GOD CONFIDENCE
Why I don’t believe in me
If you
understand English you will realize that the saying "believe in yourself"
is more than a statement of self confidence but a belief or faith, In other
words, a religious statement.
It is
disguised as a statement of self confidence so that it is accepted globally as
a means to liberate people from low self confidence but ultimately when the
whole world has accepted it, it will be totally exposed as an antichrist
religious statement. This has also been disguised in globally popular talk
shows such as Oprah as "the triumph of human spirit" , sang by R
kelly in I believe I can fly, expressed by Whitney Huston in the greatest love
of all and popularized in a South African youth program called love life and
many other motivational books
WE did
not make ourselves nor for our own purpose or glory. A human being's full
potential can only be realized when He connects with the Heavenly Father, God,
maker of mankind who knows every part of their being.
Even
if hypothetically speaking we were to supposedly say the statement,
"believe in yourself" was about self confidence, true
Christianity does not promote self confidence but GOD confidence. Meaning you
must have confidence yes great confidence in that Christ is with you and
THROUGH HIM and HIS power within you greatness can be achieved. Through you God
can do great things.
In
these last days Christians need to be very careful as the bible tells us that
even the very elect may be deceived.
If you are a believer and follower of Christ
here are a few verses that can help you overcome this doctrine and spirit of
antichrist.
Genesis
1:26
And
God said let us make man in our own image he shall be like us...
Your
original design was not designed to be yourself but be like God take after God,
empowered by God, live by God, inspired by God directed by God connected to
God.
Jesus
explains this meaning and relationship when he said.
John 15:5
I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me
and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing
Genesis
40:8
We both had dreams," they answered, "but there is
no one to interpret them." Then Joseph said to them, "Do not
interpretations belong to God? Tell
me your dreams.
Genesis
41:16
"I cannot do it," Joseph replied to
Pharaoh, "but God will give
Pharaoh the answer he desires."
Genesis
48:19
They are the sons God
has given me here," Joseph said to his father. Then Israel said,
"Bring them to me so I may bless them.
Phillipians
4:13
I can
do all things through Christ who
empowers me.
JOHN
15:15
"I
am the vine; you are the branches. If a man
remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can
do nothing" –JESUS
NEHEMIAH
8:10
The
Joy of the Lord is my strength.
PSALM
28:7
The
LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and I am helped. My
heart leaps for joy and I will give thanks to him in song.
PROVERBS
3:5,6
Trust
in the Lord with all your heart and lean not to your understanding. In all your
ways acknowledge HIM and HE shall direct your path.
Hebrews
10:35
Cast
not away your confidence in CHRIST in which there is great rewards.
EPHESIANS
6:10
Finally
brethren, be strong in the Lord and
in the power of His might.
GALATIANS
5: 10
I am
confident IN THE LORD that you will take no other view....
Paul
trusted that God will help Galatians to take no other view, he did not put trust
not them.
Ephesians
3:20
Now to
him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according
to his power that is at work within us.
With
God and Through God you will do things you would have never imagioned.
JAMES
4:13
Come
now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and
spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit.” 14Yet you do not know what your life will be
like tomorrow. You are just a vapour that appears for a little while and then
vanishes away. 15Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and also do this or that.” 16But
as it is, you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil
GALATIANS
2:20
I have
been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The
life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and
gave himself for me
MARK
11:22
Have
faith IN GOD.
(NOT
IN YOURSELF)
JOHN
12:44
Then
Jesus cried out, "When a man believes in me, he does not believe in me
only, but in the one who sent me.
Phillipians 2:13
For God is working in you, giving you the desire and the
power to do what pleases him.
DAVID versus Goliath
To defeat giants in your life you Have to
understand the mindset of David, a little boy
who defeated a 10 meter tall giant, won many battles and later grew to
become a king of Israel. This is a true story. At that time there were nations
in the world who experimented with science and witchcraft to produce giants.
1stSamuel
17:33-35
And Saul
said to David, “You are not able to go against this Philistine(Goliath) to
fight with him, for you are but a youth, and he has been a man of war from his
youth.” 34 But David said to Saul, “Your servant used to keep sheep for
his father. And when there came a lion, or a bear, and took a lamb from the
flock, 35 I went after him and struck him and delivered it out of his
mouth. And if he arose against me, I CAUGHT IT BY ITS BEARD and struck IT and
killed IT.
(This
blows my mind considering that he was relating the past and at that time he was
not old enough to join the army how young was he when he did that?).....
So WHAT
WAS HIS SECRET?
NB...VERSE37
And
David said, “The LORD who delivered
me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear will deliver me from
the hand of this Philistine.” And Saul said to David, “Go, and the LORD be with you!”
1st
samuel 17: 45-45
Then
David said to the Philistine(Goliath), “You come to me with a sword and with a
spear and with The javelin, but I come to you in the NAME OF THE LORD of hosts, the God
of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. 46 This day the Lord will deliver you into my hand,
and I will strike you down and cut off your head And I will give the dead
bodies of the host of the Philistines this day into the birds of the air and to
the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel, 47 and that all
this assembly may know that the Lord saves
not with sword and spear for the battle
is the Lord's, and HE will give
you into our hand.
Psalm
23:1
The
LORD is my Shepherd I shall not want.
David
through the Spirit of God writes that it is because the Lord is his shepherd that he does not want. He fears no evil
because God is with Him.
PSALM
23:4
Though
I walk I walk through the valley of the Shadow of death I will fear no evil FOR THOU ART WITH ME!!! <- this is
not self confidence but God confidence.
At
first he comes across self confident till he says for Thou art with me.
Ist Samuel 30
1 And it came to pass, when David and his men were come to Ziklag on the third day, that theAmalekites had invaded the south, and Ziklag, and smitten Ziklag, and burned it with fire; 2 And had taken the women captives , that were therein: they slew not any, either great or small, but carried them away , and went on their way. 3 So David and his men came to the city, and, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captives .4 Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept , until they had no more power to weep . 5 And David's two wives were taken captives , Ahinoam the Jezreelitess,and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite. 6 And David was greatly distressed ; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved , every man for his sons and for his daughters:
but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God. 7 And David said toAbiathar the priest, Ahimelech's son, I pray thee, bring me hither the ephod. And Abiathar brought thither the ephod to David. 8 And David enquired at the LORD, saying , Shall I pursue after thistroop? shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue : for thou shalt surely overtake them, and without fail recover all. 9 So David went
David the warrior who wrote the Psalm we just
read, fought Goliath and won many wars had to consult God before attacking the
Amalekites because he believed in God and not himself. ( by the way amalekites
breeded giants for war.
THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME GIANTS WERE
DEALT WITH
These men relied and measured themselves
Numbers 13 :31-33
But the men who had gone up with him said, “We can’t attack those people; they are
stronger than we are.” 32 And they spread among the Israelites a
bad report about the land they had
explored. They said, “The land we explored devours those living in it. All the
people we saw there are of great size. 33 We saw the Nephilim there (the
descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim). We seemed like grasshoppers in our
own eyes, and we looked the same to them.”
These men relied and
measured their strength on God
Numbers14:7 – 8
And they
spoke unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which
we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land. If the LORD delight in us, then HE will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which flows
with milk and honey. Only do not rebel
against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they
are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not.
1
Kings 18:46
The power of the LORD came upon Elijah and,
tucking his cloak into his belt, he ran(on foot) ahead of Ahab ( on a chariot)
all the way to Jezree.
Need I
talk about Samson.
Judges
ch13 – ch16 (whole chapters)
Every
time he would defeat opponents the bible tells us, “and the power of the LORD
came upon Samson”
Please
go read.
Phillipians
3:10
That I
may know HIM and the power that raised him from the dead....
Matthew
16:24
Then
Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself
and take up his cross and follow me.
2nd
Cor 4:7
But we
have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us.
God
designed us to live in harmony and unity with HIM so much so that He becomes
the enabler, inspirer and empowerment in our lives. This is what Christianity
is about, to restore the original relationship God originally intended for Human
beings. This is what the bible is about, People who lived under the power and
direction of God (Righteousness) and those who did not(sin). The steps of a
righteous man are ordered by the Lord.
When
Adam ate the tree of the knowledge of
self, witchcraft and became his own god, he became disconnected to God his
Father so much so that the all knowing, all present God had to ask where he
was. God was not asking about his geographic location but spiritual location.
Adam was no longer under Gods radar.
Today
you are at the crossroads having to choose between the snake and Gods word.
Today you are Adam or Eve having to choose between the tree of life (believing
in Christ) and the tree of knowledge (believing in your self ).
Our
quest today should not to be ourselves, know our selves, or even believe in
ourselves but in God, HIS son and the Holy Spirit.
Psalm 82:6 even John 10:34 Jesus speaks about us being
gods, but that is only if we are children of God because psalm 82:6 says BUT,
you shall die like mere men and fall like one of the princes (fallen angels).
This tells us that the state of being a son of God or god is changeable.
Children of God the state of being like God is not permanent it is only on
condition that we do Gods will like GOD.
Romans 8:13 and 14 explains the same.
For if you live according to the sinful nature, you
will die; but if by the Spirit you
put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live because those who are led by the Spirit of
God are sons of God.
In God we do not do as
we please we do as God pleases instructs and commands. That is why they are called
commandments and not advices you don’t have the option of not taking them. We
did not make ourselves , God knows why He made us and how, it is only by His
Spirit and Power that we can come to that purpose and will of God.
The Lords prayer again
summarises this.
9After this manner
therefore pray ye:
Our Father which art in
heaven, Hallowed be YOUR name.
10YOUR
kingdom come, YOUR will be done in
earth, as it is in heaven.
11Give us this day our daily bread.
12And forgive us our debts, as we forgive
our debtors.
13And lead us not into temptation, but
deliver us from evil: For YOURS is
the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever.
Amen.
It is HIS Kingdom, His will, His Power, His Glory.
He gives us the daily bread, He forgives,
He leads us to the paths of righteousness (away from temptation),
He delivers from evil.
We do not live but Christ lives trough us.
We should decrease and He increase
We should daily exercise and get rid of our will and do His will.
Mathew 11:28 – 30
Come
to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My
yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you
will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.
Matthew 16:24
Then Jesus said to his
disciples, "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow ME. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever
loses his life for me will find it.
Having said that Jesus does not want to burden you with
rituals, laws and difficult life. He promises us that his yoke is easy. He will give us the Spirit to live this life.
Phillipians 2:13
For it is God who works
in you to will and to act according to HIS
good purpose.
Again this shows us
that its God not us.
It is the evil
ones plan to make Christ seem like a burden using religious leaders.
Matthew 23:4
They tie up heavy loads and put them on men's shoulders, but they
themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them. (Jesus said this)
Luke 11:46
Jesus replied, "And you experts in the law(of moses), woe to you,
because you load people down with burdens they can hardly carry, and you
yourselves will not lift one finger to help them.
Jesus is your rest. He wants to give you rest. Let Him give
Rest from struggling in life
trying to find direction , motivation and a reason to live.
Let the Lord be your shepherd and he will lead you besides still
waters and make you to lie down in green pastures.
Acts 17:28
In HIM we live and move and have our being.
Mathew 18:3
Unless you become like a child you will not enter the kingdom of
Heaven.
Children are dependant , the only thing they care about is if their
parent is around, they know that then everything will be taken care of such
direction, provision, protection.
Isaiah 40:28-31
Do
you not know?
Have you not heard?
The LORD is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He will not grow tired or weary,
and his understanding no one can fathom.
29 He gives strength to the weary
and increases the power of the weak.
30 Even youths grow tired and weary,
and young men stumble and fall;
31 but those who hope IN THE LORD
will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles;
they will run and not grow weary,
they will walk and not be faint.
Have you not heard?
The LORD is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He will not grow tired or weary,
and his understanding no one can fathom.
29 He gives strength to the weary
and increases the power of the weak.
30 Even youths grow tired and weary,
and young men stumble and fall;
31 but those who hope IN THE LORD
will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles;
they will run and not grow weary,
they will walk and not be faint.
Jeremiah
29:11
For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD,
"plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a
future.
This verse plainly shows us that God has HIS plans for us. While were
busy making our plans we are supposed to be knowing HIS plans for us.
If we believe in ourselves we’ll make our own plans but if we believe
in God we’ll find HIS plan for us.
Proverbs 19:21
Many are the plans in a man's heart, but it is the LORD's purpose that
prevails.
Again
we are not in control but God is, it is HIS purpose that will prevail. Gods design
for humanity is for HIS purpose not ours. IF our plans will fail if they are
not aligned to HIS purpose, how will believing in ourselves help us in making
our plans successful?
Psalm
18:32
The
Lord gives us strength.
Deuteronomy
7 : 17,18
If you say
in your heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them? You
will not be afraid of them: but wil well remember what the LORD THY GOD did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt.
Judges 7:2
The
LORD said to Gideon, “You have too many men. I cannot deliver Midian into their
hands, or Israel would boast against me, ‘My own strength has saved me.’
I
Samuel 14:6
Jonathan
said to his young armor-bearer, “Come, let’s go over to the outpost of those
uncircumcised men. Perhaps the Lord will act in our behalf. Nothing can hinder the Lord from saving, whether by many or by few.”
