To Watch: How to Be Confident by Karolyn Roberts
The world we live in tells us to be confident in ourselves. Be confident in your degree, your qualifications, your money, your status.
But the Word tells us the opposite.
It tells us to be confident in God, and God alone. Furthermore, it presents us with a radical idea that our confidence should be in our weaknesses rather than our strengths. Amazing isn’t it?
In this video, Karolyn Roberts explains how to have that kind of confidence. One that is centred on who God is in us, rather than who we are and what we can do. Want to learn more about how to do that? Watch this.
To Listen: Confidence in Christ by Village Church
What keeps you confident about where you stand with God? Is it your spiritual resume? The fact that you have been helping at the church for x years, ticked all the boxes to being a “good” Christian? Or is your confidence in Christ, where it should be?
Referencing Philippians 3, this podcast from Harvest Church draws our attention to the Apostle Paul. Paul had plenty of reason to trust in his own spiritual resume, yet he urges us to have confidence in the only Person that matters, Jesus Christ. If you’d like to do the same have a listen to this podcast to learn more.
To Read: What Is Courage: Self-Confidence Or God-Confidence? By Anne Margret Hovsepain
To be courageous you do also have to be confident. But the question is where do you place that confidence? In yourself and your abilities? Or in God and His?
As Christians we are commanded by the Bible to be courageous. (Joshua 1:9) But our courage is not supposed to stem from confidence in who we are, but confidence in who God is.
In this article, Anne Margret Hovsepain, explores what it means to be a courageous Christian. She teaches what confidence and courage are all whilst urging us to turn to God when we are in need of both. If you are looking for that, definitely give this article a read.
https://blog.bible/bible-engagers-blog/entry/what-is-courage-self-confidence-or-god-confidence
To Do: Trust in God
When you place your confidence in something, whether it is money, your abilities or other people, you also place your trust in it. You believe it can achieve what it promises it can, get where it says it can get you or be there when you need it the most.
This is the kind of trust you should also have in God. This is the kind of confidence. For the Bible tells us in no uncertain terms that God will never fail. (Zephaniah 3:5) No ifs, buts or maybes about it.
So if that’s the case, why not place your confidence in Him instead of other things or other people? He is the only rock- sure and steady foundation.
So today, release the tension in your heart and mind that keeps you wondering whether God can do something or if He will, and fall into the peace that comes with trust. This week practice believing God, taking Him at His Word and be confident that He will not let you down, in Jesus name.
Bible Verse: Psalm 20:7 (NKJV)
Some trust in chariots, and some in horses
But we will remember the name of the Lord our God
Some people place their trust in the strength of the world economy, in the size of their bank account, in the health of their body or the security of their job. Yet, none of the things mentioned before can save in the day of true trouble. Only God can. There your trust and indeed your confidence should be in Him alone.
The verse above ensures that we remember that.
In times of war the soldiers trusted in the speed of their horses and the strength of their chariots to save them from death. But those who knew God did not. They trusted in God and remembered His name.
This is a great reminder for us in these times to remember the name of the Lord our God, Jesus Christ. The only Name that has power to save and the only Name we can put our confidence in.
