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S1-E62 | Everyday Eurasia | DSP Raja · Eurasia Region Podcast

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  Hello and welcome to the Everyday Eurasia podcast,
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  Inspiring Faith for Every Day. Each day we are on a journey
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  with Jesus in our churches, our homes, our workplaces, and in so
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  many different places around the world.
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  Is it beautiful that no matter where we are, we can walk with
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  him every single day? Jesus is the one who connects us
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  all and stands at the very center of our lives day after
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  day. Through this podcast, you'll
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  hear voices from across the region sharing devotionals that
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  reminds us of God's presence in our everyday moments.
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  This week we're highlighting the India field.
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  It is the largest measuring field in the Eurasia region with
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  more than 95,000 members and over 2300 churches.
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  Throughout the week, voices from across the field will be sharing
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  their daily devotionals with us. Today we will listen to Reverend
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  TSP. Raja serves as the Co pastor of
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  the Missouri Church of the Nazarene.
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  He also serves as the field coordinator of NDI and Zone
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  Development Facilitator for the South Zone at the India field as
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  well. Let's read Numbers 1330 to 33,
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  when Caleb silenced the people before Moses and said we should
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  go up and take possession of the land, for we can certainly do
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  it. But the men who had gone up with
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  him said we cannot attack those people.
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  They are stronger than we are. And they spread among these
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  lights a bad report about the land they had explored.
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  They said the land we explored divorce, those living in it.
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  All the people we saw there are of great size.
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  We saw the nephew in there, the descendants of Anna come from
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  the Nephilim. We seemed like grasshoppers in
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  our own eyes, and we look the same to them.
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  Dear friends, fear is one of the obstacles that comes in the way
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  of the people who believe in God.
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  It is not only an obstacle but a dangerous weapon that the enemy
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  uses to silence the faithful from achieving God's purposes in
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  our lives. As we read from the book of
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  Numbers that the 10 of the spies were gripped with fear about the
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  reality and possibility of conquering the enemies, they
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  could be right according to their own words that come from
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  the human perspective. These words were born out of
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  fear, they were born out of frailty, and they were born out
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  of their own flesh. The voice of fear chokes the one
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  who has it. The danger of fear is that it
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  blinds us to the facts of the past, it cripples us to the acts
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  of the present, and it chokes us from grasping the future.
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  Let me repeat it The danger of fear is that it blinds us to the
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  facts of the past, it cripples us to the acts of the present,
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  and it chokes us from grasping the future.
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  Yes, fear blinded them to the great wonders that God had
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  performed in front of their very own eyes at Egypt and also at
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  the Red Sea. Fear crippled them from acting
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  upon rightly through God's word of promise, and fear choked them
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  from receiving what God would give them in the future.
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  Another greater danger of fear is that fear spreads and tends
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  to choke the faith of the strong as well, For we read in Numbers
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  1410. But the whole assembly talked
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  about stoning them. Stoning who?
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  Stoning the very person through whom God had performed all the
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  miracles, stoning Moses, Aaron, Caleb, and Joshua.
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  How dangerous the fear is. Praise be to God, for God
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  stepped in to rescue the faithful from the fearful.
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  Moreover, as we read in Numbers 1421 to 23, God told Moses that
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  the people who were gripped with fear, the people who were
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  against God, will not enter the land of promise.
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  Friends, people with fear are not defeated by the external
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  enemies, other kings, but the enemy within them defeated them
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  and snatched them away from the promised land.
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  Fear snatched them away from the promised land.
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  On the other hand, people with faith became conquerors as God
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  promised in Numbers 1424. Today, as people of faith, we
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  need to understand that we cannot have faith and fear
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  together in our hearts. Faith and fear cannot travel
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  together. Either we should have faith or
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  fear, not both. Faith dispels fear or as the
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  fear enters, the faith is silence.
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  To the Cartner Dear Church, we are called to be the people of
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  faith, not of fear. The challenge that you have is
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  real. The problem that you go through
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  could be real, and the danger that shows up could be very real
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  in your life. However, if the God has promised
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  us to give, then nothing will stop us from receiving it except
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  fear. The 10, even though they were
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  chosen, they choked due to fear. The two, even though the
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  opposition was greater, they conquered by faith.
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  Fear blinds, fear cripples, and fear chokes, but faith conquers.
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  Let's be the people of faith, and let's be more than
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  conquerors. Through His word and through His
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  mighty power, Let's pray. O Lord Almighty, thank you for
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  speaking with us. Help us, Lord, that we will be
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  people of faith like Caleb, not the people of fear.
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  And help us, Lord, to be more than conquerors.
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  Through your word of promise and with your mighty power we commit
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  ourselves with your mighty hands.
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  O Lord, in the mighty name of our Lord Jesus, we pray.
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  Amen. Thank you for listening to the
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  Everyday Eurasia podcast Inspiring Faith for Everyday.
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