"Fears, Phobias & Anxieties: Living Fierce" S1 Ep14

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Fear is a reaction of anticipation that is triggered when a situation that is at risk

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for our safety is perceived.

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Preparing the body to face danger which can evoke the freeze, flight, fight and fright

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reactions dramatically impairing one's life.

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In this episode of Keep It 100 we tackle the monster of fear and give a blueprint for how

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to break through.

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Stay tuned to the end for our special guest who will give a breakthrough key to overcoming

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fear in your life.

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Hi, this is Matt.

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I just want to tell you that.

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Keep It 100 is 100% the real deal.

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For those of you needing some voices of wisdom in your life that are culturally relevant,

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prophetically accurate and spiritually powerful, look no further than Sean and Christa Smith.

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Hey, Keep It 100 Tribe, we are so excited you're with us this week.

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What's going on everybody?

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Everybody?

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As you know, it's Sean and Christa Smith.

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We're super excited about our time with you today and we are talking about a topic that

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we feel like is critical for this hour.

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Right Sean?

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Yes, yes, yes.

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It's in fact the street everybody is living on right now.

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It really is.

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And we're calling it fear, phobias and anxiety.

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And for any of you listening today, I tell you what, I think there's a key for many of

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you that are listening today because it's an issue that a lot of people struggle with.

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But you got to start us off with this Sean because you found some hysterical phobias

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and they were cracking me up and I just thought they'd be perfect for our listeners to hear.

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That is true.

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You know, there are in fact some 280 known phobias depending on who you ask.

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And so here are some interesting ones.

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One is called chetophobia, which is the fear of hairy people.

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Okay, there are certain nations you just need to avoid then.

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My goodness, right?

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Or you become like a perpetual partner of laser, right?

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Because you're like, you are the most hairless person.

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That waxing tape stuff that you just rip it off your back.

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No, just laser it.

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Just a laser if you want.

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All right, here's another one.

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Bromosephobia is the fear of body smells.

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Man, I mean again, just don't do public transport.

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That's all I'm saying.

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I think I had had a little bit sometimes.

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You do.

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You have like the most intense sense of smell.

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I do.

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Like you're very dialed into that.

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That's hilarious.

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Here's another one.

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Electrophobia is the fear of chickens.

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Oh my gosh.

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Okay, right?

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Because chickens can live without their head for like a minute or so or a few minutes.

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I saw that.

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I did too one time when I was a little kid.

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My dad told me not to look.

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Of course I looked.

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And that would make you afraid of chickens.

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Yep.

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But all I got to say is Chick-fil-a.

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I don't have a fear of chickens.

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Can you imagine being a chicken of chickens?

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That's like, okay, that's another conversation.

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All right, here's a legit phobia.

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Now, I don't admit to phobias, but this is legit.

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It's called chima phobia.

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It's the fear of cold.

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That's for real, y'all.

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I don't like cold water.

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I don't like cold weather.

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If there's white stuff on the ground, let me just say at 32 degrees Fahrenheit, water

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isn't moving.

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Neither should Sean.

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That's my philosophy.

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Okay, fun.

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You know, I have to add this.

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You know, I do.

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Fun fact, whenever we're in super cold areas and we come out of the hotel and our ride

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said pick us up to go to a service, if it's like in the teens, zeros below, Sean will instantly

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start speaking out in tongues because he can't even find like English because he's so overcome

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with the coldness.

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That's true.

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It's so cold.

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Man, I got to do something.

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Now, here's one last one.

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I think people could also relate to.

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It's called ententhephamophobia, which is the fear that people were talking about you,

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but stopped as you entered the room.

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Oh, that is a terrible feeling if you think that's real, but to have a phobia of it, because

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then you'd be believing that everyone's talking about you, like every conversations about

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you and if anything ever happens to stop, you're like paranoid.

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They say according to Chapman University, who recently took a survey of American fears,

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they say 47.5% of Americans are afraid or very afraid of the outcome of the 2020 election.

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How key is that right now?

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I think because there's such extremists on both sides, I think everyone's kind of afraid

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in it, that apprehension of how the other side's going to respond.

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Right?

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Yes.

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That's a real uncertainty that is what's going to be the feel of our country.

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How are we going to feel stable?

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That's for real.

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You know, you watch any regular news service, you're looking at social media feeds, and

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the likelihood is that you will be bombarded with reports and posts that will raise your

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posts.

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Today, mass media insurance companies, pharmaceutical corporations, advocacy groups, and politicians,

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for them, your fears were billions of dollars.

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Wait, what?

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Billions of dollars, sad to say.

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And for them, it's easy to manipulate your fears.

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The truth is that we're hardwired to respond to fear above many things, which is probably

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one of the reasons why God lets us know above all else fear, we should fear the Lord, have

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a reverence for the Lord, because when you have a reverence for God, it subjugates all

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other fears.

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You know, we're seeing so much fear integrate the different spheres of society right now.

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I mean, it's infiltrated not only news, media, blogs, websites, conspiracy groups, whatever

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you want to call it.

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It's like it can consume you, it can depress you, it can lead you into poor decision making,

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make you prone to knee-jerk reactions, make you very reactionary versus logical and rational.

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Fear can also incite hatred, violence, and even cause societal setbacks, which we've

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seen in this 2020 season of our life.

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And what's really interesting is we're seeing such a rise of anxiety, fear, and phobia,

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and there's certainly some stats to prove it.

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That's why we really wanted to talk about this today, because we know there's some listeners

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today that are dealing with very real anxiety, fears, and phobias, and there is freedom in

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the Lord, but we want to kind of break it down.

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What are we dealing with today?

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An estimated 264 million people worldwide have an anxiety disorder, an estimated 31.1%

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of U.S. adults experience any anxiety disorder at some time in their lives, an estimated

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19.1% of U.S. adults have had anxiety disorder in the past year, and anti-anxiety medical

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prescriptions have spiked 34% during this pandemic time.

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Anti-anxiety, how many people are just freaking out understandably?

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You're looking at the situation of the pandemic, you're looking at the situation of economic

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downslides, you're looking at the situation of civil unrest, you're looking at the upcoming

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election, you're looking at family crisis, you look at all that and you think, man, another

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34% of people are on med prescriptions.

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That brings us to this interesting fact and here is a word of the day.

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It's called amygdala.

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Let me explain it to you.

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The amygdala is the name for your brain's fear center.

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The amygdala is a tiny almond-shaped region deep in each hemisphere of the brain and it's

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the home to our emotional responses specifically fear.

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So now they develop a term called amygdala hijacking and is used to describe inflammatory

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rhetoric and imagery that is designed to trigger it but for the logical portion of your brain

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has a chance to stop it.

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And so amygdala hijacking is the admitted abuse of certain news media or certain people

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with certain agendas to try to provoke fear inside of you because they can get you on

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a point of fear that they can get you to begin to move towards things or react towards things

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without giving things the deep thought.

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And so the reason why we're susceptible is author Frank Ferretti accurately states in

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one of his books he argues that one of the main drivers of our culture of fear.

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He says we have a culture of fear and he says one of the main reasons why we have a culture

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of fear is the unraveling of moral authority.

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Wow.

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In other words, fear creeps in when there's moral uncertainty.

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Woo.

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Think about that.

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That is a sale a moment.

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That's like a sit there.

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Think about that when there is moral uncertainty, fear increases.

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Yes.

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Right.

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When you remove the absolutes, right?

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Yes.

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And people are like, what is right?

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What is wrong?

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Right.

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There is this apprehension, anxiety.

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There's a fear that increases.

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We used three words in our title today to really discuss in this episode and we titled it,

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you know, phobias, fears and anxiety, but we want to kind of break down what is the difference

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between those three things.

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Fear and anxiety are simply an excessive fear and anxiety related to specific situations

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out of proportion to the actual danger.

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So it's an exaggerated response to a situation.

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So you're responding at a 10 when it's really a two.

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Fear is natural when people feel they're in imminent danger.

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Fear is a natural response, but anxiety is defined as apprehension without an apparent

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cause.

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So those three definitions really help us understand what we're talking about and why

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we're talking about it.

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Those definitions are helpful because a lot of times we discuss things and we don't come

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in agreement in terms of what they're defined by.

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So when you think about the fears, phobias, anxieties, which I'll kind of lump for a moment

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and just call it fear in general, there are three effects of fear.

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And these are three reasons why this episode, I believe can be very crucial.

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Number one, fear will keep you from loving that when you have fear in your life and the

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enemy uses fear, I believe so much today of what really when it lands on the ground as

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racism.

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I believe it really begins with fear that the enemy tries to put unnatural fear that because

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I'm afraid of you or because I'm afraid of people that are different than me because

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of the fears that's in my life.

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It keeps me from loving.

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The Bible says that perfect love casts out fear.

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Well, I believe the opposite is also true that perfect fear will cast out love if you

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allow fear to stay there.

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The second effect of fear is that fear will keep you from living.

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It will cause paralysis that if you allow fear in your life that it will not only keep

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you from loving, it will keep you from living that you don't take necessary opportunities

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that are afforded to you because you're afraid that you may fail.

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You have this fear and so all of a sudden insecurity set in and as a result of the insecurities,

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you feel insufficiencies and insufficiencies lead to inadequacies and inadequacies lead

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to illegitimacies.

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It goes on and on and on before you know it is that you're paralyzed.

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You're not leaving the house.

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I think there's even a phobia called agoraphobia, which is the fear of open places.

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And then third of all, the third effect of fear is fear will keep you from leaving your

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comfort zones and fear ultimately will make you a prisoner because you'll always do what

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you've always done because you feel like you know what you'll get.

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You know the sample run of your well-worn customs, but at the same time, you're not

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going to step into the new thing God has for you because you're trapped in the old.

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And so it's so important that we break fear and that we're tackling this monster.

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Oh man, that is so good.

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I love hearing the effects because when you hear how something negatively affects you,

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it puts a fire in you of like, I'm not going to allow that influence on my life, right?

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Because that's not connected or agrees with the identity of who God's called me to be.

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You know, something I really wanted to bring to this episode because I think a lot of our

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listeners will probably be able to relate to me because fear is so prevalent.

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It's definitely something that I saw throughout a lot of my life and it really began to manifest

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as a young girl.

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I had an absolute fear of Spain the night at people's homes and I found myself just

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so homesick at sleepovers and birthday parties and I would go over there wanting to be social

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and have fun, but I found myself absolutely terrified and I wouldn't have known at the

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time that I was actually having a panic attack, but I was overcome with the fear that I just

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needed to get home to be with my parents and through a sequence of events, I found myself

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feeling unsafe at other people's houses and I just wanted to get home.

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And that fear really affected me for a few years during my elementary years to the point

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where I remember being at my friend's house during one of the sleepovers that I was at

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that time and I remember being on the top bunk of her bunk bed and I remember thinking

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if I throw myself off the top of the bunk bed and I hurt myself, it might be worth it

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because I just want to get home and I remember thinking how illogical that would be.

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I just go wake up her parents and get her parents to call my parents, but I didn't want to be

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a burden.

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I didn't want to put anyone out, but the fear was so real.

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I just had to get out of there and it's amazing when you are in sheer panic, you will do anything

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to get out of that situation.

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I found myself as a little kid just not even wanting to spend the night at anyone's house

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anymore and then fear kind of goes dormant, but if you don't deal with fear in your life,

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even if it's dormant, it doesn't mean it's resolved, they're done or broken.

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phobias.

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I found myself if there was any symptom in my body that I thought it was worst case scenario,

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I would see a mole and I'd be like, oh my gosh, it's skin cancer or I'd have a pain and

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I'm like, oh my gosh, this is happening or that is happening and I spent so much time

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and money actually and emotional worry and concern and I wasted so much space and time

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in my life obsessing over fear and I wanted to bring that fear has many different faces

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and fear is not logical, it's not rational, but the reality is so many of us deal with

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it and because it was dormant for a period of my life and yes, I had breakthrough in

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that one face of fear, when it resurrected itself again in my 20s, I had to figure out

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new methods and ways to actually uproot fear and I had to get to the root of it and order

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to actually have it broken in my life and there's a difference between something being

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dormant and something being broken and we want things to be broken in your life because

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God, I love this, He gives us the ability to walk in full freedom from fear and there

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were some real practical things that I feel like the Lord took me on this journey, my

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mom was so instrumental in helping me walk through the freedom, but one of the things

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I discovered was I had to expose the private battle I was in, the more hidden and the more

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secret I was embarrassed about my fear, I didn't want anyone to know my struggle, I came across

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as this confident strong woman and yet I felt very vulnerable, very susceptible to fear

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and very overcome by fear and in that vulnerability, I felt so weak and I hated that feeling and

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yet I felt so alone in the privacy of the battle, it's when I exposed the darkness of

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my battle, I exposed the demonic thoughts, the harassing, tormenting things that were

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coming at me and I brought someone into my battle which was my mom and some of my really

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close friends of that time and I brought to light what was happening in the dark places

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and so when I brought to light, it exposed and I remember sharing the silly thoughts

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of this, fear is irrational, it's silly, it's ridiculous and when I brought those ridiculous

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things I was hearing the enemy whisper and I said them out loud, I would hear how stupid

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they were and all of a sudden they lost their power because I brought darkness, the whispers

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of the enemy to light and when you bring darkness to light, it loses its power and then I had

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someone speak truth to me, so I'd say to my mom, speak truth to me, she'd remind me of

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who I am in Christ Jesus, she would remind me what the word of God says, she would remind

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me of who God is and when I heard truth, all of a sudden it would shift me out of that

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spiral at place and it would bring me to a place of freedom and so I just learned, don't

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do it alone, bring God into your journey and bring your community, your spiritual community,

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people that are more mature than you that can walk the journey with you.

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You know the real second practical thing I felt like really brought me to a place of

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breakthrough was it's really kind of connected to what I just said, declaring who God is.

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I really began to learn through my mom what the blood covenant was and I learned it was

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actually illegal for the enemy to harass or torment me and then I also learned that Jesus

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had already defeated everything on the cross, I didn't have to win anything, so the pressure

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was off me to win anything and so all of a sudden I realized it's already been defeated

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so I enforced the blood covenant of Jesus over my fears, over the anxieties that I was

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being riddled with at that time and it also came when I just whispered four simple words

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that were Jesus come, Satan flee and those simple four words were establishing who God

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is and the authority of Jesus Christ because the enemy has no power and he certainly has

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no authority and when I establish who Jesus was and is, Satan had to flee and you know

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it talks about in James 4, 7, resists the devil and he will flee from you by me establishing

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those four words which sometimes it felt like I had to do over and over and over but eventually

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that devil had to flee from me, why?

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Because I was establishing that I was rooted and grounded in Christ, that I was covered

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by the blood of the Lamb and I was enforcing the covenant I was in with Jesus and the enemy

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cannot stay and the last thing I really learned in breaking anxiety and walking through freedom

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in my life really getting that root of fear was I refused to get on the what if train because

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you know the word of God talks about don't borrow trouble from tomorrow, tomorrow has

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enough trouble for itself but today the Lord is going to cover you today and so for me

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it was don't borrow and focus on hypotheticals and that was the what if train that woo woo

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come aboard, go to the most catastrophic worst case scenario which is never going to leave

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me in a good place and so when I don't have control over something you know the word of

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God talks about when you've done everything you know to do just stand and stand in the

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armor of God, stand in the blood of Jesus and stand on who Christ Jesus is and I begin

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to walk in a greater level of resting in God and the anxiety had to leave me.

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Those are some practical things that I felt like I experienced in my own journey that

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I want to share with the Keep It 100 tribe.

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Come on get off that train I love that that is so powerful.

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My story as it relates to fear is that I would really kind of characterize my fear as kind

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of the fear of fully going public I think growing up without a dad one growing up being

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raised by an alcoholic two and then a mom who's working a lot so I'm not really seeing

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her a lot during the daytime hours and of course at night I'm sleeping she's she's working

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I think I really developed some insecurities and I just wasn't confident in myself and

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so there's a German proverb that says fear makes the wolf bigger than he is and I think

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that's what fear really does it makes whatever it is that you feel like you've got to face

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down it feels that much bigger so I remember right when I gave my life to the Lord my campus

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pastor he wanted to meet me in the middle of the student union and we were going to

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have like a little sandwich together and he was going to have our first discipleship time

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and so while we're out in the middle of student union there's three levels and so there's

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students all around it's crowded it's the student union people are hanging out and so it was

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just my campus pastor Donnie he loved to do this he loved to grab hands like literally

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grab hands and pray like I've blessed food before you know my grandmother blessed the

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food but we didn't necessarily hold hands while we did it but also man being from inner

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city Oakland I'm about to grab a dude's hands out in the middle of public and bless food

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with everybody looking but it was huge because it was like a baptism into fully identifying

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with Christ I mean it's so good my water baptism I was less conscious about than grabbing

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a dude's hands in public and blessing food and so he put his hands out and it was a quick

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snap judgment I grabbed his hands I closed my eyes I didn't want to look at who's looking

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and I felt like the whole world was looking he blessed the food but I think it was so

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important because I've noticed something interesting our greatest struggles with fear always have

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a significant relevance to what God is calling you to do perhaps I could best put it this

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way fear always stands as an obstacle for filling the call of God on your life and so

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I'm thinking about the fear fully going public well that's totally what the call of God is

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on my life and for that matter it's the call on every single believer's life but the funny

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part about it is when I conquered the grabbing the hands fear and that was something I'd

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wrestle with within one week I was standing up in the same same student union and giving

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my testimony impromptu I wasn't even organized by my student minister I just stood up and

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felt like I wanted to tell everybody about Jesus so I go from being afraid to hold hands

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with a guy one minute to the next minute stand up in front of my campus and sharing the gospel

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but then I would feel it again there'd be another time where I'd stand in front of fraternity

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and I was kind of a little embarrassed about what I believed and then I just from being

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I remember being reminded that all the opinions of all men of all time added up all together

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will equal absolutely zero zilch goose eggs nada the only thing that matters is what I'll

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do for Christ.

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From that I've discovered three things that the three major causes where fear and anxiety

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slip in and begin to rob you of an exploit.

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Number one is when you focus on your circumstance fear always comes when you focus on your circumstance

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whenever you look at the circumstances I look at all the people around me who don't know

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the Lord and I'm the owner and it does know the Lord or I look at man all the people and

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how vociferous and and how antagonizing they are towards the gospel and their and whatever

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cause they stand for but you always open the door for fear if you focus on your circumstances

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rather than focus on your God.

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David defeated Goliath because he said I don't come at you today in a sword I come at you

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in the name of the Lord and so he focused on God.

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The second I think major cause where fear or anxiety can slip in is when you focus on

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past failures.

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I think a lot of my life I focus on past failures and I and I feel like there's somebody listening

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right now that you have beat yourself up because of past failures and your fears that you will

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repeat the cycle once again.

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You have a fear of failure and a fear that what happened in the past will happen again

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but I'm telling you God always brings a new day.

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God makes you a new creature in Christ Jesus that he brings a new day old things have passed

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away but hold off things become new God changes things so don't focus on failures focus on

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what God intends to do through you.

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And last and final is many people focus on unresolved issues and we're all a progress

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we're all we might as well have a under construction sign on our chest at any given moment.

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God is always at work on us but you don't focus on your unresolved issues you focus on

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your identity in Christ which is solidified which is established you may not your emotions

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may try to tell you otherwise but the truth be told is when Jesus calls you the righteousness

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of God.

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That is your designation when he says you are son or daughter of the most God that is your

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designation.

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Keep it 100 tribe we've got a super surprise for you guys.

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It's so good.

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My next friend that we're going to introduce right now is a friend of Christ and I both

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he is one of the most profound prophetic evangelists I know this guy has been used in Coliseum

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events he's been used to raise up teams that have canvas with prophetic evangelism at major

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outreach rallies he travels across the nations and my great friend is his mighty revivalist

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and evangelist Richie Seltzer you're going to enjoy him.

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Hey everybody keep it 100 tribe you are in for a special treat and so Richie how you

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doing man.

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Man I'm so good man so good to be with you love being with you.

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And man you're such a pioneer such an honor to be on keep it 100.

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Come on buddy.

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All right Richie I got this question I know our viewers will so profit from your wisdom

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and your response to this here's the question Richie you ready.

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What do you do when fear hits but you know that God has an exploit for you.

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Man I like to tell people this the Bible clearly tells us you know Billy Graham would always

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say that.

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The Bible tells us in Romans that you have not been given a spirit of bondage again to

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fear which you've been given the spirit of adoption by whom you cry out Abba father.

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And then another place in Timothy it tells us you've not been given the spirit of fear

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but of power of love and of a sound mind both places it describes fear as a spirit.

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So when when the body of Christ gets this simple revelation that fear is a spirit and

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it's not yours it changes the game.

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You know when I feel fear I'm not afraid people like to say that all the time I'm afraid I'm

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just afraid no no no if you're in Christ you can't be afraid it's not your identity you're

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a child of God perfect love cast out all fear you just feel fear when you feel fear if you

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immediately recognize it's not who you are then you recognize it as an invitation.

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The dogs of doom bark the loudest at the door of your destiny and so when you feel fear

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it's actually an invitation into an encounter.

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So I like to tell people this if I feel fear everybody's getting Jesus.

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Oh my he's going to get the gospel love that I know the enemy is trying to hide my destiny

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he's trying to hide an encounter from me.

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That is so good man that is so good you have any examples where God asked you to do something

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and it was a bit out of the norm man and you had to conquer that foreign spirit of fear

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that the enemy tried to put on you.

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Yeah man many many times you know because here's the thing courage isn't the absence

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of the feeling of fear.

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Courage is not letting fear tell you what to do just because you feel fear doesn't mean

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that it's yours and so oftentimes I'll feel fear I'll feel the fear of failure I'll feel

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the fear of man I'm going to get laughed at or I'm not going to have the right words to

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say but in the middle of that if I run through the fear and not from the fear then oftentimes

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I find that God shows up in those moments.

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When I come to the edge of my ability then his ability takes over and so I remember one

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time I was in a cafe we weren't there on that outreach we were just me and my buddy and we

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step out of the cafe and we see this couple screaming and yelling at each other I mean

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it's a bad argument I mean her neck vein is even bulging out they're screaming at each

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other the spit's flying and you know common sense tells you leave them alone like this

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is not a good time to tell them about Jesus you know like.

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Right.

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But you know I have this core belief that there's not a problem in the world that doesn't

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have a solution and even though I don't know what the solution is my best friend does is

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to Holy Spirit and like I said oftentimes your greatest encounter will happen when you put

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yourself in a position to where if God doesn't show up it ain't going to turn out very good.

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So I didn't know what I was going to say all I knew is there was a problem and so I walked

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up and I knocked on the window and I immediately began to feel fear because the dude was look

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like the rock man I mean he had muscles up on muscles he was angry the skin had looking

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dude with like tattoos everywhere and he was angry at his girl at first and now he's angry

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at me he's looking for somebody to take some anger out on man.

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Wow.

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My heart's racing I'm like feeling the fear but at the same time I have this quiet confidence

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that this is going to turn out good if I put Jesus in this position where he's got to show

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up.

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Amen.

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So remember what I end up doing is I knock on the guys window he turns around and he's

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like what what do you want you know and I'm like oh man I don't know what I'm going to

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say I went into like emergency tongues on the inside I don't know if anybody you know

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listening can identify with that when you don't know what to do.

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Oh yeah.

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I'm like oh God God God God you gotta tell me something if you don't tell me something

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I'm gonna make it up you know and suddenly I just get this simple little phrase that

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goes through my heart I like to tell people often times that's how God's voice is like

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this still small voice on the inside and I heard this great evangelist one time in the

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past tell me that the secret place is the practice place for the marketplace.

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Come on man.

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And I just recognize that still small voice and I remember I felt the Holy Spirit speak

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to me he said ask him about his daughter and tell him.

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Oh.

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According to her life.

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When you put yourself in those positions where when you feel fear and you don't know how

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it's gonna work out and you put yourself in that position like I like to be like the

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sandlot you throw your hat over the fence you know like ain't no return like it's the

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place in the return I've stepped over the edge like Indiana Jones like I put myself

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in that position you don't have time to overanalyze thing you just gotta go with it you know

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and and I remember I was like hey do you have a daughter and the dude was like yeah why

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do you ask and and I'm like this might sound crazy man but I'm a Christian and God spoke

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to me did not sit on your window and ask you about your daughter and I know you're arguing

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with your girl and whatever but I don't want to be disrespectful but the Lord told me to

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tell you that you're important to her life and the dude starts weeping.

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Oh my gosh.

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And I mean he's uncontrollably weeping and crying and he's like today we were gonna commit

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couple suicide and we were arguing about what we were gonna do with our daughter when we

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were gone oh my God. And then I was giving the share of the gospel and the guy gave his

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life to Christ instead of committing suicide. Straight up. Bro like amazing the dude gave

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his life to Christ but I like to tell people this even more than that Sean courage inspires

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courage. Yes. And you know you see this all throughout scripture with David and with different

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ones throughout scripture somebody steps out in boldness and it inspires the armies of

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God to follow the lead. My friend Tom turned around and I mean he saw that whole thing

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happening and he turned around he looked for the first moving target in the parking lot

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bro and he saw this dude like with a Walkman on. Oh I told me no I had one back in the

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day. Yeah man that dude was trucking across the parking lot smoking a cigarette and my

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friend Tom's like hey hey you know he's calling yelling at this dude across the parking lot

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the dude's like either ignoring him or or can't hear him or is like deaf or something and

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my friend Tom takes off running bro after this dude because courage inspires courage

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man he this dude's like gotta tell somebody about Jesus now and he taps that dude on

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the shoulder and and the dude turns around and's like what what do you want you know

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like why why are you stopping me and my friend Tom he says he doesn't know what he's gonna

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say he ain't thought that far yet you know and I like to tell people this yawn whenever

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you don't know what to say just tell a testimony be locked and loaded with like an arsenal

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of testimonies. Amen bro. You're ready in season and out of season my friend Tom doesn't

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know what he's gonna say so he just tells this dude hey he'll never believe what just

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happened over there and he tells this guy what just happened and the dude starts weeping

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he's like stop it. My way to kill myself right now. Oh my. Tom shares his testimony

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of which he was delivered of methamphetamines and drug addiction and gang life and the dude

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gives his life to Christ so three people in less than 20 minutes give their life to Christ

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simply because two guys were drinking coffee and would not bow down to the spirit of fear.

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Richie bro can't thank you enough dude that was so powerful dang man that's great dude

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love you man Chelsea. Bless you bro. That was so good Richie's perspective is so profound

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and I love love love the takeaway it's not yours because it's not your identity and I

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feel like for all of the Keep It 100 tribe that is such an essential takeaway from Richie's

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what he downloaded of course he said so much more than that but that was just a really

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significant takeaway for me I mean that was so good. That was awesome Richie just brought

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revelation as always Keep It 100 tribe we want to give you five Keep It 100 takeaways

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that we believe will help you as it relates to defeating fear in your life and the number

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one thing that I want to begin with is that you need to reevaluate your expectations when

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I say reevaluate your expectations what I mean is your fear is a habit that's been ingrained

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in the way you think fill and act for a long period of time and sometimes you just have

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to patiently apply the word of God pray stem before God do all the things that you would

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normally do but recognize sometimes it's a process sometimes it's not like fear disappears

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the very moment you decide that you don't want it in your life sometimes if you've had

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fear in place for a long period of your life decades of your life quite possibly and sometimes

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it may take a while but understand this you do have the victory you will achieve the victory

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if you don't quit the enemy is going to be the one scurrying off into the shadows not

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you and so the first thing to understand is reevaluate your expectations and what I love

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to say oftentimes is sometimes you reevaluate your expectation but you strengthen your motivation

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yeah you know a real practical takeaway and just overcoming fear in your life is understanding

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that courage actually breaks a stronghold of fear and the difference between fear and

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courage is courage is not the absence of fear it's actually doing something despite the

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feelings of fear and I think that that's a really important discrepancy that we understand

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the difference between those two things because so many times we wait to make movement we

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wait to do the exploits of God we wait to take risks in our lives for that inspired

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feeling or when we don't actually have any nervousness or there's no fear there's no

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feelings of apprehension and we're like okay there's a moment that moment sometimes may

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never come until you actually step through the obstacle step through the barrier and

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when you step through the barrier you step through the obstacle and you do something

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simply out of courage and you step through that that's what breaks the fear and what's

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interesting is that the more you do it the less fear you'll have and another way to say

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it is lack of action actually fuels your fear so if you don't make movement if there isn't

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those steps of courage in your life you'll often stay stagnant in your fear and your

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fear takes your fear takes a deeper root because of the inactivity because of our disobedience

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because of our insecurity we actually reinforce fear when we lack courage or we lack the grit

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or the pursuit to push through you know really another takeaway is I like to call people

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you know say renew your mind I actually think it's bigger than that I actually think we

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need to renew our soul your soul is actually your mind your will and your emotions we need

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a whole makeover in our soul and so it's about bringing your soul into agreement with the

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word of God really understanding what we come into a place of agreement that he didn't give

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us a spirit of fear but a power love and a sound mind when you step into a place of understanding

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he didn't give you that spirit of fear you're renewing your mind through worship through

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prayer through pleading the blood of Jesus that enforcing the blood covenant like I talked

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about earlier you're going to renew your mind your will and your emotions to come into agreement

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with your God identity that's important understanding who you are and what you're standing on and

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who's dwelling within you so good Christa the fourth way to defeat fear is to pray right

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yeah for 667 says do not be anxious about anything but in everything by prayer notice

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said do not be anxious which is where we would get the word anxiety in other words don't

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have anxiety but in everything by prayer supplication with Thanksgiving let your request be made

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known to God and I recognize when I begin to thank the Lord for things that he's already

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done in the past that I want him to begin to do in my present it already begins to bring

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a calmness it brings a peace and the more I begin to pray with God the more I invite

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Holy Spirit in on exactly what is going on that invitation also causes me to feel his

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presence and the more I feel his presence the more bold I feel the less fear I feel

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and so what I believe it's so important there is as we pray we're accessing what heaven

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is made available and we're resisting the spirit of fear because fear is not just an

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emotional response it is a spirit you know and the last takeaway for overcoming fear

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in your life is really recognizing your triggers and create a plan for breakthrough so what

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do I mean by that I think it's important for you to understand what is your trigger and

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so there are times in my life where I might be battling fear or worry or anxiety in the

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area of my life and scrolling through social media is triggering me that means disconnect

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get off social media or maybe there's a relationship in your life where they say things that trigger

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you and I'm not saying cut them out but you might want to just exclude that topic of conversation

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from that relationship in order to guard your peace and so it's recognizing people or situations

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or platforms that might trigger those those fears those anxieties in your life and really

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being intentional about not engaging with those things that can trigger you and your

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plan for breakthrough what's a plan get practical and talk about even make a plan of what if

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this happens if this is something that is freaking you out and it's a real possibility

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it's not a hypothetical you actually face the fears head on rather than the fears controlling

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you and daunting do you actually create a plan for breakthrough so you dismantle obstacles

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and fears that feel so big and you make them practical and you give pathways to overcome

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the things that feel so big so know that there is always a plan for breakthrough and there's

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always victory so when you actually get practical and you eliminate the bigness of the fear

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it helps you keep things in perspective because God is going to give you away even when there

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seems no way because the truth is God is bigger than even the fears and anxiety that we might

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be battling with right now I want to thank you guys so much for tuning in I want you

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