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Has Fear Got the Best of You?
Everyone who has ever lived has known the torment of fear. Like all of us, you experience fear almost every time you move toward a closer relationship with God. Fear will try to push you back and is always ready to attack you through your thoughts. But you can live free from it!
God's promise is that you will be able to overcome this powerful emotion. In this book, Joyce Meyer shows that even though fear will surely challenge you, the Holy Spirit can still help you walk in faith.
Find out:
-How to keep fear from controlling your life
-How to move forward in spite of your fears
-How God stays faithful regardless of what you're feeling
-The one basic fear underneath all fears.
You can act on God's Word and defeat this enemy. Now is the time to seize victory by stepping out to do it afraid!
Joyce Meyer is one of the world's leading practical Bible teachers. A #1 New York Times bestselling author, she has written more than eighty inspirational books, including Never Give Up!,The Secret to True Happiness, 100 Ways to Simplify Your Life, the entire Battlefield of the Mind family of books, her first venture into fiction with The Penny,and many others. She has also released thousands of audio teachings, as well as a complete video library.
Obeying God in the Face of
Fear
Has fear ever stopped you? Have you ever run away from something, disobeyed God or started something and then backed down because of fear?
If you have, you haven't been able to experience all the confidence available to you in God and the blessings He so desires to give to you. But you aren't alone.
Even though I'm a very bold person now, there was a time when I wasn't walking in the confidence and blessing God had for me. Over the years God has helped me understand how the bondages of fear took hold in my life, and He has showed me how to get out. In this book I explain what He taught me. I believe if you will open up your heart to receive as you read, you too will begin to walk free of the bondages of fear.
The Only Right Kind of Fear
There is only one right kind of fear described in the Bible-the reverential fear and awe of God. Fearing God doesn't mean being afraid of Him or believing He is going to hurt you. Being afraid of God or what He might do is a perversion of the kind of fear God meant for you to have.
The fear of God the Bible talks about is the kind of fear we would have for anyone in authority. It is the kind of fear children should have for their parents, wives for their husbands, and students for their teachers. It is a type of godly respect that involves reverential fear and awe.
Of course, if you really look, you can see that Satan is doing a pretty good job of tearing down that whole structure. In our society there isn't a lot of respect for authority anymore. Instead, there is a lot of rebellion.
Proverbs 14:26 is an interesting Scripture: In the reverent and worshipful fear of the Lord there is strong confidence. Why? If you have a reverent and worshipful fear, you will obey. You will do what God says to do, and your confidence and trust in Him will continue to grow.
Having a reverential fear and awe of God has a positive effect on our relationships with other people. W. E. Vine says it "will inspire a constant carefulness in dealing with others in His fear." Have you ever mistreated anybody? I know I used to be pretty hard to get along with. Sometimes I took my bad moods out on my kids or my husband, Dave.
I've noticed, however, the more reverential fear and awe I have of God and the more I realize Who God is, the more careful I am in my dealings with other people. I know I'm accountable to Him for my actions, and those other people are just as valuable to Him as I am.
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Posted April 3, 2004
This book released me to be able to do anything at all! There was fear in everything I did... even going to the grocery store. After reading this I understood more deeply within that God is with me, empowering me to do any thing at all.... and now I am do more things than I have EVER done in my life, and I have joy unspeakable. God works in my life to reach and teach to others and everything works out for His good if you trust in God.
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This book has inspired me to 'do it afraid' and has given me a new found confidence. It's a little book but powerful for anyone that is ready to face their fears and enjoy life!
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Overview
Has Fear Got the Best of You?
Everyone who has ever lived has known the torment of fear. Like all of us, you experience fear almost every time you move toward a closer relationship with God. Fear will try to push you back and is always ready to attack you through your thoughts. But you can live free from it!
God's promise is that you will be able to overcome this powerful emotion. In this book, Joyce Meyer ...