Your Confidence

Hebrews 10:32-39 (The Message) Remember those early days after you first saw the light? Those were the hard times! Kicked around in public, targets of every kind of abuse—some days it was you, other days your friends. If some friends went to prison, you stuck by them. If some enemies broke in and seized your goods, you let them go with a smile, knowing they couldn't touch your real treasure. Nothing they did bothered you, nothing set you back. So don't throw it all away now. You were sure of yourselves then. It's still a sure thing! But you need to stick it out, staying with God's plan so you'll be there for the promised completion. It won't be long now, he's on the way; he'll show up most any minute.But anyone who is right with me thrives on loyal trust; if he cuts and runs, I won't be very happy.But we're not quitters who lose out. Oh, no! We'll stay with it and survive, trusting all the way.

When you begin to study the Word of God and read the promises of God, it will produce knowledge in you concerning what God said. When you gain knowledge and know something, it will produce confidence. People make decisions and choices every day based on the confidence they put in what someone has said. In this case, the God of the universe has given us His word. He has spoken. He has said it. We can put confidence in what God has said because God is truth. Now, the devil comes in many forms to try and destroy your confidence. He comes at you with the newspaper headlines, untruths about your brother and sister in Christ,the negative report on the six o'clock news, the bad diagnosis at the hospital, and any other thing that can possibly produce fear into the hearts of man. It is designed to kill, steal and destroy your confidence in what God has said. If the devil can take your focus and attention off the Word of God and get you to start talking and repeating the negative things of the world, he can eventually overcome you. BUT, if you will hold fast your confession of God's word and keep your confidence built up in what God has already declared, then you can overcome the devil and the world. Don't throw away your confidence because it does have a great reward!

Have A Blessed Day