NEVER LOSE YOUR CONFIDENCE!

Where should you place your confidence?

• towards people

• towards your family

• in CHRIST

• towards the world

• Philippians 3:3 For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.

• Don’t have confidence in the ______ but in the ______.

• spirit, flesh

• flesh, spirit

• man, woman

• woman, man

Proverbs 20:24 Man's goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?

Captain Mattathias explained this verse by making the statement below. Fill in the missing word.

It is not _______ own way, it is God’s way.

Hebrews 12:5 And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:

Fill in the blank below.

• Despise not the chastening of the Lord because we have to go through ______ to refine us.

• heartaches

• trials

• fire

• wilderness

Which scriptures instruct us not to allow others to trouble us?

• Psalms 120:2 Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.

• Psalms 119:78 Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.

• 2 Esdras 16:2 Gird up yourselves with cloths of sack and hair, bewail your children, and be sorry; for your destruction is at hand.

• 2 Esdras 15:3 Fear not the imaginations against thee, let not the incredulity of them trouble thee, that speak against thee.

Which scripture states, “Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.”

Ecclesiasticus 2:12 Woe be to the fearful hearts,

• strong in the Lord and the power of his might.

• courage.

• and faint hands, and the sinner that goeth two ways.

• and faint hands, and the sinner that goeth one way.

• You lose your confidence when you do not really believe in Christ.

• Yay (Yes)

• Nay (No)

What two scriptures can gain your confidence back if you are faint and wishy washy?

• Proverbs 13:20 He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.

• 2 Timothy 3:14 But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them;

• Ecclesiasticus 2:12 Woe be to fearful hearts, and faint hands, and the sinner that goeth two ways!

• Proverbs 29:9

  If a wise man contendeth with a foolish man, whether he rage or laugh, there is no rest.

• Which scriptures can we meditate on that instructs us about boldness and/or confidence?

• Ephesians 3:10 To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,

• Ephesians 3:11 According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:

• Ephesians 3:12 In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.

• Judith 13:19 For this thy confidence shall not depart from the heart of men, which remember the power of God for ever.