Getting confidence

How can I become confidant?

Establish your worth according to God’s value system!

God demonstrated our importance to Him in two great acts:

1 He created us in His own image

2 He - through Jesus Christ - died for our sins.

God thought so much of you and me, believed in us, and saw us as people of worth, that He allowed His son to die so we may live.

When we begin to see ourselves in the light of God’s actions on our behalf, then we immediately begin to have more confidence. There is nothing more humbling, than the realization that if you were the last person on earth, Jesus would have died for you.

That makes you priceless.

Another way to become confidant is to focus on God and not the situation!

Try living - living according to the first 3 verses of Psalm 27:

Psa 27:1 A Psalm of David. Jehovah is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? Jehovah is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? 2 When the wicked, my enemies and my foes, came on me to eat my flesh, they stumbled and fell. 3 Though an army should camp against me, my heart shall not fear; though war should rise against me, in this I am trusting.

TheMessage Translation puts it this way :

Psa 27:1 A David psalm. Light, space, zest-- that's GOD! So, with him on my side I'm fearless, afraid of no one and nothing. 2 When vandal hordes ride down ready to eat me alive, Those bullies and toughs fall flat on their faces. 3 When besieged, I'm calm as a baby. When all hell breaks loose, I'm collected and cool.

Confidence is not the result of the absence of problems. David encountered many problems. He mentions all that - the enemies who wanted to devour his flesh, etc.

Confidence is a result of trusting God in our problems. In the middle of all his problems, David says : “The Lord is the defense of my life”

This is how we establish our confidence - not in our abilities, but in the might and the power of our God.

A man's sight left him. He sought the counsel of a trusted medical friend who prescribed a medicine for him. The man took the medicine regularly for four days, and his sight returned to him, but he could no longer remember anything. His friend suggested a remedy for that, too. After a few days his memory came back to him, but he went blind again. This continued for sometime. Eventually his friend said, "It looks like you have to decide which you want-your sight or your memory." The man thought for a moment and then said, "I believe I would prefer my sight. I would rather see where I am going than remember where I have been!"

Where are you going?