I sought the LORD, and He answered me; He delivered me from all my fears.I sought Yahweh, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.I sought the Lord, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.I sought Jehovah, and he answered me, And delivered me from all my fears.
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… But I want to point to you a scripture that I really, really love. It's in Psalm 34, verse 4. I'm going to throw it up on the screen. I prayed to the Lord and he answered me. He freed me from all my fears. You're looking at somebody that is totally free from fear. I hate standing up here talking to people, but I can do it in confidence knowing that I'm not up here alone. God is with me. He's freed me from fear and insecurity and anxiety and things that have bottled me up and kept me from moving forward and all that God has for me. And I can do it in confidence, looking right at you in the face. I used to couldn't do that. Has anybody ever experienced just fear, being afraid? Lift your hand up real quick. Look around. There are a bunch of people that have dealt with that same thing. it's almost like in my case a screaming and a yelling in my ear and I'm going to tell you kind of what I hear when this fear tries to attack me you're not going to amount to anything. …
… pointing to verse 4, which reads, I sought the Lord, and he heard me and delivered me from all my fears. That's the promise that our president during the Civil War made his premise to exercise his faith. Now, storms come in different velocities. If a storm gets enough wind past 74 miles an hour, we call it something else. What do we call it? A hurricane. A hurricane begins at wind speeds of 74 miles an hour up to 150 miles an hour, bringing great destruction with it. What the fascinating thing about a hurricane is what's right in the middle of it, and that's called the eye of the hurricane. If you're in the eye of the hurricane, it's perfectly calm. You would never know, unless you had gone through it, that there is that storm all around you. The promise is the eye. When you find the promise in the storm, that becomes the place of shelter, becomes the eye. It is where you are protected. The promise becomes the premise for you to exercise your faith. You're in the eye. I was asked years ago by somebody, what do you do with the promises of God? I think my answer was, I underline them. And that's okay. I think I might have even said I memorized them. But I think what he was getting at is, young man, there comes, I was young at that time. He said, young man, there comes a time when you need to stand on them. Not just memorize …
… while we pray. Psalm 34, verses 4 through 7. And you sing some more, you read some more, you pray some more, you express your fears to God, you lift them up to the Lord. Will you then be able to fall asleep? Probably. but even if you don't your heart will be at peace dear friend it is not god's will that you lead a life marked by anxiety and fear it's just not you say my mom was a worrier i'm a or your hogwash. You can unlearn that habit. Everybody's anxious. You don't have to be everyone. You have the presence of the Holy Spirit within you. The same one who hovered over the deep, the same one who descended like a dove, the same one who took care of Paul and Silas in prison will do for you what my daughter did for her little boy. His name, my grandson's name, is Max. Yeah, I'm named after him. he's eight years old now, but at the age of 16 months, he had his first haircut. …
He says he heard me, and I can't really describe it to you like I want to, but another one of our songs says, I sought the Lord, and he answered, but there is a part that says, I sought the Lord, and he heard. The sermon is so hot, I'm dropping stuff up here. I realized that when he hears my prayer, when he hears my needs… Do you know the Bible says God even speaks the language called groaning? One scripture says God can interpret your groans, and the Holy Spirit will turn them into a prayer. God hears all those sounds you make. One psalmist said, I love the Lord. He heard my cry. Did you know God speaks grief? God speaks groan. God speaks pain that you can't express in a word. God gets in that stuff too, and the devil will say, not here, and God will say, right here, in your tears, in your fears, in your sorrow, in your worry, in your anxiety. Right there. I'm coming. Right here. Right here. …