HAVING CONFIDENCE

Psalm 27:13 NLT 13 Yet I am confident I will see the Lord’s goodness while I am here in the land of the living.

Some people we meet seem to be super confident while others appear to be just the opposite! But in this Psalm we read how David had obviously learned a thing or two along the way and he’d discovered that God was good and He was to be trusted. He’d found he could put all his confidence in his God because He is faithful and His heart is to bless us, but David also found it helped him to speak out his confidence.😊

When we’re tempted to say how useless we are or how we can’t do certain things, the more we lose our confidence, but if we turn it around and say what God says, we draw on His help and positive outcomes are the result. We can say what scripture says, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me, and with God’s help I’m capable of amazing things. I’m blessed going out and coming in, everything I set my hand to do prospers, and God’s favour is all over me.”😊

I lay awake the other night so I turned to the psalms to help me go back to sleep and the above verse stood out for me. I repeated it over and over again in my head till I went back to sleep, and it was still going through my head the next morning!

It was God confirming He wants us to be confident in Him and in His goodness and we can know He’s going to finish what He has started in us. Philippians 1:6 NIV being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. We can take heart because God is actively working in us, equipping and enabling us to do whatever is needed each day. It’s something else we can be confident about.😊

So as we go into our new week let’s start it off right, knowing our confidence is in Him, not ourselves, we are capable of amazing things, and we will see His goodness while we’re still in the land of the living.😊 Thank You Lord. Amen.