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Hidden Figures: Not a Spirit of Fear (2 Timothy 1:7)

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In Hidden Figures, Katherine Johnson walks into a room full of white male engineers who don't believe she belongs. Every day is a battle against fear—fear of failure, fear of rejection, fear of being invisible. But she calculates trajectories that will send men to the moon. "God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and love and self-discipline." Katherine embodies this: power in her mathematical genius, love for her work and daughters, self-discipline to endure daily humiliation. Fear said she couldn't; faith said she could. She chose faith—and changed history.

Topics & Themes

couragefearpowerdisciplineperseverance

Scripture References

2 Timothy 1:7Joshua 1:9

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