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Friends, greetings in Jesus Name! Today, I will be sharing with you what I title, “God-Confidence”. If there is a time our confidence needs to rest in God it is now. Why? Just take a look around us today and see nations failing, wars and rumours of war, terrorism on the rise, kidnapping, fear crippling individuals, and poverty on a very high scale. Hebrews 10:35 says, “Cast not away therefore your confidence in God, which has great recompense of reward.” Really, by what is going on, there’s a limit to what our self-confidence can carry. Self-confidence is good, but it’s no match to withstand the incessant bombardments of the devil. Yes, it will fail. It is only God-confidence that can carry you where self-confidence stops. As the name implies, self-confidence is relying on self – your strength, ability, and will power – to advance in the face of trouble or adversity. But my bible tells me in 1 Samuel 2:9 that, “For by strength no man shall prevail.” It is only God-confidence that prevails in the face of daunting challenges. Hallelujah!

What is God-confidence? It is the assurance or belief that one can have faith in God or rely on Him without any form of uncertainty. There is a saying that, “Fortune favors the bold”. Meaning, in life those with God-confidence will always prevail and get what they want. So, Jesus answered and said to them, “Have faith in God” (Mark 11:22). Meaning, have God-confidence. He went further to say, “For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says. Therefore, I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them” (Mark 11:23-24). This can only happen when your confidence is in God, not in the flesh. You cannot command mountain to move before you by mere self-confidence. Listen, I have two boys and whenever they want anything, they come to me with confidence and boldness.

For instance, my younger son will approach me in my study and say: Dad, I want to eat Domino Pizza! Can we go now? He doesn’t care to know what I am doing at that moment; he just wants to eat pizza. What an audacity. His confidence lies in me to provide the pizza. And I am obliged to do so. Then I will gently tell him: Son, I am busy right now, can we go later? He will say ok Dad and leave. After a while, he will barge into my study room again with full confidence and say: Dad, just to remind you about the Pizza. At this time, I will tell him: Ok, give me few minutes, let me tidy up some things. You know what? I will leave whatever I am doing and take him to Domino Pizza. Often times, the Lord will point to me saying: Can you see the confidence in your little son demanding to eat Pizza? He will say to me, this is exactly what I expect from my children but unfortunately many gaze at me from afar having no confidence to approach me like your little boy. Rather than focus on me for help, many focus on themselves to do what I should do for them. Hebrews 4:16 declares, “Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.” If you do not come to the throne of grace, you exert your own strength, and achieve nothing.

Brethren, a lot of times, the state of our hearts affects our confidence in God, and that ultimately robs us of our blessings. The book of 1 John 3:21-22 says, “Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence toward God. And whatever we ask we receive from Him.” This is why we need to purge our hearts from any form of condemnation. No matter how confident you may appear on the outside, if your heart condemns you, you can’t stand in confidence before God. And when we lack confidence before God it robs us of our blessings. The devil knows it so well, and he uses it to torment many Christians. As a believer, when you genuinely repent and confess your sin before God, He wipes away the record of that sin from you (1 John 1:9). But the problem with many Christians is that after their sins have been forgiven, they find it difficult to forgive themselves, and this keeps them in bondage of the devil, and robs them of the confidence in God to ask or receive anything from Him. Romans 8:1 say, “There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus.” Like my little son, you have the free access to approach your heavenly Father with confidence and boldness, and make your request known, and it will not be denied. Hallelujah! You’re Blessed. Have a Fantastic Week. With love, Elvis!