Is Your Confidence Showing? Outline
PPT Is your confidence showing?
Soul Care Series
May 3, 2020
Senior Pastor, Dr. Janet Cook
What the enemy meant for evil God is working out for our good.
Genesis 50:20 But as for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, in order to bring it about as it is this day, to save many people alive.
Jesus Christ came into the world to destroy the works of the devil.
1 John 3:8b – For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil.
All Things Work Together for Good
Romans 8:27-28 Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God. And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.
Is your confidence showing?
Hebrews 4:16 Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need. NIV
(Confidence = G3954 – par-rhay-see’-ah
The Greek word for Confidence – G3954 – it means – all outspokenness, frankness, bluntness, publicity, by implication, assurance, boldness of speech, confidence, freely, openly, plainly.
Root word – to say, command or speak
Hold Fast the Confidence
Hebrews 3:5-6- And Moses indeed was faithful in all His house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which would be spoken afterward, 6 but Christ as a Son over His own house, whose house we are if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end.
Hebrews 3:7-11
Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says:
“Today, if you will hear His voice,
8 Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,
In the day of trial in the wilderness,
9 Where your fathers tested Me, tried Me,
And saw My works forty years.
10 Therefore I was angry with that generation,
And said, ‘They always go astray in their heart,
And they have not known My ways.’
11 So I swore in My wrath,
‘They shall not enter My rest.’ ”
Hold the Beginning of Our Confidence
12 Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God; 13 but exhort one another daily, while it is called “Today,” lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. 14 For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end, 15 while it is said:
“Today, if you will hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”
Speak the Word of God Boldly
Acts 4:31 After they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly. NIV
- Boldness is a divine enablement that comes to ordinary and unprofessional people.
- Boldness is the Holy Spirit moving through someone with a divine surge of power and ability.
- Boldness is the result of being filled with the Holy Spirit.
- The purpose is to boldly proclaim the gospel.
Pentecost Sunday is on May 31st
We experienced a literal Passover in April. Will we experience a literal Pentecost in May?
Acts 2:1-4 When the Day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. Then there appeared to them divided tongues, as of fire, and one sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
Now this is the Confidence
1 John 5:14 -15 Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him.
- If we ask anything according to His will
- Approach God in faith
- Pray in the name of Jesus – John 14:13-14 And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask anything in My name, I will do it.
- Have Confidence in God to answer you.