{"id":1715,"date":"2014-10-04T11:54:56","date_gmt":"2014-10-04T11:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vivianefreitas.com\/en\/?p=1715"},"modified":"2014-11-27T12:01:02","modified_gmt":"2014-11-27T12:01:02","slug":"fear-in-disguise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vivianefreitas.com\/en\/fear-in-disguise\/","title":{"rendered":"Fear in disguise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p class=\"intro\">Earlier this month I was thinking a lot about fear, and analyzing it.<\/p><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nI decided I wanted to examine myself, because I knew my first monstrous and visible fears had already been defeated. <!--more-->I always ask myself questions, challenge myself, and I came to the conclusion that if it is God who sends me, I will go. Be it in a corner, China, or even to drive a rocket. That\u2019s my faith. 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I had to face it and fight it by doing the opposite of everything that I wanted to do, and what I used to do so well to hide how incomplete I was. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This only changed a few years ago when I realized that there was nothing more to lose and I was no longer afraid to be different, in anyway.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nIn a Godllywood meeting this month I was able to speak about this with the girls from the group \u2013 the determination to make a difference, and the price we pay for it, which is what makes us daughters of Sarah, daughters of the promise.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe &#8220;IF&#8221; at the end of the verse we have been reading since the beginning of the year shows that if I do not overcome ALL my fears then everything else I&#8217;ve learned over these last few months is worthless (1 Peter 3: 6). It\u2019s not an option, but a condition.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nYou know what I found out with them? 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