{"id":25712,"date":"2015-05-08T00:15:19","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T04:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=25712"},"modified":"2015-05-07T11:32:05","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T15:32:05","slug":"what-are-you-afraid-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2015\/05\/08\/what-are-you-afraid-of\/","title":{"rendered":"What Are You Afraid Of?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16629\" src=\"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg\" alt=\"psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv\" width=\"341\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg 341w, https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 341px) 100vw, 341px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>B<span style=\"color: #800080;\">eing compared to the girl who has everything<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Not living up when the whole world&#8217;s watching<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Being the last to get there and the last to know<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">You scream at the top of your lungs<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> When no one&#8217;s listening<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Being a basket case over anything<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Giving your whole world for love<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> And the boy says no<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">So what are you afraid of<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Show &#8217;em what you&#8217;re made of<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> The shadows that you&#8217;re scared of<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Are usually your own<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> They&#8217;re not the great unknown<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> You don&#8217;t have to wonder<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> You&#8217;re not going under<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Grace has got you covered<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> God is in control<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Go on and let it go<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> What are you afraid of<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Right on the brink of a breakthrough but you&#8217;re frozen<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Hurting somebody you love in that moment<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> No, it&#8217;s not living if you&#8217;re always thinking of<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> The worst that could happen<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Whenever it&#8217;s the darkest<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Whenever it&#8217;s the hardest<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Don&#8217;t you stop before you started<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> If you&#8217;re gonna dream<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Dream it all the way<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_-PTZoOrfSE?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Kerrie Roberts<br \/>\nWritten along with Paula Winger and Stephanie Lewis<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #800080;\">*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0 \u2665 \u00a0 ~\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u271e\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0\u2665 \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 * <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For the past few weeks God has been placing a name on my heart on an almost daily basis\u2014<strong>Gideon<\/strong>. \u00a0I heard his name on a TV program and wanted to learn more. \u00a0Then the owner of the company I work for came to me asking me to lead a Bible study on Gideon (deer in the headlights response). \u00a0And then our pastor taught about him last week at church. \u00a0I\u2019ve heard of him before, heard his story, but I didn\u2019t know the details, I didn\u2019t know the lesson behind the name.<\/p>\n<p>There have been several changes taking place in my life and decisions that need to be made. \u00a0\u2018A<em>fraid<\/em>\u2019 is a word I would use to describe my initial reaction to these changes. \u00a0In the past, I have been the \u201c<strong>what if?<\/strong>\u201d person\u2014\u2018what if I fail\u2019, \u2018what if I\u2019m not enough\u2019, \u2018what if\u2026\u2019 \u2018what if\u2026\u2019. \u00a0Gideon had his doubts also. \u00a0He was scared, and he questioned what he was called to do.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">But the LORD said to him, \u201cPeace! Do not be afraid. You are not going to die.\u201d<br \/>\nJudges 6:23<\/p>\n<p>No, in almost all cases, the thing(s) we are afraid of will not lead to death. \u00a0But there is a mile-long list of what <em>could go wrong,<\/em> a list we are skilled at creating. \u00a0But&#8230;what if we looked at another list? \u00a0What if we looked at the list of what <em>could go <strong>right<\/strong><\/em>? \u00a0Consider our outlook on our circumstances and situations in this case. \u00a0What if we truly asked ourselves \u2018What are you afraid of?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the words of this song&#8230;. Is it our own self we are afraid of? Is it failure? Is it success? Is it the opinions of others maybe? There may be times we truly don\u2019t know what it is, but the fear is still there. Whatever the source of fear, we can overcome it. God\u2019s grace trumps our fear every time. Next time fear threatens to take over read Judges 6-8 and listen to the words of this song.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Kerrie Roberts says it best,<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">God\u2019s got this.<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> \u00a0 *\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0 \u2665 \u00a0 ~\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u271e\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0\u2665 \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 * <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Dear Heavenly Father,<br \/>\nFear is a crippling reaction to life\u2019s events that only Your love and reassurance can overcome. \u00a0You are in control, and Your grace covers our lives. \u00a0You told Gideon, \u201cPeace. Do not be afraid&#8230;\u201d. \u00a0And this can be applied to our own life and our daily walk. \u00a0Thank You for this peace. \u00a0In Jesus\u2019 name, I pray, amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being compared to the girl who has everything Not living up when the whole world&#8217;s watching Being the last to get there and the last to know You scream at the top of your lungs When no one&#8217;s listening Being a basket case over anything Giving your whole world for love And the boy says [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":16629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4937],"tags":[425,8832,8833,4932,1075,8834],"class_list":["post-25712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psalms-hymns-and-spiritual-songs","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-judges-623","tag-kerrie-roberts","tag-psalms-hymns-spiritual-songs","tag-tonya-ellison","tag-what-are-you-afraid-of","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p39pHp-6GI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25712"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25715,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25712\/revisions\/25715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}