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NOTHING TO FEAR · THIS IS THE LIFE PODCAST

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Speaker 1: Thank you for gathering with us today on our This
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Speaker 1: is the Life podcast getting ready for our morning moments
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Speaker 1: with Jesus. I didn't plan on doing a series this
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Speaker 1: week on what I call this nothing theme that we
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Speaker 1: were doing, but the Lord once again gives us another
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Speaker 1: truth to ponder on today. So been following us this week.
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Speaker 1: You have nothing to prove, you have nothing to hide,
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Speaker 1: and this morning the Lord talks to us about you
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Speaker 1: have nothing to fear. Because fear has a way of
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Speaker 1: making something that hasn't happened feel like as though it's
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Speaker 1: already happened. We can lie a week worrying about tomorrow
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Speaker 1: all the time, We can imagine conversations that have never
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Speaker 1: even taken place. Don't you know? Fear has a powerful
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Speaker 1: grip on us if we allow it to, because it
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Speaker 1: creates things that's not really even there and hasn't even
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Speaker 1: happened yet. You have problems that haven't even arrived. This morning,
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Speaker 1: you've got outcomes that have never even happened, but yet
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Speaker 1: they play over and over in your mind as though
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Speaker 1: they already have. And before we know it, we are
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Speaker 1: carrying the weight of a future that hasn't even happened yet.
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Speaker 1: We haven't even stepped into that future yet, But yet
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Speaker 1: it consumes so much of our mental capacity, which works
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Speaker 1: on our emotions, which affects our spiritual walk, which affects
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Speaker 1: us physically as well. God leads us this morning to Isaiah,
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Speaker 1: and he leads Isaiah to write this in Isaiah forty
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Speaker 1: one to ten when he says, fear thou not for
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Speaker 1: I am with THEE, be not dismayed for I am
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Speaker 1: thy God. I hope you hear that this morning, dismayed
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Speaker 1: for I am thy God, I will strengthen thee yeay,
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Speaker 1: I will help thee yay, I will uphold THEE with
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Speaker 1: the right hand of my righteousness. I want you to
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Speaker 1: notice this morning that God doesn't promise there will never
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Speaker 1: be anything frightening in front of us. There will be
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Speaker 1: things in life that concern us. But know this this morning.
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Speaker 1: Concern is not the same thing as fear. He promises
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Speaker 1: that whatever is in front of us, He will be
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Speaker 1: there with us. And that's the difference. Faith doesn't mean
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Speaker 1: we never feel afraid. Faith means that fear doesn't get
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Speaker 1: to make the decisions for us and lead us in
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Speaker 1: a direction that God does not want us to go.
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Speaker 1: Maybe you're facing something today that you don't understand. Perhaps
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Speaker 1: there's an uncertainty concerning your family, or your finances, or
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Speaker 1: your future, or decision you have to make. Maybe nothing
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Speaker 1: is actually wrong at the moment at all, but you
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Speaker 1: have this uneasy feeling that something could go wrong. That's
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Speaker 1: where we have to remember this morning, who is already
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Speaker 1: standing in our tomorrow. Not only is God with us
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Speaker 1: this morning, he is already in tomorrow. God says, I
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Speaker 1: will strengthen THEE when you don't feel strong enough. God is.
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Speaker 1: He says, I will help THEE when you don't know
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Speaker 1: what to do. God does, I will uphold THEE when
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Speaker 1: you feel like you're about to fall apart. His hand
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Speaker 1: is still holding you together. And I want you to
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Speaker 1: remember that all day long. We spend so much time
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Speaker 1: trying to eliminate every reason to be afraid, when perhaps
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Speaker 1: God is teaching us something even greater. He's trying to
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Speaker 1: teach us to trust him even when there is a
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Speaker 1: reason to be afraid. You don't have to know how
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Speaker 1: everything is going to work out. It's a good thing
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Speaker 1: we don't. You don't have to have every answer, You
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Speaker 1: don't have to see the entire road ahead of you
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Speaker 1: this morning. You just need to know who is here
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Speaker 1: with you right now. Set a day when fear whispers,
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Speaker 1: what if? Then let your faith answer. God will handle it.
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Speaker 1: There may be things that this morning that you don't understand.
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Speaker 1: I get that. There may be things that you cannot control.
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Speaker 1: You need to deal with that. You may there may
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Speaker 1: be things in your life that frighten you right now,
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Speaker 1: the uncertainty of what to do. But when God is
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Speaker 1: with you, you've got nothing to fear. Because the apostle
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Speaker 1: Paul writes in the Book of Romans, Chapter eight and
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Speaker 1: verse number thirty one, what shall we then say to
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Speaker 1: these things? If God be for us, who can be
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Speaker 1: against us? Before we go today, I want to invite
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Speaker 1: you to join me tomorrow for our front porch Fridays.
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Speaker 1: We'll slow things down, maybe share some thoughts and comments
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Speaker 1: and stories, and see what the Lord might teach us
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Speaker 1: from those that front porch view of life. I got
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Speaker 1: a letter not too long ago that I want to
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Speaker 1: try to read in the morning, and I think it
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Speaker 1: just blessed my heart. I pray it'll bless yours too.
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Speaker 1: So join me in the morning for our morning moments
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Speaker 1: with Jesus, and what we call our front porch Fridays. Today,
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Speaker 1: you be safe, you be strong, and you be blessed.
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Speaker 1: Lords will we will see you back here again tomorrow.
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Speaker 1: Have a great day.