Developing your confidence in God’s love for you
Confidence in love is first knowing that God is the source of love and he loves you no matter what. Confidence is knowing, feeling and believing that you can rely on someone or something. It is having a firm trust, assurance, faith, credence and conviction in what you believe. What better way to express such confidence, than in God, who is totally trust worthy. Therefore, why not have confidence in the love God has for you and in the fulfillment of his promises toward you. The assurance that we need comes from the word of God, written by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, who revealed to men the very heart of God for humanity. The WORD is God’s intentions and LOVE letter to everyone. Especially everyone who chooses to believe it.
Where does your confidence lie today? What struggles are you facing that seems too great or complicated for you to handle? That’s alright because Jesus has given you the ultimate strategy – the all-powerful, unchangeable Name that is above every name. God loves us and has already given us all we need to handle every situation. Our job is to rely on his promises-they are YEA and AMEN and claim them for our lives. We must understand that a loving God has provided all that we need to live the good life. He has not left us without answers that his word does not provide. Now take a hold of the finished works of Christ and run with it every day. One important thing that I have been doing literally, is reminding myself consciously of God’s WORD and love for me in everything I face. You see, God’s love for us does not exempt us from the negatives happening, but our understanding and reliance on his perfect love, will dismiss fear and empower us to believe his promises. It is absolutely necessary to use the word to combat the negative thoughts that the enemy uses to flood our minds.
As you know, your mind is the battle field. If you can win the battle in your mind then most of the work is done. Your first step is to believe that NOTHING, absolutely, NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE WITH GOD. You cannot be moved by what you see or by confronts you. Take heed to the words of Jesus in Mark 10:27; “Jesus looked at them and said, “With man THIS is impossible, but not with God; all things are possible with God.” Your THIS, may be an incurable disease, financial distress, tragedy, pain and situations beyond your control. Your great assurance and confidence lies in the fact that Jesus Christ has covered all your THIS. Jesus covered all your challenges big or small, he covered it all. For those who need healing Jesus bore your sickness in his body, for those who need peace from torment, past mistakes, bad decisions or lack of judgment, he was chastised for your peace (Isaiah 53:5). If Jesus bore it, why should you continue to bear it in your body or mind? He took sin, shame, poverty, everything negative upon himself, so we can now give it all over to him. Galatians 3:13 “Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a pole.” 2 Corinth. 5:21 says; He became sin, that we might be the righteousness of God. (God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.)
All that Jesus wants from us is for us to believe him. He wants us to know this great love and embrace it. He does not heal us because we fasted ten days without cheating, or we led five people Christ. He does it because he loves us. He delivers us because he loves us. When we realize that Jesus is truly all that we need and believe it wholehearted, we will take his word seriously. What he does for us cannot be earned, it should be received by faith. Jesus told his disciples to have faith in God. Whether we want to or not we will trust something, or someone; either our jobs as the source, our education for advancement, our doctors and specialists for healing, our lawyers for an excellent defense or anything we feel is competent to meet our needs. However, while these things are good, each of them may fail or fall short, but God stands firm. “So do not throw away this confident trust in the Lord. Remember the great reward it brings you (Hebrews 10:35)!” You are loved by God and his love is everlasting, intentional and unending. So rest in his love and promises for you.