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American’s Top Ten Fears

American’s Top Ten Fears. Public Speaking Death Spiders Darkness Heights People Flying Confined Spaces Open Spaces Thunder & Lightening. Two Kinds of Fear. Good Fear: Fear of God. Proverbs 1.7: The fear of the  Lord is the beginning of knowledge. Two Kinds of Fear.

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American’s Top Ten Fears

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  1. American’s Top Ten Fears • Public Speaking • Death • Spiders • Darkness • Heights • People • Flying • Confined Spaces • Open Spaces • Thunder & Lightening

  2. Two Kinds of Fear • Good Fear:Fear of God Proverbs 1.7: The fear of the Lordis the beginning of knowledge

  3. Two Kinds of Fear • Bad Fear:Fear of anything else Psalm 27:1 The Lord is my light and my salvation—whom should I fear?The Lord is the stronghold of my life—of whom should I be afraid?

  4. The right kind drives out the wrong kind!

  5. 1 john 4.16 God is love

  6. 1 john 4.18 Perfect love drives out fear

  7. First Question: What are you afraid of?

  8. Fear God and nothing else

  9. Numbers 13.26-28; 31-32 26 They went directly to Moses, Aaron, and the entire Israelite community in the Paran desert at Kadesh. They brought back a report to them and to the entire community and showed them the land’s fruit. 27 Then they gave their report: “We entered the land to which you sent us. It’s actually full of milk and honey, and this is its fruit. 28 There are, however, powerful people who live in the land. The cities have huge fortifications. And we even saw the descendants of the Anakites there.

  10. Numbers 13.26-28; 31-33 31 But the men who went up with him said, “We can’t go up against the people because they are stronger than we.” 32 They started a rumor about the land that they had explored, telling the Israelites, “The land that we crossed over to explore is a land that devours its residents. All the people we saw in it are huge men. 33 We saw ourselves as grasshoppers, and that’s how we appeared to them.”

  11. Their fear was in the wrong place, and it was all they could see.

  12. Numbers 14.6-9 6 But Joshua, Nun’s son, and Caleb, Jephunneh’s son, from those who had explored the land, tore their clothes 7 and said to the entire Israelite community, “The land we crossed through to explore is an exceptionally good land. 8 If the Lord is pleased with us, he’ll bring us into this land and give it to us. It’s a land that’s full of milk and honey. 9 Only don’t rebel against the Lord and don’t be afraid of the people of the land. They are our prey. Their defense has deserted them, but the Lord is with us. So don’t be afraid of them.”

  13. Second Question: What do you see?

  14. 2 Samuel 23.20-21 20 Jehoiada’s son Benaiah was a hero from Kabzeel who performed great deeds. He killed the two sons of Ariel from Moab. He once went down into a pit and killed a lion on a snowy day. 21 He also killed a giant Egyptian who had a spear in his hand. Benaiah went against him armed with a staff. He grabbed the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand and killed him with his own spear.

  15. Third Question: Which direction are you running?

  16. Psalm 5.3 Lord, in the morning you hear my voice.    In the morning I lay it all out before you.    Then I wait expectantly.

  17. Being fearless starts with prayer

  18. Colossians 4.2 Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful.

  19. Prayer is god’s activating system

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