Fearless

By Suzanne D. Williams

What does it mean to be fearless? And how do I get there? Where is the way out from hopelessness and despair?

 

Crippled by fear, Suzanne Williams found herself unable to leave home. In her testimonial book, Fearless, she shares her personal walk out of the darkness and bondage of fear into the health, peace, freedom and hope promised in God's Word.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Suzanne D. Williams
• Release date: Mar 14, 2016
• ISBN: 9781524207328

Suzanne D. Williams

Best-selling author, Suzanne D. Williams, is a native Floridian, wife, mother, and photographer. She is the author of both nonfiction and fiction books. She writes a monthly column for Steves-Digicams.com on the subject of digital photography, as well as devotionals and instructional articles for various blogs. She also does graphic design for self-publishing authors. She is co-founder of THE EDGE. To learn more about what she’s doing and check out her extensive catalogue of stories, visit http://suzanne-williams-photography.blogspot.com/ or link with her on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/suzannedwilliamsauthor.

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SUZANNE D. WILLIAMS

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Copyright © 2011, 2022

FEARLESS

by Suzanne D. Williams

www.suzannedwilliams.com

Published by Becky Combee Ministries, Inc.

P.O. Box 3283

Lakeland, FL  33802-3283

www.beckycombeeministries.com

This book or parts thereof may not be reproduced in any form, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any means – electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or otherwise – without prior written permission of the publisher, except as provided by United States or American copyright law.

Unless otherwise noted, all Scripture quotations are from the King James Version of the Bible.

Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible quotation was taken from www.e-sword.net.

Definitions marked Thayer’s were taken from Thayer’s Greek Definitions from http://www.e-sword.net

Definitions marked BDB are taken from Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Definitions from http://www.e-sword.net

Scripture quotations marked MESSAGE are taken from The Message: The Bible in Contemporary English, Copyright © 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002. Used by permission of NavPress Publishing Group.

Scripture quotations marked AMP are taken from the Amplified® Bible, Copyright © 1954, 1958, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1987 by The Lockman Foundation Used by permission. (www.Lockman.org)

(TPT) The Passion Translation® book of Isaiah and New Testament with Psalms, Proverbs, and Song of Songs is translated from Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic texts by Dr. Brian Simmons.

Scripture taken from The Voice™. Copyright ©2008 by Ecclesia Bible Society. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Contents

Foreword

Rock Bottom

God Wants You Well

Forgiveness

Finding Forgetfulness

Renewing the Mind

Peace in God’s Presence

Strength and Power

Go Anyway

Prepare Yourself

God Is

Hope

The Waiting

Promises for the Mind

Promises for Stability

This book is dedicated to all those who prayed for me, to my mother for her guidance and support, but most especially to my husband who loved me anyway.

Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not (La 3:27).

Foreword

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Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord (2Ti 1:8).

THERE IS LIFE-CHANGING POWER in sharing one’s testimony. (Rev 12:11) First, it is a step of faith. To share something so personal in public is difficult. It requires me to move outside of my conservative personality and trust God to help me form the right words.

Second, it demands obedience. In reality, I am no one special. My life has been incredibly ordinary. Obedience means I must do what God asks of me no matter how small and insignificant I feel.

The third power in giving one’s testimony lies in what it does in the heart. When I share what God has done in me, I become like a city set on a hill. The light of the gospel shines out of my life. However, it also shines into my life, exposing the work of darkness. Once exposed, the darkness has no choice but to flee. (Mt 5:14;2Co 4:4;Jn 3:20-21;Jas 4:7)

And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony (Rev 12:11).

In the end, my testimony isn’t really about me. It’s not even about what happened to me. Instead, it’s about the freedom sharing it brings into my life. I’ve made a choice not to hide anymore. As a result, the devil no longer has any hold over me. The love and mercy of a mighty God for someone as small as I am has healed all the brokenness.

Many years before all these events transpired, I prayed over my life the words of Acts 4:29. Lord, grant me boldness to speak your Word. I was sincere. Yet truthfully, I gave no thought afterward to the fulfillment of that prayer. Looking back now, I see this book as the result of that prayer.

I am not the same person I once was. What happened to me and the victory that came into my life through the Word of God has changed me forever. I pray that my words, in some small part, bring to you the same joy and freedom that is now mine.

God is truly good all the time!