8) Consistent, Confident Faith

It's not the first time people telling R & I have low self-confidence. I still recall part of the exhortation from R's father in our wedding was about this. Today, God reveals this problem to me again as one of the reason why R & I are feeling low when i was reading a sample of The Everyday Life Bible, Amplified Edition by Joyce Meyer.

The following 3 points (shared by Joyce) were similar to what R & I are going through:

"Romans 1:17 teaches us people who are just and upright "shall live by faith". Faith is confidence in God. It is important that we learn to be consistently confident, not occasionally confident."

"I had to grow in confidence to the place where people's opinions and their acceptance or rejection did not alter my confidence level. My confidence had to be in God, not in people."

"When the growth and progress of my ministry seemed panifully slow, i had to practice being consistently confident. It is easier to remain confident when we see progress, but during times of waiting the devil attacks our confidence and attempts to destroy it."

May the Lord help us to have consistent faith & confidence in all things.

~cC