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#545: Freedom From our Fears

February 20, 2022 • Loren Hicks

The Big Idea:

I’ve discovered the key to being free from fear is to intentionally keep our focus on the Lord. Fear comes from looking in the wrong places. Fear comes from looking at our ability and our track record rather than looking at God’s ability. It comes from looking at the size of the problem rather than the size of our God. It comes from imagining what might happen instead of holding on to the promises of God. When we focus on the Lord, the fear disappears.

Main Points:

1. The command “fear not” is recorded in the Bible over 300 times. It is the single most common command in the Bible. I believe God is trying to get a message across to his people: “Fear is not his plan for our lives.”
2. Fear lives in the realm of the unknown. What if this happens? What if they do this? What if I am rejected? But fear cannot live unless you feed it. Let’s decide to starve our fears and feed our faith.
3. When we are filled with fear we must remind ourselves of what we know to be true. God is faithful! He has been faithful in the past, and He will be faithful in the future.

Today’s Scripture Verses:

2 Timothy 1:7 - “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.”

Psalm 34:4 - “I sought the Lord, and he answered me; he delivered me from all my fears.”

Psalm 27:1 - “The Lord is the stronghold of my life—of whom shall I be afraid?”

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