Two speakers debate fear versus faith, with one sharing how he chose to act in faith despite grief, comparing it to Jesus weeping over Lazarus. He argues that feeling emotions is fine, but you must then choose faith, and calls for prayer and fasting based on Isaiah 58:6.
There is always a moment where you get to decide, am I going to partner with fear or am I going to partner with faith? And I, I think people feel like life just happens to them, and it's not. Life is happening for you. Are you making the right choice? So what did you choose?
I allowed myself a moment of humanity, which I believe Jesus was such a beautiful example of. Like, he wept, right, when Lazarus died. There was a moment of humanity that he wept in understanding of us, but knowing that he would resurrect. And in that moment, I allowed myself to weep, and then I chose to respond in faith. But I think that that's what I would want anyone to know, is it's okay to have a moment, to have a human response. Right? We are in this world. We're not among it, but we're in this world. So, we feel things. There's emotions. And then, we have another second, and you get to choose what you'll do with that. And that's when I chose faith. And faith said, "Go to war." Faith said, "You call your sisters and you ask them to pray." Faith said, Isaiah 58:6, "Some things only come by prayer and fasting." And so, we're going to pray and we're going to fast.
