Good morning, Champion – welcome to a new week!
Deep-rooted confidence
Hebrews 10:35-36
Therefore do not cast away your confidence, which has great reward. For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise.
Jesus revealed the devil as a thief (John 10:10). He was and will always be a stinking thief, intent on stealing from God's people. What do thieves do? Steal things. What is he ever wanting to steal from you and me? The answer is simple: everything that God has given us which is good.
• Our peace (that peace that passes all human understanding and guards our hearts in Christ)
• Our joy (that force beyond mere happiness that keeps us strong in even the hardest of times)
• Our revelation of righteousness – Oh how he ever longs to get us back into the grind of performance and works.
But I think the one he really, really wants is our confidence – why? Because Hebrews says it is of great reward.
He wants to snatch from under you your confidence in:
• Who you are – your God-given identity (he is the greatest identity thief of them all)
• What you can do – your God-given potential
• And what you can have or expect – your God-given expectations.
Your godly confidence is of great reward, because when with confidence you endure (just keep on going) you will inherit (come into possession) what God has promised you. If the devil can get you to cast away your confidence then he can stop you inheriting all that God has for you. Don't let him!
Have you ever watched people walking around the shops? You can tell by how they hold and carry themselves those who have confidence and those who don't. Those with confidence have their heads lifted and their shoulders back, and they walk with steps that say "I belong here". That's how God wants you to walk through this day; His word should cause you to lift your head up, put back your shoulders and face the day and all it holds with courage and boldness because, as with Joshua so it is with you, GOD IS WITH YOU!
Confidence does not need to be loud – it needs to be silently and deeply rooted!
Often quiet confidence has more power than loud confidence; that confidence that you have deep down that says, quietly yet firmly, "I know God is for me and His promises over me are yes and amen, I know that things may seem strange now but THEY WILL TURN AROUND FOR MY GOOD!"
Isaiah 30:15
For thus says the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel: in returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and confidence shall be your strength."
The world can only take away or take back from you what it gave you – that is why we do not live by worldly-given confidence but God's, because then when the world or the devil try to take or steal it we can say, "Get stuffed, you did not give it so you cannot take it away!"
Hold tight to the confidence you have from God today, be that hero He has called you to be because 'the Lord thy God is with you'!
Have a great weekend, Hero – live confident, get your head up, you're a child of God not a pauper.
Andy
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