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When I Matter to God

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Not Already Perfected - Philippians 3:12-14

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Confident Access to God - Ephesians 3:12

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  "In him we have boldness and confident access through faith in him." Ephesians 3:12 Unending, God-given Supply I am bold in Him. Right? I don't know; I don't feel so bold. If you want to know the embarrassing truth, I feel sorta timid.  I don't want to open my mouth. I don't want to reveal my thoughts. I even carry around old remembered shame from my childhood, so I'm afraid of getting hit with even more hard knocks. But this verse says I have boldness. Now. Present tense. It's mine. So who should I believe? The scripture or me?  The scripture, Right?  Okay, why am I even asking such an obvious question? Here's why: I debate this in my own mind regularly. Should I listen to Jesus or not? And maybe the words don't form so obviously wrong in my mind, but my actions show that the debate took place, and that I decided to do the thing I wanted to do.  I must stand on this: The Word of God is the truth. Period.  So, I actually DO have boldness.  Wh