Tuesday, September 8, 2009

FEARLESS by Max Lucado

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FEARLESS by John Maxwell

Fear…it’s a word that paralyzes.

It is the very thing that most of us fear…fear itself.

That feeling of being totally locked up and not able to logically, or rationally, react to the circumstances around us. The world events hurl at us at a dizzying speed. Our media hammers us to the point many are afraid of what tomorrow holds.

For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. 2 Timothy 1:7 (NKJV)

In this latest book from Max Lucado, he unpacks the things that keep us from being all that God created us to be. He exposes the core of the fears which enslave us. He helps us to take a different perspective and disarm the fears of life that we have allowed to shackle us. The storms of life are a reality but it’s the reaction in the storm that determines the survival rate. As Max shares, “It’s not the absence of storms that sets us apart. It’s whom we discover in the storm: and unstirred Christ.”

“Fear, mismanaged, leads to sin. Sin leads to hiding. Since we’ve all sinned, we all hide, not in bushes, but in eighty-hour workweeks, temper tantrums, and religious busyness. We avoid contact with God.”

In reading this book, I have found myself exactly in the place where Max Lucado was talking. He helps put the reality of God back in perspective…and expose one of the most powerful tactics of darkness. Fear does not have to rule our lives. We can experience true freedom…it is possible! FEARLESS can help show you where the key is that can set you free from the past, free from the realities of today and the unknown of tomorrow. Faith can and will disarm fear!

Two thumbs up! If you’re ready to break free from the negative doom and gloom around us, FEARLESS is a must read.

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