Step out in your fear! Progress often requires confronting legitimate fears.
Fear is a natural and valid emotional response to uncertainty and perceived risk. Your fear might be genuine, but if you don’t face the giants now, getting to the promised land might take a longer time.
Be courageous and strong.
Courage is not the absence of fear but rather action in the face of fear.
You need courage to “enlarge the place of your tent”.
Courage is not an innate trait; it is a learnable skill. It can be developed through iterative practice. You can learn how to act more boldly and with more courage.
You are comfortable at this level, but to grow above here, you need to build confidence to push past your fears and trust yourself. Sustainable growth requires moving beyond current thresholds; developing internal belief, trusting accumulated competence, and recalibrating one’s personal narrative around fear.
ATOYEBI Samuel
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Scriptural references:
Joshua 1:7 – “Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the law my servant Moses gave you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, that you may be successful wherever you go.”
Psalm 23:4 – “Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.”
Isaiah 54:2 – “Enlarge the place of your tent, stretch your tent curtains wide, do not hold back;
lengthen your cords, strengthen your stakes.”
2 Timothy 1:7 – “For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline.”
Numbers 13:30 – “Then Caleb silenced the people before Moses and said, “We should go up and take possession of the land, for we can certainly do it.””
Proverbs 3:5–6 “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding;
6 in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.”
