Self Confidence, Part 1 of 2

"Self Confidence”        Part 1 of 2     

Part 2 describes describing a 24 year old petrified soldier going into battle in Vietnam with new confidence attained through prayer.   Part 3 will discuss Jesus’ example of depending on God in His battle leading to His Crucifixion.

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Self-confidence is a self acquired behavior giving us strength to  be "successful".  However, when we fail really big and often or bad things happen to us, self doubt over comes that self-confidence and can affect all aspects of our lives.  Jesus instilled the Holy Spirit in his disciples* after His resurrection, and our salvation brings us the same.  When the Holy Spirit instills in us God's confidence, any failure in our lives, any mistake in our judgment, any injustice we feel  becomes a stepping stone to our next successes.  


Scripture:  Acts 4: 1-16   (<< click here to read)   Peter standing before the Sanhedrin in Jerusalem, the Temple ruling party, explaining by whose power he does his deeds and Miracles.

By the fact that Acts is generally accepted as the second part of the Gospel of Luke and Acts coming just after the anointing of the Disciples with the Holy Spirit, we find the Disciples, and especially Peter, had become changed men.  The disciples just weeks earlier had sequestered themselves into a little upper room, no doubt trying to be quiet as they were afraid they might be the next ones crucified.  They had lost all confidence by forgetting what Jesus had told them earlier.  In John 20:20-23 we are told that Jesus came to them, and with just His breath, He anointed them with the Holy Spirit.  In that moment, they no longer were afraid and blessed with God’s Confidence in their lives.

Acts 4:8 records in standing before the very people who put Jesus to death (the Sanhedrin), It says, “8  Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, "Rulers of the people and elders, 9 If we are questioned today because of a good deed done to someone who was sick and are asked how this man has been healed,  10 let it be known to all of you, and to all the people of Israel, that this man is standing before you in good health by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead.

Self Confidence is fleeting with the wind.  Just as in the disciples in the upperroom, God’s instilled confidence through the anointing of the Holy Spirit is always with us when we accept Jesus as Lord and Savior.  It is through prayer, Bible Study, and Rightous Fellowship and Worship with fellow believers we come to truly know the the power of Holy Spirit in our lives.  Then, we too can Trust our Confidence through (1) the faith God puts in us and (2) the guidance of the Holy Spirit, just as Peter did.

Thanks be to God.

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