Fervent by Priscilla Shirer

Week 5: Strategy 4 — Your Fears

Read Strategy 4 of Fervent by Priscilla Shirer. Key Scriptures: 2 Timothy 1:7; Psalm 34:4.

Fear is one of the enemy's most effective and most underestimated weapons — because it masquerades as wisdom, caution, or even love. Priscilla calls us to name our fears honestly and to pray against them with equal honesty.

Discussion Questions

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1.Priscilla opens this strategy by naming fear as one of the enemy's primary tools — not because fear is always sinful, but because he exploits and magnifies it to keep us paralyzed. What fears are currently exerting the most control over your decisions and your peace?

2.2 Timothy 1:7 says God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and a sound mind. What does it mean that fear is a "spirit" — something that can be *given* or *not given*? How does that reframe the way you think about your own anxious thoughts?

3.Priscilla identifies several categories of fear — fear for our children, fear of failure, fear of loss, fear of the future. Which category hits closest to home for you, and how has the enemy specifically weaponized it in your life?

a.Is your fear primarily about what might happen, or about your ability to handle what happens?

b.What lie about God is embedded in that fear?

4.Psalm 34:4 — "I sought the Lord, and He heard me, and delivered me from all my fears." Notice that deliverance came through *seeking*. What does it look like practically to seek God in the middle of a fear response rather than retreating into anxiety or control?

5.Priscilla makes the point that courage is not the absence of fear — it is acting in faith *despite* fear. Describe a time when you acted courageously in the face of genuine fear. What made it possible?

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Closing Prayer

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Lord, You have not given us a spirit of fear — and yet fear has so often been our companion. Forgive us for treating anxiety as faithfulness and worry as wisdom. We name our fears before You now — the ones that wake us at 3 a.m., the ones we have dressed up as caution, the ones we have never said out loud. We bring every one of them to You, and we ask for the power, love, and sound mind that You promise in their place. Deliver us, as only You can. In Jesus' name, Amen.

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