Day 1: Fear Makes Us Hide

The enemy can use fear, worry, and anxiety to stop you from living out your calling. We are all called to love God and love people — but too many believers miss out on half of their calling, only focused on loving God and not reaching out to love and disciple those around them. Look at Gideon: wheat was always threshed on a hill with the wind so the chaff could be blown away and the grain could fall. But Gideon was hiding at the bottom of a winepress, trying to remove the chaff in a place with no wind — a place where the work could never work. Fear makes us hide away ourselves, our calling, and our voice. This week in the With Authority series, we ask the honest question: what has fear pushed me into hiding?