Fighting Your Fears
Ryan Heller
Judges 6:2-15, 7:7-8
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This morning I want to talk to you about overcoming fear. Fear is everywhere. You know the Allstate commercials we watch on TV? The ones with the character named Mayhem? In essence they say, ''I'm going to tell you everything that could happen that's terrible in your life so you will buy Allstate.'' Or there's the creepy dude peeking through the fence, looking at small children, and they say you need a home security system.
Fear is in our life everywhere we turn. We live in fear about the future. About our family and friends. About our finances. Today I want to introduce to you a fantastic and amazing character who is going to inspire you for overcoming fear.
Experts tell us that we have about 50,000 thoughts per day. Around 77% of those thoughts are negative. On average, by the time kids are eighteen years old, they have been told 148,000 times that they cannot do something. That's a lot of ''no's,'' isn't it? And we wonder, ''Why am I so afraid?'' I don't know what you're going through today, I don't know what you're afraid of, I don't know what's happening in your life, but God has some great words for us. Words of comfort and strength. They're going to help us overcome our fears.
Fear is not a passing thought. The Apostle Paul called it the spirit of fear. In 2 Timothy he said, ''For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love and self-discipline.'' It's the spirit of fear that consumes us. It will swallow you up when you can't sleep at night, when you're freaking out, when you don't know what to do. The spirit of fear is not of God, and it is not from God. How do we begin to combat that spirit? In Judges chapters 6 and 7 we find a most unlikely hero, a man overwhelmed by fear whom God moved to become a man filled with faith. His name was Gideon.
We find Gideon in Judges 6:2. The Israelites had been oppressed by the Midianites for seven years. Their chief wa ...
Ryan Heller
Judges 6:2-15, 7:7-8
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This morning I want to talk to you about overcoming fear. Fear is everywhere. You know the Allstate commercials we watch on TV? The ones with the character named Mayhem? In essence they say, ''I'm going to tell you everything that could happen that's terrible in your life so you will buy Allstate.'' Or there's the creepy dude peeking through the fence, looking at small children, and they say you need a home security system.
Fear is in our life everywhere we turn. We live in fear about the future. About our family and friends. About our finances. Today I want to introduce to you a fantastic and amazing character who is going to inspire you for overcoming fear.
Experts tell us that we have about 50,000 thoughts per day. Around 77% of those thoughts are negative. On average, by the time kids are eighteen years old, they have been told 148,000 times that they cannot do something. That's a lot of ''no's,'' isn't it? And we wonder, ''Why am I so afraid?'' I don't know what you're going through today, I don't know what you're afraid of, I don't know what's happening in your life, but God has some great words for us. Words of comfort and strength. They're going to help us overcome our fears.
Fear is not a passing thought. The Apostle Paul called it the spirit of fear. In 2 Timothy he said, ''For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love and self-discipline.'' It's the spirit of fear that consumes us. It will swallow you up when you can't sleep at night, when you're freaking out, when you don't know what to do. The spirit of fear is not of God, and it is not from God. How do we begin to combat that spirit? In Judges chapters 6 and 7 we find a most unlikely hero, a man overwhelmed by fear whom God moved to become a man filled with faith. His name was Gideon.
We find Gideon in Judges 6:2. The Israelites had been oppressed by the Midianites for seven years. Their chief wa ...
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