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b'What are you afraid of? Heights? Snakes? Public speaking? Chickens?\\nYes, alektorophobia (the fear of chickens) is a real thing! So is coulrophobia (the fear of clowns), dentophobia (the fear of dentists), and microphobia(the fear of small things). A person with helio- (sun)and herpeto- (reptile) phobias might not want to livein Florida, and if you happened to have papyrophobia(the fear of paper) and arithmophobia (the fear of numbers), that math homework is never getting done!\\nAutophobia (the fear of being alone) is something we can all raise our hands for. We dread the thought of being left out, abandoned, or forgotten. A shortage of presence can easily send us into panic or leave us feeling paralyzed.\\nAfter four hundred years of slavery in Egypt, the Lord used His mighty hand to rescue His people. But as they walked away from all they had ever known, fear set in. Their leader, Moses, met with God on Mt. Sinai, but the meeting took so long, the people got autophobic and built a golden calf to worship and call their \\xe2\\u20ac\\u0153god.\\xe2\\u20ac\\x9d\\nWhat the people of Israel didn\\u2019t know was, in that very meeting on Mt. Sinai, God was giving Moses instructions for the tabernacle: \\xe2\\u20ac\\u0153Make a sanctuary for me, and I will dwell among them,\\xe2\\u20ac\\x9d He said (Exodus 25:8). This tent would be a tangible reminder that their God was always right there with them.\\nWhen Jesus died on the cross, the curtain of the temple was torn in two, releasing the presence of God to be wherever His followers are. Cleansed by His grace, we are now the \\xe2\\u20ac\\u0153sanctuary\\xe2\\u20ac\\x9d where God dwells on this earth!\\nMy instincts may tell me to bolt headlong in the other direction when I see a chicken, but I never have to fear being alone. Wherever I am, God is also right there! \\u2022 Mandy Desilets\\n\\u2022 Read Colossians 3:16. What are three ways you can become more aware of God\\u2019s presence when you\\u2019re feeling alone? \\nDon\\u2019t you know that you yourselves are God\\u2019s temple and that God\\u2019s Spirit dwells in your midst? 1 Corinthians 3:16 (NIV)\\n\\xa0\\nRead Verses:\\nGalatians 2:20'