Freedom from Fear with Ken and Tabatha Claytor

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No , I'm just playing . We'll be glad that you did as well . Love y'all . All right . Anyway , you ready to get started today ? I'm ready . Um , let's talk about freedom from fear . Um , how would you define fear ?

Fear speaks to you to kind of paralyze you and keep you from doing the thing that you probably should be doing walking by faith . I don't know .

Okay , I have a fear of this and it's okay , I just got this little fear . It's no big deal . Can you talk about that at all ?

So he wants to be the God of this world , he wants to be God . So God operates through faith , but Satan operates through fear . God uses faith to get you what you want . Satan uses fear to get you what you don't want , and so I think you can operate sometimes in either faith or fear , and you can make it very plain and simple sometimes , like for me .

You know , okay , are you walking by faith right now or are you walking by fear ? Because , as someone who grew up not in the church , I didn't know what faith was at all , but I knew what fear was . I had many fears . I was afraid of everything . I didn't know who God was , but I knew who the devil was .

I didn't even necessarily believe in God , but I believed in the devil because I heard of tales about all of these horror stories . I watched all of the horror , the movies on TV like the Exorcist and things like that , and so I knew all about fear . So fear was common and it was acceptable In fact , like if you're not afraid .

It's kind of like what are you ? An alien , what do you mean ? You're not afraid , what do you mean ? It's almost like counter what we should be doing .

So we didn't have a God to believe in , we didn't have a God to trust in that he would save us , that he would deliver us , that he would keep us safe , and so , without God , it's a very fearful world . Who was going to provide for us ? Who was going to take care of us ?

Who do we call on when it's out of our hands , for sickness , for disease , for all types of things you don't have God to call on . So it is a fearful , it's a terrible world to live in without God .

You know , faith is confidence in what you believe , is acting on what you believe . Faith is the substance of things hoped for , the evidence of things not real . Fear to me can be the emotion of being afraid . It can be living a fearful life . I think there's big fears that people have . I think there's a bunch of little fears .

Some people are fearful of success , fearful of failure . Some people are fearful . I know of a woman who just refuses to drive because she had a car accident years ago . It's just a fear to be behind the wheel . There's people who have the fear of flying . Some's just a fear to be behind the wheel . There's people who have the fear of flying .

You know , some people have a fear and maybe it's even , but they'll put it on wisdom .

Believing that no weapon formed , it doesn't mean the weapon won't be formed , it just means that it won't prosper . And so to me , there's a big difference in your results between walking by fear and walking by faith , and I just feel like fear keeps people in an invisible prison where it's hard for them to love and it's hard for them to trust .

It's hard for them to be a part of churches , it's hard for them to be a part of an organization that's progressive , it's hard for them to be in a healthy marriage because they fear the worst things happening . And faith is believing for God's best Anything . Come to you with that .

It's like you go up 200 feet in the air and they drop you down . You're connected to a wire but they drop you down . It's the world's second largest here in Orlando , yeah . And so I kept riding past it and I had this thing with heights before , like oh my gosh . You know , I've , like really was afraid of heights .

That's how I would describe myself before I became a believer . And so I'm a mature believer , I'm in Orlando and this thing keeps . I would look at it and just feel nervous , like , oh my gosh , I'm going to do it .

And so the time came , I was in the park and I just went up there and I actually Tina was there , my sister-in-law , and she was like let's go do it . And I just couldn't tell her no , because I was afraid and I wanted to do the opposite of my fear . I wanted to say I'm not afraid , I'm going to step to my fear and I'm going to walk by faith .

I'm going to overcome this , it's okay . And so I got up in there and I did it , I did it , I did it , y'all Um , but I hated every second of it . I hated every second of it . It was so terrifying , it made me sick to my stomach , literally . Like I didn't like anything about it , and so what I determined was now , okay , there's the emotion of fear .

You know what I mean there's . There's an emotion of fear which you know is is good for you . Like , you know what I mean . Like , okay , I'm afraid of that dog that's foaming at the mouth and snarling .

I'm going to turn around and run from it , not like , oh my gosh , I'm dead , I'm already dead . The shark's there , I see it , it's going to eat me , I'm dead . You know , like people like there's this fear that like you just already you know count , you consider the worse .

I think that there's I don't know how to explain that different , but there's a difference . Let me finish the story . So I go up in the thing , I drop down and I'm like , ok , I hated that , I'm not going to do that anymore , because I just hate it . And what I say now is that like , OK , I'm not afraid , because fear is like you .

Fear isn't fully fear my opinion , until you act on it . And so fear says don't do that because you're going to get this result , and so fear paralyzes you and you don't do it . But faith is more like , and when you don't act on the fear is like don't do , don't get up on there because if you go up in there , you're going to die .

You're just going to fall straight down to the ground . It just ain't even right . Right that that would be fear . Like , okay , I , you're going to die , you're just going to fall straight down to the ground . It just ain't even right . That would be fear . Like , okay , I'm not going to do it because I acted on it .

Now I think fear becomes really fear and solidified in you . When you act on it , you say I'm never going to fly in a plane because I'm afraid of heights .

And it paralyzes you from doing and being free , and so I mean , I guess the reason that I wanted to talk about this is because I feel like fear is holding people in an invisible prison and that God wants us to break people out of the prison of fear .

I feel like you used to be more of a fearful person and you have a fearful background , but you've broken free from the prison of fear . I have seen you , and I think you said this just a minute ago .

That's what I've seen you do , I saw you face your fears and just because the wall was speaking , you didn't like the wall . You didn't want to climb the wall . You don't feel like you need to do it again , but you needed to face that fear just to put your fear underneath your feet .

No , I had to face my fear , like , okay , this is what I feel , like , this is what I'm hearing right now , like don't climb this wall because you're going to fall down and die . But this is what the word says I can do all things through Christ , who strengthens me . Angels will bear me up in my hands unless . I dash my foot against the stone .

Okay , so that's what the word says . So what am I going to do with ? Fear says , or what faith says , what the word says . And so I chose that day to get up there . I went up to the hotel room , I took off my flip-flops , I bought my , I put on a pair of sneakers and I climbed the wall , rang the bell , I think .

But now I don't like heights , I don't like to be up high . I don't like the feeling that it has , I don't like it . I'm not afraid of fear , but by faith , and we cannot like some things because we don't like it , and that's okay .

That doesn't do anything . I don't know , I'm not a kid .

And so she always and you can tell the story better than I can , but let me kind of get you going had a little fear of men leaving her life or people that she loved leaving her life . Her grandma died when she was 12 years old , and so in the first couple of years of our marriage I always would have a toothpick in my mouth .

I would just always have a toothpick , and she would have this fear that I was going to choke on the toothpick and not come home . Can you take it from right there ?

I made like a nice sandwich , like with the olive on top , and I put a toothpick in there . And the struggle was don't put the toothpick in there because he might choke . And I was just like , oh my gosh , I had a moment .

Like you know , I'm sitting there for five minutes looking at a sandwich , figuring out , trying to think should I put a toothpick in here , because I want my husband to choke and die ? I want him to come home . So in that moment I had to figure out if this is a fear that you have to face this fear , tabitha .

And so finally , I just stuck the toothpick in there and wrapped it all up and sat it there . And then it was so funny because you were still upstairs and you didn't leave yet , but there was an island , and so I just started marching around the island and I took a toothpick and I said no fear here , no fear .

But it was like I was like no fear here , no fear . But it was like I was like no fear here , no fear . And I marched around that thing until I felt brave enough to be like , okay , I cast that to the Lord and I'm done . But that's like you have to . When fear steps to you , you have to step back .

And I think many times people don't know , when they're born again , how to use that authority . So when you say no fear here you're taking authority over the atmosphere and you're commanding fear to bow to the name of Jesus , no fear here , and I just believe there's somebody who's watching that you need to . Whatever fear is in your life .

It might not be a toothpick , but it's the fear of failure , the fear of success , the fear of being hurt again . You have to pick up some no fear here . No fear here , and there's an authority that you must exercise because the devil don't play fair . He'll just keep telling you he's just a bully . And if you back down .

He'll just keep backing you down until you'll be down , and so I remember we moved in and this was later on in our walk .

I mean , we were pretty solid Christians and we bought a new home over in Ackerkeek , maryland , and when we bought it it was a model home and so people had been in and out of the house and everything but the model home didn't have window treatments .

There was no blinds , there was no curtains , and so when we first moved into the house , people could see in the house we had no blinds , no curtains .

I went and I grabbed my wife's hand and I went to the front door , opened up the door and I said , in the name of Jesus , I kicked my leg like that and I said fear , you got to get up out of here .

And I took my wife's hand and we walked around all of the boundary of our property and say everywhere the foot of our heel treads , he's given it to us as our land . No weapon formed against us shall prosper . Even though I walked through the valley of the shadow of death , I fear no evil .

And we walked to the back of my house , where the woods was , and I said , in the name of Jesus , woods shut up , there's a new sheriff in town . And we declared the peace of God is back here Come on . What was I doing ? I was talking to the spirit of fear and I was commanding it to leave and I was taking authority over my domain .

And I went back in the house . We later , two and a half years . I never heard anything else . It was nothing but the shalom and the peace of God . I guess the moral of that story is that you have to exercise your God-given authority in the name of Jesus to put fear underneath your feet and keep it there .

There's good and evil all around us that we cannot see , and the enemy will throw us thoughts and they will show us evil things and bad things . You know that . You know that exist in the world , but faith is much more powerful . Faith can do the same thing , but we , as believers , have to choose to open up our eyes .

Like Elisha said Lord , open up his eyes so he can see . We have to ask God open up my eyes so that I can see . And when you read the word , there's a level of removing the blindfolds and you open your eyes and you can now begin to see the word of God that's all around you .

And what you did is you went out into there and the enemy was saying , oh , there's this over here and there's evil , the boogeyman's , over here . No , you open up your eyes of faith .

Because they fill themselves with fear , they watch fearful movies , they hang out with other people who are filled with fear , they put themselves in atmospheres . And so one of the things you have to do to overcome fear is start to feed yourself with faith .

Oh , what if people leave the church ? What if people stop giving ? What if the election ? What if they take away this benefit ? What if this doesn't happen ? What if the economy sucks ? But , what if it doesn't ? What if we go up from here ? What if we sow in the land and , in the same year , get a hundredfold return ?

What if God be for us , then who can be against us ? What if he's increasing me more and more , me and my children ? I got to replace all of those things with what he said to me , no matter what the experience has been or no matter what my emotions feel like . Wow .

Tomorrow probably have to kick its butt , go to another level , going to be another devil of fear Going to tell me how I'm going to fail and mess up and everything Got to kick its butt again .

What's coming out of you has a lot to do with what's coming , what you're putting in , and so you know , when I was fighting cancer , one of the only things I could do is sit down and watch TV , just to cause , you know , I just needed to rest , but I would want to watch like something funny on TV , or we would .

I found joy in watching the game playoff season . We're watching the game , but the commercials , y'all the commercials . I had to be self-aware of my season and still today , Still today . Self-aware of when these commercials come on . I can't listen to all of these commercials like , oh , for metastatic breast cancer and I mean , oh my gosh , take this .

And for all of these different diseases and things . It just seemed like I couldn't listen to those commercials because I was fighting for my life in the moment . I only needed to hear . If it's not good , don't tell me . I don't want to hear about your medication . Thank God for medications .

You know like , thank God , some people are taking these medications and it's blessing them . But it's not what I need to hear right now . I don't need to hear about that stuff . So I had to shut it down because when I'm sleeping at night , those commercials start playing in my mind .

We can be sitting in our bed and I'm watching the game , I will get the . I don't even want to hear it because that is a seed from the demonic realm trying to be sewed into my ear , to get into my heart . Gate Push , pause , fast forward up .

There's some fears and concerns we have and some of it's natural and it's emotional , but then there's a spirit of fear and God has not given us a spirit of fear , but power , love and sound mind . So those things come from God . We can accept those . The spirit of fear does not come from God . It must be identified and rejected .

So for me , what that means is that the reason that I'm fearing is because I don't know how much he loves me , because when I know how much he loves me , I have nothing to be in fear of Okay . That means that God loves me too much to let me go bankrupt . God loves me too much to let me die early . God loves me too much for this .

Now let me add the balance there . That doesn't mean that we haven't had our bouts with cancer . It doesn't mean that it hasn't been painful things that have happened to us or people who have died before their time .

But what that means to me is that God loves me so much that he can even take the bad things and the things that I don't understand , but still work it out for my good . So at the end of the day , I'm not going to fear because I know he loves me and his plan is better than my plan .

His thoughts are higher than my thoughts and , at the end of the day , no matter what I go through , daddy , I trust you . You love me and I love you it .

And when I think about how much my kids especially when they're older you think about toddlers and babies . They trust you Right With all of their heart . You know the Bible talks about having childlike faith .

Mommy's going to take me to get new shoes . They have no cares and no worries . Even if they do get afraid , they run to trust and have faith and to love and receive the love from our Father . How much more will he provide for us and take care of us ?

When I look at over the things that we've been through from overcoming depression and possible lupus and Lyme disease and cancer and a divorce and abortion and guilt and condemnation and addiction and he's brought us out with victory , and I think one of the things that our anointing is is to help other people get through the battle and walk in victory , to put

sickness addictions underneath their feet , depression under their feet . There's just something that God has given us about how to help people in warfare you know I love so many churches , denominations and teachings .

I don't know if I'm hearing a lot about the authority of the believer , like we used to hear it a lot 20 years ago , and about what it means to use the full armor of God and the sword of the Spirit , what it means to win in battle and to cast out devils and to believe for miracle signs and wonders .

It just feels like there's a great grace on us , and I'm just sitting here just realizing it . Like God used this platform to help equip whoever's watching around the world not to give in to the lying spirit of fear , but to chop them up with the sword of the spirit , which is the word of God , I feel like indignation almost .

You know the word in Psalms 23 and 4 , it says yea , there I'll walk through the valley of the shadow of death . I fear no evil , for you are with me your rod and your staff it comforts me , and I love it , that the scripture states that the psalmist feared no evil .

That means that we can have a justifiable expectation to live a life where we don't have to fear evil . We don't have to fear death , destruction , mayhem and dying early and stuff like that . I cannot tell you why certain things happen to certain people . All I can say is , for me and my house , this is what God has promised me and this is what we believe .

If forever I go through a season where it falls short and God promised me that , but I get this I'm okay with saying man , I don't understand it , but God I still trust you , but I'm not going to bring his word down to my emotions or his word down to my friend's experience , or my grandma's experience or my experience .

Listen , the word of God is forever settled in heaven . It's forever settled in me , that's what it ? Means to walk by faith and there's an authority on that . It's not a cockiness , it's just a knowing that what he said is yes and amen . He watches over his word to perform it . He's not a man that should lie or the son of man that would need to repent .

There's all kinds of fears people have . I mean what comes to your mind ?

I'd rather just do this by myself than have to go through all of that again . There's a fear of hiring . It's a fear of after you have to let somebody go . I'd rather just do this by myself than have to go through all of that again . There's a fear of hiring again . There's a fear of will the market change for the person in political office .

There's a fear of will I be beat by the candidate ? There's a fear of them smearing my name . There's a fear of taking what I've done for my city or my community and throwing mud on it . I community and throwing mud on it . I think for the person about to get married there's a fear of is this person really who they say they are ?

Are they going to switch up on me ? Like ? The divorce rate is at 50% . Nobody's blind to that . We see what's happening . What side of that percentage am I on ? There's all kinds of fears here , and then there's this little fear . There's this fear of the bugs and the fear of this or fear of a heart attack .

Somebody told you that it was okay to be afraid Because the other kids they're not . I mean they don't like them again . They , I mean they don't like them again . Like they don't like them , but they ain't about to run away crying , that's crazy , yeah , yeah .

They're called love bugs because they're connected together and they're just all these little . They're mating , I mean just all out in the open and everything everywhere . And each one of my children would be terrified of these lug bugs when they first saw them , like , oh my gosh , they start crying .

But with every child I would go oh , it's okay , honey , I'd catch the bug , I'd put it in my hand , I'd bring it over and I'd say , ha ha , it tickles and we would touch the bug's wing . We killed the poor bugs playing with it . But it took five seconds .

Now they go out , they run , they catch the bugs , they look , mommy , I got a love bug , I mean it's , we don't know how we even got to this conversation it was about .

The fear was that I was going to die and what you know , I was leaving everybody behind , everyone was going to move on without me , like it was just the fear of death , like what's going to happen , and I didn't realize it because I'd never been faced with something .

So you know , terminal or so like oh my gosh , you know , this is life threatening would be the thing , and so I had to not run from that but look at face to face and be like , okay , why am I afraid to die ? What would happen if I do die ?

And that's something that is not comfortable , especially if you have cancer and you don't have hair on your head and you're going to chemotherapy and you feel terrible , like that's not an easy conversation to have , but I had that conversation with myself and with God and I began to talk to God . Some of the things that I did also was I would begin to .

I heard about other people and their near death experiences and other people who died , went to heaven , came back . Other people who had these experiences and their experiences are so like they describe heaven . They describe how they saw some of their loved ones . They describe what it was like to be in the presence of like Jesus .

They described what it was like to just like ascend and be out of their potty but to begin to see God . Some people had conversations with Jesus and they had decisions to make , like you know one particular testimony . They had the choice can I , you know , do you want to go back or do you want to stay here ? And they were all like one testimony .

He's here . He had to come back for an assignment , to finish his assignment , but he begged Jesus to stay . He wanted to stay in heaven because it was so good , but he's here on the earth and talking about . He had a big bout with depression because he didn't want to be here . I want to be where Jesus is .

But it just opened up my world to this perspective that sometimes , even like I know people who I love and who are saints and they died and went home to be with the Lord , but we were praying for them to come you know , to stay here and the Lord . But we were praying for them to come you know to stay here , and the Lord .

It was just like this thought like , oh , my gosh , lord , what if there is ? What if we do have a choice of whether we stay or come back ? I know that there are saints . If they go up and they're going , you know they've been fighting on earth , you know like and living , but they get to heaven and they have a choice whether to stay or go .

Some of them are some of our loved ones . They're like oh , I'm staying here with you , jesus , I'm not going back . But we could be in the earth crying and mourning their death , like , oh , they died before their age and we're blaming God because you know they died earlier when they .

But they chose to stay with Jesus because it's better where they are than where we are . So , anyway , I just researched it myself and I talked to God and I got a good understanding about life and death . That it's not , you know , like if I did leave Earl , if I did , it's still going to be okay .

God is going to take care of my family and the earth and I would be in a better place in heaven .

I want to be by his side serving him . I don't want you to live in the earth without your help . I'm here to serve you . I want to make your life great and that's why I'm here .

I've had two of my best friends over the last couple of years that have went home to be with the Lord . They were both saved and it hurts . I remember them . I wanted them to be at my 25th anniversary of our renewal . They were both from my wedding back then . They're not with us any longer and that hurts .

And if you don't have Jesus , you don't have hope . Think about it . If you believe we evolved from tadpoles and monkeys or that we came back as karma and we might come back in the next life as a frog or a tree or something like that , that's a sad belief . You don't have any hope . You don't have any hope . What is life really about ?

But for those who believe in Jesus and you've put your trust in him , you know that this is just . We're just sojourners in this .

So when he originally made Adam and Eve , they were supposed to live forever because they would know no sin . They were supposed to tend Eden and extend Eden and live in paradise here in the earth . But God gave man a choice and basically there was a tree , the tree of knowledge of good and evil . He says don't eat it or you're going to die .

And they use their free will to disobey God . Sin comes in . The next thing God does is amazing . He basically moves Adam and Eve out of the garden . Why ? So that they wouldn't eat from the tree of life and forever be eternally separated from God . What does that mean ? He moved them out to where they would die as a gift .

Yes , so death is not a punishment , it's actually a gift , meaning that I don't want you to live in these sinful bodies all the days of your life for eternity . So I'm going to allow your body to pass so that I can give you , in the New Jerusalem , a resurrected body and a new body .

So the truth is biblically is that when a believer dies , we don't actually stop existing . We transition , we actually promote from the natural realm into the spiritual realm and for those of us who are behind , we feel really bad about it .

We're like oh my God so-and-so and all of the memories , but my friends that I'm thinking of and my loved ones they are actually like yo . This is great , why Revelation says that there will be no more sorrow , he will wipe every tear from our eyes and that we get to be in the presence of God and listen .

Eye has not seen and ear hasn't heard the things that God has planned . Jesus said listen , it's better than I go .

Trust me in this and I know God enough to know that if this , when we have like heaven and then a new Jerusalem , and it's going to be a renewed city and a renewed earth and everything's renewed man , it's going to be good to reconnect with family members and we'll see your dad there , your grandma , we'll see different people that are there , and so I had a

couple of scriptures , but I think we hit it so much In John 11 , Lazarus dies and they're upset . Martha Mary's like he comes up to him and he's like I'm the resurrection of life . Who believes in me , Though we die , he's going to live , and whoever lives and believes in me shall never die . Do you believe this ?

That means that when you believe in Jesus , you don't die , you transition . That's crazy . I love to preach this at a funeral . I just preached it at my friend's funeral . Going home I was like Mike didn't die , he transitioned and he's in a better place . That's a revelation .

1 Thessalonians 4 and 13, . It says but I don't want you to be ignorant , brethren , concerning those who have fallen asleep , lest you sorrow as others who have no hope .

Paul says in Philippians 1.21 that for me to live is Christ but to die is gain . That's crazy . What a revelation the apostle Paul had to say for me , to die is gain . I would rather die so that I could be with Jesus , but to live , that's unto Christ . And he says and for your sake , I'm going to live .

So where I am right now is like I would rather die to be with Jesus , but for the sake of you and our kids , and our church and the two million people that we want to reach over the next 20 years and the assignment , and the assignment that is on my life . I have work to do , and everyone who is watching this .

You have work to do , and it's not just the work for your job , that's right . It's not just your investment portfolio . We have to depopulate hell and populate heaven , and so I am here , because Christ has me here .

And so the proper perspective would just be like Paul , it'd be better that we all could go home and live in the lap of luxury and let people on the earth deal with their own sin while I get up out of here . But , not for us , because we are people with purpose and for purpose . I'm not here by an accident , but I'm not afraid of death any longer .

But he gives us a will and if we reject Jesus , he allows us to go to the one place where God is not . So God is healing , god is peace , god is joy , god is love . So if you say I don't want Jesus , he says okay , if that's your choice , I'll send you to the one place , jesus is not .

So on Jesus , he says okay , if that's your choice , I'll send you to the one place Jesus is not . So . Hell is the absence of all of the attributes of God . It is dark because God is light . It is painful because God is pleasurable , and so everything that God is not people send themselves to a devil's hell . People was never supposed to go to hell .

So what that means is that we got a lot of work to do , and for those of you all who are watching , that's why we ask for you to share this podcast , because this is just a lifeline into some people .

There are people who have relationship issues , simply because God is wanting you to find him in all of the issues , and if you found this podcast , we believe it's a divine connection .

We pray and say God , help the people around the world who need this podcast , find this podcast , and we believe that part of the reason that you found this podcast is really for you to find Jesus , and make no mistake about it . Jesus was not just the man , he was all God and all man .

He was actually , in the Bible , called Emmanuel , which means God with us , and so Jesus in Colossians is the full image of God . He is the expressed image of God In the beginning , was the word who was Jesus ? And the word was with God and the word was God . And is the expressed image of God In the beginning , was the Word who was Jesus ?

And the Word was with God and the Word was God . And so , make no mistake about it , jesus was God .

God put aside his divinity , paid the price for our sin , and now he does not make you be saved , but he actually gives you an opportunity to surrender and choose him , and so you don't have to be perfect to be saved , but you do have to surrender , and I just believe that there's someone who's watching and listening around the world that you're like .

You know what I want to make jesus the lord of my life . I want to put my trust in him . The best way that you could overcome fear is to start with faith . Yes and so you don't have to be perfect to be a forgiven person , but you do have to call on jesus .

So , wherever you are , if you want to pray the prayer of salvation , this will say hey , I'm giving my heart to Jesus , I'm turning away from my sin , I'm putting my faith in him . Pray this five-second prayer with us . It will change your eternal address . If you're in a place where you can bow your head , you can go ahead and do it .

If not , just say this with me Say , lord Jesus , come into my heart today , forgive me of my sins . On today , I decide to surrender my life to you . Say , lord Jesus , I believe that you died on a sin , on a cross , to pay the price for my sin , and on today , I accept you as my Lord and my Savior . I am saved In Jesus' name , amen .

If you prayed that prayer , we believe that you got born again , and that term simply means born from above . That means that you're seated in high places with Christ Jesus . You're in him and he's also in you . This is not the end . This is a beginning . Find a good church that you can grow in . Spend time reading the Bible every day .

Get around some godly people and grow in your faith , and we're going to be growing all the way till we get to heaven . But we would say this to you it's time to walk by faith and not by fear . And so , those of you all who've been dealing with fear , if you don't mind , let's just take a moment just to renounce the spirit of fear .

We just want you to open up your mouth and say fear , I renounce you . I want you to open up your mouth and say no fear here . Say it with me . No fear here . One more time , say it . No fear here , here , one more time , say it no fear here . So , in the name of Jesus , the Christ , we command fear of failure go . Fear of being loved go .

Fear of hurt go . Fear of death , go Whatever spirit of fear has been tormenting you , even in your sleep . We declare sweet sleep over you , in the name of Jesus , that the peace of God , from this day forth , guard your heart and mind in Christ Jesus .

We pray that you will not put down your sword of the Spirit , but you will pick up your sword and you'll begin to yield it , or wield it in the right way to cut the devil coming and going . And we declare that every generational curse of fear that has plagued your life from this day forward is broken over you .

At that moment that you confessed Jesus as Lord , love entered your heart , the Spirit of love , and we know that the Spirit of love casts out fear , and so I believe that some of you will have the testimony that when I confess Jesus as Lord , that spirit of fear stopped tormenting me . You've been getting nightmares and dreams .

It has been paralyzing you and that fear from that you won't have a nightmare tonight and I want to hear your testimony , write us in and say that that was me . I believe God is blessing you .

We'll continue to bring you life changing content to hopefully bring you closer to God and closer to the people that God has placed in your life . All right , there's a bunch of information about how to connect with us in our show notes . Send us any questions that you might have . Come worship with us in . Orlando and we'll see you real soon .

We love you guys , peace .