Fear is the devil's tool to derail God's plans for your life. When you let fear of failure or being left behind guide your choices, you create the very outcomes you dread. The speaker uses Job's story to show how feared outcomes manifest, urging believers to endure fear and trust God instead.
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Do you know why people make wrong decisions? It's fear. Fear of being left behind. Fear of not catching up with your age mates. And we ask ourselves the question, will I ever catch up? What's going to be my own lot? What's going to be my end? You see, you cannot make decisions based on those fears and come out, because eventually God is going to lead you in the direction of what you fear. If the fear of being left behind is what you have, it will lead you through a path where initially it will be said that you have been left behind. If fear of failure is what you have, your journey is going to carry testimonies of real failure. But yet it is still a process, not a conclusion. Whatever it is you fear, you will learn to survive it. I know what I'm saying like I know my name. You can hear Job say, what I feared greatly has now come. Never you think God is going to pamper you and say, because you are afraid of this, you know, don't— no, no, no, no, no. Your fears is not going to blackmail him to give you another route. I know sometimes you look at your life and you're in the midst of a situation. See, this is what I've always been afraid of. Look at all my friends, this, this, this. Now, and once you get there, the devil can perfectly speak and show you pictures. Now that your friends have