Faith Over FearSample
![Faith Over Fear](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimageproxy.youversionapi.com%2Fhttps%3A%2F%2Fs3.amazonaws.com%2Fyvplans%2F18182%2F1280x720.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Fear of exposure kept me in hiding for nearly two decades, but this only led to loneliness and isolation. I didn’t share my story—my mess of a past—with anyone, except a handful of close friends, until about eight years ago. That means from 1994, the year God pulled me off of the streets of Tacoma, to 2011, I lived in hiding. I presented an image to my friends, our neighbors, and our church family of who I wanted them to see, terrified that somehow they’d discover who I really was—who I believed I was. Though I belonged to Christ, had been redeemed and transformed, my fears of exposure revealed I hadn’t learned to rest in grace.
I was living as if I was still a child of darkness, one flashlight beam from discovery, when God had reformed me into a child of light. My fear of exposure kept me in isolation, but God’s love patiently, gently drew me out.
The more I understood His grace, the more I learned how to rest deeply in it, the more I realized I had no reason for shame and nothing to fear. He knew my worst regrets, the ugliest things I said and the most hurtful things I’d done, yet He loved me anyway. He was there watching every moment when I committed my most shameful sins, but not once did my moral failures turn Him away. Instead, they stirred Him to come close. They drove Him to the cross.
Today, I share many of those stories I once kept so deeply hidden and I do so with courage, with both feet firmly planted in grace, because I know I’m forgiven. I know I’m made new. The person I once was doesn’t exist anymore. I am now, and forever will be, a child of God.
~Jennifer Slattery
Scripture
About this Plan
![Faith Over Fear](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimageproxy.youversionapi.com%2Fhttps%3A%2F%2Fs3.amazonaws.com%2Fyvplans%2F18182%2F1280x720.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
We were not created to live in fear. God wants us to live with boldness, confidence, peace, and impact, and He's given us tools in Scripture to help us anchor ourselves deeper into faith-bolstering truth.
More
Related Plans
![Destroying Fear: A Five-Day Devotional](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimageproxy.youversionapi.com%2Fhttps%3A%2F%2Fs3.amazonaws.com%2Fyvplans%2F18216%2F320x180.jpg&w=640&q=75)
Destroying Fear: A Five-Day Devotional
![7 Days of Experiencing God’s Infinite Grace](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimageproxy.youversionapi.com%2Fhttps%3A%2F%2Fs3.amazonaws.com%2Fyvplans%2F18209%2F320x180.jpg&w=640&q=75)
7 Days of Experiencing God’s Infinite Grace
![Praying God's Truth Over My Fears](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimageproxy.youversionapi.com%2Fhttps%3A%2F%2Fs3.amazonaws.com%2Fyvplans%2F19224%2F320x180.jpg&w=640&q=75)
Praying God's Truth Over My Fears
![A Journey From Worry to Confident Hope: Praying Through the Lord’s Prayer](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimageproxy.youversionapi.com%2Fhttps%3A%2F%2Fs3.amazonaws.com%2Fyvplans%2F18704%2F320x180.jpg&w=640&q=75)
A Journey From Worry to Confident Hope: Praying Through the Lord’s Prayer
![Waiting on God](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimageproxy.youversionapi.com%2Fhttps%3A%2F%2Fs3.amazonaws.com%2Fyvplans%2F20231%2F320x180.jpg&w=640&q=75)
Waiting on God
![How to Stop Worrying](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimageproxy.youversionapi.com%2Fhttps%3A%2F%2Fs3.amazonaws.com%2Fyvplans%2F18688%2F320x180.jpg&w=640&q=75)
How to Stop Worrying
![Victory Over Anxiety](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimageproxy.youversionapi.com%2Fhttps%3A%2F%2Fs3.amazonaws.com%2Fyvplans%2F18848%2F320x180.jpg&w=640&q=75)
Victory Over Anxiety
![Putting an 'X' Through Anxiety](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimageproxy.youversionapi.com%2Fhttps%3A%2F%2Fs3.amazonaws.com%2Fyvplans%2F19132%2F320x180.jpg&w=640&q=75)
Putting an 'X' Through Anxiety
![Intimacy With God](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimageproxy.youversionapi.com%2Fhttps%3A%2F%2Fs3.amazonaws.com%2Fyvplans%2F18210%2F320x180.jpg&w=640&q=75)
Intimacy With God
![I Will Not Fear](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimageproxy.youversionapi.com%2Fhttps%3A%2F%2Fs3.amazonaws.com%2Fyvplans%2F18765%2F320x180.jpg&w=640&q=75)