The Worst Liars in the World are Your Own Fears.

    It’s never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear. "Worry is the traitor in our camp that dampens our powder and weakens our aim" (William Jorden). William Ward showed the difference between faith and worry. "Worry is faith in the negative, trust in the unpleasant, assurance of disaster and belief in defeat...worry is a magnet that attracts negative conditions. Faith is a more powerful force that creates positive circumstances...worry is wasting today's time to clutter up tomorrow's opportunities with yesterday's troubles" (William A. Ward).

     "Don't worry about anything; instead, pray about everything, tell God your needs and don't forget to thank Him for His answers" (Phil. 4:6, LB). "Let Him have all your worries and cares, for He is always thinking about you and watching everything that concerns you" (1 Pet. 5:7, LB).

    Never make a decision based on fear and never fear to make a decision. Worry comes when human beings interfere with God's plan for their lives. Don't ever find yourself giving the "benefit of the doubt”—doubt has no benefit.

    What causes most battles to be lost is the unfounded fear of the enemy's strength. Never look at your uncertain future with eyes of fear. A. Parnell Bailey says worry is like a fog. "The Bureau of Standards in Washington tells us a dense fog covering seven city blocks, one hundred feet deep, is composed of something less than one glass of water. That amount of water is divided into some 60,000,000 tiny drops. Not much there! Yet when these minute particles settle down over the city or countryside, they can blot out practically all vision.  A cup full of worry does just about the same thing. We forget to trust God. The tiny drops of fretfulness close around our thoughts and we are submerged without vision" (A. Parnell Bailey).

    Ron Wayne was one of the original Co-founders of Apple. Ron Wayne, along with Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, was a part of the original Apple Founding Trifecta. Wayne is actually responsible for designing the company’s original logo, wrote the original Apple manual and drew up this start-up company’s partnership agreement.

Wayne set himself up for financial success, and the original agreement gave him a 10 percent ownership stake in Apple, a position that would be worth $300 billion dollars today if Wayne had held onto it. Instead of holding onto it, Wayne dropped it like it was a hot potato. Ooops, Bad Move!
According to Mercury News, Wayne was afraid that Jobs’ wild spending and Wozniak’s undisciplined lifestyle would cause Apple to flop.  Wayne decided to step down from his role of being the “mature one” in the bunch.  Wayne took a bite out of the Apple and left the company after only 11 days.  Wayne was a little more worried than Jobs or Woz because he was the only one of the three founders with assets that creditors could seize; he sold back his shares for $800.  Let me repeat that last line…  Wayne sold his shares for $800.
    "An old man was asked what had robbed him of joy in his life. His reply was, ‘things that never happened.’ Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago? How did they work out? Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energy on account of most of them? Didn't most of them turn out to be all right after all?" (Dale Carnegie).

    One of the best discoveries you can make is to find you can do what you were afraid you couldn't do. Fear and self-sabotage lock men's minds against fresh ideas. When you are ruled by fear, you’ll find yourself unable to make the very changes that will eliminate it.

    "God never built a Christian strong enough to carry today's duties and tomorrow's anxieties piled on top of them" (Theodore Ledyard Cuyler). The Psalmist found the best way to combat fear. "But when I'm afraid, I will put my confidence in You. Yes, I will trust the promises of God. And since I am trusting Him, what can mere man do to me?" (Ps. 56:3-4, TB)