You know, I can promise you this.
That at every new level that God asks you to do or take,
especially ones that are really gonna change your life,
fears are probably going to pop up
to try to keep you from stepping out,
to keep you in your comfort zone,
but if God has promised you something,
then you need to realize and you need to just
think about the fears in this way.
That those fears on the way to a promise
that God has given are fake news.
Now I know fake news is all the rage these days,
and we all have our opinions as far as
who is the purveyor of fake news,
but ultimately it's the enemy.
Doing just what we looked at last time in 2 Corinthians 10:5
where he raises up arguments and obstacles,
evidence to try to show us why it can't work out.
The evidence might be real.
But the assessment of the evidence is the fake news.
The assessment that we are victims.
The assessment that this isn't gonna work out.
That voice that tells you you can't, you won't,
you aren't, it'll never work, that voice is a liar.
It is fake news.
Don't you buy the headline.
I love what the University of Cincinnati did
with a study on fear and what they reported,
and any time I talk on fear I often say this
because we need to hear this,
but they revealed out of their study that 85%
of the things that we're afraid of never actually happened.
Think about that.
9 out of every 10 of things that you bite your nails over
and lose sleep over never actually happened
in the first place.
It's just as I've been saying.
It's fake news.
It's make believe mind games set up to get you to settle.
That's why the King James Version in 2 Corinthians 10:5
instead of arguments it uses the word imaginations.
The fairytales.
The assessment isn't real.
It's based on a worse case scenario
that's not coupled with the truth of God's word.
You know I'm not saying that giants aren't really there.
The giants really existed in Israel,
and giants might really exist in your life.
You might really have a pass with all kinds of things.
You might really have struggles and feelings
that you're dealing with today.
You might really be low on resources.
But the victory really and hear this.
The victory really is not in the not feeling.
I'm gonna say that again.
The victory is not in the not feeling.
The victory is in the pushing forward despite the feeling,
and I just need to capitalize on this point
for just a minute because if you wait
for a feeling to go away or the situation just be right,
you're probably waiting for a long time.
Just as Israel couldn't wait
for those giants to leave that land,
they had to go forward despite the giants.
Today so many people have bought into a definition of who they are based upon
feelings they didn't choose, negative words spoken about them and, of course,
regrets of the past.
Things that try to dictate their lives.
Basically saying,
"Because you feel this, you deal with this, you fell to this...Then this is who you
are, this is how you have to behave, this is your destiny."
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