A short encouragement from Holly Furtick about the power of self-talk, using David’s Psalm 3 (written while fleeing his son Absalom) and Paul’s Romans 8 to argue that believers should speak present-tense confidence—"I am not afraid"—even amid fear and uncertainty. The video models turning internal fear into declarative faith and ends with a brief subscribe prompt.
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I wonder how you talk to yourself. Are you hard on yourself or are you pretty good at coaching yourself? Do you beat yourself up for your mistakes or do you tell yourself, oh, I'll do better next time? I think some of us are naturally better at this than others. I personally think that my husband is too hard on himself and he probably thinks that I'm not hard enough on myself. But I don't think that we place enough attention on our self talk. I came across this verse in Psalm 3 where David gives us this powerful image of how the way you speak to yourself and the way you speak about your situation, it matters. This verse that I'm going to read to you was written by David when he was on the run from his son Absalom. Yes. His son was trying to kill him and take over his kingdom. This stuff that we read about in fiction books, it's also in the Bible. There's some amazing stories in the Bible and I love this one. And I want to show you what David wrote about this situation. In Psalm 3, 5, 6, David said, I lay down and slept, yet I woke in safety, for the Lord was watching over me. I am not afraid of 10,000 enemies who surround me on every side. Okay, wait a minute. If David was not afraid, then why was he fleeing? He had literally just gathered up his family and everything that they could carry, and they were making a mass exodus out of Jerusalem to take refuge in the mountains, running from his son, hiding from his son who had armies of people that were out to kill him. I like to imagine that these verses take place the morning after their first night on the run, and he woke up alive. And his response was to declare, I am not afraid. You see, sometimes you have to speak to yourself and you have to say, I am not afraid, even though you may feel overwhelmed. I am not afraid. Even though I don't see a way through. I am not afraid. Even though this situation is really hard, even though I don't know how I'm going to pay my light bill, much less buy Christmas presents for my kids. Even though I don't know how my marriage is going to make it through, even though I don't know if I'm even going to survive this illness. But I am not afraid. David did not say, I will not be afraid. He said, I am not afraid. I guess he thought if he woke up alive and if he survived the night, he would survive no matter what he was up against. About a thousand years later, the apostle Paul wrote in Romans 8, if God is for me, who can be against me? We need to learn to speak in the present tense about our confidence in God's plan, even when we don't feel confident, even when we find ourselves in the scariest positions. Because we know that the safest place that we can be is in the middle of God's will. Our faith is not in what we can see. Our faith is is in the One who is with us. You do not have to live in fear. You might feel afraid, but you don't have to live in fear. Talk to yourself and tell yourself something good this time. I am not afraid. Because if God is for me, who can be against me? Hey, thanks for watching. I hope that that encouraged you today. Make sure that you subscribe so that you don't miss out on other videos like this, and I'll see you back here next time.
