GODFIDENCE!

Ephesians 3:12 NLT Because of Christ and our faith in him, we can now come boldly and confidently into God’s presence.

Have you ever gone into a situation and not felt very confident because you weren’t sure of your welcome, or of the outcome? Maybe when we’ve gone for job interviews and felt inadequate? Or we have to deal with a situation, but feel wobbly like this pile of stones? Life is full of challenges and confidence is needed to help us deal with them. 

God first of all wants us to know without a shadow of a doubt today, that He wants us to come with confidence into His presence and know He will welcome us because we’re His child, to know we will find His loving mercy is waiting for us, to know His help is available around the clock. What a wonderful invitation He gives us!😊

He wants us to remember who we are in Christ so we then have confidence to go out into any situation with our head held high, not because of who we are in ourselves, but because we have the Greater One living in us to strengthen us. We are united with Christ Himself, and He has made us the head and not the tail, above only and not beneath. (Deuteronomy 28:13)

We could call it Godfidence because it is God who has given it to us.😊 God who has said we can do all things through Christ who strengthens us. God who has declared us to be His masterpiece, His treasure and told us we’re precious in His sight. God who has declared us to be righteous in His sight because we’re trusting in Jesus’ shed blood for forgiveness of all our sins. It’s God who has said Jesus has taken away all our guilt and shame so we don’t need to hang our heads down anymore. God has said He accepts and has approved us.

Hebrews 4:15-16 NIV For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet he did not sin. 16 Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.

As we go into our new week God is reminding us we are always welcome at His throne of grace so we can all come with confidence and talk to God today and receive whatever we need. It’s an open invitation, so let’s accept it with great joy and know God is giving us His confidence to go into our world, our situations, knowing we shall overcome through Jesus, because He’s helping us, strengthening us and upholding us. In Jesus name. Amen.