{"product_id":"fear-not-for-i-am-with-you-finding-freedom-from-fear-in-the-presence-of-god","title":"Fear Not, for I Am With You: Finding Freedom from Fear in the Presence of God","description":"\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: inherit; font-size: 17.6px; color: #556a75; font-family: proxima-nova, sans-serif; background-color: #ffffff;\"\u003eOne of the most repeated commands in the Bible is also one of the most misread.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: inherit; font-size: 17.6px; color: #556a75; font-family: proxima-nova, sans-serif; background-color: #ffffff;\"\u003eWe hear 'fear not' as an order to feel braver, or as an older form of 'you've got this': talk yourself up, you are stronger than you think. But no one can command a feeling, and at three in the morning your own pep talk hisses out like air from a punctured tire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: inherit; font-size: 17.6px; color: #556a75; font-family: proxima-nova, sans-serif; background-color: #ffffff;\"\u003eScripture's 'fear not' does the opposite of self-help. It almost never stands alone. It comes with a reason, and the reason is never you: \u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;\"\u003e'Fear not, for I am with you.'\u003c\/span\u003e The relief it offers is not that you have finally gathered your courage. It is that you are no longer alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: inherit; font-size: 17.6px; color: #556a75; font-family: proxima-nova, sans-serif; background-color: #ffffff;\"\u003eThis book follows a single Hebrew phrase, \u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eal-tira\u003c\/em\u003e, across the whole of Scripture — from the first time God speaks it, to a childless old man under the stars, to the last time it is spoken, by a voice that had been dead and is alive. Abraham and Hagar, the nation trapped at the sea, the prophets in exile, the shepherds at Bethlehem, Paul in a foundering ship: the people change and the terrors change, but the ground of the command never does. Never 'be strong.' Always 'I am with you.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: inherit; font-size: 17.6px; color: #556a75; font-family: proxima-nova, sans-serif; background-color: #ffffff;\"\u003eDrawing together biblical theology, the psychology of fear, and the philosophy of anxiety, it makes one quiet and uncommon case: fear is not conquered by willpower but dethroned by Presence. It does not promise a life with no fear. It offers something older and more honest. In the very thing you dread, you will not be alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: inherit; font-size: 17.6px; color: #556a75; font-family: proxima-nova, sans-serif; background-color: #ffffff;\"\u003e\u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eFor readers weary of being told to be their own saviors, and who have long suspected that the answer to fear was never a technique, but a Person.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"His Story for Us","offers":[{"title":"Perfect Bound","offer_id":67368740749616,"sku":"9786169521969","price":11.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk\/products\/fear-not-for-i-am-with-you-finding-freedom-from-fear-in-the-presence-of-god","provider":"The Great British Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}