Fear will rob you of your creativity and self-worth. It is the enemy of greatness; the antithesis of faith. The longer it lives inside you, the stronger it grows. And it\u2019s fertilised by words; not just the words others say, but the words you say to yourself. When you tell yourself, \u2018There\u2019s no way I\u2019m going to make it,\u2019 you\u2019ve dented your armour and undermined your effectiveness. And if you let it fester, it will affect you like a plague. <\/p>\n
To overcome fear, you must first identify and expose it. It will hide in your motives. It\u2019ll drape itself in overprotectiveness, anger, pettiness, jealousy, and boasting so you don\u2019t get overlooked. It\u2019ll weigh you down with the responsibility of feeling like you have to look out for yourself, protect yourself, and defend yourself. <\/p>\n
So when you\u2019re fearful, what should you do? There\u2019s only one guaranteed course of action: stand up to your fears\u2014within and without. Here\u2019s a promise from God\u2019s Word that\u2019s as true today as it was when He first spoke it: \u2018Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, yes, I will help you, I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.\u2019<\/i> <\/p>\n
In Scripture the term \u2018God\u2019s right hand\u2019 speaks of His willingness and power to work on your behalf. Two chapters later in Isaiah, God told the same people, \u2018Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; you are Mine.\u2019<\/i> (Isaiah\u00a043:1\u00a0NKJV<\/sup>) And what God owns\u2014He takes care of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fear will rob you of your creativity and self-worth. It is the enemy of greatness; the antithesis of faith. The longer it lives inside you, the stronger it grows. And it\u2019s fertilised by words; not just the words others say, but the words you say to yourself. When you tell yourself, \u2018There\u2019s no way I\u2019m […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}