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 But number two, look what the Bible says in verse two,

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 "Wherefore the king said unto me,

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 "'Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick?'"

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 This is nothing else but sorrow of heart.

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 Look at this last phrase, "Then I was very sore afraid."

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 The second thing I wanna show you about Nehemiah

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 is that Nehemiah overcame his fear with boldness, okay?

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 It's not that he had no fear,

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 and he wasn't even just a little bit afraid,

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 he was very sore afraid,

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 and yet he still is gonna boldly speak to the king

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 and get exactly what he needs from the king.

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 He overcame his fear with boldness.

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 You see, great leaders, great Christians,

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 it's not that they don't have any fear,

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 it's that they overcome their fear with boldness.

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 Every single one of us,

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 the first time we went out soul-winning,

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 was scared to death.

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 I remember probably the first year of soul-winning,

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 literally, going soul-winning every week or twice a week

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 for like a year.

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 I would say I was scared walking up to the first door,

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 even after I've been doing it for six months,

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 nine months, 10 months.

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 Probably took me like a year to get over that fear.

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 And I can just remember knocking on the first door

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 and just wishing that people would not be home

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 because I don't want anybody to be home.

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 I don't want to face anybody because I was so nervous.

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 And obviously getting up to preach.

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 I was super nervous.

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 Even when I started Faithful Word,

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 I was still nervous when I would get up to preach

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 for the first few months.

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 The first time I did a wedding, I was super nervous.

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 The first time I did a funeral, I was super nervous.

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 That's life.

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 But, you gotta overcome your fear

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 to do what God wants you to do.

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 Pray for boldness, right?

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 The Bible says, when they had prayed,

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 the place where they were assembled together was shaken,

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 and it says they were all filled with the Holy Ghost,

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 and they spake the Word of God with boldness.

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 So pray for boldness, overcome your fear with boldness.

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 It's not that we, as leaders, or successful soul winners,

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 men and women, boys and girls,

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 that get the job done, it's not that we have no fear,

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 it's just that we've overcome that fear.

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 Through the power of the Holy Spirit.

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 And because we've pushed ourselves to do the hard thing,

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 and not just, oh, it's too hard, I'm too scared, forget it.

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 No, you gotta overcome your fear with boldness.

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 And do it anyway, I mean, think about Gideon.

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 You know, God tells Gideon what he needs to do,

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 and he says, if you're scared,

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 bring Fura, your servant, with you,

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 and then the next verse is like,

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 he's bringing the servant with him.

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 If you're scared, do X, Y, Z, and then he does X, Y, Z,

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 'cause he's scared, right?

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 People in the Bible are human,

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 and they were subject to like passions as we are,

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 yet they got the job done through the power of God.