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~ Strong Confidence....~
By: Runner Date: November 4, 2012, 9:18 am
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We believers need to always strive to live with a sense of
triumph in our lives. Paul tells us that through Christ Jesus we
are more than conquerors. That is the truth that gives us the
confidence that we already have the victory before we even face
the challenges that come our way in life! Amen.
Sometimes our confidence is shaken when trials come, especially
if they are lengthy ones.
We should have so much confidence in God’s love for us that no
matter what comes against us, no matter how far down the devil
pushes us, we know deep inside that we are more than conquerors.
If we are truly confident, we have no need to fear trouble,
challenges, or trying times, because we know they will pass.
Whenever a trial of any kind comes against us, always
remember..."This too shall pass!"
We can be confident that during the trial we will learn
something that will help us in the future.
Without confidence we are stifled at every turn. Satan drops a
bomb, and our dreams are destroyed. Eventually we start over,
but we never make much progress.
We start and then get defeated, start again, and get defeated,
start and get defeated, over and over again.
But those who are consistently confident, those who know they
are more than conquerors through Jesus Christ, make firm
progress along the road.
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Re: ~ Strong Confidence....~
By: Runner Date: November 8, 2012, 8:29 pm
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His place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks: bread
shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.—Isa 33:16
Do we ever doubt whether God will fulfil His promise? Will the
storehouses of heaven ever fail? Will God ever forget us?
When even a sparrow falls to the ground and our Father knows,
and the very hairs of our head are all numbered, will we
mistrust and doubt Him at the end? Perhaps our earthy affliction
will just go on until we dare to trust Him as He asks, maybe it
is us that really decides when any trial ends! (When we finally
'get' whatever the lesson is all about!)
When faith arises deliverance comes. God is a promise keeper…we
will not doubt Him.
We choose not to think any hard thoughts against God and His
workings. We wage war against any doubts we may have about God
,or the "how" of God's working out His Plan or purpose.
We look to The Rock.
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Re: ~ Strong Confidence....~
By: Leaf Date: November 8, 2012, 8:42 pm
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Amen.
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Re: ~ Strong Confidence....~
By: James Date: November 9, 2012, 7:22 am
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When David went out to fight the giant no one believed he could
win.
David's confidence came not from his "big faith" in God, it came
from the knowledge that the giant had defied the living God,
something David knew one could not get away with.
David knew the character of God and he was aware that the giant
was at the mercy of anyone who saw God as Holy and separate from
the world and all its machinations.
Seeing the character of God and worshipping Him sets us also
apart and enabled for victory.
James
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Re: ~ Strong Confidence....~
By: Runner Date: November 9, 2012, 11:36 am
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Amen James....but he also had "the word" ....that he would be
king...I wonder how much that word gave him his confidence....he
knew that he couldn't die...he couldn't die if God had spoked
that he would be king!! He believed God's word.
No wonder he could say.."For by Thee I have run through a troop:
by my God have I leaped over a wall."
Me...I often feel like I am being chased by the troop, and the
wall has fallen on me! :D
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Re: ~ Strong Confidence....~
By: James Date: November 9, 2012, 12:07 pm
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Maybe yes and on the other hand maybe no, since we also have a
sure word of prophesy [color=black]2 Pet1:19 but it does not
seem to cut the mustard in the day to day!
There always seems to be something of our humanity that gets in
the way, might be that's why it says we see through dark glasses
when we look at what's on offer from God.
Yep the wall seems awful heavy on one at times!
James[/color]
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Re: ~ Strong Confidence....~
By: Runner Date: November 12, 2012, 12:22 am
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'I will remember the works of the Lord; surely I will remember
Your wonders of old.' Psalm 77:11
I am sure we have all felt that we forget what we should
remember and we remember what we should forget? I have!
If we would remember the miracles God has done in our pasts, we
would not so easily fall into worry and fear when we face new
challenges. When David faced Goliath and no one encouraged him
in the fight, he remembered a lion and a bear he had slain with
God’s help. Because he remembered that past victory, he had no
fear of his current problem against Goliath.
Are we facing something right now that looms like a giant in our
life?
Remember........ Nothing is impossible with God. :)
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Re: ~ Strong Confidence....~
By: James Date: November 12, 2012, 2:36 am
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Yes!
David kept a very good record of God, this must be how he was
also able to encourage himself in the Lord later in life when
Ziglag was burned and they talked of stoning him.
What day to day record or account do we keep of the Lord, when
it comes to a day to balance the books will we be found in the
black or in the red?
James
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Re: ~ Strong Confidence....~
By: Kerry Date: November 12, 2012, 6:01 am
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What did Israel remember?
Numbers 11:5 We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt
freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the
onions, and the garlick:
They remembered the good things about their slavery. Yet Moses
had told them to remember something else.
Exodus 13:3 And Moses said unto the people, Remember this day,
in which ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage;
for by strength of hand the Lord brought you out from this
place: there shall no leavened bread be eaten.
4 This day came ye out in the month Abib.
5 And it shall be when the Lord shall bring thee into the land
of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the
Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he sware unto thy fathers to
give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, that thou shalt
keep this service in this month.
6 Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh
day shall be a feast to the Lord.
7 Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days; and there shall no
leavened bread be seen with thee, neither shall there be leaven
seen with thee in all thy quarters.
8 And thou shalt shew thy son in that day, saying, This is done
because of that which the Lord did unto me when I came forth out
of Egypt.
Later they were also told to remember additionally the forty
years when God sustained them and led them by the pillar in the
wilderness as well as being delivered from Egypt. Although they
had erred and did not enter the Land of Promise, still God fed
them with manna and led them.
Deuteronomy 5:15 And remember that thou wast a servant in the
land of Egypt, and that the LORD thy God brought thee out thence
through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the
LORD thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.
Deuteronomy 8:2 And thou shalt remember all the way which the
LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to
humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart,
whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
Deuteronomy 9:7 Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst
the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that
thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto
this place, ye have been rebellious against the LORD.
Deuteronomy 16:3 Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it;
seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the
bread of affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of
Egypt in haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou
camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life.
Deuteronomy 32:7 Remember the days of old, consider the years of
many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy
elders, and they will tell thee.
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Re: ~ Strong Confidence....~
By: Runner Date: November 12, 2012, 10:07 am
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Amen to what has been said here. And I think the day is fast
approaching when we will all have to 'do some remembering' and
'have strong confidence', being able to say with Paul " I know
Who I have believed, and am persuaded that He is able to keep...
I think things are close. 11 "And that, knowing the time, that
now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our
salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent,
the day is at hand:"
However near we thought it was...it is now even closer.
Time for strong confidence. Time to know that what God spoke to
Moses, and then Joshua..is a word for today.. "Be strong and
very courageous. Be careful to obey all the instructions Moses
gave you. Do not deviate from them, turning either to the right
or to the left. Then you will be successful in everything you
do. Study this Book of Instruction continually. Meditate on it
day and night so you will be sure to do everything written in
it. Only then will you prosper and succeed in all you do. This
is my command—be strong and courageous! Do not be afraid
or discouraged. For the Lord your God is with you."
Joshua 1:1-11
I heard a preacher say yesterday that he came (from USA)into
Canada to peach for a month of meeting all across Canada. (
about the middle east)
He travels about 30 times a year into Israel, so his passport
has many visa stamps.
He was met with hostility at Toronto airport. Taken to a room,
he asked them many times if he could have someone who spoke
English...he never did.
They threw his bible across the room. They yelled at him. He
presumed it was all to do with his many visits to Israel.
All the men that "interviewed" him wore turbans and had prayer
beads!!!
Enough said.
We know the glorious ending of the story, as we have read The
Book........but between now and the end, it will get somewhat
messy. Time to remember all the 'sure words' that God has given
each of us thus far.
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