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FACE YOUR FEARS

 

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wo nights ago, I was conversing with a friend. She told me that she has phobia for two things: taking pictures and using voice notes while chatting on the social media. Well, I told her knowing her phobias is halfway way solving them and growing through them. One of the ways we grow and evolve is facing our fears headlong, and this does not happen in our comfort zones.

We all have fears. Fears that stare us in the face every day. Two things will always happen when it comes to our fears; we either face them, grow through the process or they stare us intimidatingly and keep us in their grip continuously. Whichever way, we always have a choice – face your fears or they scare the life out of you.

In one of my recent piece on putting yourself out there, I highlighted that one of the major reasons people find it hard to put themselves out there is fear. Fear of criticism and public scrutiny, fear of failure and fear of so many factors that are often unknown. And unless you face your fears, they will keep you in their grip and you will never risk a thing at all in your life.


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ear is one of man’s greatest enemies of all times; it has killed many life’s dreams, goals and aspirations that would have profit humanity in diverse ways. Many men and women carry within them specific, peculiar and unique potential that can change our society, but fear has caged them, and they cannot live out their purpose effectively. Fear has directly or indirectly, passively or actively hindered them and made them to be comfortable in their comfort zones.

Honestly, trying out new stuffs needs big step of faith that defies fear; fear of making mistakes and the spirit of “what if it doesn’t work out?” That you are afraid doesn’t mean that it is not possible or you can’t do it. It simply presupposes that what you are about to try out will work and profit you and many others. It was Albert Einstein who once said: “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried out anything new”. So in facing your fears, fret not mistakes.

Time and time again, we are often afraid to try out new things God is laying in our heart because of fear of failure or the fear of it not working out. For that reason, our hearts have become graveyards for many potential. Our minds have become cemetery to ideas and dreams that would have bring about positive change to our generation even when they are brought to limelight on the crudest platform. Our hearts are often in between fear and courage, whichever take precedents, our hearts will tag along, and quite unfortunate fear often triumphs.


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ear stands for False Evidence Appearing Real. It gives a small thing big shadow. It was fear that made David’s brothers to look at Goliath and said he is too big to hit. But David full of courage and determination faced what they couldn’t and looked at Goliath as a target too big to miss. When you let your fears rule you, they will rule out the inner courage in you. But when you face your fears headlong, the small inner courage in you comes to life.

What are those dreams, aspirations and ideas in your heart that you have been brooding over but fear cannot let you start working on them? Can you write down all the things that constitute your “fear list” and start facing them one by one and one step at a time? Yours may be as insignificant as that of my friend in the opening paragraph who has phobia for pictures and voice notes. But know that, a victory over one small fear prepares you to face a much bigger fear.


Fear is a killer; killer of dreams, goals, aspirations, visions and burdens. Being men and women of fear who always withdraw back to their cocoon of safety will not profit anyone. The world is built on the benefits of those who over the years faced their fears, grew through the process and fulfilled their purpose in life.  Now more than ever, we need men and women that will look fear in the eye, take a step of faith and launch out to make real the burden God is laying on their hearts. Face your fears with faith or your fears scare the life you are supposed to live out of you.

For God has not given us the spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love and self-discipline (2 Timothy 1:7).

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