NO
FEAR OF MAN
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7 “Be
strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the law my servant Moses
gave you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, that you may be
successful wherever you go. 8 Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your
mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do
everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful. 9 Have I not commanded you? Be
strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever
you go.”
Joshua 1:7-9 (NIV)
I
will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort
me.
Psalms 23:4 (NIV)
1 The Lord is my light and my salvation-- whom
shall I fear? The Lord is the
stronghold of my life-- of whom shall I be afraid?
Psalms 27:1 (NIV)
25 Fear
of man will prove to be a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord is kept safe.
Proverbs 29:25 (NIV)
10 So
do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will
strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
Isaiah 41:10 (NIV)
4 “I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill
the body and after that can do no more. 5 But I
will show you whom you should fear: Fear him who, after the killing of the
body, has power to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him.”
Luke 12:4-5 (NIV)
BUTTER
“There is never a fear that has not a corresponding ‘Fear
not.’”
Amy Carmichael
“God
incarnate is the end of fear. The heart
that realizes that He is in the midst…..will be quiet in the midst of alarm.” F.B.
Meyer
“The most oft
repeated command in the Bible is ‘fear not…do not be afraid’. Probably because for most us we lack
courage. Courage isn’t the absence of
fear. In fact, fear might be a constant companion for the rest of your
life. But courage is an essential
ingredient for those following Jesus. It
is a moral value—an operating quality of someone with a radically changed
heart. How do we get courage in the
midst of all that frightens us—when the Dr. says there isn’t any more that can
be done? When you get a pink slip at
work? When your spouse says ‘I found someone
new’? When you spend one more night in
the lonely dark? You won’t get it by
your own will power. But, by faith in
the One, Jesus, Who when faced with the most frightening of all experiences,
death for our sin, abandonment from the Father, did not run. He stayed and
offered up His life for you. When you
see his courage and believe his promise, ‘I will never leave you or abandon
you’…you will face your fear with courage.” Tom
Wood
“Men
who fear God face life fearlessly.”
Richard Halverson
“And we will never stop being the boldface brave who show up
when it would be easier to give up, who go do hard & holy things when it
would be easier to just go do happy things, who do not quit when we don’t know
how to keep going on. You can hear it
about this time of September, breathing warm courage into our exhausted
places: ‘Just Call to Me, I guarantee I
will answer you. I will make you strong
& brave.’ (Psalms 138:3). Be Brave.
Hold out your Light to hold back the flood of dark. Be Brave.
Your bravery wins a thousand battles you can’t see because your bravery
strengthens a thousand others to win their battles too. Be Brave.
And do not pray for the hard thing to go away. But pray for a bravery to come that’s bigger
than the hard thing.” Ann Voskamp
HEART SAVOR
- · When God is on my side whom shall I fear? He is my Strong Tower, my Rock, and my Salvation. Nothing is too hard for Him. 14 Is anything too hard for the Lord? Genesis 18:14 (NIV). 17 “Ah, Sovereign Lord, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too hard for you.” Jeremiah 32:17 (NIV)
- · I am to be courageous and careful to obey God’s Word.
- · Jesus will never leave me nor forsake me. I can trust Him with my life and rest secure in Him. “Let the beloved of the Lord rest secure in him, for he shields him all day long, and the one the Lord loves rests between his shoulders.” Deuteronomy 33:12 (NIV)
