in doing anything in life if it’s

all going to come to a bad end well here

again that’s something that you don’t

have to be afraid of because number one

none of us knows for sure when Jesus is

coming back every

generation thought he was coming back in

their generation and he still hasn’t

come back yet we think it’s going to be

soon because a lot of the signs of the

end times have been fulfilled but if you

love God and you’ve received Christ as

your savior you don’t have to worry

about the end times first of all I

firmly believe that whatever happens

God’s going to take care of us and as

far as not having children or not living

your life Jesus said occupy until I come

or maybe Paul said it I don’t know but

the Bible says occupy until I come so we

need to just keep living Our

Lives as if we’re going to be around

here forever I always say we need to

spend our now time getting ready for our

their time and so just keep growing in

Christ keep loving him keep being a

blessing keep helping people don’t sit

around and think about the end times all

the time I don’t you know I hear people

say you know I don’t need the world’s so

bad today I don’t even know if I want to

have children well if you train your

children right they can go out into the

darkness and be a light and that’s what

we need we don’t need people that are

afraid to do anything we need to get out

in the midst of what’s going on and let

people see that there is an answer yeah

yeah that’s a great encouragement ment

okay here is a question um from SB hello

I have a 9-year-old daughter that is

having nightmares to the point she can’t

sleep alone for months now she’s so

afraid I’ve been praying for her we read

the Bible for kids before bed talk to

her about the fact that God is bigger

than any monster Etc and it seems that

nothing’s working right now what could

we do to help her how do we help our

children through fear well I don’t know

if they know what the root cause of the

problem is but that would be a good

thing to do would be try to find out

what got this started I mean is it just

an allout attack from the enemy or was

there something that caused it and

they’re doing what they should be doing

they’re praying and they’re trusting God

and I don’t know why sometimes things

take longer than they do at other times

but I think that we’re going to pray

with her right now and for her child and

we’re going to add our prayers to hers

and believe we’re going to see a victory

I love that so father we pray for what’s

her name SB we pray for S and her

daughter and we pray that you would

remove these nightmares and this fear

from her we add our faith to hers we

take authority over that fear we rebuke

it and we call her free in Jesus name

amen yes Lord and for all children out

there Lord all families who are dealing

with this we thank you for what you will

do right now in Jesus name am man I

think that’s a great answer that’s

really good okay this comes from Steph a

few months back I was recruited for an

amazing job opportunity I primarily work

with a team which is composed of men

I’ve been there for eight months now and

have experienced sexism like never

before I’m not sure how to deal with

this and whether to address it as I’m

fearful of U retaliation I’ve been

passive about this but as I’ve been

praying I believe that God will take

care of this and it due time however I

feel like I need to speak up but um so

she’s asking about the fear and what she

should do in the situation well the only

way you overcome fear is by confronting

it so she feels like she needs to speak

up and that’s what she’s going to have

to do because it’s probably not going to

stop until she does I just encourage her

to do it not in anger but to do it

firmly but in a spirit of love and pray

about the timing you know timing is

always important and pray for God to

prepare the people’s hearts before she

speaks to them you know she’s too

valuable to let somebody disrespect her

and a lot of times

bullies they really down deep want you

to stand up to them and they don’t

respect you if you don’t and they may

act like they don’t like it at first but

they’ll respect her later on if she does

does and if that particular person

doesn’t then she go to a higher

authority respect for herself yeah and

go to a higher authority yeah you know

and I mean if worse came to worse

absolutely I wouldn’t I wouldn’t stay

there if that’s the way I was going to

be treated and I couldn’t do anything

about it yeah that’s good okay well I’ve

got a couple more questions I don’t know

how much time fear questions that could

just go on and on but your answers have

been so good let me ask you one final

one this is from Nelda in Texas I’m so

afraid that I will sin against God the

thoughts just drop into my mind without

me wanting to wanting to think them and

then I’m terrified please help well pray

the Lord’s Prayer and actually believe

it when you pray it Our Father who is in

heaven Hallowed Be Your Name Your

Kingdom Come your will be done on Earth

as it is in heaven give us this day our

daily bread forgive us our trespasses as

we forgive those who trespass against us

lead us not into temptation but Deliver

Us from Evil so that is just all out the

devil being afraid that she’s going to

sin is actually going to open the door

for sin rather than keep it out and God

is a forgiving God he’s a merciful god

he knows your heart if you don’t want to

sin and you slip up and make a mistake

and you do just repent right away and

ask God to forgive you and if there’s

certain weaknesses that she deals with

with pray about those ahead of time that

God will strengthen her in those areas

but we need to have a reverential fear

of God but never a wrong fear of God

he’s a good father yeah thank you great

practical advice I appreciate that and

you have a book that is very helpful for

this too I have taught a message called

do it afraid for years and a couple

years ago we put it all in a book and I

really want to encourage you to get the

book we all deal with fear no matter how

afraid you may feel right now remember

the truth is that God has given us the

ability to face confront and overcome

our feelings my book do it afraid will

help you use God’s word to confront

fears that may be holding you back it

can help you change your mindset and

learn to enjoy the life that Jesus gave

you God bless

you fear is everywhere and affects

everyone including me but with God’s

help I’ve learned how to move forward in

the presence of fear and do it afraid I

wrote this book because I want you to

experience the peace that Jesus died to

give you in these Pages you’ll learn how

to understand and confront fear and

change your mindset for lasting Freedom

if you open your heart to God he’ll help

you Embrace courage in the face of fear

find your strength and walk in Freedom

From Fear today when you order Joyce’s

book do it afraid live boldly as you

learn how God gave you a spirit of power

love and and

self-control also included are a set of

two metal bookmarks each one etched with

an encouraging scripture and distinct

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