Praise the Lord Church. Today's topic is all about confidence. Confidence in the Lord.
Our scriptures today are Proverbs 3 verse 26, 2 Corinthians 3 verse 5 and Psalm 20 verse
7. Our first scripture, Proverbs 3 verse 26 in the ESV version says, For the Lord will
be your confidence and will keep your foot from being caught. Confidence is a reflection of what
we believe that Jesus says over us. What we speak over ourselves will determine how we think about
ourselves. We have to take care of ourselves because we are vessels of God. Confidence doesn't
come from the outside, but it comes from the inside and it comes from Jesus. Confidence,
what people don't understand about confidence is it's also humble. Confidence and cockiness are
two very different things. Cockiness is prideful and selfish, while confidence is the humble
assurance of our identity in Christ. Cockiness always brings the attention to ourselves,
while confidence brings the attention back to Christ. Confidence is also God honoring. Two
very different things. So we may think we're confident while we're really just displaying
traits of cockiness. The second scripture today is 2 Corinthians 3 verse 5 in the ESV version.
Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our
sufficiency is from God. There is no such thing as self-confidence. We don't give ourselves
confidence. So we have to ask ourselves, what is the source of our confidence? Is it Jesus? Is it
what other people think of us? Or is it what the devil is saying to us? The scripture 2 Corinthians
5 also makes me think of Philippians 4 verse 13, which says, I can do all things through Christ
who strengthens me. Paul's famous saying at the end of most scriptures that he's written is in
Christ. Jesus is our source. We can't do anything apart from him. In anything that we do, we also
have to trust that Jesus will provide us with the wisdom and the strength. We can't find the
strength in ourselves because Jesus is our source. He made us to be inadequate without him. The only
way we can be fulfilled is when we come to him and we are connected to him. We find fulfillment in
him and only him. Our last scripture is Psalm 20 chapter 20 verse 7 in the ESV version. It says,
some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God. This
scripture is talking about how it's so important not to put our trust in anything else around us,
but to only put our trust in Jesus. We don't put our trust in other people, but we trust God to help
them do the right thing. And we don't put our trust in things because we can't control circumstances
and we can't control anything else. Nothing in the world is our true sense of security. When we
don't put our trust in Jesus, we will be let down. We aren't confident in ourselves, but we're
confident in Jesus. We aren't confident in things, but we are confident in Jesus. We're not confident
from other people, but we are confident in Jesus. We don't find our sense of self-worth in other
people or things. We find our sense of self-worth in Jesus. A false sense of security is one of the
many ways Satan traps us. Oftentimes our focus is on so many other things that Jesus is the last
thing we remember. The scriptures that he wrote in the Bible are the last thing we remember.
Instead of being engulfed in the word of God, we are so weighed down and worry and trying to please
others. Because when we find our sense of security in others, we try to please them so that we don't
lose that sense of self-worth. When we place our sense of self-worth in things, we try to acquire
more and more and more so that we can be fulfilled. But see, nothing else works because like I earlier
said, God made us for himself. We are inadequate without him. We will never feel fulfilled,
feel fulfilled without him because he made us to be fulfilled when we have salvation in him.
Our points today are one, undying confidence only comes from Jesus. Two, true confidence isn't what
the world views as confidence. See, the world views as confidence cockiness. The world views as
confidence selfishness. And the world views confidence as something that comes from yourself.
You just wake up and you feel confident. The third point today is it isn't rooted from others'
opinions. So many of us struggle with trying to please others because we're so engulfed with the
opinions of others. But the only opinion that matters is Jesus. And when we remember that,
we will have undying confidence because we know our security is found in Jesus. So,
if you have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, then this message will help you. But if
you don't have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, then I invite you to give your heart to
the Lord today. To receive him into your heart, go to Romans 10, 9 through 10. It says that if you
confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised him from the
dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness and with the mouth
confession is made unto salvation. If you said this prayer with sincerity, you are saved and now
have eternal life with Jesus. You are saved from all your sins, past, present, and future sins you
may commit. This truth is not a free past this in any time. Instead, Jesus gives you power over
all wrong choices and empowers you to spread the gospel to others. You are saved forever and your
name is written in the book of life.