cultivate confidence in God

We finished the STAY POSITIVE series Sunday at The Community, and you have to admit that there is So much negativity in the world. It is hard to stay positive.

When we talk about the problem of a lack of trusting God or a lack of confidence all of us can find one or more areas in our lives that we are comfortable with or just have no confidence at all. Almost all of us are uncertain about areas of our lives. Maybe it is the way we look or how much money we have or how we feel. You know if I could just change these 30 things about me. Think about it.

Often the people who appear the most confident are those who have the least confidence. If I don’t feel confident, I just don’t show up. I don’t try or I back off. And here is the biggest tragedy — we aren’t living the life God wants us to live because we don’t have confidence that God intends for us to have.

How often do our insecurities keep us from following dreams. Our insecurities keep us from being who God made us to be or from doing what God called us to do.

1 Corinthians 10:12 MSG

Forget about self-confidence; it’s useless. Cultivate God-confidence.

Not me but Christ. John 3:30 says less of me and more of God. That is a big deal. Here is another way to see it, Self confidence is useless. But having God confidence is big time useful and will take us places we could not go without him and help us be who He called us to be.

There is nothing wrong with being confident. But if we want to honor God we will trust Him more than anything else.

Psalm 57:7 NLT

My heart is confident in you, O God; my heart is confident. No wonder I can sing your praises!

There is something different when we have confidence that sticks. Our own confidence is weak or will fail or come to an end. God never comes to an end. We can always trust God, right?

By trusting in ourselves, we miss the best God has for us. By trusting in anything or anyone other than God we literally throw away our confidence. It is time move forward. It is time to believe what God says. By believing God we grow in our confidence, and that simple choice helps us to stay positive!

Hebrews 10:35 NLT

³⁵So do not throw away this confident trust in the Lord. Remember the great reward it brings you!

Catalyst ticket arrived

My ticket to the Catalyst Conference, in Atlanta Oct 8-10, just arrived. I'm excited!

wash feet, sharing hope

John 13:4-5,14 NLT So he got up from the table, took off his robe, wrapped a towel around his waist, 5 and poured water into a basin. Then he began to wash the disciples’ feet, drying them with the towel he had around him… 14 And since I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you ought to wash each other’s feet. Jesus set the example we follow. He served. He valued and gave value to others. That is why we choose to serve. For 18 years our church has shared an outreach called back2school, and for 16 of those years we have chosen to give students brand new shoes and socks as well as washing their feet. It is one of the most important parts of this event. Washing feet is a humbling experience where both the give and the receiver learn how to share some moments that might change their lives. Jesus said we should do this. See the verse above. Follow His example, do what He did, and give far more than you will ever know....

Have you heard of EDITH BURNS?

Edith Burns was a wonderful Christian who lived in San Antonio, Texas . She was the patient of a doctor by the name of Will Phillips. Dr. Phillips was a gentle doctor who saw patients as people. His favorite patient was Edith Burns. One morning he went to his office with a heavy heart and it was because of Edith Burns. When he walked into that waiting room, there sat Edith with her big black Bible in her lap earnestly talking to a young mother sitting beside her. Edith Burns had a habit of introducing herself in this way: "Hello, my name is Edith Burns. Do you believe in Easter?" Then she would explain the meaning of Easter, and many times people would be saved. Dr. Phillips walked into that office and there he saw the head nurse, Beverly. Beverly had first met Edith when she was taking her blood pressure. Edith began by saying,"My name is Edith Burns. Do you believe in Easter?" Beverly said, "Why yes I do." Edith said, "Well, what do you ...

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