Jack Graham - Breaking Free From Fear

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Power Point with Jack Graham | Jack Graham - Breaking Free From Fear | November 16, 2025

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Affect me. the weight of responsibilities, the pressure
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Of deadlines, the burden of caring for others - it all can
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Add up. but here's what i've discovered. god has never
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Intended for us to carry these burdens by ourselves. that's
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Why i want to put my book “breaking free from stress” in
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Management, but it is the truth, straight out of god's
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♪♪♪
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There is no person that god cannot save!
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There is no promise that god will not keep!
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There is nothing that our god cannot do!
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Unchained: we want to break free from the power of anything
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Or anyone that would hold us or hold us back. and the subject
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Today is in regard to fear and worry and anxiety; breaking
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Free from the power of fear.
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Second timothy chapter 1 and verse 7:
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7) for god gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love
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And self control... or a sound mind.
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There's no place in the believer's life for a spirit or
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Bondage of fear, to be crippled, chained by our fears.
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Now there are some legitimate fears. for one, we ought to
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Fear god. the bible tells us that we are to fear god. one of
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The great problems of this country and really the whole
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World... there's no fear of god. it used to be a
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Compliment... you would say, "that man is a god-fearing man,
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A god-fearing woman." you rarely hear that today.
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So we ought to fear god.
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On the other end we ought to fear sin and the judgment...
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The consequences that come with sin. sin is to be feared.
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Judgment is to be feared. jesus said, "don't fear those who can
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Destroy your body but fear the ones who can destroy your body
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And soul in hell." the scripture says: "it's a fearful
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Thing to fall into the hands of a living god."
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So i run just a little scared, trusting in god who gives me
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Strength. i'm afraid of sin and you should be as well.
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But you know the fear that i'm talking about is more a
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Generalized fear that just prevails in your life; a
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General anxiety that something bad is going to happen. so you
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Live afraid of faces... people, you live afraid of failure, you
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Live afraid of the future.
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There are six general kinds of fears and a man by the name of
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Craig massey listed these six general categories of the fears
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We face. all of us face fear. “courage,” mark twain said, “is
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Not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.” so we all
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Will face fear. we need to learn how to master our fears.
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But here are six categories: poverty, criticism, lose of
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Love or relationships, illness, old age and death.
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These fears are universal.
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Fear can lead to irrational phobias and unusually
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Obsessions. it can crush your spirit, ruin
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Your disposition along with your relationships. fear can
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Consume your mind, obsess your thought life and control your
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Body. it can shut you down. fear is a chain
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"satan uses fear as a weapon against us,
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Attempting to immobilize believers and prevent the
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Advancement of the kingdom." did you get that?
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"immobilize believers and prevent the advancement of the
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Kingdom." god is all about the advancement of the kingdom
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Through the gospel of jesus christ. fear is satan's weapon
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To counteract the advancement of the gospel.
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But god uses fear as an opportunity to grow our faith
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And to advance the kingdom. there are many biblical
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Examples that show us this.
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For example, noah had to face... noah had to face the
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Fear of what people were thinking about him as he chose
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To obey god and build an ark even though it had not even
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Rained yet as far as we know. and, yes, mrs. noah had to bear
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The brunt of all the gossip. you know, standing in line at
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The grocery store. [laughter] [loud whisper] "that's mrs.
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Noah; her husband's crazy." [laughter] fears.
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Moses had the face his fear as he thought about his
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Inadequacies. barefoot at the burning bush and god, the great
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I am is speaking to him and calling him to go back to
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Egypt. he'd left forty years previous. he's now eighty years
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Old, a nowhere man in the desert. he'd tried before to
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Deliver his people. big failure, epic failure! he runs
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And hides in the desert for forty years out of fear of
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Pharaoh. and now god is telling him to go back? moses said, “i
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C-c-c-can't, lord! i don't speak so well. send aaron, not
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Me.” but moses faced down his fears and the call of god
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Compelled him to go and say, “let my people go.” and he
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Towers as a man of faith this day because he mastered his
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Fears by the power of god.
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Abraham... think about abraham... asked by god,
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Commanded by god to take his son, his only son isaac, the
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Son of the promise, the son that he'd waited on so long,
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The dearest and best of his life. "take your son and put
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Him on an altar and sacrifice him to me." unthinkable! god
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Didn't want isaac the son, he wanted abraham fully and
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Completely. and god spared isaac the son just the right
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Moment because the faith of abraham, the father of the
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Faithful, the friend of god demonstrated that he was
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Willing to lay down life's best to obey god. that was a fearful
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Thing and yet he overcame his fears.
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I could go on and on. esther and gideon and mary the mother
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Of our lord. think about daniel who was told, "don't you dare
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Pray again to your god! stop it, on penalty of death,
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Execution! stop praying!" so what's daniel going to do? he's
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A young man in another culture, another country. he's living
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Among the babylonians. so, okay, i'm at college now, i'm
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At the university of babylon, i guess i'll do what the
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Babylonians do. i'll just adjust to the culture. i'll be
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Like everybody else." but, no, daniel purposed in his heart
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Not to defile himself with the king's food, and ultimately
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With the king's command, and so he did what he always did. this
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Wasn't new to daniel. this wasn't emergency faith... sos
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Religion. he went and threw open the doors of his... the
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Shutters of his window, not to be seen, just to pray like he'd
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Always prayed. he opened up his heart and he prayed to god.
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And, yes, he was thrown in the lion's den and yes, he was
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Preserved. but he had to overcome his fears in order to
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Do that.
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Jesus told a parable called the parable of the talents about a
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Master... a man who had a business and he was going to a
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Far country, going away on business so he left his hired
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Servants in charge and he gave them some money... talents. he
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Gave them some money to invest. he said "take this and invest
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It while i'm gone and take care of this business." and so he
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Gave to three men. two of them invested and had a great
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Return. when the man came home he commended these two who took
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Their talents, who took their money and poured it into an
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Investment. they took faith risk and did it. but there was
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One man... one of the three who took what he had been given and
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He literally buried it in the ground, and, of course, it
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Produced nothing. the business man was... was angry and he
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Asked this servant, "why did you bury your talent?" and the
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Answer? fear. he said, "i was afraid. you're a hard
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Taskmaster and i was afraid that i couldn't do enough, that
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I wouldn't do the right thing." fear can immobilize you and
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Paralyze you and keep you from achieving what god is calling
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You to do.
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For example, god is speaking to your heart and saying, walk
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Across the hall in your office or walk across to that friend's
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Locker at school or walk across the street to your neighbor's
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House and tell them about jesus. share your testimony.
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Just... just tell them what jesus has done for you. you
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Know god's calling you to share the gospel. all of us are
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Called but fear holds us back. what will they think? what will
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They say? what if i say too much? what if i say the wrong
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Thing? you know, what if i... what if i run them off? i like
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What bob harrington said, formerly known as the chaplain
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Of bourbon street about that excuse... what if we run them
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Off? he said, "where you going to run them to? hell number
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Two?" [laughter]
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Or maybe... maybe god is calling you to go on a mission
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Trip, or even just here in the city to work in urban ministry
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Or work in our church's community ministry... some kind
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Of ministry that may be hard and you think, "i don't know if
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I could do that. i... i don't think i could relate, i don't
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Think... i'm not gifted. i'm not a preacher. i'm not
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Called." yes, god is calling you. he doesn't call the
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Equipped; he equips the called. if god calls you to do
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Something, he will provide for your every need. the safest,
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Securest place is in the middle of the will of god. so if god
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Says go, go! don't be afraid to go to do what god has called
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You to do.
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God's calling some of you to sing. “woo, i would never
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Sing!” i promise you god's not calling me to sing, but god's
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Calling some of you to sing. you've got a wonderful voice.
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You could use your gift for the lord. or to teach a bible class
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Or to work with children. you're letting some kind of
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Fear hold you back!
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I'm here to say in jesus' name take the shot! don't be afraid
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To miss! trust god to do what god has promised to do to
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Protect you, to provide for you, to do what only god can do
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And that is to use you for his glory!” again, “god has not
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Given us a spirit of fear but power and love and a sound
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Mind.”
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Zig ziglar used to say... i loved it when zig would talk.
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Zig ziglar. he said, "fear an acrostic or an acronym- f-e-a-r
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False evidence appearing real. (that's my best zig.)[laughter]
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(love zig and miss him.)
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But that's true, because fear distorts everything. you know
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How things get distorted in the darkness and you're stumbling
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Around, and you can't...? that's what fear does. when
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Darkness creeps in or doubts creep in. how many times have i
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Told you don't trade... don't trade what you know for what
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You don't know! but fear will cause us in the darkness as the
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Perspective is changed, we get afraid. some people are afraid
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Of the dark. things go bump in the night and your mind runs in
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The night. you can't sleep. and before you know it you're
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Overwhelmed and obsessed with your worries and your fears and
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You just can't go.
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I'm telling you it's like sand in the machinery. you keep
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Doing this, you're going to be immobilized... paralyzed.
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You'll be on the flat of your back. you're going to have some
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Illness; you're going to have some problem that you can't
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Handle because you're disobeying god in the area of
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Trust and faith, because worry and fear... it's not just a
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Weakness. it's a sinful problem. we're not trusting
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God! we're not believing what god said!
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David jeremiah said it this way. “fear has been described
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As a small trickle of doubt that flows through the mind
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Until it wears such a great channel that all your thoughts
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Drain into it. tiny fears almost unperceived can build up
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Day by day until we find ourselves paralyzed, unable to
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Perform.” is that true? sure, it's true. you know it's true!
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And therefore we must overcome our fears. and the way to
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Overcome our fears is in the exact way that the apostle paul
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Tells us here in 2 timothy 1:7. don't be consumed, controlled,
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Chained by a spirit of fear but overcome with “power, love and
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A sound mind.”
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Power, not of a human spirit because the strongest of us
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Will fail when faced with great difficulties and dangers, but
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With a holy spirit. the power of god, the enablement of god
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Is in us and enablement equals emancipation. "where the spirit
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Of the lord is, there is liberty." don't confess your
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Failures, don't confess your faithlessness... faithlessness.
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Faith wins in the power of god. stop considering your
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Circumstances and consider your god no matter how difficult or
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How dramatic or deadly your fears may be!
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You get a doctor's report; it goes the wrong way. you lose
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Your job; fear sets in. your kids are rebelling and you're
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Afraid they're never coming to the lord, they're never coming
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Back to the lord. and before you know it if you get consumed
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With these things and things like them, everything becomes
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Negative and... and then doubt and fear and anxiety creep in,
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And you start focusing totally on your fears rather than
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Living in your faith.
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Did you know you can even invite certain things into your
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Life through fear? in the book of job... you know what job
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Went through. now that was all in the sovereign plan of god
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But on one occasion in his conversations with god, job
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Said, "all that i feared is come upon me."
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Amazing, right? the very things that he feared... he invited
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Them in. i personally believe. you know satan can't read your
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Mind. he's not omniscient like god is omniscient, but he can
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Hear your words. and when you're constantly confessing
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Your fears, talking about what frightens you and you're
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Speaking words of doubt, satan hears all of that and guess
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Where he goes. right for the jugular... he attacks you. and
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Your fears invite in the enemy; they do.
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So ask god to give you the power of... of the holy spirit
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To resist the temptation to dwell on your fears and have an
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Unshakable faith. he is the great i am which means "i am
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Everything and anything you need. fill in the blank. i
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Am... whatever you need."
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Are you sick? i am your healer.” are you struggling
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Financially? “i am, your provider.” are you worried? “i
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Am your peace.” are you lonely? “i am your friend that sticks
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Closer than a brother.” are you in trouble? are your kids in
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Trouble? “i am your ever present help in times of
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Trouble.” are you weak? “i am your strength.” are you afraid?
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“i am your deliverer. i am your protector.” are you in a
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Battle? “i am the lord your banner, your healer, your
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Defender, your shelter, your strength!” are you bearing a
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Burden? “i will bear your burdens!” are you a sinner?
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Yes. “i am your savior! no need to fear.” it's said that there
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Are over 365 times in the bible where we are told “fear not.”
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It's the most often repeated commandment in the bible. “do
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Not fear, do not fear, do not fear.”
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So fear is overcome by the power of god, the power of his
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Spirit and then love. the scripture says that “perfect
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Love casts out fear”. that's 1 john chapter 4. “perfect love
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Casts out fear.” that doesn't mean that we love him perfectly
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Or that we do anything perfectly. i don't do anything
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Perfectly; do you? i certainly don't love perfectly. so it's
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Not talking about our love for god when it says perfect love
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Casts out fear. it's talking about the perfect love of god
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For us. right? god loves you perfectly, eternally. nothing
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Will separate you from the love of god in jesus christ. he's
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Got this! he's got you! he guides us, he guards us. he
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Provides for our every need. he protects us in every
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Circumstance because of his love.
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And so if you know that you are perfectly loved by the god who
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Loved you so much that he sent his only son, who stretched out
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Is arms on old rugged cross, saying, “i love you with an
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Everlasting love!” the god who took sinful man with one hand,
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Holy god with another, and in christ brought together life
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And salvation.
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Paul said, “don't you know if he loved you this much he will
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Freely give you all things in christ?” that's how much you're
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Loved! “nothing shall separate us from the love of god which
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Is in jesus christ.” nothing!
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So the way to overcome fear ... your fear is power-god's power,
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God's love- his perfect sustaining, strengthening,
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Solacing love, and one more thing, a sound mind which is
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Self-control. it's an interesting word, the sound
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Mind. it... it really means a stable mind, a steady mind. you
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Know what makes the mind makes the man and the woman. as a man
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Thinks in his heart... as we think in our hearts, so are we.
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And so the way i think determines what i am, so god
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Wants to give you a clear head... a clear mind, not a lot
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Of loose ends.
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Peter would tell us to gird up the loins of your mind. he's
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Speaking of a day when men would wear these long robes and
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When it came time to run they would sort of tuck... tuck the
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Robes in their belt and cinch them up real tight and run.
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That's the picture here. so don't have a lot of loose ends.
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Gird up the loins of your mind. gear up for action in your
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Mind. get your mind right! and the only way i know how to do
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That is to fill my mind with god's promises, god's precepts,
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God's words, god's stories, god's truth!
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We don't live by what we feel, we live by what we know and
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What we know is that god is control of the life of every
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Believer! [applause] that's what we know! and that god is
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Working together all things for his good... for your good and
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His glory. it that what it says? it says, "for we know
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(k-n-o-w...) we know that god is working together everything
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In our lives for our good, for his glory to those who are
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Called according to his purpose." so we don't live by
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Our feelings. we live by what we know! "these things are
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Written that you may know that you have eternal life." that's
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A sound mind. that's not a mind that's disrupted and distorted
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By the lies of the enemy and the fears and failures of life.
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So face down your fears with the power of god's spirit—that
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Means god is in you; by the love of jesus christ—that means
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God is for you; and by the enlightenment of a mind that is
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Filled with god's word—that means that god is beside you.
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God is for you! god is in you! god is with you! there is
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Nothing, christian, that you should fear.
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♪♪♪
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Hello, everyone. pastor jack graham here, and i want to
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Personally invite you to join me for something very special.
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It's the patriot tour to washington, dc, april 22nd
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Through 27th, 2026. as we celebrate the 250th birthday of
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The united states, we're going to visit some of the most
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Powerful and historic places in our nation's capital, like the
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U.s. capitol, arlington national cemetery, the national
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Monuments, mount vernon, and the museum of the bible.
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This won't be just a tour. it will be a spiritual journey,
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Really. i'll be opening god's word along the way, teaching us
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About the spiritual foundations, the biblical
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Foundations of our nation, and the hope that we have for the
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Future. so registration is now open, and i'd love for you to
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Be a part of this unforgettable experience.
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For more information and to reserve your spot today,
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Jack Graham - Breaking Free From Fear

November 16, 2025 | 27:29

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