The Gift of Confidence | Touré Roberts

[Music] it's so wonderful to be here with you I got a word from God today and in fact I want to just I want to move right into it I want you to turn in your words Genesis chapter 15 if you have a difficult time finding Genesis meet me after service and we'll pray for you Genesis chapter 15 we're gonna read quite a few verses therein that will establish the thought that I have for today we're gonna read Genesis chapter 15 verses 1 3:11 and then we'll jump down to verse 17 and read 17 and 18 it says after these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision saying do not be afraid Abram I am your shield you're exceedingly great reward but Abram said Lord God what will you give me seeing I go childless and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus in other words I'm struggling because you made some promises to me and one of the promises that you made is that I was going to have a child and I don't see no child and I and I understand that in order for me to have legacy the child has to be born in my house and the only one that's in my house to carry on my legacy is my servant Eliezer I'm struggling with this and then Abraham said look you've given me an offspring can be one born in my house as my heir verse four it says and behold the word of the Lord came to him saying this one shall not be your heir but one who will come from your own body shall be your heir I want to point out something really quickly in the first verse it says that the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision and a vision right God shows up in a vision he gives him a vision and he says don't be afraid in other words he is tapping into where Abram is in that moment because it is impossible to be afraid and be trusting God at the same time so God comes in and he immediately scans Abraham's spiritual and emotional state and in a vision comes in so don't be afraid so the first time he he speaks to him in a vision says don't be afraid when Abraham Abram begins to question God he begins to express his concern about about his air about the promise being fulfilled in verse 4 it says and behold the word of the Lord came to him so this was not in a vision this was in his his inner man God speaks to us in our inside he speaks us by the spirit so one time he spoke to him it's by vision the other time it was by spirit does that make sense it's gonna make more sense in a second he reveals himself as the word comes to him in spirit first or it's been vision first and then spirit it would make sense I just wanna we got a lot of ground to cover and then in verse 5 it says after he tells him no no no Eliezer is not going to be the heir but the one that comes out of you will be your heir and then in verse 5 it says then he brought him outside God takes Abram outside and he says look now toward heaven and count the Stars if you are able to number them and he said to him so shall your descendants be what God is doing in that moment as God is showing him God's ability he takes him outside shows in the stars he says you're struggling because you're only seeing it according to your ability let me take you outside God says let me take you outside and show you what I do for a living you see those stars out there you see those galaxies you see that solar system that's me bruh that that's I do that in my sleep and so if I do that in my sleep I can do effortlessly this thing that I'm promising you are we tracking together okay and so in verse 6 it says abraham believed in the lord and he God accounted to him for righteousness speaks to the idea of a foundation he he was settled he was settled because whenever you're not trusting your unsettled up to my Oh tricks again I'm supposed to be reading this I end up teaching you them sorry okay so and he believed in the Lord and he God accounted it to him Abram for righteousness verse seven it says then he God said to him I am the lord who brought you out of ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to inherit it so now we're moving into a different promise one promise was a child second promise was a nation the descendants of the child now he's saying that I'm gonna give you a land this is important right and and I'm not gonna I am the Lord your God who brought you out of ur of the chaldeans and I'm gonna give you this man in other words I didn't bring you out for nothing I would not disrupt your life I would not disrupt your situation and leave you I feel the Spirit of God I wouldn't cause you to hope into into something and did not come through on my word and come through on the promise that I made to you are you tracking with you gotta understand that he's saying I am the one that brought you out that was me and I am the one that's gonna bring you in are you tracking with me that's somebody's word this morning I am the one come on LA I am the one who brought you from your mother's house and brought you into LA and I'm gonna bring you into everything I promise this turn she named me said God's not gonna leave you hanging [Music] verse seven he says I'm the Lord who brought you up out of ur of the chaldeans to give you this land inherit and he said Lord God how shall I know that I will inherit it so he believed on one level but there was still another level of belief that he needed Abram says how shall I know it how should I know it and in verse 9 God says to him he doesn't answer in the way that one would think he would answer he says I'm about to show you how you gonna know he says how shall I know isn't that everyone's question God how can I know that what you promised me is gonna happen anybody ever been there I believe you but I'm struggling with knowing there's a difference between believing and knowing [Music] he says how shall I know that I will inherit it first night so God said to him bring me a three year old - a three year old female goat and a three year old Ram a turtle dog Turtledove and a young pigeon somebody said I said turtle dove you don't also say and a partridge in a pear tree surprise and then he brought all these things to him and cut them in two down the middle and place each piece opposite the other but he did not cut the birds in - you know why he didn't cut the birds into as they're bringing me a towel from my sweat you know why he didn't cut the birds in - he didn't cut the birds into because he weren't supposed to cut the birds into hello somebody I was wondering I'll be honest I was wondering like why did he cut the birds until we cut everything else into why he got the birds in - and I called my father-in-law last night mr. Jakes he got to me if anybody knows Michigan come as a big shake why he got Birds - we looked through and we searched the scripture and everything is like oh no they didn't do that you weren't supposed to do that oh I thought it was some deep thinking what the deep things so in case you were wondering you got we're getting ready go into deep thing glasses huh get ready to go into a deep thing just notice not deep they didn't cut the Turtledove and the pigeons because them was not what they're supposed to be I was a good distraction with me thank you first day that says then he brought all these things to him and cut them into down the middle place each piece opposite each other but he did not cut the birds in two and when the vultures came down on the carcasses Abram drove them away just a caveat anytime God's getting ready to show you something that will bring you into another dimension of your calling there will always be voltage that come down on the very thing to try to disrupt what God is getting ready to do and so you have to learn how to be like me I feel the Holy Spirit of God you got to learn how to be like Abram and just shoo them away just just shoo every negative thought away just just shoo every negative situation away just just shoo it God's getting ready to do something you just say shoo I feel this if you're gonna walking into everything that God has called you to be God I feel that for some of you God leads you down a road he leads you into something he's leading you into something and you're this close to it and all of a sudden Volkers come ravenous birds scavengers come to distract you but I love it it's like being in the car and there's a net in the car and you're trying to go somewhere you're on somewhere and then you end up switch to swinging that Nets when the net can't hurt you and that's aren't even poisonous they can't get in here they can't do nothing to you but you end up almost crashing your car swinging at things that don't matter I got to get through this we gotta get through this I'm supposed to be reading on something greedy Sabrina when the vultures came down on the car cuz it's Abraham drove them away verse 17 it says and it came to pass we jump down to 17 it says and it came to pass when the Sun went down and it was dark that behold there appeared a smoking oven and a burning torch that passed between those pieces and on the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abraham I want to talk from this thing today the gift of confidence the gift of confidence father thank you so much for this moment that you've allowed us to step into today Lord you're doing something we feel it we sense it and we know it you're equipping us you're preparing us for this decade hallelujah you've got so much in store for your sons and daughters but we're going to have to become in order to lay hold of it and so father in this this moment that we have together these few moments that will spin together we pray that your spirit would descend down upon us in a rich and powerful way God that this would become a house of transformation to the effect that that our minds will be renewed that we might be aligned with what you're doing in our lives and father I pray for the spirit of wisdom and revelation and insight and knowledge Lord God full access to the gifts of the Holy Spirit full access to heavens resources God to bring the past truths that that enlighten us that empower us that equip us that that cause us to be aligned with the highest identity in you that we might be in there if what you called us to be the father while we're praying we're praying for the person who's next to us will you bless them real good please we don't know exactly what need they may have spiritually physically emotionally or otherwise but God we asked whatever that need is that you look meaning and ultimately God get the glory in Jesus name Amen amen do me a favor before you take your seats or screech somebody let's preach some bodies I'm glad you're happy [Music] god bless you thank you lord yeah the gift of confidence this this time of the year in the beginning of a year certainly in the beginning of a decade there's always a surge and confidence the new year usually generally brings with brings with it a spirit of optimism and renewed enthusiasm you're back in the gym your looks are improving your your vision is clear and and usually typically you and I are more confident about the year that's ahead that's just how it goes so so there's always a surge in confidence and and the confidence that I'm describing is self confidence and self confidence is awesome like it's in fact most psychologists would agree that if you are self-confident it gives you an edge in life you know what I'm saying when you're self-confident you you move forward with because you don't have the trepidation that comes into play when you don't have confidence when you're when you're self-confident you you have an edge because you you jump into things and you you jump into task and feats with just the sense that I can do it and and and and when you're more confident about something you know the greater your chances are of actually achieving those things and excelling those things because you believe you can do it self confidence is absolutely incredible and and you can even grow your self-confidence in fact if you want to grow your self-confidence one of the ways you can do it as you can you know you can go back to school you can enhance yourself and in in some of your skills and and your experiences and the area in certain areas that'll make you more confident like for me to be honest with you like working out I get confident when I work out when I got that thing going right here that little you know that that that you know if you can see that that that that 400 pack I'm not confident so for me like working out I get more confident when I when I work out I feel better when I'm reading books I get more confident when I go to conferences and seminars and various things it makes me more confident about my intelligence and my ability to perform better at work and do business better you know self-confident people they they typically will promote well in their jobs they are high achievers they are better in relationships when you're confident as the is the challenging thing to be in a relationship with someone who doesn't have self-confidence because they're gonna put more on you in it and so self-confident people they do better in relationships it's just it's it's an overall incredible and amazing thing to be self-confident people who are at the top of their fields and and various disciplines and they literally walk on water in their respective fields and they they just exemplify this self-confidence and its affections and it's awesome and it's and it's wonderful and so being self-confident is awesome and it is almost everything and yet God has a strategy for us to take us to an even greater level of confidence because one of the things that I've learned about self confidence and although it is an amazing thing you know and I encourage everyone to be self-confident right God wants you to be you know confident in yourself he want you to be self-confident want you to think highly of yourself but one of the things that I've learned is that there is one problem in my self-confidence one problem and that one problem my self-confidence is me if you're taking notes take this thought down the limitation of self-confidence itself as wonderful as it is it has a limitation and the limitation is that if you are only self confident the buck stops with you and you and I are limited which means that our confidence will be limited and the problem with fat is that oftentimes if you take a notes write this down as well oftentimes God promises us things that are beyond us are you tracking with me and so if God promises us things that are beyond us then in order for us to have the confidence to lay hold of those things we're gonna have to have a confidence that is beyond us are you tracking with me just turn to Davis say stay with him he's going somewhere stay with him the this was this was Abraham's dilemma his promise watch this his promise was bigger than his ability have you ever had God's promise to you if you're honest be bigger than the ability of you see self-confidence is all awesome as long as you can do it and love somebody like like like I don't I can't like poop really well I'm not I'm not a phenomenal basketball player I'll beat you up but that's about all I got for you right my release is terrible I just I don't you know me so I'm not confident in that so so if you like LPT man let's go hoop I would like I'm hungry I'm gonna go I'm gonna eat something right so so so the challenge is God calls us to things that are bigger than us and if we are only so confident we're gonna fall short this is Abraham's dilemma his dilemma is he needs what I like to call God for debts he needs confidence that goes beyond his own ability and you need confidence if you're going to be everything that God has called you to be and if you're gonna achieve the things that God has called you to achieve you're gonna have to get beyond self confidence and God will bring you into another level of confidence so that you can be who he's called you to be so that you can go where he's called you to go and so that you can do what he's called you to do are you tracking with me so God recognizing that he doesn't have that he needs another level of confidence God moves in and he does something about it and the question is what it God do about it tell you what he did for taking notes write this down he establishes his covenant with Abram now he had made a covenant when God speaks something because God is infallible because God cannot lie that is his covenant his word is his bond but God knew that he needed to establish him remember he asked a question how shall I know that I will inherit the land God knew that he had to take him to another level of confidence and God knew exactly how to do it he enters into in fact he establishes better a covenant with Abraham let's talk about it here's one thing that you need to understand if you're taking notes write this down God establishes covenant to create confidence say it again God establishes covenant to create confidence because God knows that in order to be great you must be confident he will not watch this he will not require that from you that he has not resourced in you this is what I love about God he will not ask you to be what he will not give you the strength to be that's why when the disciples in the days of Jesus were struggling with belief they said God I believe help my believe right so that there are levels to believing and you cannot have what you do not expect I feel the Spirit of God in here right now God knows that faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen it says without faith it is impossible to please God he is not mad at you when you don't have faith he just knows that you cannot produce if you do not have faith and so God is always going to be channeling resources in your direction to develop your insides to be large enough to produce the outside that God sees if you understand that say I'm tracking with you beating God's not going to leave you out there Abram wasn't a weak man by asking God how shall I know it he was not a weak man he was a human we're human and we need our confidence upgraded for the journey that God has in front of us and God says no problem there's a passage of scripture that says that he who has begun a good work in you shall complete it in other words I'll give you the faith to start the business I'll give you the faith to start the ministry I'll give you a faith to reach the nation's I will give you the faith to do what I've called you to do or gotta fill it I'll give you the faith hmm I feel the Spirit of God I'll give you the faith don't worry about it focus on what I said I'll give you the faith to be who you need to be to accomplish what I've called you to Wow that always gives you a word that's bigger than how you feel trying to move on but I can't quit that will always call you to something that is bigger than the you that you are presently familiar with and you have to allow what God says to you to tell you who you are or else how would you ever know who you were I feel the spirit cannot can I teach a little bit this morning how would you ever know who you were and what your abilities were if God did not call you to lofty things that require you to stretch and become who he sees you as God says before I formed you and your mother's will not knew you in other words God knows a version of you that you haven't even met yet you're still meeting you I'm still meeting me and one of the things that God uses to introduce me to me is a lofty thing that is bigger than me are we tracking can we go further so God says I've got a plan for it no problem I'm going to establish my covenant with you so let's talk about what a covenant is a covenant is a contract between two parties and what we're going to see later on when we look at Hebrews chapter six is that that these this covenant contract contract covenant it ends Strife's and disputes so when I'm struggling with believing and coming into agreement in alignment with what God said the covenants introduced because it's going to in watch this the internal disputing that I have see what I'm not believing God that means that on the inside I am disputing what he said all of us have an internal antagonist yeah you don't even have to go outside all of us within us has what I like to call like we all have this this this this mad scientist on the inside of us that is always challenging and questioning what God says so so he creates covenant because he wants to sure us up and give a foundation to stand on by putting it into disputes let me tell you some III don't do business without a contract and this is for some time give you something for free business people always have the agreements always make the agreements when you're doing business with contractors vendors or friends or whatever family always get the business worked out while you're still friends [Applause] because sometimes your friends and you love each other and you got the division together and you want to go into business together and you're like oh we would never have a dispute so there's no reason that we need to get our paperwork together we don't need to do that we love each other we were never a child when you throw some money in there now I love you but I'm tell you what while we are still amenable let's get this deal down on paper because when I have the contract done I feel peace because at the end of the day I can say at you you trippin no no no no no go back to paragraph two in Section C line number three remember this has already worked out so God knowing watch this that covenant brings peace and God is a God who cannot lie so God introduces covenant but not just any old covenant we're gonna go deeper now he introduces what is called a blood covenant so so Abram says how shall I know it God doesn't answer God says he didn't answer with this value he doesn't try to convince him with words God does something that will speak to him in the language of covenant and contract of that time of that Near Eastern time civilization this is worked when two people were entering into covenant together about Al and what they would do is they would do this thing called a blood sacrifice and they would take animals and they would split the animals in two which would leave a path of blood and both parties would walk between the pieces as a sign that watched this if they violated the oath of that covenant they would die that they would be literally be it unto me as what happened to these animals that's why you didn't break coming back in them days because if you broke company was just like ah you know send me to collections take me to court now you died that was serious about covenant so imagine that imagine Abram saying how shall I know it watch this to a god that he has not seen it has only been up to this point a voice and a vision but not a vision of God the vision vision I wish I had time to teach this but sometimes God will speak to you in a vision he will show you things that mean something to you so Abraham has not seen God yet so imagine where Abraham is when he is saying how will I know it how shall I know it and then all of a sudden God is speaking to him in blood covenant language oh you gotta catch this he says to him hey go get these animals we're about to enter into a sacrifice Abraham is probably like wait I understand the concept but I have never seen you and your spirit so how is this can you imagine how purple next he must have been he's fairly lightweight I think the goddess China enter into a blood covenant with me but I've never seen him it's only been a voice some live in vision and like a black I'm like wait wait a minute see see one things have to understand why God is God will meet you where you are I love that he will he is so adamant about giving you to where you need to be he will do things in your language to get you to where you need to go so so so he says he tells him he says go ahead and and and set up this this blood covenant this this that this arrangement of the divided animal carcasses would have would have been Abraham would have instantly recognized that this was a setup for making the blood covenant the blood covenant was was the seal of promises made and and there are two interesting observations about this point and you see the text in fact let's go there real quick let's go let's go back to Genesis I wanna look at his blood covenant thing it says in in verse nine he says so he said to him bring me a three-year-old - o3u a female goat in a three year old Ram and a Turtledove and a young pigeon and then he brought all these to him and he cut them in two down the middle and placed each piece opposite the other but he did not cut the birds in two and you know he she would the way the vultures and in verse 17 it says and it came to pass watch this when the Sun went down and it was dark that behold there appeared a smoking oven and a burning torch that passed between those pieces and on the same day the Lord made a covenant two things first of all first thing but is this you remember the covenant the blood covenant required that that the parties involved pass between the two pieces where the blood was during that right the flame our God is a consuming fire passing in between the pieces was God Himself entering into covenant see in order to really understand this you got to put yourself in the mindset and the mentality of Abram at that time these contracts were made by both parties walking between the pieces so when the flame of fire passes between the two pieces it is God Himself saying I'm in this thing and the other thing that is interesting about this is that Abraham doesn't pass through the pieces because he's just waking up he fallen asleep if you read that whole thing he had fallen asleep and God spoke to him in the dream and sleep and actually know he waking up out of this thing and this happens there's never any indication that Abram walked through which means my second point is God alone passed between the pieces so the Covenant this blood covenant was sealed by God alone which means that nothing depended upon Abraham everything depended on God to be promised and it was a fourth shadowing of the reality of Christ how many of us know we didn't do anything to get the grace that we come on somebody it's by grace that we are saved through faith we do anything this had nothing to do with us watch this God doesn't need us in order to be good to us are you tracking with me he is just good how this Abraham get to the point that he believes God so perfectly that he is willing to offer up his son at the request of God the requests of God how is he able holder you have to be you ever wonder let's just keep it 200 in here there's some of you and you read that thing in Genesis chapter 22 where God says bring up your son and offer him on on Moriah and some of you like I know you're good you know I agree with you're good all that you're good all that kind of stuff I understand that but let me tell you some yeah that's gonna be rough for me can we just be honest with you none of you love that passage you love it for Abram you do not love it for you [Applause] so how does Abram get to this place where he is absolutely convinced and so convinced that he would sacrifice anything even the thing that he wanted the most it's because of that blood covenant he knew that God could not lie and if God told him that he was gonna have a multitude of sons if he was asking for that son that meant he was gonna multiply he that someone's gonna be raised from the dead that also was a foreshadowing of Christ and there's some people in here right now and you will never see the harvest in your life until you're willing to take God at His Word and believe him like Abraham believe you God has walked between the pieces because he couldn't swear by any greater he swore by himself let me show you something we're almost done let me show you something you gonna catch this today good God Almighty let's go to Hebrews chapter 6 verse 13 Hebrews chapter 6 and verse 13 explains this it says for when God made a promise to Abram because he could swear by no one greater he swore by himself they you know they have this the same you know in the inner city called you know and the same be like I put that on me or I put that on and then you would name what you put that on and so when you were trying to convince somebody that you were with you're not lying and you were telling the true some of you know what I'm talking about you look all sophisticated I know what you're talking about it I know nothing about the any city you know what I'm talking about and when I wanted to convince you that they were telling the truth they'd be like yo do I put that on this and you know and suddenly I put that on my mom and like you know and you love your mom and you should love your mom but you know I put that on there sometimes you know I put that on me on me on you know or whatever right and so God isn't that same thing because he couldn't swear by any greater he swears by himself in other words I put that on me says God if I don't do what I promised to do to you then I'm a guy and since I cannot die since I am eternal and everlasting baby since I cannot swear by greater I'm swearing by myself if you know you serve a God who cannot lie give him shout of glory in this house God's if I can't swear by any greater there's nothing greater than me if I promise it to you it is coming to pass you can take it to the bank right now only says God on me how shall I know it on me on me imma heal your body on me imma give you financial breakthrough on me no weapon formed against you shall prosper on me says God your children will be safe on me that spouse is waiting for you or me I'm gonna do for me I'm gonna come [Music] or me on me I put that on me Cisco ami ami Jesus going to the cross what's God saying on me I got you your sins on me your weakness on me your limitations on me your struggles on me on me this will come on me ami LA on me online on me I hear God saying you're asking God how will I know it's gonna happen and God is saying because I put it on me and my word Salah I'm not like one of your friends I love your mama says God but I ain't like your mama but when God made a promise to Abram because he could swear by no greater he swore by himself saying surely I will bless you in and multiplying I will multiply you and it says and so after Abraham had patiently endured he obtained the promise now I want to jump down to verse 19 I want to close here it says this hope we have as an anchor of the soul we're talking about covenant we're talking about God swearing by himself because he could not swear by any greater the Covenant itself was strength so to make an oath already his strength but then it's the one who made the oath if you keep reading in there in verse 18 it talks about two immutable things two immutable things one that an oath the contract is immutable and God is immutable because in verse 18 it says it's impossible for God to live that watch this is important I'm almost done it says that we might have strong consolation remember covenant is to bring you to confidence not self confidence but a confidence that transcends that right it says it says this we did this so that we might have strong consolation there's somebody in here right now and you need strong consolation about what God has spoken to you and it says who have fled for refuge refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us the context obviously as the Jews were really really persecuted for following Jesus but that there's some of you at I feel this prophetically and you have left circumstances and situations because God said better is outside of those things and the only challenge is you have come out of that but you haven't come into what you expected you would come in to pull in the word of my prophets I prophesied - maybe maybe you gave your life to God and you expect it for things - instantaneously and automatically be different you walked away for some things some people some ways and and and and and and now you need to be consoled because you you you haven't seen yet the fullness of what he promised and here you are maybe like Abram I left earlier the Chaldeans where my my father was set up and you know it may not have been everything that I wanted to be but at least I knew it and God says let me tell you something I did call I feel that for somebody I did call you out of Earth I feel like I did call you out of that place I did call you out of that situation I did call you to leave the familiar to leave the the the comfortable and now you're uncomfortable and you need consolation how do you get consolation you get consolation by covenant when God that's why you're hearing this message today when God wants to encourage you watch this and to anchor you he does not immediately do what he promises what he promised because that that that doesn't you're not developed in that you're developed in the window between promise and manifestation that window in between that space in between is the place where you are developed but what gives you the strength and the fortitude to continue on this covenant and it says this covenant last point this covenant it says we go to the verse 19 this hope this the hope that's created by this covenant this confidence that is created by the covenant of god it says is an anchor to the soul confidence is powerful i looked at that work confidence and the word confidence is from the latin word confident and it means having full trust it's from the verb confident at two words con watch this expresses intensive force and the other word is federa which means trust so the word confident means powerful trust oh I feel the Holy Ghost the reason why God is trying to get you to trust is because Trust is powerful I'm not talking about self-confidence it is powerful that's fine with you but this is something different this is trust that will move mountains that's why he said if you have faith the size of a mustard seed you will speak to the mountain and say be thou removed and cast into the sea what he's saying is it doesn't you can't do it with mustard seed faith but you have the elements that all you have to do is grow it and it's powerful somewhat powerful trust and this powerful trust is an anchor of the soul what is the soul the soul has to do with your mind has to do with emotions has to do with with memories so so so so so we're talking about an anchor what is it an anchor creates stability I feel the Holy Ghost if you're if you're taking notes write this last note down confidence is an anchor for the emotions because your emotions will cause you to be out of position and consequently miss what God is doing and so so it says it's an anchor for the Soul it's an anchor for your emotion and here's what I've learned I'm done I'm done I'm done I've learned that if I can get my emotions anchored I can do anything if I can get my emotions grounded so that my emotions are not driving my destiny vehicle I can do anything because I've got the promise Oh God I've got the promise but what keeps me vacillating back and forth and quite frankly emotions are if you're not careful subject to change your behavior oh god I'm jealous it's not trying to stop it emotions want to take over that's why you know you start being a little angry nuts you know you really angry now you're doing something but if you can have your emotions anchored oh you can do anything I want to pray for you confidence true confidence is a gift come on stand with me Elaine I want you to stand stand with me I wanna pray for you I'm pray for you God God wants to gift you with real confidence today self-confidence is wonderful I've got plenty of it but it's limited God wants to give you some more see see self-confidence will only work in the areas of my proficiency but there's a lot in this world that is outside of what I'm good at and there are a lot of things that God has promised me and a lot of things that God has called me to huh how about that that are outside of my current expertise and experience and if I'm only only self confident I can't be everything that God has called me to be God doesn't leave you there he says you know what I got you covered I got you covered as you wrestled with the question how shall I know God says I'm gonna make you know because I'm gonna make known to you who I am I'm gonna speak to in your own language for Abraham it was the blood covenant and obviously theologically that had enormous enormous significance but he will meet you right where you are and he will pass between whatever pieces you have the makest covenant no you're gonna need confidence I'm not this is a series by the way you're gonna need this type of confidence as we step into this decade because there's so many things happening in our world that if you're not careful you will you will get emotional and you will be shaken off course are you tracking with me so if you hear it and you say pastor I believe that that you were speaking to me in this message and and God I want I want that type of confidence that you are describing self-confidence wonderful that's great see here's the awesome thing about doc confidence self-confidence comes with God confidence but God confidence doesn't come with self confidence it is a two for one in one way in another way there's no guarantee see the shift happen Abram went from self confidence to next level confidence when he opened himself to covenant with God if that's you I want you to come meet me here at this altar today you say you know what pastor I want I want I want another level of confidence self calm is wonderful but I need God confidence that's you I want you to meet me I saw you come in LA I seen you come and VIN with come on we bout to get this take God's gonna gift over on my shoe box God's gonna give two he's got a gift you with a new dimension of confidence and you need it you need it I was at the place that I was staying on Friday I got into town late that night and I was confronted by I was downtown I was confronted by God and I believe he was demonized I typically travel move about with an additional person to watch me but before I knew what this dude was up on me and I didn't know you know he was kind of know if he was strapped well that means in case you strap means packing cracking means had something on him I got it you know I don't know if he was strapped and I could just tell he had something going on and I and and I just turned he was right there with him feeding me and kind of just talking crazy or whatever and he had a little size on him and I had confidence but both of my confidences were working because I was praying in the spirit but he was about to be the first beneficiary of my Krav Maga training come on somebody I eat power I don't want it to happen that way I had to confidence is working if the angels are moving a little slow come on somebody one or two knee strikes will get it done I'm sorry that was so odd spiritual but no in that moment the Holy Spirit came over me and I just begin to pray in tongues I begin to speak in tongues just right there because I'm not we're not gonna have a conversation here something's going on with you and I just started praying in tongues started praying confidence got confidence I started praying in tongues right there under my breath one loud wasn't crazy just on I'm on I'm just looking at him my should that an inkling you know just branded tongues and he bow down to me physically physically physically he bowed down and he did this uh I don't know if you've ever watched Planet of the Apes where as a sign of submission the ape gets low mouths down and he puts his hand that he literally did that and I said I'll take that I'll take that as this conflict and it was over well what I'm talking about is family we're moving into a time where you have to have God for dance [Applause] David said the Lord is my light and my salvation whom shall I fear the Lord is the strength of my life of whom shall I be afraid when the wicked even my enemies and my foes came upon me to eat up my flesh they stumbled and fell though a host should encamp against me my heart will not fear the Lord should rise against me in this I will be hospital [Music] that's what God wants to give you you're not at this altar get to this altar we're gonna pray for you and you're gonna get confident and my you'd have to be where we got a lot going in our world right now but one thing I am NOT is scared I feel the Holy Spirit of God the earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof I don't care the earth shakes I don't care if the mountains are rolled up God for me who can be against me who can be gets me so the church is gonna model God fidence and that is gonna make your light shine when people are afraid wondering when the next thing is gonna go off hello somebody can I talk to you real for a second you're gonna say you know what a thousand might fall at my side and ten thousand by my right side but it shall not come near me that Psalm 91 in case you didn't know if you hear and you don't know the Lord now is about time to get into covenant if that's you and you're here and you say listen look look look at how this win Abraham had a relationship with God without religion this all predated the law watch this God spoke to him remember the three ways that God revealed himself he spoke to him boom your relationship with God will give you the ability to perceive and to accurately discern the voice of God then he's communicated to him in a vision and then he manifests himself through fire what am I saying whatever it takes to get you to perceive God he will use so if you're here and you say I want to know God like Abram knew God I want you to come and meet me here at this altar as well you're gonna norm he's gonna speak to you he's gonna lead you he's gonna empower you he's gonna give you everything you need if that's you I want you to come and meet me at this altar la come on you can come come on come on you're watching via live stream I want you to get as close to your phone as close to your computer screen I'm gonna pray for you I want you to just lift your hands like you're getting ready to receive something a la moto a heated Eva she come on another umbilical my father we thank you so much for this atmosphere this atmosphere of truth this atmosphere of glory this atmosphere of your presence and your power will never be the same were changed God in this atmosphere god I thank you for every person here your you love them you're committed to them you're for them God hallelujah you don't want from them you're for them and you know exactly what they need God you told me to start talking to your sons and daughters about confidence about God fidence type of confidence and father I thank you today God that's something that's been imparted I thank you God for those who are wrestling and questioning and saying God how shall I know you're gonna do what you say you're gonna do how do I know that I haven't washed my hands in vain how shall I know that that you haven't brought me out to leave me stranded and God I thank you that you're answering by covenant you said faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God and your your word has been declared and therefore confidence is rising in part covenant confidence here today I want you to p-taff to me Heavenly Father I thank you for your word I receive it I thank you for you love I embrace it I thank you for covenant I receive that thank you for Jesus thank you for making him who had no sin all of mine all of my limitations all of my weaknesses all of my shortcomings you placed in his body nailed it to the cross and put it to death and just as he was raised up you're raising me up from level to level from strength to strength and today I receive the gift of divine confidence in Jesus name Amen and then come on let's praise the Lord come on [Music] you

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Length: 60min 59sec (3659 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 05 2020