Fear Makes Noise, Faith Makes Room | Jentezen Franklin
Sunday, October 19
When uncertainty or crisis hits, it’s easy to let fear and worry take over. We focus on our problems and forget God’s power. Through the incredible story of Jesus raising a girl from the dead, this message will show you how to quiet the noise of fear and find peace in His presence.
Puntos clave
1. Make room for a miracle. God doesn’t always come when you think He should. Don’t go through the worst-case scenario in your mind when something goes wrong. When you feel like you need a casket, God wants to give you confidence.
2. Find your hallelujah. Act in faith first. Praise more than you panic. Worship more than you worry. You’re not called to be a funeral director.
3. Doubt will keep you out of the room. When you worry and panic, you keep yourself out of the room where Jesus does the miracle. But when Jesus touches you personally, you get your faith feet back. God wants you back on your feet. Get back up!
4. Face it and fight it. If a bad report comes, don’t waste time worrying. Instead of denying it, face it and fight it. Put on the garment of praise for a spirit of heaviness.
5. Restore normalcy. Sometimes you can go through something so tough that you never return to normalcy. Normal days are coming back!
Introducción
Today we’ll explore ‘Fear Makes Noise, Faith Makes Room’ by Pastor Jentezen Franklin. The message focuses on the Fruit of the Spirit—especially Joy’s power—and the need to embrace, protect, and use it, amid the faith-fear struggle.
From the moment Jesus landed, a crowd gathered, inundating Him with needs. After agreeing to help Jairus, the woman’s healing interrupted. How often are we overwhelmed by distractions and noise? When last were you quiet and ready for God? Rarely—even at home, smartphones flood us with information and need.
This ‘commotion’ clouds belief in God’s power and undermines hope. It’s the enemy’s tool to overwhelm us with doubt, crush us under worldly needs, and impose human limits: “If I can’t solve it, God can’t either!” It drowns out miracles with voices saying, “Too much… too big… no hope!”
Jesus heard Jairus amid the crowd, healed the woman by faith-touch, removed scoffers, and raised the girl. Noise is the enemy’s tool, but God’s power prevails if we silence it and believe. Remove doubting voices—like Jesus did—and make room for the impossible.
This week we will dig into:
· Fear Makes Noise, Faith Makes Room
· Faith First, Miracles Follow
· Revival and Restored Normalcy
LET’S START THE DISCUSSION:
· What stood out to you in this past Sunday’s message?
· What are some of your greatest obstacles or loudest voices that impede your ability to trust in God for miracles? Why do you think that is?
Fear Makes Noise, Faith Makes Room
Fear creates noise and commotion, faith clears the room for Jesus to work, refusing to let fear dominate even in real crises. Fear is loud and demanding, seating you on a train that spirals down faster and faster. Fear and panic can subdue faith by shifting your focus from God's promises to surrounding circumstances. This operates as an inverse for faith, undermining trust, belief, and can cause paralysis. Panic causes catastrophic thinking and a loss of controlled thinking.
Mark 5:37-39 “He did not let anyone follow him except Peter, James and John the brother of James. When they came to the home of the synagogue leader, Jesus saw a commotion, with people crying and wailing loudly. He went in and said to them, “Why all this commotion and wailing? The child is not dead but asleep.”
Notice how Jesus authoritatively limits the crowd as He calls a few to follow Him into the little girl’s room? A very deliberate inner circle emerges. This selectivity puts boundaries on the negative assumptions that were created in the room. These hand-picked few had already witnessed the miracles of Jesus and that underscored their level of faith and anticipation. The chosen few also carried a responsibility to retell the story of Jesus when spreading the Good News. Intimacy carries the torch of responsibility.
When there are windstorms of fear, doubt, and unbelief that sweep across our minds we must ‘clear the room’ of such voices. Who we surround ourselves with and what voices we listen to impact the outcome of what happens next. Either we are engaging with the haunting voices of doubt, disappointment, confusion, and panic, or we are surrounded by the support of faith-filled, strong-willed and staunch abiding believers in God’s character and promises, making room for the miraculous.
Don’t let anxiety hijack your faith. Think of verse four in Psalm 23:
Psalm 23:4 “Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.”
This is a beautiful word-picture of a shepherd leading his sheep safely through a dark valley. Remember that valleys are thoroughfares and although there may be danger in dark valleys there is also the richest forage for sheep. We will fear no evil for Our Shepherd walks beside us. Be comforted, He is so close that the weapons He holds to protect us from the enemy are within an arm’s length.
· What valley are you in right now?
· How can you clear the room so Jesus can reframe it for you?
· What Scripture will counter the voices of doubt and confusion?
Faith First, Miracle Follow
Mark 5:35-36 (NIV)‘While Jesus was still speaking, some people came from the house of Jairus, the synagogue leader. “Your daughter is dead,” they said. “Why bother the teacher anymore?”Overhearing what they said, Jesus told him, “Don’t be afraid; just believe.”’
Jesus’ words to Jairus in Mark 5:36 pierce the chaos: “Do not be afraid; only believe” (NKJV). When messengers announced, “Your daughter is dead. Why trouble the Teacher any further?” (Mark 5:35, NKJV), Jairus faced a crisis that could have crushed him with despair and confusion. Yet Jesus reframed the moment, urging faith as the first step, not fear. Crises often leave us feeling hopeless, but Jesus invites us to see the problem from His perspective: temporary and under His authority.
· Question: When you face a crisis, what “noise” (like worry or external voices) drowns out your faith, and how can you choose to “only believe” in that moment?
By trusting Jesus fully, we shift from panic to reliance on the One who holds hope and promise.
Read Mark 5:38-40 and discuss your observations:
‘When they came to the home of the synagogue leader, Jesus saw a commotion, with people crying and wailing loudly. He went in and said to them, “Why all this commotion and wailing? The child is not dead but asleep.” But they laughed at him.’ Mark 5:38-40 (NIV)
In Jairus’s home, professional mourners wailed loudly, which was a cultural norm to honor the dead. Jesus challenged the weeping and commotion and was met with laughter. When they laughed at Him, He cleared the room (Mark 5:40). This wasn’t denying reality but making space for faith to work. The mourners’ ridicule mirrors how the world mocks Christ’s claims today—unbelievers can’t grasp God’s viewpoint, where death is like sleep, reversible by His power!
· Question: Where in your life are you tempted to join the “mourners” in making “much ado about nothing,” and how can you clear that noise to make room for Jesus?
“Talitha koum!”Jesus then took the girl’s hand and said, “Talitha, koum,” meaning “Little girl, I say to you, arise” (Mark 5:41, NKJV). She rose immediately, alive and walking. This shows the core message: Faith first, miracles follow. Choose worship over worry, praise over panic, and putting on the “garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness” (Isaiah 61:3). Instead of amplifying crises, we act in belief by inviting Jesus in.
· Question: What advice would you give to someone who wants to shift their perspective from worry to worship?
In the church, acting in belief and inviting Jesus in means boldly asking Jesus for healing as promised in Mark 16:
“They will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.” Mark 16:18 (NKJV)
Reject hesitation and make room for signs, wonders, and anointing—declaring, “You shall live and not die” (Psalm 118:17). Jesus is everything; in His presence, the crisis becomes nothing. By acting in faith first, we please God and open the door to miracles.
· Question: When have you seen or experienced a moment where bold faith (like proclaiming healing) led to a breakthrough, and how can you apply that to you
Revival and Restored Normalcy
When God placed Adam in Eden, He commanded him to eat freely from every tree except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, or he would surely die (Genesis 2:15-17). Adam disobeyed, and as Paul says, sin entered the world, and death through sin (Romans 5:12). Adam experienced immediate spiritual death—separation from God and fear—then physical death at 930 years old, expelled from the tree of life.
This spiritual death passed to generations: Adam begat Seth in his own tarnished likeness (Genesis 5:3), so we’re all born in sin, with a default against God—an identity from Adam.
The good news: Jesus Christ is our Passover Lamb (1 Corinthians 5:7), redeeming us like Israel from Egypt—an identity shift and revival. Unlike disobedient Adam, obedient Jesus (with God as Father) substitutes for us: “The first Adam became a living soul; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit” (1 Corinthians 15:45). Declare “Jesus is Lord” and believe in His resurrection, and we’re saved (Romans 10:9)—dying to our old identity, alive in Christ (1 Corinthians 15:21-22). This mystery unfolds through marriage (Ephesians 5:31-32).
In Mark 5:42-43 (NIV): Immediately the girl stood up and began to walk around (she was twelve years old). At this they were completely astonished. He gave strict orders not to let anyone know about this, and told them to give her something to eat.
Peter, James, and John saw Jairus’s daughter resurrected—a foreshadowing of our salvation: dead in sin one moment, alive and praising God the next!
In Christ, we’re grafted into Israel’s nourishing root (Romans 11:17), heirs to Abraham’s promises without the law (Galatians 3:29), including Isaiah 43:2-4: When you pass through the waters, I will be with you... When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned... For I am the Lord your God... Since you are precious and honored... I give nations in exchange for your life.
· How quickly did the moment of your salvation take place? What was it like before and after?
· Was there something you were afraid of or panicking about (or possibly trying to hide from like Adam) before you were saved? Did anything change after being saved?
· Paul says in 2 Corinthians 5:7 that we walk by faith, not by sight. Have you ever experienced something where your eyes became a secondary sense to your faith? Where the Holy Spirit gave you revelation to what you were seeing, and you walked by that revelation first over your sight? For example, being shown that a loved one would be healed from a life-threatening injury. Or being nudged by the Holy Spirit to introduce yourself to a complete stranger, only to realize after the fact that they would need your specific help.
Conclusión
Psalm 91:15-16 (NIV) - " He will call on me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him and honor him. With long life I will satisfy him and show him my salvation.”
Pastor Franklin reminded us of God’s intention in our lives. In Psalm 91 the psalmist writes of God’s reply to him. “(God) will call upon me and I will answer Him.” God goes on to promise:
· I will be with you in times of trouble
· I will rescue you
· I will honor you
· I will satisfy you with long life
· I will show you My salvation
This is the God who fights for us. This is the God who watches over us. This is the God who calls us to trust Him. This is the God who will be faithful.
As hard as it may be to do, silence the voices of the enemy that tell you ‘…it can’t be done…it’s too late…this is too big” Cast them out of the room of your mind and heart and listen to the gentle words of the Savior, ‘,,,do not be afraid, only believe!” And faith will prevail over fear, belief will open the door to miracles, and God's faithfulness will change your life. Make room for Jesus in every personal situation and see what He can do when you trust Him!
Call To Action:
· Find areas of your life where you are struggling with excessive noise,
· Look for what those sources of noise are, and how they are affecting you,
· Identify God’s promises that give us victory over those lies and doubts,
· Commit to surrendering yourself to God’s promises, especially in these areas,
· Actively meditate on God’s word and pray that the His Holy Spirit push the sources of your noise out and replace it with confidence in His promises in your life.
Prayer:
Lord Jesus,
We confess that we are too often swayed by the voices around us that try to crowd You out and cause confusion. By the power of Your Holy Spirit, empower us to remove ungodly and fearful influences in our lives. Help us to remove them from the room of our mind so that we are able to make room for the miracles that You want to do in our lives. Revive us with Your truth and burn Your promises on our hearts so that we are able, with all faith and boldness to “not be afraid, only believe.” May our faith in You not only open the door for us but be a light to others around us living in the darkness of fear.
In Your Holy Name Jesus, we pray. Amen.
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