I don't know why I was so fearful, but as far as I can remember, I was always fearful of speaking in front of others, at church and everywhere which left me feeling guilty and less than others! Even during bible teaching when the crowd was small, I was afraid to speak my thoughts. At work, I had to say a few words before others and fear caused me to get nervous and my words didn't come our right. It wasn't that I didn't have anything good to say, because most of the time, I did have good points to make, but I was always afraid my words wouldn't come out right, and usually, they didn't. Finally, I got tired of being defeated by fear and started sincerely praying to God and asking him to deliver me from the spirit of fear, and I began to read scriptures related to fear and where it originated and how to overcome it. Praise the Lord because my strategies worked for me and I'm confident they'll work for you as well.
Here's a short prayer that helps to overcome fear
I will not be intimidated by anything of this world. I renounce all fear of intimidation and control, in the name of Jesus Amen.
2 Timothy 1:7 says, "God has not given us the spirit of fear but of power, love, and a sound mind."
the acronym for fear is F= false E = evidence A=appearing R=real, false evidence appearing real.
Psalms 27:1 says, " The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life, of whom shall I be afraid?" So, I was aware that fear is from the devil, but I believe that something happened in my childhood that caused me to have such fear of failure. Prayer, reading the scriptures and reminding yourself daily of the scriptures and reminding yourself daily that being afraid of things going wrong, isn't the way to make things right.
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