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Lord, Free Me from Ungodly Fear
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or years I couldn’t take a shower without being afraid. That’s because all the frightening images from the ?lm Psycho kept coming back to terrify me. I had seen that ?lm when I was young, and my shower experiences were ruined from that point on. It wasn’t until I received the Lord and someone prayed for me to be delivered from fear that I was actually able to close my eyes in the shower and enjoy the water. There were many other things I was afraid of too, such as dying, starving, failing, ?ying, accidents, needles, knives, getting lost, being abandoned, getting sick, being injured, the dark, the unknown, people’s opinions, and being rejected. But God healed me from every one of these fears. Some I prayed about speci?cally. Some just went away as I learned to walk with the Lord and spend time in His love and His presence. God does not want us to live in fear. Fear does not come from Him. It’s the world that teaches us to fear. The things we see in movies, videos, newspapers, and books make us afraid. The things we hear people say and see them do
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