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Hi my friends, welcome to Day 13, Overcoming Your Fear of Failure.

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Isaiah 41.10 says, Fear not, for I am with you.

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Do not be dismayed, for I am your God, and I will strengthen you, I will help you, I

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will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

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There was a time when I went on a missions trip to Colombia and I got stuck in the country

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for an extra day, and the rest of my missions trip team went back to the United States and

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me and one other person were still there.

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And I honestly was a little bit scared.

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I didn't speak Spanish that well, and I was like, God, what is happening?

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And I just kept remembering this verse.

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My dream was there to help pray and minister to people, and I just kept singing this song,

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a song for my youth, and I was like, fear not, for God is with you.

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And so as you're pursuing your dreams, remember that he is always with us and that he can

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protect us and, you know, straighten us in this journey.

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But fear of failure can honestly paralyze us.

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And wow, there are so many times that I do not take action because I'm afraid to fail.

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And yet we're never going to get better or we're never going to be able to go and achieve

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our dreams without failing.

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Like failing is actually beneficial.

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And you think again of the story of a little kid learning to walk or ride their bike or

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in school, like you have to be able to fail to grow.

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And there's no such thing as like failure.

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I love, you know, people that say like you're either winning or you're learning, like you're

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not failing.

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And so I just want to encourage you there.

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God reassures us that we don't need to fear for he is there with us every step of the

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way.

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We have to acknowledge these fears to overcome them.

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And so let's take time today to write out these fears, acknowledge them and ask God

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for his perspective and his courage and strength to move forward.

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Again, taking each of these fears, encountering them with a positive affirmation.

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So for me, again, being someone who is afraid to fail, I have to constantly say I can do

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all things through Christ who strengthens me.

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And I have a sign that like sits above on the wall, kind of right in front of my desk.

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And it says, I can do hard things.

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For me, I love to do hard things, but I only want to do them if I know I'm going to succeed.

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And we can't do that with God, like we have to, you know, I think for me, I've been realizing

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lately that success is not success in worldly standards.

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Success is just obedience in the kingdom of God.

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You think about all the stories of the Bible where God just calls somebody to get outside

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their comfort zone or to obey him, you know, to to follow the law of the Old Testament

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or to, you know, in the New Testament to just take risks and go after what he's calling

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us to do.

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And it's not about the end result, like the numbers, the impacts, you know, the finances.

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While those things are important, they're not what really matters.

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You know, Jesus, you know, and God, they, they quantify our success by the obedience

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that we're willing to take.

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And so I just want to encourage you then that if you're feeling daunted like me by fear

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of failure, stepping out in your dream, remember that is not the outcome.

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It's obedience that God really blesses and honors.

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Okay, so our activation for today is what fears do you have about failing in your pursuits?

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You know, be honest, write them down, and then ask God to counter them with positive

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affirmations and release those fears to God.

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You know, take scripture, use it as a powerful decree.

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When those fears creep into your mind, like have something to war with, sing, you know,

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worship songs, like do something to overcome this fear.

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Let me pray for you today.

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So God, I just bless my friend.

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Thank you that your perfect love casts out fear.

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Thank you that the scriptures are full of promises that you are always with us, that

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you strengthen us to have courage and not to be afraid.

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I think you so often, you know, you go and call somebody to something and you're like,

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do not fear because fear is natural.

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It's just something that happens, you know, when we go and do something that we desire

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to do or is stepping outside our comfort zone.

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And so God, I pray for encouragement for my friend today.

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Give them powerful affirmations and truth that they can use as weapons against fear

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of failure.

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In Jesus name, Amen.

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Okay, my friend, bless you.

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I pray for faith and boldness today and you go in your journey and I'll see you tomorrow.

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Talk to you later.

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Okay, bye.