Jim Daly

Daly Focus Blog

FOTF logo
  • Home
  • Family & Home
  • Current Events
  • Focus News
  • About

Calming Your Fears

Calm Your Fear

Remember Goliath in 1 Samuel 17, David’s giant nemesis who challenged the entire Israelite army to a fight? He was nearly ten feet tall. His armor weighed 150 pounds, and his spear weighed nearly 30 pounds.

David was a shepherd boy. A teenager. Yet when he heard Goliath’s taunts, he didn’t run and hide in fear. He said, “For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?” Then he stared Goliath down and trusted God for victory.

“Fear not” is one of the most common commands in the Bible. Although we may face moments of fear, God doesn’t want us to be consumed by it. Paul reminds us in 2 Timothy 1:7, “For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.”

How do you move through fear rather than live in bondage to it? Author Deborah Pegues encourages people to imagine their fear as Goliath. No matter how big and powerful your fear seems, if you conquer it, it will serve you.

Deborah Pegues is with us on our Focus on the Family Broadcast “Calming Your Fears” to share practical, biblical ideas for addressing our core fears:

  • Fear of death.
  • Fear of inadequacy.
  • Fear of loneliness (which includes the fear of rejection).
  • Fear of losing control.
  • Fear of change.
  • Fear of failure.

Tune in on your local radio station, online, on Apple Podcasts, via Google Podcasts, or on our free phone app and learn how to put fear in its place.

Deborah is a certified behavioral consultant, a Bible teacher, a speaker, and the author of 16 books. The one we’re discussing with her is 30 Days to Taming Your Fears: Practical Help for a More Peaceful and Productive Life. Let us put this resource into your hands. I’d like to do that for a gift of any amount. Give us a call a call at 1-800-A-FAMILY (232-6459). If you can’t afford it, we’ll find a way to get it to you. (For more information, visit our website.)

We’d also like to help you take the first steps toward trusting Christ as your Savior, if you haven’t already. With that in mind, you may be interested in a free online booklet we’ve written called, “Coming Home: An Invitation to Join God’s Family,” which explains what it means to have a personal relationship with Jesus.

Sign up for the weekly e-newsletter

Topics: Family and Home Tags: family, fear, peace May 11, 2020 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

Related Posts

  • Single Mom of Boys
  • Parenting Like a Dimmer Switch
  • WeddingFive More Ways to Grow Closer as a Couple

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Jim-Daly President of Focus on the Family
Jim Daly
with Paul Batura

Listen to Jim’s
New Podcast

ReFocus with Jim Daly

Newsletter Sign Up

Posts by Jim

Paying Respects to Our Nation’s Fallen Heroes

The Four Seasons of Intimacy in Marriage

Confidence with Purpose

Topics

  • Current Events
  • Family and Home
  • Focus Events
  • Uncategorized

Daly Focus

Jim-Daly Jim Daly is a husband, father and President of Focus on the Family and host of its National Radio Hall of Fame broadcast. His blog, Daly Focus, is full of timely commentary and wisdom designed to help you navigate and understand today’s culture. His latest book is Marriage Done Right.

Jim Daly Blog

Home
About
Posting Guidelines
Terms & Conditions
Privacy Policy
FAQs

© 2025 Focus on the Family

Connect with Me

Facebook
X
YouTube