[00:00:01] Do you find yourself spinning in anxiousness and fear?
[00:00:04] Well, you're definitely not alone.
[00:00:06] And today we're going to talk about why we all need to stop being so afraid.
[00:00:14] Welcome to Moming. We're your hosts Rachel and Stacy and we believe there's no better way to be encouraged through motherhood than by connecting with other moms.
[00:00:23] Join us as we hear from moms just like you.
[00:00:26] Welcome to Moming.
[00:00:33] So we're going to talk about fear today.
[00:00:35] Fear is one of the strongest human emotions, which is a good thing.
[00:00:39] It's necessary for survival.
[00:00:41] Right?
[00:00:43] We need that fight or flight urge and the surge of adrenaline to keep us or those around us safe.
[00:00:49] It's what tells us to stay away from dark alleys and why going on tall and fast roller coasters is a terrifying thrill.
[00:00:57] Our bodies and minds know that something is just not right.
[00:01:00] But for all the good fear can do, it can also cause some serious damage when left unchecked or like irrational fear.
[00:01:08] Fear can cause us to act irrationally.
[00:01:12] It can be a dangerous tool of control in the hands of evil or less than genuine people in leadership.
[00:01:24] I'll say it that way.
[00:01:26] We have shown it to physically cause harm to our bodies when it takes the form of stress and anxiety.
[00:01:32] It is definitely no joke.
[00:01:36] Right?
[00:01:38] One thing that I like to think about as I heard an acronym for fear, what it stands for, because fear isn't real.
[00:01:44] Fear is false expectations appearing real.
[00:01:48] Oh, so you did a F-E-A-R.
[00:01:50] F-E-A-R.
[00:01:52] False expectations appearing real because how many times do we create these scenarios in our head that aren't real that stop us from doing things?
[00:02:03] Totally.
[00:02:04] You know, the voices in our head.
[00:02:06] Like the projecting out like the what ifs.
[00:02:08] False expectations appearing real and we forget or fear forgets that God is God.
[00:02:18] Yeah, we have a mutual friend and she said this line. I'll never forget it.
[00:02:22] She said, fear is looking to the future and taking God out of it because it does seem scary.
[00:02:30] That's trying to figure it out on our own.
[00:02:32] Right.
[00:02:34] And we were never meant to take that burden on ourselves.
[00:02:38] Yeah.
[00:02:42] I think I heard the statistic and I don't like saying things without like backing it up, but I'm pretty sure that this is what it was.
[00:02:48] Was 95% of like the what ifs or the things you think about never even happen.
[00:02:54] So like all you're really dealing with is that 5% of like real life that does happen.
[00:02:58] Like real life can happen.
[00:03:00] You know, I mean we have friends who the worst has come to pass in their life.
[00:03:04] You know, their greatest fears have been realized.
[00:03:06] But worrying about them beforehand didn't change the outcome.
[00:03:10] No.
[00:03:11] I think that's what my point is.
[00:03:13] Right.
[00:03:15] Like they're either going to happen or they're not going to happen and as Christians we believe that the sovereignty of God covers those things.
[00:03:21] So us worrying about if X, Y and Z is going to happen or could.
[00:03:27] Yes.
[00:03:29] It robs us of today.
[00:03:31] It totally does and I don't want to go too far off topic but it reminds me of I'm going through this health program right now and a big part of it is your mindset.
[00:03:39] And to me I'm like, I don't care about this.
[00:03:42] Don't talk to me.
[00:03:43] I just want to know what I'm supposed to eat, when I'm supposed to eat it.
[00:03:47] But like no your mindset matters.
[00:03:49] Your mindset matters because positive people are healthier people.
[00:03:52] Did you know that?
[00:03:53] Statistically positive people are healthier people.
[00:03:56] And so I always say I'm not negative.
[00:03:59] I'm just a realist.
[00:04:01] Like I think in realistic terms.
[00:04:03] I'm like well that won't happen.
[00:04:06] Like totally knocking down a positive person's outlook on life because this is what really happened.
[00:04:12] Because I live in the real world where real things happen.
[00:04:16] But it's like no.
[00:04:17] You're real afraid.
[00:04:18] Yeah exactly.
[00:04:19] Exactly.
[00:04:20] So anyway, different conversation for another time but mindset totally plays into that as well.
[00:04:24] Well I think we'll get there actually in this episode if not the next episode.
[00:04:27] But on that point I was just listening to a podcast and it was this brilliant doctor who's a psychologist.
[00:04:34] And he works for the American Institute of Behavioral Research.
[00:04:39] And I won't say what podcast it was because I don't work about it because it's not always the cleanest.
[00:04:44] But I was listening to it because this guest was on it.
[00:04:47] And he was saying that he's been studying human behavior for like 40 years or something crazy.
[00:04:53] And humans will almost always see the negative and tend and trend toward the negative.
[00:05:02] And he's like, his whole topic was like news cycles and social media and like search terms.
[00:05:09] That's why if you like those things always trend negative because that's what people are drawn to.
[00:05:13] Anyway so I think my point in saying that is knowing that we as humans in our own flesh tend to trend toward the negative
[00:05:22] or the what ifs and we have to understand that we've been called as Christians to a different way.
[00:05:30] But kind of switching back to like as mothers, we often fear for our children and that's a really healthy thing right?
[00:05:38] We're their protectors.
[00:05:40] The minute we find out we're pregnant we start changing how we eat, how we live, the things we do,
[00:05:46] the things we don't do and it's this crazy instinctual God-given drive to keep our children safe.
[00:05:53] And then it just gets worse.
[00:05:55] They grow older.
[00:05:59] And I think that there's a healthy balance, you know, of that fear, of that worry to protect, right?
[00:06:08] To keep them out of a busy street to make sure they're eating nutritionally so that their bodies and minds grow properly.
[00:06:15] As they grow older we fear about like who will influence them.
[00:06:19] We're totally there right now, you know with both of our kids.
[00:06:23] What influences are having the most effect in their life?
[00:06:27] Will they make good choices? Will they become a successful adult?
[00:06:31] Will they ever learn their times tables, you know?
[00:06:34] Oh my gosh I just was talking to our teacher about that the other day.
[00:06:39] Times tables?
[00:06:40] Yeah, yeah exactly that.
[00:06:42] Your kids are young though still.
[00:06:43] Not my third grader who's supposed to be memorized, these memorized already.
[00:06:47] Yeah it'll come.
[00:06:50] It can be really really hard to control our fearful thoughts and not let them control us.
[00:06:57] And I was thinking about this and I think this is where the term helicopter parent may have found its beginning.
[00:07:04] It's these parents that are so afraid of letting anything negative happen to their kids so they hover like a helicopter in order to protect.
[00:07:14] And they think they're doing what's right.
[00:07:17] But in reality I think sometimes those parenting styles in the extreme can be very negative.
[00:07:24] So it's the start of 2022 and we thought it was really important to address the topic of fear as it relates to motherhood.
[00:07:32] So as it relates to us as women but also as it relates to us being mothers.
[00:07:37] And how the Bible says we should conduct ourselves in the face of fear.
[00:07:42] Stace I think the last two years have been this huge social experiment in, I mean really fear.
[00:07:51] If I could pick a word, if I could pick one word, if I could pick two it would be fear and deception.
[00:07:57] But if I could pick one word it would be fear because the power that has yielded.
[00:08:04] Right?
[00:08:05] It's been for me sadly eye opening.
[00:08:08] Right, well yeah I mean why are we in the position we're in because people are afraid.
[00:08:15] You look at all the things that had to fall into place in order for this to happen and it is just uncanny.
[00:08:23] Like let's take God out of everything so people don't have anything to really trust in anymore.
[00:08:29] Let's make science God so now people are thinking that they're the ones who can control their lives and they're the ones in control.
[00:08:36] There is no afterlife, there is nothing to hope for.
[00:08:41] So now if we throw this pandemic in oh everyone's gonna die.
[00:08:45] You're gonna do exactly as I tell you because you want to stay safe.
[00:08:48] Right.
[00:08:49] I mean it's sad to see that we're just completely bowing to that.
[00:08:54] Yeah and the effect that it's had on the youth, I don't know if you saw that statistic and again should have it so I could point people to where.
[00:09:03] It's not hard though you could literally Google like teen suicide over the last two years and you would find but don't use Google because they're not good.
[00:09:12] Use DuckDuckGo.
[00:09:13] Use Brave.
[00:09:14] Oh?
[00:09:15] Brave is the best search engine and it's free.
[00:09:18] Okay so Brave, Google search on Brave, the teen suicide rate or even attempted in the last two years I think it's quadrupled.
[00:09:31] Yeah.
[00:09:32] I think is what they said four times.
[00:09:33] Yeah.
[00:09:34] The amount of teen suicides.
[00:09:36] Teen suicides and also.
[00:09:37] That's like the 13 to 18 age I think was what that is.
[00:09:40] I mean added in there one of the leading causes is drug overdose.
[00:09:43] Right.
[00:09:44] It's crazy.
[00:09:45] Yeah.
[00:09:46] So and our point in like bringing all this up is not to cause fear it's to show that when fear goes uncontrolled.
[00:09:53] When there's no hopelessness.
[00:09:54] When you take the hope.
[00:09:55] Or when there is hopelessness, when there is no hope.
[00:09:57] This is what happens.
[00:09:59] Society in a very rapid way begins to just crumble.
[00:10:03] Mm-hmm.
[00:10:04] So as moms you know fear is real.
[00:10:09] This is something I want to make very very clear.
[00:10:12] It is a real emotion.
[00:10:13] It is a God given emotion we were made to have like we talked about the ways that fear is good the way that it does protect us.
[00:10:22] Jesus felt fear and anxiety and I wanted to share this in Luke 22.
[00:10:29] This is what it says in verse 41 through 44 and he was withdrawn from them, his disciples about a stone's throw and he knelt down and prayed saying father.
[00:10:41] If it is your will take this cup away from me nevertheless not my will but yours be done.
[00:10:46] Then an angel appeared to him from heaven strengthening him and being in agony he prayed more earnestly then his sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
[00:10:58] And I don't know about you but that sounds like a straight up anxiety attack to me.
[00:11:02] You know what I mean?
[00:11:03] Like he was he knew what was coming.
[00:11:06] The cross was before him.
[00:11:08] And he was submitting himself to the father's will even in that and I think it's such a beautiful picture for us as mothers like even when maybe you know what's coming down the road for you and your family or just the unknown.
[00:11:22] The unknown can be sometimes more fear inducing than the known.
[00:11:27] Will we still submit ourselves to the will of the father and that's what Jesus did.
[00:11:33] And we know now and you know on this side of the cross that it all worked out for good.
[00:11:39] But in those moments, you know Jesus was a human and he was feeling the very human emotion of fear and anxiety of what was to come.
[00:11:49] You know, and a lot of people say like commentators Bible commentators say I don't know that we could ever really know this for sure but that not only was like yes the crucifixion was going to be this like intense physical like torture.
[00:12:02] But what he was dreading was the separation, the spiritual separation from the father because as he died on the cross and took the sin of the world, the father could not look on him.
[00:12:12] And he couldn't look at the sin that was on his son our son.
[00:12:17] And so that's what he said when he said on the cross like why have you forsaken me?
[00:12:24] Right.
[00:12:25] You know and that's what he was fearing.
[00:12:29] So I just wanted to make it very clear that fear and anxiety are real emotions and that they are a part of our lives sometimes daily.
[00:12:38] And that in no way are we looking to like say hey just buck up trust Jesus like it'll all work out.
[00:12:44] There's definitely a battle going on and then we see that we see that it can affect us physically.
[00:12:50] We see that you know I would actually like say that fear is a very mental battle like more than anything spiritual for sure.
[00:13:00] Like it can have spiritual attacks and things like that.
[00:13:03] But the physical mental and spiritual battle of fear are real and so it does no good to stick your head in the sand and say well you know I'm just going to ignore it.
[00:13:15] I'm not going to deal with it.
[00:13:17] Eventually fear or the effects of fear bring themselves to the service.
[00:13:22] And if you've ever had a panic attack or you've talked to someone who's had a panic attack or you've had like intense anxiety or you can't sleep because your mind won't stop right?
[00:13:33] Or you're all worked up and you kind of don't know why.
[00:13:36] Like if you follow those down in your mind often times there's a root of anxiety or fear.
[00:13:44] And it's manifesting itself in these physical ways because it's not being dealt with.
[00:13:49] And we are as we continue on to this topic we are going to talk about some really really really practical ways that fear that we can you know acknowledge that it's there and then okay how do I deal with this in a biblical way?
[00:14:04] Like what does God say about fear?
[00:14:06] So we're going to get there.
[00:14:08] The other thing that we talked about is how we need to recognize that fear is how the world lives.
[00:14:14] Fear is not how we as Christians are called to live and Stacey you just so beautifully pointed out that the last two years have been what we've seen the world bowing out of fear.
[00:14:27] Yes.
[00:14:28] Excuse me.
[00:14:32] But I always like to think of like that's like when I try to dive in and I ask that question why are they doing this?
[00:14:41] What is the end game?
[00:14:43] Why?
[00:14:44] What do they want?
[00:14:45] What are they trying to accomplish?
[00:14:47] The only logical thing that can come to my mind is this is Satan's end goal.
[00:14:54] Satan's goal is to steal, to kill and destroy.
[00:14:58] How is he going to steal your joy?
[00:15:00] He's going to make you afraid.
[00:15:02] How is he going to destroy us?
[00:15:05] He's going to pretty much turn completely divide us and turn us against each other and how is he going to eventually kill us all?
[00:15:12] Yeah, right.
[00:15:13] That's his goal.
[00:15:14] He wants us to be miserable and he's using these people that are doing it as tools to that destruction.
[00:15:22] Yeah, such a good point.
[00:15:24] I mean even in the Bible, I think it's in Matthew.
[00:15:28] It should have been better prepared.
[00:15:31] You know, the Bible talks about the end times and the first thing it says is that it will be a time of great deception.
[00:15:38] It will be a time of delusion.
[00:15:41] And that's what I love about thinking about the word of God because that is the only truth.
[00:15:47] Yeah.
[00:15:48] That is absolute truth.
[00:15:49] It doesn't change.
[00:15:50] I was just reading.
[00:15:51] My daughter and I were learning about Noah Webster in her history and how he wrote the dictionary and how the dictionary is constantly changing.
[00:15:59] Even today it changes.
[00:16:00] They added the word Google.
[00:16:02] Did they?
[00:16:03] Yes, because now it's not just a company.
[00:16:05] It's actually a term we use to search for.
[00:16:07] Yeah.
[00:16:08] So it's constantly changing, right?
[00:16:10] But the Bible never changes.
[00:16:11] Right.
[00:16:12] It's our absolute constant source of truth and life.
[00:16:15] And whenever anything in this world is going, we're confused.
[00:16:20] Satan wants to confuse us, obviously.
[00:16:22] We can go back to the word of God and know that we can find truth and find light.
[00:16:27] And that's what I always tell people is they want to pull the wool over your eyes.
[00:16:33] Yeah.
[00:16:34] But if you look, you don't even have to look that hard to see that everything right now is a lie.
[00:16:39] Right.
[00:16:41] And I, but I think to your point, like, which is a amazing point.
[00:16:46] If you don't have the Holy Spirit, which we're actually going to talk about also, which Jesus says, the spirit of truth.
[00:16:54] Mm hmm.
[00:16:55] If you don't have that, how easily are you manipulated or lied to because you don't have the spirit of truth?
[00:17:03] You don't have the living God inside of you waving that little flag.
[00:17:09] Something is wrong here.
[00:17:10] Something is wrong here.
[00:17:11] Mm hmm.
[00:17:12] You don't have the, the, the inclination to go to your word and open it up because you don't have the spirit of truth inside of you.
[00:17:20] So it makes perfect sense when I think about people who don't believe in God or don't believe in Jesus.
[00:17:27] I think for me, it's more of the believers who I have a harder like time understanding because I'm like, you're reading the same Bible.
[00:17:37] I'm reading and you have the same Holy Spirit inside of you that I do.
[00:17:41] And so like where's the breakdown?
[00:17:43] Does that make sense?
[00:17:44] Are they reading the Bible?
[00:17:46] Yeah.
[00:17:47] And that's a, that's a huge one.
[00:17:48] Yeah.
[00:17:49] So I think especially in the United States we become very comfortable.
[00:17:52] So true.
[00:17:53] And this is what's really comes to the consumer church.
[00:17:56] Exactly.
[00:17:57] We go to consume.
[00:17:58] We do and but we, we live to consume.
[00:18:02] Yes.
[00:18:03] So this is like what we've been completely brought up to do started with our parents.
[00:18:08] I think our parents worked really, really hard to give us things they didn't have.
[00:18:12] But they worked and worked and worked.
[00:18:16] And now like I remember we were poor when I was little.
[00:18:20] And then once I got into junior high and high school, we were comfortable.
[00:18:23] Right.
[00:18:24] And we didn't want to get what we wanted whenever we wanted to.
[00:18:27] Right.
[00:18:28] And, and that just kind of established that instinct gratification that's been nailed into our heads.
[00:18:35] And I think when the pandemic started, like at least for me, I'll be completely honest.
[00:18:39] I was sucked into that world just as much as everyone else.
[00:18:42] I loved going to Target.
[00:18:45] I loved my, what are those shirts?
[00:18:47] My Starbucks and my coffee.
[00:18:49] Oh yeah.
[00:18:50] Or my Starbucks and my Target.
[00:18:52] My mom's day out.
[00:18:53] Yeah.
[00:18:54] You know, going to Disneyland and loving all this loving these places and the pure enjoyment
[00:19:01] and satisfaction that they gave us.
[00:19:03] And kind of, and we're not saying those things are bad but living for those things.
[00:19:08] Right.
[00:19:09] So when they got taken away, you know, you were like, huh, right?
[00:19:13] And then there's this threat of well what kind of restrictions are they going to have
[00:19:18] and everyone going to be able to go back and do them again.
[00:19:20] Right.
[00:19:21] You know, or like I've been really into lately like companies that are liberal that are pushing
[00:19:30] these liberal agendas like hurting their bottom line.
[00:19:33] The only way we're going to make an impact.
[00:19:35] Right.
[00:19:36] It's not voting.
[00:19:37] Right.
[00:19:38] It's choosing where you spend your money.
[00:19:39] Right.
[00:19:40] So please take a moment to promote.
[00:19:41] A second vote?
[00:19:42] Say it clearly.
[00:19:43] So I'm a member of a company called Second Vote and it's really cool.
[00:19:50] They rate companies based off of their kind of morals in a sense and they give them a
[00:19:56] rating of a one to a five.
[00:19:58] A five is very conservative in their beliefs and a one is all the way liberal like all
[00:20:04] the way agendas.
[00:20:05] And when you say beliefs, is this metric like where they give money?
[00:20:10] Right.
[00:20:11] They've publicly come out and said support or not supportive of something.
[00:20:16] It's what they support and it's typically where they put their cash.
[00:20:21] Got it.
[00:20:23] They can say one thing with their mouths and put their cash somewhere else.
[00:20:26] I mean, case in point how many of us think Chick-fil-A is the most amazing Christian organization
[00:20:31] out there that we can just really support and be completely fine with it.
[00:20:34] But to be fair they sold, right?
[00:20:36] They did not.
[00:20:37] I thought you told me that the original person wasn't the same person who's running it now.
[00:20:42] Well, he's not.
[00:20:43] He got old but he didn't sell it.
[00:20:45] He got passed on to a board member, right?
[00:20:47] A different board, a different CEO came up through the ranks.
[00:20:49] So there is a different head of leadership.
[00:20:51] There is.
[00:20:52] The same company, different CEO and this happens, right?
[00:20:55] Even Disney, Walt Disney.
[00:20:57] I'm sure he'd be rolling around in his grave with some of the things that are going
[00:21:00] on.
[00:21:01] Totally.
[00:21:02] You know, as the changing of the guards do change, so do beliefs and morals.
[00:21:08] Chick-fil-A went from a pretty high three now to down into the two range just because of
[00:21:15] things they support.
[00:21:16] So it's just interesting the perspectives that we have.
[00:21:20] And what's also interesting is you're never really going to find many companies above
[00:21:24] a three even if they're 100% Christian.
[00:21:27] Okay.
[00:21:28] Because these companies, what's the goal is to make money?
[00:21:31] Right.
[00:21:32] In a capitalist society they want to make money.
[00:21:35] But they're still neutral.
[00:21:38] Right.
[00:21:39] And where they put their money, they're not supporting things like abortion or our basic
[00:21:46] freedoms.
[00:21:47] Right.
[00:21:48] So they're not supporting vaccine mandates.
[00:21:50] They're not supporting things that really completely take away our freedom.
[00:21:55] Anyway, quick plug for there.
[00:21:58] All that to say when this happened.
[00:22:00] Second vote dot com.
[00:22:01] And the reason for the name.
[00:22:03] Is because that's your second vote.
[00:22:05] Your first vote.
[00:22:06] When you go to the election box, ballot box.
[00:22:10] There you go.
[00:22:11] Ballot.
[00:22:12] Got it.
[00:22:13] When you go to the ballot box, you're voting for your politicians, right?
[00:22:16] But our second vote in this country especially is where we put our money.
[00:22:22] Yeah.
[00:22:23] And I think the only way we're really going to rise up and be able to make
[00:22:26] a difference is hurting their bottom line.
[00:22:28] Right.
[00:22:29] And I think that's a question standing up and saying, I will not support you if
[00:22:32] you follow these things.
[00:22:34] And it hurts us.
[00:22:35] Right.
[00:22:36] It hurts us.
[00:22:37] Okay, I'm not going to say don't shop at Target anymore because I absolutely do
[00:22:40] love it.
[00:22:41] And sometimes I just need that quick.
[00:22:42] I need to get it quick.
[00:22:43] Yeah.
[00:22:44] I need something cute and trendy and I need it fast.
[00:22:47] I don't have time to shop around for it or wait for it to come online.
[00:22:50] Right.
[00:22:51] I will admit I give in but for the most part.
[00:22:53] Right.
[00:22:54] Absolutely no more Starbucks in our house.
[00:22:56] Yeah.
[00:22:57] I think it has completely been cut down quite a bit.
[00:23:01] Yeah.
[00:23:02] I struggle even going to Disney.
[00:23:03] So, you know, I think the pandemic helped me in that though.
[00:23:08] Right.
[00:23:09] Because I was so emotionally tied to these instant gratification things and
[00:23:14] having that comfort that it brought that it was a morning period.
[00:23:18] Yeah.
[00:23:19] I don't know if you felt that.
[00:23:20] I felt that way when the election results came in.
[00:23:23] And not because my savior is Donald Trump.
[00:23:26] I felt that way because I knew in that moment we are now going to see the very
[00:23:36] steady decline of the last free Christian nation on earth.
[00:23:41] And it don't get me wrong.
[00:23:42] It started a long time ago.
[00:23:44] Yeah.
[00:23:45] I'm not saying it's because he lost the election supposedly.
[00:23:49] But I did actually grieve because I knew the
[00:23:56] evil seemed to not hide anymore at that point to me.
[00:24:00] You kind of always knew it was there.
[00:24:02] But at that point to me, it was so open out in the open like we are going after
[00:24:07] your children or going after your education or going after your health
[00:24:11] or going after your families or going after your freedom.
[00:24:15] And it's still it's been a year and onslaught of that.
[00:24:20] You know, and I'm not grieving so much anymore as I am hoping and looking
[00:24:25] so forward to like the true perfect kingdom that will exist one day on earth.
[00:24:33] And I just like you was so I was caught up in trying to make like heaven on earth.
[00:24:38] And I don't think that that's I don't want to say that's wrong because
[00:24:42] I think it's natural as you as Christians to want to make things better.
[00:24:46] We want to make a good life for our kids.
[00:24:48] We want to be good spouses.
[00:24:49] We want to be productive members of society.
[00:24:52] And so to do that, you're constantly striving to do better.
[00:24:56] So I don't I'm not we're not knocking like trying to live life in a way
[00:25:01] that pleases God and makes things better.
[00:25:04] We got really, really far off topic.
[00:25:08] I did but that's OK.
[00:25:10] All of this did it does start with with fear and we kind of went down
[00:25:15] that rabbit hole because it's a really good picture of where fear can take you.
[00:25:22] Fear has taken this country in the last two years from one place to a very,
[00:25:28] very different place.
[00:25:29] And it's because it's the people we make up the country.
[00:25:33] So, you know, the Bible says that, you know, where the leader goes,
[00:25:37] the people will follow.
[00:25:38] And so whether your leader is like your mayor or just the head of your home
[00:25:42] or the head of your church or the president of the United States,
[00:25:45] that's where the people will go.
[00:25:47] And so it's so important that we not be caught up in the swell of fear.
[00:25:57] Yes.
[00:25:59] The last thing I wanted to touch on and we are going to it's become apparent
[00:26:04] that we're going to break up this episode into another another episode,
[00:26:09] which is good because it's an important topic.
[00:26:11] I wanted to talk about finish the thought of how fear is how the world lives,
[00:26:16] but we are not of this world.
[00:26:18] And when I say we, I mean those who profess faith in Jesus.
[00:26:21] And this is in John 17 and this is Jesus speaking.
[00:26:25] He says they are not of the world just as I am not of the world.
[00:26:29] So he's praying to the Father on behalf of his disciples, sanctify them by your truth.
[00:26:35] Your word is truth.
[00:26:37] It's like what you said.
[00:26:39] And you sent me being Jesus into the world.
[00:26:42] I also have sent them into the world and for their sakes,
[00:26:46] I sanctify myself that they also may be sanctified by the truth
[00:26:51] and set up sanctified means set apart by the truth.
[00:26:55] And I don't know about you Stacey, but the last two years,
[00:26:58] I feel like I have been set apart in a very negative category
[00:27:04] by the world standards because of the truth that I choose to believe in.
[00:27:09] And moms, we just want to encourage you.
[00:27:12] It can feel really, really lonely and isolating.
[00:27:15] It can feel like you are the only one as you walk into a store without a mask on.
[00:27:21] Or you get fired or you get a vaccine.
[00:27:24] Yeah, or it's just whatever it is, whatever it is,
[00:27:28] it can feel so isolating.
[00:27:31] And God's word reminds us that Jesus and his disciples were the odd ones out.
[00:27:37] Oftentimes they were really never accepted,
[00:27:40] definitely not by the religious leaders of the time
[00:27:44] and not even by people all that much, you know?
[00:27:47] And so we just want to encourage you.
[00:27:50] Standing in hope and truth is not easy.
[00:27:54] And it's definitely not...
[00:27:57] It can wear on you.
[00:27:59] I'll say that. It can take its toll.
[00:28:02] And so with that said, we really, really want to encourage you to tune in next time
[00:28:07] because we are actually going to shift the way we talk about this
[00:28:11] and talk about very positive things, how to deal with fear,
[00:28:14] how to help our kids deal with their fear, what the Bible says about fear.
[00:28:18] And so we hope that you will tune in, that you won't miss it.
[00:28:23] And if you didn't listen the last two weeks,
[00:28:26] we were talking about community, which in this world, when we feel so alone,
[00:28:30] our community saves us.
[00:28:32] It helps us know there are other like-minded people out there
[00:28:36] that we can come around and be free with
[00:28:39] and we're not constantly being put through the ringer.
[00:28:42] So community is so important.
[00:28:44] We hope that you have your own community
[00:28:46] and if you don't come join ours.
[00:28:49] And we'll talk to you next week.
[00:28:51] As always, moms, thank you so much for joining us today on Momming.
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