Your Confidence in God

Influence
God is telling us; we can be an influence and change people's life. But before that we ourselves must change. We must change our mindset when we get born again. We need to put on the mind of Christ.

God is teaching us to be positive influence. Change must come from the heart. When you speak people will hear the change.

Passion
When we have passion, we have excellence.

Compassion
Compassion will compel you. We need to have commitment. God will never fail you, even if you fail God, God will still be committed to you!

He picks you up from the miry depths, no matter how many times you fall.

When we walk with God, there is always someone looking after me.
God wants all of us to become leaders, to be the head and not the tail. Assume your leadership qualities.

Where there is influence, you will see Change. The world will be a better place, one star fish at a time..

Because of that one Man who stood up that we can stand here today, saved.

Team work and Working the team. - Team but no work; nothing gets done. But if you get work and no team, it will never work.

CONFIDENCE


Confidence in God, not confidence in what I can do and my skill or in man. When I put my confidence in God, things start to happen. At times, we go through a roller coaster ride with confidence. How can we get confidence?

Hebrews 10:35 "So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded."


Why do we not share the salvation? We lack confidence.

(I felt that; when I wanted to pray for my aunty during her time of need)

God wants us to be confident in Him.

1. We can lose our Confidence
2. Our confidence carries a great reward - we need to build on that confidence.

Confidence in not boldness. Its inside of you.

Why do we need Confidence?

1) Confidence will produce stability in every area of your life and your situations.

Hotdog seller; an illiterate man. Business was good, and he ordered a truckload more of hotdogs and buns. However, his son; who is a college graduate told him that there is a recession coming along and people will stop eating out. So he reduced his orders and decided not to invest so much is his business.

As the days passed, the business needed more of the resources but he refused to order as his son continued sharing with him about what's in the news, of the bad news of recession.

Slowly, his business failed.

There are people who boost your confidence, and there are people who steals and robs you of your confidence. Discern who you mix with.

Confidence = contented with self

Philippians 4:11/13
"I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. 12I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. 13I can do everything through him who gives me strength."

2) Confidence stretches you.

A rubberband is useless if it does not stretch. A rubberband that is kept for a long time, ts difficult to stretch or it might break. When you have been stretched often, its easier. We can be used of the Lord.

People who are insecure do not want to be stretched. People with insecurity will not want to build people up, because they themselves are not sure themselves.

Paul in his writings uses "confidence" 6 times referring to Christ, 6 times "self" and 6 times in "other people". We need a balance, we need confidence in God, self and people. We are made to be conquerors.

How to become Confident?

1) Establish your worth in God; know that you are valuable in God's eye.
Know that God made you unique and there is no other like you.
Know that God believes in you.

2) Focus on God and not on your problems

Psalms 27: 1 The LORD is my light and my salvation—
whom shall I fear?
The LORD is the stronghold of my life—
of whom shall I be afraid?

2 When evil men advance against me
to devour my flesh, [a]
when my enemies and my foes attack me,
they will stumble and fall.

3 Though an army besiege me,
my heart will not fear;
though war break out against me,
even then will I be confide

We no longer fear because we have confidence.

Confidence comes not because of the lack of problems. Problems will exist all the way. There will always be problems. But when confidence comes when we see all this problems but yet we see God, we see the unlimited resource, the ability that God has given us, God's people.

3) Develop friendships with people that are confident.

Proverbs 14:26 "He who fears the LORD has a secure fortress (Confidence), and for his children it will be a refuge."


4) Make a victory list of what happened in the past.

Samson and David. Both have similarities, both anointed and both called to be leaders, both fighting common enemies.

Difference:

Samson wanted to please himself. David wanted to please God.
Samson depended on his own strength. David depended on the strength of the Lord.
Samson fought without God. David inquires of the Lord; "should i pursue"
Samson ended his leadership role and his life. David began his leadership role in his life.

It might make you proud too, if you write a victory list, so be careful.

David made a victory list: He killed a bear, a lion and now I can defeat Goliath.

God has done many things for us that we can be confident in Him.

Be confident that God has used you.

To increase your confidence:

VIP: Stop comparing with others!

Stop comparing your worth with others, we are all worth the same thing with God.

One day a Lady was walking, feeling insecure and rejected because she is poor. And while she was walking, God said "Look" and she saw a 50cents coin on the floor. The coin is dirty, looks like its been the sewers and been through many things in life, the coin may look dirty, the coin is still worth 50cents, it will not be degraded.

If you want to be special, specialize in something that you are good at until you are special.

When a person goes through a lot of failures, the confidence level falls.

When you have confidence in God, in other people, in self plus skill, it will give you momentum, its a powerful force.

There is a train in New York City when stationary, with just a small one inch block, the train cannot move. However, when its a full speed ahead, it can crash into a 5 foot steel concrete wall.

The devil wants to rob us of the confidence in God.

Let us regain the confidence in God.

23rd of March 2008; Easter Sunday.

-Pastor Frankie