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Are you letting fear stop you from fulfilling your purpose? You’re not alone, but you also don’t have to stay stuck. In this episode of The Jamie Luce Podcast, we dive deep into what fear really is, how it affects your mind and body, and how obedience to God breaks its power.

Whether you’re facing fear of failure, rejection, confrontation, or stepping into a God-given calling, this episode offers both spiritual insight and practical steps that are rooted in the story of Gideon.

What the Bible Really Says About Fear

Scripture makes it clear in 2 Timothy 1:7: “God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and a sound mind.”

Fear isn’t from God. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t real. From a biblical and biological perspective, fear hijacks your ability to think clearly. It clouds your judgment, blocks obedience, and often masks itself as procrastination or timidity.

Understanding the source of fear, whether internal (your past, your personality) or external (spiritual warfare, opposition from others) is the first step to breaking its hold.

Gideon: The Afraid Leader God Still Called

Gideon’s story in Judges 6 shows us that God doesn’t wait until we’re fearless to use us. He meets us in our fear and calls us out of it, not by denying it, but by empowering us to rise above it.

Gideon had real, rational fear. He was hiding in a winepress because his people were being attacked and robbed. But God called him mighty even while he was still trembling. Why? Because Gideon had access to a strength greater than his fear, the Spirit of God.

The Key Is Obedience, Not Confidence

Fear always presents a choice. And that choice is spiritual.

Every time you face fear, you also face a decision: Will I obey God, or will I obey my fear? The enemy wants fear to keep you passive, silent, or small. But obedience to God, even scared obedience, is how spiritual authority is built.

It’s not about having more faith. It’s about exercising obedience and discipline when fear tries to take control.

Spiritual Warfare Starts with Discipline

Jamie shares that fear must be dealt with as a form of disobedience—because refusing to act on God’s Word is still a decision. Fear will keep you bound unless you choose discipline over comfort. Much like training in a gym, spiritual discipline builds strength over time.

Obedience is how we flex our faith muscles.

“You don’t have a faith problem. You have a discipline problem.” – Jamie Luce

No Days Off: The Daily Choice to Defeat Fear

One powerful takeaway from this episode is the reminder that overcoming fear is not a one-time event—it’s a daily decision. Inspired by the phrase “No Days Off,” Jamie challenges us to adopt that mindset spiritually:

• No days off from discipline.
• No days off from obedience.
• No days off from dealing with fear.

Where To Dive In:

(0:00:09) – Overcoming Fear Through God’s Strength
(0:07:53) – Confronting Fear Within and Without
(0:22:05) – Conquering Fear Through Discipline
(0:37:17) – Discipline and Obedience Over Fear
(0:47:21) – Victory Through Spiritual Tools

Full Transcript

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0:00:09 – Jaime Luce
Welcome to the Jamie Luce podcast. Thanks for tuning in today. I really am so grateful for you all that you take time to spend with me to dig into the Word. I don’t take that lightly. I look forward to spending this time with you and digging into God’s word and finding out. You know, I love fresh bread. If you ever go to a restaurant, the first thing I’m usually asking is there a bread service? Because I love fresh bread and that’s the way the word is. For my soul, it is that fresh bread. Jesus said he is the bread of life and we need to be eating of him regularly. So I’m really happy to be with you today. Thank you so much for joining me.

So have you ever been afraid? Have you ever been so afraid that you really thought you couldn’t do what you needed to do? That you didn’t do what you needed to do because you were afraid Fear is. I think that fear is one of those things that is not escapable, that, no matter if someone says you know, or if you look at someone’s life and you think they’re not afraid, I’ve never seen them be afraid of anything. I just think they’re so brave. You know, we look at people. We think they’re just so brave and to think that they don’t have fear, I think is an incorrect assumption. And to think that they don’t have fear, I think is an incorrect assumption. Just because they’re acting, just because things don’t stop them, doesn’t mean they aren’t afraid or that they didn’t feel fear. But fear should be something that we analyze, understand and know how to deal with it. And if you were with us last week and listened to the last episode, we’re talking about Gideon and Gideon’s famous for being afraid. He was in the wine press afraid and he had reason to be afraid. It wasn’t like it was irrational, he actually had reason to be afraid. And I was thinking about what fear does.

There’s a lot of studies coming out right now on what fear does to the brain. And if you understand how fear works, there’s a healthy fear. Of course we understand there’s a healthy fear. If you see cars coming and you’re trying to cross the road, you should have a healthy amount of fear that says don’t step into the road right now, that car could hit me. If there’s a bear chasing you, you’re going to have fear and you’re going to run. That’s where the proper fight or flight response comes, when fear is actually a healthy response, but there is fear that cripples. There is fear that halts and puts a barrier between you and what you’re wanting to do and puts a barrier between you and what you’re wanting to do. Fear can be masked in all kinds of ways, but what fear does?

These studies have shown that fear originates in the amygdala, which is sort of like an almond shaped part of the brain in the back and when. That’s what’s held in the amygdala is memory. So somewhere, whether you remember it or not, you experience something that feels similar to what you’re facing right now, and that similarity will cause the memory of that to. And what the brain does is. It actually takes that and talks to two different parts of the brain, and it’s talking to your literal nervous system, and you could start sweating. You might immediately feel shaky, your muscles want to give way, you can have your heart start racing, your blood pressure go up, you can’t breathe. You know things that someone who goes through an anxiety attack will feel. A flood of emotions hit them, but it physically affects them. It’s literally touching their actual nervous system and causing a response in the body. Another part, though, is that it talk the minute. This activates the prefrontal cortex in your head gets blocked from its normal ability to think clearly and rationally, to make really irrational decisions based off of fear.

That could be real and literal, or it could be perceived simply because of something that is remembered, something that just affects you and you may not understand why. I mean, how many times have we dealt with things and we think I don’t know why. Why do I feel this way? Why am I right? There’s something there that is being pricked or pushed. Now, when we’re looking at the life of Gideon, he literally is remembering very recent events that have happened in his life. There’s nothing irrational about the fear that these neighboring nations, who are enemies of theirs, have come and stolen everything from them, who have destroyed their land, who have no regard for these people at all, to leave them in complete desolation, complete desolation. So when you’re starving, you have a real need. That’s a real perceived need, and on top of that these enemies will destroy. So you have a real fear. So I don’t want to get down on Gideon thinking that he’s just some irrational guy you know down in the wine press, just a scaredy cat with no reason. He had actual reason to be afraid and I’m sure you have faced things where you have actual reason to be afraid.

But here’s the kicker Scripture tells us in 2 Timothy 1.7,. For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind and some of the translations, instead of sound mind, will say self-control. Interesting that self-control is equated with a sound mind. That’s because when you’re in a sound mind, you are able to distance yourself and look at the thing you’re afraid of from a perceived. You’re able to look at it and see it and analyze it. The minute you can do that, your fear response will change. You’re not going to just start reacting, you’re actually going to think about it with a rational mind. So we know, according to scripture, that this is scientifically true. This is not just ooh-la-la you know spooky-doo in scripture and trying to make something be what it’s not. This is actual. The creator of all biology is telling us how it works and he’s saying I have not given you a spirit of fear, but a spirit of power and of love and of a sound mind, or self-control in the face of fear, because he’s contrasting these with fear.

Okay, so what did God say to Israel through the prophet, before the angel appeared to Gideon to bring deliverance to the people. What did the prophet say? We spoke about this last week. If you didn’t listen to last week’s episode, you need to go back and listen to that, but we’ll read it again. It’s in Judges, chapter six, and this is verse 10. And it says you shall not fear the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell, the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell.

But this is really interesting. You have not obeyed my voice. Now he’s just told them I didn’t tell you to be afraid. I told you not to be afraid of this enemy. I told you not to be afraid. That goes with our verse in 2 Timothy. And what is he contrasting that with? He’s telling them what they did wrong. He says you have not obeyed my voice. Well, yeah, he’s not obeyed their voice in that they were afraid. They haven’t. They’re afraid. He told them not to be afraid, and they’re afraid and they’re acting afraid, and they’re acting out of these impulses that the fear has now put on them, making terrible decisions. They have not obeyed his voice.

Now we know in previous, in the previous passages leading up to this, we also know that they had not been serving the Lord fully, as they should. Now that makes sense because if you’re not listening and following the Lord and you’re going after other gods, going after other things again I don’t want to redo last week so you need to go back and listen to last week but in there, if anything that you give your time, energy, finances to anything that takes the place of God usurps him, you have a God before him. Whether that’s in Bible days, where they actually had some kind of idol that they were worshiping and it could be your phone, but there were idols and we have idols today, whether those are actual idols that we’re serving, there are religions all over the world who still serve and offer up prayers and sacrifices to idols, to actual creations from the hands they’re man-made, or things that we serve. We serve all kinds of things. So they were already turning and serving these other gods and that was a part of the problem. But the only reason that that was a problem was because when they went in the land, when they conquered the land, they conquered the land by having no fear, knowing that God was always with them and he would, if they would obey his word, to go in and drive out those enemies, drive them out not have fear, but drive them out. They would be free from all of this nonsense that they’re dealing with right now. And I would venture to say that a lot of us are dealing with stuff because we refuse to actually deal with the thing and drive out what’s been bothering us, what’s been hindering us, that we have not dealt with fear the way we need to. We have not forced fear out. We have not obeyed God in his command that we are not to be afraid.

You know, I was thinking about this. Now, I’m not saying this is theologically correct. It may be, it may not be. It’s just a thought I had. I’m just sharing it with you. Theologically correct, it may be, it may not be. It’s just a thought I had. I’m just sharing it with you.

Do with it what you want, but we have the Ten Commandments. You’re aware of the Ten Commandments. But isn’t it interesting that we have the Ten Commandments and they are mentioned twice in Scripture that I’m aware of, and then, when Jesus is questioned, he answers and says they all fall on these two. Love the Lord, your God, with all your mind, soul, strength and all that, and then love your neighbor as yourself, and that’s summed up in those. But isn’t it interesting that we get the command, 365 times, not to fear, not to fear. I mean, that’s how important fear is to deal with fear in a right way, to not be controlled by fear, bound by fear, because it will affect your decision-making, it will affect your life, it will affect what you’re able to do and accomplish when that’s either what God wanted you to do or not what God wanted you to do.

Fear plays both sides of the fence. Okay, so what is fear? Well, I looked this up in both the Hebrew and the Old Testament and the Greek and the New Testament and I know it seems obvious what fear is, but I just wanted to read these to you. It says to be in dread. Have you ever dreaded something? It doesn’t seem like the same kind of fear, like I’m afraid and I’m trying to run, but there’s a dread, and that dread is in the mind and in the body. Okay, dread Fear to do a thing, to tremble. Have you ever cowered in fear? I mean, been so afraid that you tremble? I have, have you ever? I mean people who’ve been in an accident. When they find them, they can be trembling. What they’ve just experienced is so fearful and has so affected them, but they tremble.

Cowardice Now, cowardice we kind of look at in a different light, because to be a coward means that to the person who is looking on or the person who maybe needs you to not be a coward to save them, cowardice is frowned upon, not because you have a fear, but that you were, um, you were so afraid, or you, you chose fear. I should say you, you have chosen fear to be your modus of operation, your MO. You are someone who should be doing something and you’re not, and it’s known, that’s known that you should be doing something and you’re not. Listen to this one. It means lack of mental or moral strength. I don’t think most people think of fear as lack of moral strength. Yet that’s what the scripture says Lack of mental. We know it’s mental strength, but moral strength, moral strength. You know how many people we tend to think of, people who are heroes, are the ones who have done some physical thing and it took mental strength to do that thing. But look how many people over the last four or five years who have stood up knowing they could lose everything, because they morally felt it was right and had to be a whistleblower and tell the truth about something when they were being threatened. I mean, it’s happening so much more. People are gaining strength and it is true, if one person will stand up you’ll give strength to others. But this is the part of the moral part of it. So there’s mental or moral strength, timidity Someone who just by nature can be kind of timid, be shy.

But I know people who are shy, who I’ll give you an example my son, one of my sons growing up, was just a very shy person, but he didn’t let that stop him and he participated. He went to a school where they had to do many things in front of people. They were called upon to do things and work in groups and to present and be good at that, and I remember being so proud and shocked all at the same time to watch him give a presentation once in front of all the students and the faculty and all the parents and families, and he did it like he was a natural. You’d never know that he was shy. Same thing with my mother. She’s an introvert but yet she speaks publicly and people think that she enjoys being with people and just that’s easy for her. And it’s never easy for her. It’s very difficult, but she doesn’t let that stop her, and I think all of us have things about that that we can relate to.

But timidity or fear in fear and terror, and it makes me think of right now, what’s going on with so many terroristic acts, even on our own soil. Under the name and the guise of being in a protest, people bring terror to those who are around. They bring fear and terror. That’s why terrorists are to be dealt with differently than normal people because of the terror that they bring. It’s a mental thing that they’re doing, but it causes physical reaction.

So if God does not give us fear which now I’m negating that the unhealthy kind is what I’m talking about, not the healthy kind of fear. I’m talking about the unhealthy kind of fear. God does not give us a spirit of fear, then it can only come from two other possibilities. If you’re afraid and it’s not coming from God, it’s coming from one of two other places, and that is either within, coming from within, within the amygdala, old stuff inside, whatever your history, whatever within, coming from within, within the amygdala, old stuff inside, whatever your history, whatever within, even in personality traits, it could be coming from within timidity, or it can be coming from an outside enemy. And when we think of outside enemy, I’m talking about two categories here. It can either be the devil trying to bring fear and trepidation on you, or it can be outside people, through which circumstances happen, but it’s the people you have to deal with in the circumstance that you’re afraid.

So if we look at people, then we have to remember Ephesians 6, 12. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. Now I’m going to hone in on a word here in this verse, because I want you to understand this Against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts. Okay, so scripture is telling us that, even when you’re dealing with people that there is a correction in scripture being taught to us for us to have an understanding about fear we do not wrestle against flesh and blood. When it comes down to dealing with the fear, you’re not actually dealing with people. You may think the fear is coming from those people or the circumstance. Someone could be threatening you.

You see an actual person in front of you, but according to this scripture. It’s a spiritual thing you’re battling, spiritual. Now how can that be spiritual? Because we know naturally, if I have fear happening, I explain to you all the things that are going on in the body. You’re having a natural fleshly thing happen. Right, a human thing is going on in the body. It’s an actual chemical thing in the human body happening with fear. If you are dealing with fear without addressing the fear, I hope I’m not confusing you how I explained to you that you are. If you can look at fear outside of yourself, look at it, analyze it, your body will not have the same response. Now, how am I going to do that? This is where the spiritual part comes in. This is how this works.

We’re getting the key right here to dealing with fear, understanding that it’s actually spiritually handled. You will get victory if you handle it in the spirit. In the spirit Paul was teaching the Ephesians. We do not wrestle against flesh and blood. That fear is never going to go away because you fight somebody, because you’re just going to have to fight somebody the next time. That won’t ever give you victory if you always think you have to fight and wrestle. How many people we’ve seen movies about this? You may have known somebody that they just always are picking fights and fighting people they don’t understand. The fight is not people. That’s the problem. That’s why you’re always fighting with people. It’s a spiritual battle. This is spiritual when people are involved. It’s spiritual when it’s inside of us.

Okay, here’s another key. I’m giving you some keys to dealing with fear today. This is huge. I think this is the core and the foundation. There are two of them I gave. I’m talking spiritual and here’s the other when it’s coming from inside of you and I know this is going to shock you because I know we’ve got old memories and old stimuli going on. But in the moment, in the moment when you’re facing fear, in the moment we’re using Gideon as our example, in the moment God had spoke to this people group of Israel through the prophet and he told them you’re in this mess because you have not obeyed my voice. So what does obedience have to do with fear?

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When it’s on the inside of us, it’s obedience side of us. It’s obedience. It’s still spiritual, but it’s a matter of discipline, obedience equaling discipline. I’m going to explain this more, so stick with me if I’ve lost you. Why do I say this? Because when it’s internal meaning, it could be an insecurity. It could be an old memory of emotion. It could be an old physical response shaking, trembling, that kind to understand where it’s coming from. It’s when you want to do something. Okay, the obedience. Let me pull this back. Let me go back when we’re talking about obedience and we’re talking about it being spiritual. We’re talking about obedience and we’re talking about it being spiritual and it has to do with fear.

What we’re actually needing to understand is that have you ever been in a fearful situation where you wanted to do the right thing, or you wanted to do the task, or you wanted to attempt something new, or you wanted to be able to stand up for yourself? You wanted to. You wanted to, but you thought you couldn’t. That fear made you think you couldn’t. Are you tracking with me? When there is an element that you want to do it, you hear God’s voice. You tell him. You hear him telling you don’t be afraid. I don’t want you to walk in fear. I want you to do this thing. I’m calling you to do this. I want you to go talk to so-and-so. I want you to confront this problem.

I mean, I’m a person who, by nature, doesn’t like confrontation, so when I have to confront something, fear stopped me a lot in my life. It stopped me a lot from dealing with what I needed to deal with, not talking to whoever I needed to talk to, not voicing what I actually thought or needed to express, not really saying what I felt, just placating and giving other people pleasers. What we do is we end up just acting. You don’t actually show up is what happens is you want everybody else to be happy and give them what you want, and you think that you want that, but you really don’t. You go away with regrets. You think I wish I would have said something. I wish I just would have said what I wanted. Why was I afraid to say? Why am I afraid to open my mouth and do what I need to do?

I mean, what if you’re called to do something in a job and it means more money and blessing for your life and you want that, but you’re afraid to speak in front of people? There’s an element here that I want you to see that we miss, and if you can get a hold of this, it will radically change your life of obedience to God. We are told not to fear. Even the psalmist was afraid at times and he would say when I am afraid, I will trust in you. The fear is going to come. The same way, offenses will come, but it’s in that moment there is a decision to be made.

Fear demands a decision. It presents an opportunity for decision every time Fear shows up and you have a decision to make and in the natural, if you just let it biologically play out, you’ll make bad decisions. It will make your brain foggy. You won’t be able to think straight. You’re going to respond out of fear instead of out of a decision that is clearly made, looking at all the evidence and what you think should be done. It’s a matter of obedience. Fear demands a response and that response, if you understand this, is spiritual, then you understand it’s tied to obedience. God told them, but you have not obeyed my voice. You’re dealing with this because you haven’t obeyed me. Are you getting it? I think you’re getting it, I feel like you’re getting it. Are you getting it? I think you’re getting it, I feel like you’re getting it.

Matthew 26, 41 says and I’m giving you part of it. It says tells us that the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. So this is what I mean when I say have you ever thought you wanted to do something but you thought you couldn’t? This was the disciples in the garden. Jesus told them to pray, to watch to pray, to be there with him. And what did they do? They didn’t. They went to sleep. And the scripture actually says that they were afraid. They were afraid and it caused them to go to sleep. They made a bad decision. They didn’t do what they needed to do out of fear. I wish I would have looked that up for you. Thank you, holy Spirit, because he reminded me of that. I wish I would have looked that up for you. But we have to understand it’s because this was Jesus’s response to them. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. It’s weak. It’s why Peter turned and did what he thought he would never do. Have you ever regretted decisions? You thought you’d never do that.

Remember when I told you at the beginning that it has to do with moral strength, not just mental strength, but moral strength. And look at what happened with Peter. He mentally and morally blew it. He told Jesus I will die for you. Everyone else could walk away, but I won’t turn from you. I’ll be right here by your side. I’m willing to die with you. But when it really came down to it, fear stopped him. He made decisions he never thought he’d make, he never dreamed he’d do that. And then, because of that mistake, shame pours in and we deal with all kinds of emotional consequences of shame that come pouring in Regret. It’s terrible.

If you are a Christian saved and washed by the blood of Jesus, his spirit is alive and active inside of you and is willing and desires to do the will of God through you. But that flesh of ours is weak. Flesh has to be crucified. That’s what we see it all through scripture. Flesh has to be crucified. It must be what Disciplined, disciplined. That’s how you crucify your flesh. You discipline it.

Paul said in 1 Corinthians 9, 27,. I discipline my body like an athlete training it. In another version it says I discipline my body and make it my slave. Another one said I bring it under strict control. Now doesn’t that sound familiar? Because that’s the same thing Self control, strict control, self control. God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and love and a sound mind. Or or self control. I bring it under strict control. Another version says I beat my body and bring it into submission. I mean these are violent, forceful scriptures that say how we deal with our flesh. We discipline our flesh. So fear has to be dealt with as disobedience and it must be disciplined. Do you see the connection? When I disobey, what I should do according to the spirit, that means to have the might of God Almighty, and we talked about that last week again. I don’t want to go back over that today. You’ll have to go back and listen to that.

All of these depict a violence and a force, and we are to be relentless when we deal with our flesh. Relentless, relentless when you deal with fear. God is calling us to deal with and conquer the very thing we’re afraid of. That’s what he called Gideon. To Gideon, I want you to go and deliver Israel. Well, he was terrified of that enemy. God was calling him to go. Deal with the very thing he was afraid of. And God is calling each one of us to do that very same thing Deal with discipline. What does it mean to deal with something? We’re going to bring it into submission. We’re going to discipline it Because to conquer. If you’re going to conquer fear, to conquer means you actually get the victory over, but you won’t have victory over it if you don’t deal with it.

How many people? When they have phobias? This is a different kind of fear. This is an irrational fear that has taken over. It has completely taken over and controls everything, everything. There are people who are afraid to leave their homes, literally afraid to go outside and leave their homes, and it can control everything. You have people who can’t sleep at night because they’re afraid a spider is going to crawl on them Irrational fears that completely take over. Okay, and because of that, that irrational fear is a constant. It’s just. And how do they get, how do they conquer that? Well, they have to be treated, of course, to help them learn to think differently.

But many times it’s like people who are afraid to fly. Many times they will take little baby steps. They’ll go to an airport, right, they’ll get on a plane or they’ll get on a simulator and they have to do little baby steps and keep taking. Or they might need some medicine to help them stay calm. Some, you know, melatonin, some natural things to help them sleep, to relax, things like that. They breathe in lavender. You know they’ll do all kinds of things to help and maybe listen to things that are soothing while they’re on the plane. They do things to conquer the fear, to be able to not allow it, to stop them.

To deal with it means that I am taking steps of disciplinary action that demand movement that is an advancement and full of consistency. Okay, I am taking steps of disciplinary action that demand movements of advancement, consistently. I have to consistently make these movements, these advancements. It is me disciplining dealing with same picture I just wasn’t using it because it’s used all the time. But you go into a gym and you start with small weights and you keep lifting those and you keep adding more weight, more weight. It will not do me any good to go to the gym once a month. I have to be consistent. I have to be consistent. I am using obedience and self-control.

That’s power, love, and when we say love, love for God, love for what God loves, love motivates. This is your motivator. Love is your motivator to help you do what you need to do. Love for God means I obey you. He said that you, those who obey me, actually love me. Those are the ones who follow my commandments. The ones who love me follow my commandments, and if you don’t follow my commandments, you don’t love me. So this is how this works. If you’re going to have power, love and a sound mind, that love is your motivator. The power you have is by the spirit he’s given you, his spirit. He is all powerful. So you have power, love. And then you have to exercise sound mind and self-control. Okay, it’s that obedience that produces power, by the working of God’s spirit in us when you obey. This was how Gideon was able to do what he did he, he strengthened himself, making sure this was God that he was building his motivator. Okay, god, this is you, this is really you. Okay, if it’s you, I’m going to do it. And then, after he does that, the scripture and we read this last week the spirit of the Lord came upon him. It clothed him. So when you take those steps of obedience, when you discipline the flesh and deal with the fear, then the spirit of God is empowered through you to do the very thing that you need to do. And it’s an amazing feeling.

Anybody who has faced their fear and done what they wanted to do, even kids, experience this, when they go to an amusement park and they’re afraid to go on a roller coaster, but then they do and they’re so excited Then they want to do it over and over and over again. My little granddaughter is in gymnastics and she was so afraid to just do a forward, roll to tumble, to allow herself to roll and tumble over. It was just so intimidating to her. And when she finally got the courage up and she listened to her coach and the coach talked her through it, she had to make that decision to conquer her fear. And she obeyed the coach’s command and she rolled over. Oh my gosh, she was so excited. She has been rolling nonstop. She wants us all to watch. We all applaud her. She just continually takes that little roll forward because doing it does the spirit in us is empowered, it changes our outlook.

We realize we didn’t have anything to fear anyway. What is the famous quote from President RFK? Is that right? Anyway, I could be quoting the wrong one. Anyway, we have nothing to fear but fear itself. I’m trying to think of all their initials, anyway, robert Kennedy. So anyway, we have nothing to fear but fear itself. You don’t realize that until you get on the other side of fear. But that’s somebody who has faced fears who can say that because you’re looking at it, analyzing it, realizing it, there’s really nothing to fear. I’m fearing the fear. I mean, it’s a whole nother level, right, I’m fearing the fear.

Okay, so we, because of that obedience, become mighty. By his spirit. You’re mighty and you don’t even know it. You, my friend, as a Christian, are mighty and you don’t even know it, even when there’s fear present. What did God tell Gideon? Go in this might of yours and Gideon’s, like whoa, wait, what, what might? Because he had God in him. He had a relationship with God, he questioned God, he spoke with God, he was hearing from God and in that, the spirit that God knew he was going, he knew he was going to use his own spirit. He was basically saying to him and he says this to us you don’t have to rely on your own strength. I am your strength, oh my gosh. So many scriptures about. He is our strength, he is our strong tower. We run into him and we’re safe. You don’t, you’re not going to have to do it in your own strength. You do it in his might. It is by his spirit. Might inside is the expression of the Holy Spirit through you, the might that comes out of you.

Gideon was the guy who’s hiding in the wine press and yet he didn’t realize that the might inside of him was greater than the fear in front of him. And I want to say that’s the same for you. You do not realize whatever that you’re afraid of. You do not realize that God’s power in you, the might inside of you, is greater than the fear that is in front of you. Because, again, it is not by might and it is not by power, but it is by my spirit. It’s not your strength, it’s not your ability, because you’re afraid, you don’t think you have the ability. It’s by his spirit, and it doesn’t matter how big the enemy is, it is not won by your might, it’s not won by your power, it is won by his spirit. Gideon just needed to obey.

Obedience is flexing your faith muscles. You’re disciplining your flesh to obey in faith. Obedience is equal to discipline, which produces great faith, great faith. You don’t have a faith problem. You have a discipline problem and you have an obedience problem. You don’t have a faith. So many people think I don’t have enough faith for that. No, that’s not true. That’s a lie of the enemy and if you believe that, you will stay stuck, that is not the truth. That is not the truth. I’m telling you the truth today. What is the truth? Because truth sets us free. You don’t have a faith problem. You have a discipline and an obedience problem.

When it comes down to it. You don’t want to obey. You don’t want to obey. You don’t want to discipline yourself. You don’t want to have to do the hard work. No more of this. I want okay. I don’t want you saying this to yourself anymore. I don’t want to have to do the hard work. No more of this. I want okay. I don’t want you saying this to yourself anymore. I don’t want to say this to myself anymore. I don’t. I want to, but I want to, but I can’t.

Responses are nonsense. You can, your flesh just doesn’t want to. That’s a discipline issue. Discipline it, Discipline your flesh when you’re raising children. They don’t want to eat healthy. Do they? Do they want to go to bed. When you tell them to go to bed, do they want to stop playing when you say it’s time to stop and clean up and put your toys away? Do they want to brush their teeth? Do they want to clean their rooms? Do they want to do their homework? Do they want to put on their coat? Do you understand Children? We understand this and see this. When we see others do it, it’s real easy to see this in others. You can just think they just don’t want to. They need to. They shouldn’t be afraid of that. That’s because it’s not your fear, that’s their fear. This is why Jesus said you better take the plank out of your own eye before you deal with the speck in your brother’s eye, because this is what we do. We can see this in other people. We don’t see it in ourselves and it’s because we don’t want to discipline ourselves. We do not want to discipline ourselves. I’m going to finish with this analogy I recently attended an event to raise funds for a news organization that they are a faith-based organization and they wanted to be able to make sure that you get everything that’s really happening the truth, both sides, but just the facts, the truth so that you can make informed decisions based off what’s really happening.

And at this particular event, it was called American Faith. It was American Faith Gala and the keynote speaker was Laura Trump. That’s President Trump’s daughter-in-law. Many people have seen her on many of the news organizations and whatnot, but she has recently launched a clothing line and the majority of the clothing line is athletic wear and the slogan for the athletic wear is no days off, no days off. I love that. That’s discipline. That’s discipline no days off. I love that. That’s discipline, that’s discipline, no days off. You’re not going easy on yourself. This goes back to what I said earlier. Right, that the definition of dealing with it means that I’m taking steps of disciplinary action that demand movements of advancement, consistently, consistently. And the slogan no days off shows up in her life easily. She keeps a schedule. That is pretty crazy. But not only that. If you’ve ever seen her, her physique, she is muscle from head to toe. I mean muscle. I don’t think there’s anything there but muscle. You probably wouldn’t get that just seeing her face on tv, but I’m telling you she is muscle from head to toe.

I think we need to all adopt her slogan when we’re dealing with fear, when we discipline fear, when we decide that we are going to be obedient to the call of God on our life and we are not going to allow the enemy of our soul, whether it’s without or within, to rob us anymore. Do you know that that is exactly what happened to the children of Israel the first go around, why they had to wander for 40 years? It’s because they had fear. They disobeyed God and allowed fear to come in. And it’s why, with Gideon, god and allowed fear to come in. And it’s why, with Gideon, we’re seeing the same thing all over again Fear of the enemy and not doing what they were supposed to do.

We have to discipline our flesh. We have to understand this is an act of obedience before God, that I am in disobedience. You can’t separate obedience and disobedience. You can’t say I’m not obedient without saying I’m being disobedient. You can’t have one without the other. If I am not obedient, I am disobedient, and disobedience demands discipline. It demands discipline. You understand this. When you raise children. It demands discipline and understand this when you raise children. It demands discipline and it’s for their good.

We all know we don’t discipline children because we’re mad at them, because we don’t like them, don’t love them. You discipline them because you know this isn’t good for you. And I have to teach you because you need this in your life. You can’t allow these things. These will cripple you in your life. Fear will cripple you in your life. You can’t allow these things. These will cripple you in your life. Fear will cripple you in your life. It will rob you of wonderful experiences. It will rob you of fulfilling what God has for you. God never calls us to something. Look at all the things that God called these men and women to. They had to face their fears. They had to. That’s how you conquer, that is how it’s done, and it’s a matter of obedience and discipline.

So we need to adopt Laura Trump’s slogan and say no days off when we’re dealing with and disciplining fear. Let’s take fear out. Make the decision today You’re going to deal with fear. You’re going to take it out. You are not going to allow it to stop you even one more day. We’re going to get complete victory. We will be relentless in dealing with our disobedient flesh. Bring it into subjection to the word of God over your life and live in freedom.

If you can do this, if you can grasp this maybe you need to listen to this multiple times Maybe you need to share this with somebody who you know is dealing with fear. If we can actually understand what’s really happening, take a step back. What am I really afraid of? What’s really going on here, and why am I allowing fear to be a dictator over my life, to rob me, to rob me, to stop me, to hinder me. You were not called to live as a slave. It is for freedom that God has set us free, and it is his will that you walk in victory and not fear. Let’s make this decision, no days off. We’re dealing with fear, no days off, and you watch what will change. You watch how, when you get the victory, you can look back and say I can’t believe I was letting that stop me for that long. Deal with it, discipline it, do it and watch what God does in your life.

Thank you so much for spending time with me today. I pray this was a blessing. You know what? Let me pray for you. Let’s just pray about this real quick, and I want you to make this a matter of your strategy moving forward. Father, we thank you that you have not given us a spirit of fear. We don’t have to be afraid. Not one day more, not one second more. Give us eyes to see what’s really going on, to understand.

This is a spiritual battle. This is not just my flesh, this is spirit, and I will conquer it by spiritual means and I will do and walk in obedience according to what you want me to do. You will strengthen me by your spirit and I will get the victory. Thank you, father, for giving us the tools we need for life and godliness, that we can do all that you’ve called us to do and take every bit of ground that belongs to us, and we give you all the glory for it. Lord, in Jesus name, amen, do me a favor If this was a blessing to you, hit that like button and ring that bell, subscribe and get notified when a new episode comes out.

And if this was a blessing to you, maybe listen to it again, maybe take some notes, get this down in you. I gave you multiple scriptures. You’ll wanna go back and look at those. Go back and look at Gideon’s story in Judges, chapter six, and just see what God says to your own spirit. See how he’ll work that in your life. You can visit me at my website at jaimeluce.com. You can send me an email at mail at jaimeluce.com. I’d love to hear from you. Thank you so much for spending time with me today. I do truly appreciate you. We’ll see you next time. Bye-bye.