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I have been in many situations where fear was very real to me. I’ve been in a naval ship taking 45-degree rolls in the middle of the ocean with waves breaking over the entire ship. I’ve been in a vehicle that was about to hurtle off the side of a mountain and for some reason made a right turn on sheer ice. I’ve been in the middle of a riot in Palestinian controlled Bethlehem following the death of a young Palestinian youth. I’ve been confronted by heavily armed rebels in Mexico for preaching the gospel. I’ve been detained in Ghana on trumped up charges and was nearly put in jail. Fear happens and challenges our unconquerable nature.

When it does, we are encouraged by the bible to vanquish fear. That means we are to conquer, subjugate, defeat, crush, annihilate, overcome and subdue fear. How do we do that? After all, fear is an emotion. It just is. It is often there for our own good. Telling it to go away while standing in front of a roaring lion is not usually productive.

I can tell you that when fear happens, three fear killers are there to vanquish that fear.
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