EP: 454 That Fear You Feel Isn't Yours with Grant Pemberton *members only trailer

August 13, 2026

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That Fear You Feel Isn’t Yours

Grant Pemberton, a pastor and friend of the Blurry Creatures podcast, sat down for a members-only conversation about the spirit of fear—what it is, how it operates, and what people can actually do about it. The episode grew out of Pemberton’s pastoral interactions with listeners who were showing up for prayer carrying a heavy, unexplained dread. “There’s just a lot of fear in the air,” he says, “a lot of fear in and around a lot of things that we talk about.” Rather than offering another sensationalized take on the paranormal, the conversation turns practical: fear is not just an emotion but a demonic stronghold, and the way out involves rethinking what you believe about your own authority.

Fear as a Control Mechanism

Pemberton frames fear as one of the most effective tools for control, both spiritually and politically. He points to the COVID-19 pandemic as a recent example of how populations can be subjugated through fear-based propaganda. The same dynamic plays out at the individual level. Fear feeds anxiety, anxiety feeds depression, and suicide rates climb. “Fear is really frothing,” he says. The demonic, he argues, propagates and feeds on fear. It is not merely a psychological state but a spiritual foothold that keeps people paralyzed and unable to move forward in faith or action.

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What you'll learn

1 (00:00) **Advertisements** - Quince and Accenture ads run until 01:44.
2 (01:50) **The Core Mission: Subduing Chaos** - Grant introduces the idea that humans are created to subdue chaos, whether it's cancer, fear, or the effects of the fall.
3 (02:12) **Episode Thesis** - The hosts set up the main topics: how fear paralyzes faith, what happens when prayers aren't answered, and how the enemy uses a spirit of fear to stagnate believers.
4 (03:28) **Introducing Grant Pemberton** - The hosts welcome Grant, a friend from BlurryCon, and recount a powerful and unexpected deliverance moment that happened during a lunch break at the conference.
5 (07:17) **The Pervasive Problem of Fear** - The conversation shifts to the current climate of fear, noting that fear-based sensationalized content gets the most clicks and is a powerful control mechanism.
6 (09:04) **The Goal: Authority and Knowledge** - Grant outlines his plan for the episode: to discuss the authority believers carry because of Jesus and to address the concept of curses.
7 (10:40) **Where to Begin with the Spirit of Fear** - The host asks Grant to start unpacking the spirit of fear, calling it one of the top demonic strongholds.

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Show Notes

Fear is a control mechanism. Governments know it. The enemy knows it. And right now it hangs thick in the air. Grant Pemberton returns to Blurry Creatures to name the thing paralyzing the church and hand you the tools to break it. He walks through 2 Timothy, the power packed into the word dunamis, and why scripture commands us not to fear more than 150 times. Fear is not just a feeling. It is a scarecrow standing in a field full of food, and most of us spend our whole lives avoiding the harvest.

Grant pastors in Franklin and works deliverance on the front lines, so he deals in stories rather than theory. Witch covens. Healings. The deliverance that erupted at a BlurryCon lunch. He also refuses to sell you an easy gospel. He talks honestly about the prayers that go unanswered, the people who don't get healed this side of heaven, and why he keeps getting back up anyway. Christianity is not a death cult. It is a hope cult, and the kingdom is at hand right now. Hear the whole thing at blurrycreatures.com/members.

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