Do Not Fear

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It is to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the ones who see the world differently, who don't fit neatly into boxes, and refuse to live by someone else's script.
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You can quote them, you can disagree with them, you can glorify them or vilify them, you can shake your head at their ideas or be inspired by their courage.
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But the one thing you cannot do is ignore them.
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Because they change things.
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They disrupt what's comfortable, they challenge what's normal, and they push the human race forward.
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Sometimes with loud revolutions, sometimes with quiet persistence that changes everything over time.
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They see possibility where others see limits.
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They dare to dream out loud when the world tells them to be silent.
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They take risks, they stumble, they rise again, and they keep going.
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Not because it's easy, but because they can't imagine doing anything else.
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These are the ones who remind us that every great leap forward was once considered impossible.
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So it's to them the ones who won't sit down, won't be quiet, and won't stop until the world is different.
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Because they're the reason it will be.
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Don't trade your future for a temporary state.
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Freedom starts with earth.
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So without further ado, here's bewilder.
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Theme of today's Bible study is learning to trust God's presence.
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Strength, help, and promises, even when life feels uncertain.
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Let's pray.
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Dear Heavenly Father, we come to you today, Lord.
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We just thank you for just waking us up, Lord.
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We thank you for provide provision, Lord.
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We thank you for strength.
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We thank you for healing.
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We thank you for joy.
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We thank you for family.
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And we thank you for just simply grace.
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Father, we come to you today that you uh you would give us a sort of feeling that we would not fear anything of this world.
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Bills, what we're gonna eat, what we're gonna wear, what other people think, if we're gonna make the bonus or not.
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Lord, we we pray that we just put that away in a filing cabinet, Lord, and just let you let you alphabetize or put it in numerical order or however you want to do it in our life, Lord.
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We know that whatever you do is in our best interest.
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We come to you today, Lord.
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We just lay our business in front of you because it's your business.
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We lay our children in front of you because they're your children, Lord.
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I lay my wife in front of you because she is yours, Lord.
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She is not mine, she is a gift, and I'm just a steward, just like I am over your money.
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Lord, I just ask for strength as we get through this day and this week, and that I ask that the name of Jesus stay on my tongue.
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Lord, I pray that Courtney can look up to her husband and see Jesus.
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Lord, I pray that any pain she may have be rebuked in the name of Jesus and covered in the blood.
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Anything that may be going through her mind, Lord, just ease it because we already know that you have won, and we need to start living from a position of winners instead of doubters.
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There is no battle that we face that you have not won.
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So, Lord, I just pray that you take any doubt away as we walk through today.
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We thank you for what you have done in our lives.
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We thank you for what you are doing in our lives, and we thank you for what you are going to do in our lives.
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It's in Jesus' holy, heavenly name we pray these things.
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Amen and hallelujah.
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So, um the key message today is God never promised that we would never face difficulties, but he does promise that we do not face them alone.
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Um Isaiah 41, 10 says, so do not fear, for I am with you, do not be dismayed, for I am your God.
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I will strengthen you and help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
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So three key things here.
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Well, actually, there's there's there's five.
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Um, but we'll start with do not fear, do not be afraid.
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Um I am with you.
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Two, I am your God, three, I will strengthen you, four, and I will help you, five.
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So if you turn to um Deuteronomy thirty-one, six, there's a supporting verse here.
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Let me do that real quick and read that.
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Give me just a second.
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It is right here.
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Thirty-one six.
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Deuteronomy thirty-one six says, Be strong and courageous, do not be afraid or terrified because of them.
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For the Lord your God goes with you, he will never leave nor forsake you.
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So our courage doesn't really come from um knowing, already knowing the future, already knowing the outcome.
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It comes from knowing who walks with us to that outcome.
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I mean, we already know that God won, but we he also said there would be pain in this world.
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So if he's not working walking with us, then how can we handle that on our own?
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It's kind of like uh trying to uh do very hard things without praying.
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It usually doesn't work when you try to push it.
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How many times you tried to do something without praying and it backfire and blow up in your face?
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Every time.
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Every time, and I and sometimes they have consequences, especially when it comes to medical and stuff like that, doesn't it?
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Anything you want to put with that So how would you how would your response to fear change if you truly believed that Jesus was walking beside you in every situation?
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Like truly believed, like if you stopped every time you got a instead of letting that emotion take charge?
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How many times do we let emotions take charge?
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And in my case, every time flip out.
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And then what do we do?
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We do we break the agreements, we assume and then we uh we take it personally, right?
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Yeah, and those are the main two agreements we don't not supposed to break, right?
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Um so let's go.
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Psalms 46, 1 and 2.
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God is our strong refuge, he is truly our helper in times of trouble.
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For this reason, we do not fear when the earth shakes and the mountains tumble into the depths of the sea.
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That's a uh nice painting, isn't it?
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Well, obviously, you know, we're not talking about physical.
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And then in this day and age we are, but for the most part, if you look at that as a mental construct, like your earth shakes and your mountains tumble, could be something like everything in your life you think's falling apart, or whatever it could be.
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You if you take it into a personal aspect, does that make sense?
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I mean, obviously we have earthquakes and mountains fall off in the sea, but you know, you don't see that every day.
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But if you look at it as a symbolic aspect, mountains being, you know, things that you're you yourself are trying to accomplish without God.
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And your earth obviously, you said it yourself when you try to do it.
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Look, look there, 707.
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Already starting today.
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707.
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Look.
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So anyway, um, but the symbolic aspect to that, the mountains and the sea could be, you know, the earth, that's your world, and that's things that you try to do on your own, right?
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Does it make sense?
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I mean, it always says it never says that trouble won't come, it just tells us that God is our refuge and God is our security blanket in that time of trouble.
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You know, faith is never absence of storms, but you have to trust the one who can calm the storm.
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Or it can come with you and dine with you while it's going on and keep you calm and smooth and collect.
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Does that make sense?
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Does that make sense, baby?
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So when life feels like it's falling apart, do you tend to focus more on the size of the problem or the strength of God?
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That's a good question, isn't it?
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We seem to focus on if we're being honest, what do we seem to focus on?
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The size of the story.
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And how big it is.
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But did it kill you?
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No, it made us stronger.
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There we go.
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There we go.
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So turn to Joshua 19 and read that, please.
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Since you can do it quicker than me.
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Joshua 19?
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Yep.
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Joshua 1 9 kind of uh puts that in perspective, I think.
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I repeat, be strong and brave.
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Don't be afraid and don't panic, for I, the Lord your God, am with you in all you do.
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So right there, God commands Joshua to be courageous, not because Joshua was capable of handling everything, but because God promised to what?
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What did God promise to do for him?
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Be present with him, right?
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In all that he does.
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Isn't that what the verse says?
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Don't be afraid, don't panic, for I, the Lord your God, am with you with all you do, right?
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So if God's present with you with all you do, and God promised that, so what should our confidence rest in?
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God's faithfulness, right?
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Not on our own abilities.
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Where are you now?
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I'm remembering I did my own thing.
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I'm just asking questions, just listen.
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You good?
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So, what's one situation in our life right now where God may be calling us to replace fear with faith?
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I can think of a lot.
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Uh we started this job.
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That's one.
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Are you recording this?
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It's good, baby.
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Um anything else you can think of?
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Our kids, maybe?
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Our marriage.
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Our marriage.
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Everything, right?
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Yeah.
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We can sit here and name things and then then the the go back and it's like everything in your life.
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If if you don't um if you don't replace the fear with faith, you know, fear is false evidence appearing real, you know.
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It's fear, fear I always ask questions like, what if something goes wrong?
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What what are we gonna do now?
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We can't recover from this, you know.
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But faith um throws that that word even.
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Even if something goes wrong, we have God.
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Even if we ain't got no money, we got God.
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Even if we ain't got no material things, we got God.
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Even if we ain't got anything, we have the love of God.
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And this life's only temporary.
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And this life's only temporary.
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So um, going back to Isaiah 41, 10, it's not a promise that we will never face the battle because we face the battle every day.
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It's just a reminder that we don't have to do it without the Lord.
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Yep, and we don't have to do it alone.
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So, you know, every one of these three verses, um Isaiah 41.10, Deuteronomy 31.6, and Psalm 46, 1 and 2 are there especially, you know, it's it just basically reminds you that God will not abandon us and God will strengthen us through our fear, and we do not have to fear, and that's a beautiful thing, and um really it is, and that's the lesson for today.
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Do you have anything you want to say about that?
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Baby girl.
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All right, well, you may not know what tomorrow will bring, but you can face tomorrow with confidence in God's faithfulness today.
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Oh, say that again.
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Out loud.
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You may not know what tomorrow will bring, but you can face tomorrow with confidence in God's faithfulness today.
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Yep, yep.
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And we can only get you life insurance, and there's only one person, Jesus Christ, that can get you life assurance.
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So if you don't have a relationship with Christ today, you better make it right.