TouchPoint Tuesday | CONFIDENCE : RESPECTING WHO YOU WERE MADE TO BE

[Music] well good evening and welcome to touch point tuesday i'll listen do me a favor and uh go ahead and share this let me get my stuff together but i'm back in the studio for the first time it seemed like in forever going to share with as many people as you can um hey dolores miss you i'm looking in the comments send me some greetings in the comments i haven't seen like i haven't seen you in forever uh so normally this is my spot i mean this is where i do what i do and and i've been we've been ripping and writing taking care of business but we're back in here and tonight i want to talk to you about confidence and we've been talking about confidence we're going to talk about confidence this month um and actually as far into october as we can what i want to make sure in this series is that we understand who we are and the enemy uses up quite a bit of different things to change us and to to get us to abandon who god has called us to be so i'm not gonna get started i want you good school and start sharing just share share let's get up i'll go to share this and while you're doing that i'll be hanging out with you hey drop me some comments let me see what's going on hey john how you doing i see you all uh georgette in the house and listen um also if you were there on sunday um and you and the word impacted you do me a favor and put in the comments why we while we waiting people come in um what what's one significant thing that really hit you on sunday from that message i said a lot of things um my heart was to actually go back over some of this stuff tonight uh and i i want to do that if my software will let me so you know when i go different places i have different computers and this computer doesn't remember anything i said to you last week uh it didn't come i'm looking for my outline it's not there but i have something for you this week but go to put in the comments one thing you learn there's one thing that that really stood out to you because because i want to know i want to know what that is what stood out to you sunday how did god speak to you uh we're dealing with this topic of being the confident christian and being confident is something i believe that it's a choice you have to make it's a decision that you have to make and so um i think i've given you we've got about a couple more minutes self-efficacy over the other self-help stuff yes and let me tell you something about self-efficacy while we're talking about that and and uh keep putting efficacy in the comments so people can see how to spell it um i think it's the game changer because my confidence has to be in god but i have to be confident that what god has given me is enough who god has made me is enough that doesn't mean i'm not responsible for developing into building what i'm giving but it means that i have enough and so but before we even get started i want to say this just came a heart you have enough in you right now to go back to school but also you have enough to start the business and you have enough to launch out on your own and and be careful when the enemy starts using things to try to destroy your confidence like someone telling you who you're not and and or some some or one is telling you all they can say to you is what you have done wrong that's the enemy attacking your confidence um i'm going through uh miss miss plays confidence is detrimental to my future that's a good com uh uh point on each anitra if you don't pray according to god's will he yes indeed if you don't pray according to god's will he will not hear you and when i listen the sunday that i teach on this part of here of um confidence i just you can't you can't afford to be online you need to be in the building to get this because we're going to talk a lot about prayer and lots and some of the prayer myths we're going to slay many sacred cows that they're going to line up and just kill them one by one um if you're trying to recover your confidence the worst place to look is to yourself and that is true let me tell you something no one can let you down like you it's a part of the journey it's a part of the way you process the part of the way you see failure and success um neil says one thing i learned is it's not that god answers prayer with no maybe or not yet the real question is whether or not god hears you and that is true and and of course and you know what david said and i'm gonna give you give away a little bit of the teaching of prayer david said if i regard iniquity in my heart the lord will not hear me here's what he said he didn't say the lord would answer he said if i regard iniquity in my heart the lord and i hear me so uh go ahead i want you to keep sharing um while we're going to tonight's lesson so father i love you tonight and i praise you for all the people that's only whose hearts are hungry to hear the word of god father feed us feed us by your spirit and i pray tonight that what we receive would cause us to go one step closer to push us further into your plan your purpose for our lives that in no way god shape or form we will fail we will fail to fulfill our purpose and destiny in the earth we thank you we praise you in jesus name amen all right um yes so i'm still looking at your comments uh [Music] somebody said the topic alone blessed me and then the teaching was so profound well thank you um someone detoxing from old teachings and saying can't say god doesn't speak to me if i don't open his word okay excellent so i'm reading your comments and and they're blessing me so what i want to do is i want to jump into tonight's lesson i hope you're taking good notes and again if you just came on please share if you came on just going to share i need actually i'm telling you shane i haven't shared so i'm there you go i just shared to my page and so i want to invite more people in so what i want to do tonight is um there are several outlines that i have on this topic and what i've been doing is kind of sharing with you um from places i believe will speak to you the most and there's a lot of scripture there is uh uh just a mountain of scriptural evidence that points to the fact that if my confidence is not first in god then any confidence that i have is actually self-made and it can crumble at the worst possible time confidence the enemy understands that we are designed by god to to first know who we are we have to you have to know who you are and you have to understand why god asks certain things of you so i want to begin i want to start here it's not scripted at all but i want to mention this it is important to you and to me that we know how to process temptations to sin listen to this i want you to get this every temptation to sin is an invitation to compromise who i am it's it's an identity attack the enemy identity attacks my identity by inviting me to misbehave later on in this lesson i i want to show i want to share with you that um this invitation to misbehave to do the wrong thing literally puts me in a position where i disconnect from god and the first thing you have to understand about confidence is my confidence in life my confidence in in myself my confidence in others begins with god if i don't have confidence in god then there's no way i'm living by faith i'm gonna talk we're gonna cover that in a second as well i have to know that everything about my confidence begins with god it's impossible you say well i know people who are not saying that they have great confidence do not confuse confidence with ambition or confidence with arrogance or confidence with with swag or or anything else confidence is different confidence requires that i understand listen to this confidence requires that i understand that god will build the thing i need while i'm in motion going towards it confidence understands that god will turn a river into a desert and turn a desert into a river just for me confidence is a love word when it comes to the lord confidence is a part of god's love an expression of god's love for me i'm confident in him because i believe he is who he says he is okay so i want to read some scriptures to you real quick just a bunch of scriptures um my confidence is rooted in the unchanging and faith faithful nature of god what it means is i understand that god cannot tell a lie i understand that god will not say something if it's not true i understand that the promises of god are the most valuable things in the kingdom so i want i want to give you a bunch of my fact i'm going to share this real quick because i want to give you a bunch of scripture i want to show you something and this is just one of the outlines let me see can i get to it um a bunch of scriptures check out this outline so i have this outline that and there's just nothing there's nothing on this outline but but um scriptures i want to show you this let me see can i get it bigger so you can see it better on your screen all right so check this out this is six pages of nothing but scriptures okay and what the scriptures what the scriptures are designed to do i'm gonna read a couple to you but did i did this to for myself so i can go through just read through these scriptures about what confidence really means let me let me make a change right quick okay so let's go let's go up here for the first part confidence in god in his unchanging and faithful nature this is from the dictionary of bible themes okay number 23-19 god is not a man so he does not lie god does not lie remember a part of my confidence is in the predictability of a person the reason uh the confidence is trusting with conviction when we talk about being confident we're talking about having unwavering uh on bending trust i trust god impeccably now here's the challenge there there are no human beings in the earth that i could trust like that without building a relationship of trust and we both have to have a mutual understanding of what trust is okay now so the bible says god is not a man that he does not lie why is that significant it means that it makes him it makes him consistent um it it makes him predictable if he doesn't lie then i know he's going to say he's going to do rather what he says here's what it says he's not human so he does not change his mind in other words when he said he's going to do something he's going to do it has he ever spoken and failed to act has he ever promised says the word has he ever promised and not carried it through that's the first scripture god is not a man that he should like so i can have confidence in god if god says he's going to do something then i could act with full assurance that god is going to do what he said he's going to do here's here's paul writing to titus in titus chapter 1 verses one and two this letter is from paul a slave of god an apostle of jesus christ i have been sent to proclaim faith to those god has chosen and to teach them to know the truth that shows them how to live godly life look at verse two this truth gives them confidence watch this this truth gives them confidence that they have eternal life which god who does not lie promised them before the world began so paul goes right for the juggler hezel paul says paul says that i'm sent to preach to people and to preach the truth of god and to preach the person of god so that they so listen the truth that i preach can give them confidence that they have eternal life listen to this you say well i want i'm talking about pastors talk to us about confidence now so we can live by it understand something how do you know that when you die you're going to heaven see we live in a generation where everybody that died seemed like oh whoa well they were going to heaven rest in heaven rest in peace how do you know according to the bible the majority of people who leave this earth don't go to heaven that's the scripture says so how do you know you're going to heaven the bible says watch as paul said i've been sent to preach the gospel and to preach the truth he says this truth gives them confidence that they have eternal life how can you have that kind of confidence because you trust god who can't lie i trust god who does not lie so i know i know that what god says concerning jesus christ i accept jesus christ as my lord and savior i walk with jesus christ he takes my place he answers for me he stands for me god does not like he promised before the world began that's the way it is i have confidence look at first time 15 29 and he who is the glory of israel will not lie here he nor will he change his mind for he is not human that he should change his mind wait a minute god doesn't change his mind what he's saying is this is that god will not put you in a position god will not put you in a position where he speaks a word you move on it and he decides while you while you're doing what he told you to do i changed my mind i'm not going to do that no once you receive the promise of god once you accept what god said he's going to do he is going to do it he's just coming on go to share this god is going to do what he said he's going to do here's another scripture psalm 33 11 but the lord's plans stand firm forever his intentions what god intends to do can never be shaken what are you doing pastor i'm building your confidence in god look at psalm 102. but you are always the same you will live forever the children of your people will live in security here's a security is a confidence word remember we said the opposite of confidence is insecurity insecurity is the opposite of confidence so here's what it says it says but you are always the same speaking of the lord you will live forever the children of your people will live in security their children's children will thrive in your presence my connection to god gives me a security it makes me secure and once i'm secure i have confidence confidence is birthed out of my relationship god here's another scriptures proverbs 3 25 26 you need not be afraid of sudden disaster or destruction that comes upon the wicked for the lord is your security he will keep your foot from being caught in a trap here's what it says it says you can be confident in god because regardless of what the enemy does and how things go and how things are looking he said god is going to be your security he is he is the one that protects you he's your fence like we said on sunday you'll wrap around shield he will keep your foot from being caught in the trap the trap will be set it may spring but your foot won't be caught in it and if watch this no matter what happens it'll god shall turn it for good and i can go through all these scriptures and show you i can go through all the scriptures and show you that god is a god that can be trusted all right so i want to move on tonight and talk to you on this piece about confidence i want to talk to you about specifically being confident or respecting who you were made to be who god made you to be respecting who god made you to be okay one of the biggest things i've seen is or especially in these then this day and age is that there is like in high school there was always a cool group i don't know what you call them in your high school but there's a group of people that everybody wanted to be in this clique because they were the cool clique they they it seemed like they are they were parented different their parents would let them do things they have stuff they they were they were doing stuff like they were grown had all this freedom and you want to be that person and when i was in high school i remember um wanted to be a part of a certain group because they just seemed to to um to have a certain favor about them but in order to be who they were i had to lose who i was and so here i was a part of this group and for for the sake of acceptance i had to change my identity to be who they were because what they were offering seemed to be better than what i was living the enemy will use this same high school tactic against you he will get you'll be so inundated and involved and consumed with who another person is that you'll forget who you are it happens in relationships you run into someone um and you you enter a relationship maybe a romantic relationship or whatever and all of a sudden you lose yourself in this person because you're so taken with who they are that you lose respect for who god made you to be or it may be it may be that um that you you just you can never um you never liked yourself you maybe so you look in the mirror whatever it is you just never like yourself whatever reason you're being critical or maybe you're criticized and so you you devalue who you are and as a result of that but now here you are in life and you can never find your place about or what you're called to do because you just don't like you we need to speak to that tonight i want to take some a time i want to spend some time talking about your identity now reputation is not identity you uh your your reputation is what people think about you what people say about you uh people can say whatever they want to about you but if you know who you are and your identity remains intact what they think what they say about you can't change anything about you understand this so reputation is what the the general consensus is about who you are um character is the imprint that's made upon your your soul or your spirit in other words its character speaks of who you really are in a season now according to the book of romans chapter five verses one through five and many other scriptures god is spending your life developing your character when we talk about character it involves your heart character involves the way you think character involves your or what assignments you're trusted with here what i'm saying when we speak of character we're talking about the emotional stability to function on a certain level listen to what i said when we speak of character we speak about the mental mental acumen emotional stability or um the maturity to be able to function within a certain realm it doesn't mean you're perfect to have character is not perfection it just means that mentally i think a certain way emotionally i respond a certain way and as far as maturity is concerned i'm i'm equal to the task or greater okay this is critical for you to understand because what would happen is many times we get our confidence from our reputation and put this in the put this in a comment many times we depend on our reputation for our confidence that is the worst thing you can do here's why reputation is the is this is the weakest form of the weakest foundation rather to build confidence in because people's perspective of you can change in a moment what your your reputation is only as good as the last thing you accomplish your reputation is only as good as a la as as a matter of fact your reputation depends on who's telling the story you get it you could be anything to anyone you don't even know people say about you character is different character is is who is who i'm gradually becoming in my mind in my heart you got it as a person character my confidence has to be in god and watch this now once i know who i am in christ once i know who i am becoming once i know who he's making me to be watches now i could be confident that that the journey continues regardless of what happened even if you fail even if you go through a season that's not your best season in life you can still be confident of who you be who you're gonna become paul said in philippians chapter one here's what he said he said being confident of this very thing that he who began a good working in you will perform it to the day of christ um there is a constant growing of building that god is doing okay all right okay now um what are y'all talking about these comments man all right so so i want to move forward for a minute and i want to make i want to take you to uh my second i want to just talk to you about respecting who you are respect that's i want to work from that for a moment um respecting who you are um if you don't respect who you are what's going to happen is people make you into who they want you to be so i wanna pick up here in jeremiah chapter one jeremiah chapter one verses four and five and please follow me right quick i wanna i wanna point something out to you here's where this begins it says this the lord gave me this message many of you know the scripture from the king james but i'm quoting from the new living translation the lord gave me this message here's what god says i knew you before i formed you in the belly in your mother's room rather but you were born before you were born rather i set you apart and i appointed you as a prophet to the nation so here's what we have right here and we i love to use the scripture you've heard the scripture taught on many times but i want to use this as a basis because i want to show you exactly how it works for you okay the lord gave me this message of the prophet saying god says i knew you before i formed you i knew you before i formed you the word form is critical it will come up again before i formed you in your mother's womb before you were embryo before you were seedling god says i knew you before you were born and he said i set you apart the word sanctified means to be placed in the word sanctified means to be set apart or set aside to do a specific thing put the definition to comment the word sanctified means to be set apart to be set apart to do a specific thing sanctify it to be given a specific purpose so when the bible talks and watches and sanctification is a holy word but it's a part of the word family uh hagiasmus in the new testament speaking of holiness so watch this i'm about to help you it's impossible for you to live a holy life if you do not honor the fact that god has set you apart i set you apart as what the lord says let me let me put that i set you apart i in other words holiness is the difference that's the the root of the word holiness sanctified saint um sanctuary these words mean to be set apart to that which is holy it should be to be different when the lord he said before you were born listen to this when he says i set you apart i sanctified you said i made you different. before before i formed you in your mother's womb before you were born i made you different also he said i appointed you i appointed you what does a point means it means i ordained you or i set you in a particular order and in in jeremiah's case he said i have set you in a prophetic order now jeremiah was a prophet indeed here's my question to you do you know that god set you apart so when i was a young boy my father looked at me one day and and asked me what i wanted to be i said i want to be a musician my father looked at me and he said why and he said you'll either be a doctor a lawyer or a minister my father looked at me and said that when i was a young boy well what what was he aspiring to greatness was he trying to live vicariously through me maybe but here's why here's what i rather believe i rather believe that my father saw something in me that god showed him god showed him um my difference or my set apartness and god showed him where i was what i was appointed to now how did pastor how did you figure out which one it was well i couldn't be a doctor and for those of you who who haven't heard us before i went to pre i went when i first started college i took pre-med matter of fact a lot of my word studies came from medical terminology when i was taking medical criminology is when i fell in love with words okay but when i got to the emt phase of my training i realized i couldn't handle blood so being a doctor was out i did not want to be a lawyer because i was to be honest with you i was always on the wrong side of the law to be honest with you so i didn't want to and when i got saved when i came to the lord it was not my intention to stand in front of people and say anything to anyone because i'm an introvert and it just wasn't my thing but that's what god set me aside to and that's who i became okay now look at this who you are created to be is significant let me finish that statement it's significant and here's why jeremiah was created to be a prophet to the nations right we see that but did you know that in his lifetime in his in jeremiah's lifetime he only left jerusalem three times so it is possible watch this now it's possible that you could be called to the nations and never leave your home [Laughter] the problem with a lot of us the problem with a lot of us is we think that we're not here um or are you a prophet to the nation you think you're gonna be traveling to the nations jeremiah never went to another listen jeremiah went to egypt i recall him going to egypt i require i mean i remember him at some point visiting babylon i'm not even sure he lived there but you need to understand something he he was called to the nations but he never went there but what we do know is his books jeremiah and lamentation have been read all around the world so because god says i've called your prophet to the nations maybe it's important to go back to god and say what does that mean i believe for a lot of us for a lot of us we don't take enough time we don't spend enough time with the one who designed us we don't spend enough time with the one who created us and we are so attracted to other people and other things that we miss that the one person that i need to get to know to know who i am is god watch this who you are made to be was determined by god before he sent you to the earth everything about you is significant and holy to the lord in other words god makes a lot of vessels right but you are special put in the comments for me i am special to the lord put in the comments i am special to the lord i am special to the lord put in the comments i am special to the lord okay i am special what does it mean i'm special to the lord it means that god has made you for a specific thing special specific god made for a specific thing what you got to understand is regardless of the flow of of of popularity of the flow of what's in vogue or what people are saying um their preference is you can't keep changing being a chameleon to always be in the flow understand what i'm saying your gift who you are is for a certain season a certain people a certain in other words god has set your side to do what he wants you to do you have to be good with that you have to be clear that god will always have you relevant to somebody you can't keep changing who you are to become what they want because if you put your identity in people's hands listen i'm about to say they will write you into this script where necessary you've heard me say this before they will write you into the script where necessary and they will listen and they will they have no problem killing you off in season one they don't mind killing you of why you're not relevant to this story you're just an extra you're just a stand-in okay so i got to know that i'm i'm significant i'm special to god watch this everything about you is holy to the lord look at this your nationality your race your gender let me talk about jennifer min your family of origin the family you are born to is important to the lord they're part of god's plan for you they are part of god's plan for you okay let me get this off here there you go now let me go back to gender so we live in a time in major gender confusion and and we're teaching children you could choose um based on how you feel you can choose who you want to be or what gender you want to be here's the problem with that and i want to help you out with this the problem with that is if god sent you to the earth and your purpose specifies a male or specifies a female you cannot fulfill that same purpose watch this you can't fulfill that purpose choosing to be something else the enemy understands that the bible calls it leaving your first estate leaving your first estate where does that come from well satan left his first estate as as a covering cherub he was designed to be submitted to god and to worship god but somewhere along the line satan felt he felt that that he should be worshipped because of his of his perfection the perfection that god put in him and he left his first estate and instead of serving god he tried to usurp god's position and god threw him out of heaven he left his first estate here's what i want you to understand um he is tempting people now and and and doing all kinds of wicked or manipulative things with people's souls to get people to want to be what they want created to be and one of the areas he attacks is this area of gender because there's no there's no faster way to derail you from fulfilling your purpose than to get you to pro to be something else or someone else because i will say something to you god can only anoint perfect favor and transform the real you god can only anoint god can only perfect mature ordain the real you if you're trying to be some god is not obligated to participate in your deception to participate in your offense to participate in your distraction god will try to draw you back he will send messengers and messages to you but just be careful with this you say pastor you know what i feel what you feel is real but it's wrong what you feel is real but it's not right you got listen and you have to give yourself permission to say put that in the comments what i feel is real but it's not right put it in the comments now and in no way now understand i'm teaching the bible somebody said well this is hate speech it is not his speech listen i love you god loves you and and the struggle is real for all of us struggle is real god in no way god in no way minimizes or or um it wants to in at this juncture punish you for your struggle but you have to understand the enemy is trying to trick you into something that's not yours okay let's go a step further remember this your nationality your race your gender your family of origin um your specific gifting all these things are part of god's plan for you god's purpose for you look at this in isaiah 44. i want to i want you to point this out it says but now here let me turns the different comments college you can see it he says this but not here or jacob my servant israel whom i've chosen okay they'll say the lord who made you and who formed you so i wanna i wonder those words to stick out because we'll come back to them real quick notice something remember i told you in jeremiah the god says before before i formed you in the womb i know you i want to show you something god speaks now remember there are three names in this verse i'm gonna read the verse again then i'm gonna point them out but now here or jacob my servant is through whom i have chosen thus saith the lord who made you who formed you from the womb and will help you he says fear not o jacob my servant jeshurun or who or whom i've chosen now you say wait a minute who is he talking to he's talking to three people he's literally he's literally talking to one person call them three names so let's talk about to tell you god is speaking to israel but he has three names for them because he understands them in three different ways but listen to me you whom god has called and pastor i thought you teach on confidence yes but my confident lesson is respecting who you were made to be not who you're formed to be who you are mate to because this is important here's what here's god's thing god calls israel by these three names in this verse this is significant he calls him by three names then he look watches he calls them he says jacob is born okay or jacob is born israel is formed okay jacob is god's servant israel is god's chosen okay look here's the word chosen right here and then he uses it again down here okay keep keep following the outline so jacob is the servant we see that israel is the chosen one okay um god god makes israel but he forms jacob okay i know i know what these are these are levels of identification with god levels of of identification the more we yield to who we are and become confident in our relationship with god it's the more we grow that's what i want to add there the more we grow and become you're getting a chance to me finish the outline who we are designed to be you got that let me let me i want you to take a good look at this okay so and this is yeah something about this number two is off but i'm gonna correct it but this is the point i'm making right here is this is that jacob is jacob is born that's who israel's birth name was jacob subplanter um the one who grabbed his brother's heel at birth the one who stole the birthright the one who deceived his father the one he that's jacob israel is who he came after he wrestles with god but so god says israel god says i formed israel you you're going to be born one thing but i'm going to make you into something else this is critical now let look at this but jeshurun how have you ever heard the name jeshurun this name that he calls him is a symbolic name for israel and it describes israel ideal character or israel in a perfected state from time to time god called israel jeshiran and the and the word jeshua means the upright one of the one who goes straight along the way the one who becomes who i want him to be and so watch this in each one of us there's a there's a jacob who was born in my in my flawed state in in my carnality and in my in my lack of identity and not knowing who i am and then god uses this this state of of of the process of my life and he's shaping me with his hand he's making me into something else watch this and as i stay connected to him i'm building an identity with him i'm having confidence in him the more i have confidence in him the more he shapes me i learn to respect who i'm becoming watch this i learned to respect that at any given time i could revert back to to jacob and mess up and i have to stay with god and if i don't put value and emphasis on my relationship with god i'll find myself in a struggle and some of you right now in this struggle where you where your israel is being challenged by your jacob your israel's being challenged by your jacob and jacob wants to be and jacob wants to be seen he wants to be he wants a voice he wants to be heard but israel is who god is making into um so you can fulfill purpose but god calls you jeshuran jeshua means why are you in the process of struggle between your your of jacob and your israel god calls you jeshurun which means god sees you as perfected in christ that's who you have to see yourself as the one perfected in christ i got to see myself as a person watches now who although i'm in struggle i have to identify with who god has called me to be did i just i mean talk to me in the comments i want to know what are y'all getting this because i'm gonna tell you what i'm gonna tell you what's funny people people will talk about you know you're not this and you're not that all the while what's what i'm describing is not unique to you or to me what i'm describing is what every believer goes through and not only every believer even the person who doesn't know the lord will go through seasons of of being different people now i'm gonna show you this this is important because this point right here deals with your confidence if the enemy the the enemy attacks your confidence with a thing called shame if he can get you to or to buy into the of the shame game then he actually will neutralize you without even trying let me show you something with you and many of you have heard this when you do something wrong you should feel guilt guilt said i did wrong and when i go to the lord watch this now all things be equal i understand the scripture let me take this off share for a minute when i go to the lord and i say i said lord you know what i did something wrong god will forgive me of what i did wrong and i'm still in god's eyes just iran or israel in being formed by god this is important here's watch this i'll be made by god i gotta differentiate one is formed in the womb the other one is made by the hand of god gesheron is what god sees me to be in christ okay so understand this if i said that i've done something wrong then there's guilt and then god could forgive me of the guilt get this but when i'm in shame instead of saying i did something wrong i start saying i am something wrong i i don't say i messed up i say i am messed up and when and when your identity is attacked with shame the first thing you lose is confidence because many times what happens is that people think that we begin to believe that the whole world sees us the way we've been made to see ourselves and so we won't go forth to be who god has called the remember this whole thing is about purpose put it in the comments put in the comments this entire thing is about purpose it's about purpose it is about the enemy wants you so ashamed of how you look he wants to be able to be ashamed of how you talk he wants you to be ashamed of where you're from he wants you to be afraid i mean ashamed of what you've done he doesn't care why you're ashamed he needs your shame and here's why once you are ashamed he neutralizes you and your purpose stops i don't care whether whether if you're on here you say pastor i'm not even a christian i'm speaking to you too because once he can get you to be ashamed once he you're done you're done because now you're afraid to walk into the arena and you like the this even if you do walk into the arena you lack the confidence to do what you're called to do you like the confidence to and the boldness and the courage to do what god wants you to do so you find yourself in a position where you're always ducking and hiding and you're afraid i wonder what they say that only they like me and everything watches everything is about feeling the room to see what people think about you before you can do what you're called to do i watch people go on the platform to sing to share a song to preach a message and they can't get past how people are looking at them the problem is not out there it's in here it's in here they don't they have lost sight of who god is called to be because they've paid respect unto what people said about them you've got to get to a place and you're developing on them i'll say this to you because you because failure is a part of your learning all season on learning story if you're going to learn if you're going to grow up you're going to become better you're going to miss it sometimes and when you miss it you can't become that thing you have to be you have to remain who you have to respect who you are it's all about your purpose i want to say this you cannot play sin games i cannot play i'ma tell you why because sin stops the rain that statement is a statement i hate i heard apostle um i heard apostle ib hilly make this statement years ago sin stops the rain egypt was a land that was watered by irrigation from the nile river okay so when they plant a crop they just ran water from the nile river toward the land god told israel when you go to the promised land he said be careful how you treat me listen to what god said be careful how you treat me be careful how you maintain your relationship with me he said because the land i'm taking you to is not a land like egypt that is watered by a river he said this land right here is watered but from from the sky from rain he said every time you sow a seed you're going to partner with me you saw a seed you maintained your confidence in our relationship and i will send rain the former and the latter rain he said but if you choose to serve other gods and worship them how do you worship other gods by by misbehaving by doing the things they want you to do god says that sacrificing to them when i misbehave when i do i'm sacrificing to them god said it will stop the rain sin stops the rain and when the rain is stopped god see if i shut up heaven that there'd be no rain you know that scripture right we all know it but here's the thing the whole premise the whole uh um idea that god was trying to get in their heads was this is that i need you to be to be so connected to me watch this that it's a part of your identity you respect who you are made to be you are made to be in every identity that god watch this when you i'm gonna go back and share the screen one more time because i want to show you something i want to show you something right here when you go back up here um jacob jacob is not um who israel is going to be but he's still god's servant israel is who god has chosen you see this god forms um jacob in the womb but he makes israel he the word i think the word is asa one word is yasad the other one is asa so yasa is the form assad is to make to manipulate with the hands so but watch this but it's all in relationship to god jacob is my servant israel i have chosen it's all in connection with god just you run is who god sees israel is going to be in when you fully develop but i'm calling you that now notice this every part of my identity is connected to him i can't have confidence i can't have confidence if something is between me and god you get it even so even when i'm not living my best life even when i'm not i don't have it all the way together i can't let anything not not i can't let anything get between me and god i pray this is helping you our prayers is helping you okay all right so quickly let's look at this is this let me see something real quick okay are y'all with me okay all right now watch this in hebrews chapter 11 verse one i'm reading from the new living translation let me put it in there just so you could have read in your notes faith is the confidence watch this the king james says faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen but here it says faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen it gives us here's another confident word it gives us assurance about things we cannot see now why is this significant it's significant because the bible says that just shall live by faith you and and myself you and me we live by faith i live by faith watch this faith where the bible says faith is not faith is is the substance the word is confidence here it translates to confidence so the abc's of faith the abc's of faith um i got this definition years ago it's action based in belief and sustained by confidence put that in the comments for me action based in belief i'm now up now this is this is we about to um activate you action based in belief and sustained by confidence that is the definition of faith i want us to work with for this um for this series that we're in action based in belief and sustained by confidence here's how it works how do you know pastor when it's time to move on something from god something that god told you to do i i i can only now let me say this a lot of believers wait until they are offended to try to obey god a lot of believers wait until um they get uh fed up or to obey that's not when you obey god watch this the abcs of faith is action based in belief and sustained by confidence that means if i lack confidence in god not in myself if i lack confidence in god then i could believe a thing and act on it and it may have initial results but it will not be sustained the operative word here is sustained if i'm going to sustain what my act of faith if it's going to be sustained it's going to be productive if i'm going to win then what has to happen is watch this i got to have confidence that is why in hebrews chapter 10 it says cast that away therefore your confidence which has um um great reward okay it says my reward the outcome is tied to my confidence watch this i'm confident in what i'm doing because of what i believe about god myself and my assignment these three right here let's talk about this right here god myself and my assignment my confidence i'm confident what i'm doing so i long try to do something i'm confident because watch this i'm confident because um i believe about what i believe about god myself and my assignment god i believe that god is not a man that he should lie listen to this statement god is obligated matter of fact let me make some notes what i'm teaching you god is obligated to reveal his will to me that right there god is obligated to reveal his will to me in other words i don't have to go chasing down i don't know what the will of god is listen the foundation of the will of god somebody asked me this at the church on sunday say pastor what do you how do you find the will of god the will of god is in the word of god the will of god is the word of god and the quickest way the fastest way to become um intimately involved and intimately aware of the will of god is to study jesus in the gospels matthew mark luke and john and even in the book of acts look at how jesus operates why do you say that because the bible says that jesus is god's last statement to us the last thing the most important thing that god ever said to humankind he said it in the life of jesus jesus christ is is the is the word of god he is the expression of god he's the entire logos not just the word but the idea the philosophy the understanding i can look at god and see what i can look at jesus rather and see what god wants the bible says i could see god in the face of jesus and what he's doing okay so watch this god is obligated to reveal his will to me okay so i'm confident in what i'm doing because of what i believe about god he's uh and then another thing about god is that he i said earlier he cannot lie let me explain to you what that means um some places they say he will not lie but it's he cannot it's impossible when listen what the bible says it's impossible for god to lie what does that mean the word impossible is the greek word ardunatos a-d-u-n-8 is i do nattos in the greek ardunatos means not having the power of the ability to do something it's not that god won't lie is he can't it's he's incapable um here's why god the bible says that the earth was was formless it was void it was dark and the spirit of god move upon the face of the water and god says light be or let me put it let me put it for terms god says there is light and and you say well there was no light god lied he didn't lie because whatever he says comes to pass that's the thing he's impart it's impossible for him to lie because his words create right human kind could lie because what a lie is is a disconnection between the heart and the mouth from the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks that's how we design from the from what my mouth is designed to to actually um speak out what's in my heart i only know a person's heart by their mouth but what they're saying watch this if i try to change that if i try to to say something different for us in my heart the bible calls it deception or a lie so man can lie god cannot lie it's impossible for him to lie okay so i have confidence in god because he cannot tell a lie and he has to reveal his will to me god i am not smart enough to figure out the will of god i'm not smart enough you said well god gave me a dream to show me something whenever god gives you a dream or prophecy he's telling he's giving you something to come to him he what god is actually doing is starting a conversation this is what i'm saying when when god gives you a prophetic dream a vision whatever he's starting a conversation with you it's not the will of god that someone gives you a prophetic word or you have a dream and you just get up and start doing stuff no god wants you to come to him and talk to him he wants you to talk to him he he stu he start he start a conversation now talk back to him and start this thing so he can reveal to you what he wants you to do okay so i have confidence in what i'm doing because of what i believe about god number two what i believe about myself i believe watch this now that i am enough i believe that what god has put in me in seat form is enough to get started watch us now i believe that god has given me beginning grace beginning grace what is what's beginning grace is that god has given me enough to start with as i start to go forward watch his action based in belief sustain my confidence as i begin to act based on what i believe the psalmist said i believe therefore i've spoken paul said um as it's written we believe also and therefore we speak so belief is the motivation of what i do it's what it's based on what i believe so pastor so i believe the wrong thing god is able if your heart is right and your desires to please god god is able to rectify any misstep that you make now don't go out there trying to miss a step but god god is able to rectify so god has given me beginning grace watch this now god will give me continuing grace when god will give me continued grace as i continue as i move forward and then god has a batch of finishing grace for me so that i will always finish what i start watch this so my first my first confidence isn't is in doing what i'm doing is that i believe god but number two watches now i believe in and here's the word self efficacy and proof proof that i believe in what god has put in me watches now is i develop it let me say this to you real quick if you don't have a mentor a pastor someone that speaks into your life if you always got to be a smartest person in the room i got i got a a a spiritual son he didn't listen to nothing no matter what i i'll be in the room i should have to shut up and listen let him talk because he always know and it's it's one of the greatest frustrations to have a person's answer but they don't have ears to hear you got it they can't they don't want to hear nothing just want to do what they want to do just they just the bible says a fool is only interested in sharing his heart you only want you to hear him let me share this with you it's critical that you understand that if you believe that what god has given you is enough and it needs to be developed then you need to put yourself in a position to hear and to be developed and to be made and to be groomed so you can do what god is calling to do there's someone that knows what you need to know and and god has raised up people to teach you and god has also raised up people to connect you and i'ma tell you something most of you are not meeting the right connections because you're not listening enough you don't hear is when you begin to hear and to begin to develop what god has given you now guys will connect you you can build all the platforms you want all your platform is going to show that you're not ready okay that's not for everybody that's for somebody okay now watch this so it's god myself the third thing is my assignment my assignment so we talked about watches i believe in god i believe in listen i i believe something about god i believe about myself what i believe about myself that i have i am i have what i need in me but number three is my assignment now let me tell you something about your assignment that i think is important for you to learn your assignment from god will take on different forms and different shapes depending on where you are and depending on what god has in mind never lose sight of this okay never lose sight of this and one of my spiritual sons just text me it's not you listen i love you let me tell you what this particular spiritual son says you text me that means you're watching me it's probably the one the most studious this particular spiritual son probably listens to me more than any other spiritual son i have so no it's not you he he said i want you to know i listen everything you say yeah i know you and i thank god for your heart and fish for your obedience [Laughter] that just bless me when i get up i'm gonna hit you when i get up it's funny so watch this and many times we'll talk about this but it's concerning your assignment is you have to understand i'm going to say something that's really really um let this speak to you concerning your assignment god reserves the right to favor you and bless you when you are connected to him and if you disconnect and refuse to reconnect he reserves the right to burn down what he built or to uproot it god will not his god your comments are hilarious god will not allow um you to lose yourself in the thing he has given you in the assignment he's given you because your confidence is in you or in the gift he's given you all the favor he's giving you or the anointing he's given you your confidence is now in you and not in him the moment your confidence moves to self-confidence self-help and not self-efficacy god would literally he will literally remove his hand stop the rain and get you to see that things don't grow without his help okay watch this i want to show you some things if you're go as far as your confidence and concern abraham let me let me take off sheri been sharing for a long time so i wanna i'm gonna oh god we we always let me start to shut it down so greg if you play that now it's time to end so let me share this with you um abraham you know the story these stories that we tell the bible there are many more stories but these are the most are practical or more more popular stories abraham and sarah you know that one is 100 the other one is is 90 years old god promises them a child and here they are but the bible says something about abraham that just blows my mind here's what it says in romans chapter 4 verses 20 21 it says abraham never wavered in believing god's promise he nev listen it's interesting and i want to i just want to i want us to speak to you let this speak to you i want to show it to you let me put on the screen i just took it off but i got to show you this watch this see right here abraham never wavered in believing god's promise in fact his faith in god grew stronger and in this he brought glory to god he was fully convinced that what convinced is a confidence word that god is able to do whatever he promises abraham's problem in this whole thing was not god it was him the reason that god was able to fulfill the promise to abraham is because although abraham like he now watch this god had to work on on his the way he saw his efficacy because abraham believed god sarah believed god the bible says sarah judged god faithful the problem with in their minds was not god it was them it was me and the enemy wants you to say god can oh god is able you want to say god is able he wants you singing god is able but he wants you to believe that god is able to do it for you you lack confidence when god could you could pray for other people and you could you can believe god for other people when it comes to you or no well you know well you don't know no god can do it for you god can do it for you confidence says put us in the comments put us in the comments god can and he will and in capital letters but for me god can and he will in capital letters for me let me tell you why because you've got to stoke the fires of your confidence in god and say listen god has promised who's god talking to him in the bible if he's not talking to me he said well pastor you don't know i'm not perfect you don't i mean you don't know don't put the words for me in all caps you so i'm not perfect you don't know my life is messed up listen you got to start somewhere and i'm going to tell you this right now if begin by getting rid of the known sin in your life if there's no sin in your life then i'ma tell you this right now you're playing into the enemy's hands you you can't be out there level reckless you play into the enemy's hands so get rid of the known sin and you and we all have been the place where we have no sin in our lives but listen because because if that's what you were doesn't mean where you have to be god god wants to do it for you there are people people in the bible have the same testimony like your stairs it's worse but god did it for them why because they believed abraham never wavered he never doubted for a minute that god could do it for him god will do it for me god will do it for me that's the confidence this is the confidence i have watch this watch this i want to show you something i believe god so i believe god is faithful to his word but i also i believe god has designed me with specific purpose and given me all i need to succeed here's romans 8 28 and we know it's a confidence word and we know that god causes everything to work together for good for the good of those who love god and are called watch this according to his purpose you and i are called the word purpose in the in the greek award it means according to his design according to his resolve for them i love this about the new living translation according to his purpose for them god will cause now you say pastor god said you can make all things work together for good but it's not working together for good because your eyes are not fixed on what his purpose is for you because god is not moving in your situation right now doesn't mean he doesn't want to move it may be that you're not pursuing his purpose for you suppose the purpose you're pursuing is the purpose that that you got attracted to or sucked into by looking at popular others and popular trends and you never sought god to find out what is the purpose for you god always gives us a clue about what we're supposed to do by the gift things on the inside of us god has equipped you he's giving you seedlings of purpose in you he's showing you what he's called you to do and if you you said pastor that doesn't pay the bills [Music] he doesn't pay the bills it doesn't pay the bill because it's not developed yet it's like an accident a child to go work but if you develop this thing that god put into you it'll more than pay the bills god has ideas god has provision god has all kinds of stuff we know what that we know that god causes i love that word causes everything to work to get every single thing everything to work together for the good of those who love god wait let's talk about who loved god he said pastor i don't know if i love god okay let's talk about that here's what the bible says we love because he first loved us the king james added the word him we love him because he first loved us the only reason you don't love god is because you don't know how much god loves you because the moment that you understand how god almost god loves you it moves you in your heart is moved towards him god loves you the bible talks about the width and the height and the breath and the depth of his love that's beyond knowledge the love of god for god loves you more than you could ever imagine if god didn't love you he'd allow you to just go and do dumb stuff but he loves you and so we love him we are called according to what he purposed for us you're in the earth because he has purpose for you god has purpose for you you're here with purpose look at romans 11 it says this i like to light up the scriptures so it's just not black and white so let me do this real quick here's what it says many of the people of israel are not enemies of the good news this is paul writing to the church in rome again and his benefits and this benefits that you gentiles it says yet they are still the people he loves and this is powerful i want to read again many of the people of israel are now enemies of god they're enemies of god of the good news they hate the gospel and this benefits you gentiles yet they are still the people he loves they they're enemies of his gospel but he loves them because he chose the ancestors abraham isaac and jacob and i love how god doesn't say abraham isaac and israel he calls him by his unrenewed unregenerated name it says for the gifts for god's gifts and his call are never withdrawn the king james says the gift of calling of god without repentance it doesn't mean you don't have to repent it simply means that god never takes back from you or never changes his mind about what he wants you to do once you gentiles were rebels against god but when the people of israel rebelled against god god was merciful to you instead now they are the rebels and god's mercy has come to you so that they too were sharing god's mercy watch this for god has imprisoned everyone in disobedience i love this verse right here this part of the verse [Music] god has imprisoned everyone in disobedience so you can have mercy on everyone what does that mean pastor it means that god has realized that there's no one that's gonna fully do all the time what he wants him to do so he's put him in this category saying they're disobedient and my response to that's gonna be i'm gonna show them mercy it doesn't mean you got them and do it on purpose you simply mean that this there's grace for you there's mercy for you okay there's a lot i could i could i could talk about i want to end with this right here we must respect who god has purposed us to be and not try to recreate ourselves into who and what we see around us and this takes bravery this takes bravery who are you can you stand in in a place where god has called you to be and be who god have created you to be god sometimes god will call you to a situation that's totally going left and god said i want you to be right god will call you to do right when everything is going left and in that your identity is established but i want to show you something do you know the confidence it takes in the world the way the world is today you know what kind of confidence it takes when everybody's is laughing at this and and mocking it that to stand and say that's not who i am do you know the confidence it takes to tell your friends y'all could do that i'm not doing that do you know what it takes to do what you're supposed to do to be where you're supposed to be to to talk give god what he said is his you do you know what it takes to do that i believe that this entire series is designed to shift you in your thinking you don't have what god has for you or what god wants for you because you're more concerned about what people think about you than what god thinks about you and the lord is saying to you saying to me i need you to connect to me in a way where i become your confidence become confident in me that i'll never fail you i'll never forsake you i'll never put you in over your head i never leave you in a situation that i think will damage you instead of saying what is the lord doing complain god says don't complain in the midst of that watch this in everything give thanks for this is the will of god in christ concerning you so even in this situation i find something to give thanks about god i thank you i thank you this hurts but you're building something in me i thank you god that they don't see who i am but you know who i am i thank you god yes i messed that up but god that's not who i am and i'm continuing with you you continue to say god i trust you i trust you i'm going with you i'm going to be who you are let them mock let them say what they want to say let them but i want to go with you you must be loved you may have messed up some stuff you may have gotten some stuff wrong but i want you to know this that god has not forgotten you let people say what they want to and yes they say yes the lord is judging you know and sometimes god will come and chastise he will into your life but never forget that the bible says in hebrews chapter 12 that god chastens those he loves he loves he's treating you as a son why because he said what is what you're going through will yield the peaceable fruit of righteousness a righteous crop is going to come out of what you're going through what do you do you humble yourself under the mighty hand of god you be confident that he who began a good working you will perform until christ you'll be confident that god is not going to leave me in this situation you'll be confident that if i'm given to god he will give back to me be confident that this thing that we are involved in christianity serving the lord it's real be confident that jesus is who he says he is be confident that through the blood of jesus christ the cross of christ be confident that there's eternal life in it be confident let them say what they want to let them chase after um igbo religions and all that stuff listen let them let them uh magga out whatever they do you stay with god well i'm confident i must respect this who i am in christ i must see myself as who he says i am okay and and that's so much my let me give you this partner doing lord you're still here okay good here's what i want you to here's what i want us to work on look at this right here many of us see ourselves in light of what we do or who we are connected to this is critical right we title ourselves based on our relationships and our responsibilities are not identity what do you mean pastor watch this look at this again we title ourselves based on our relationships based on our responsibilities and not a true identity when someone asks who are you look at this someone actually well who are you many will answer and i'm just making up some name i'm travis's mom i'm daryl's wife i'm candace's husband [Music] or we may say let me break this down so it'd be clearer so what we may say i am i am the pastor of of this or the ceo of that watch this what here's what we're doing we're identifying ourselves by our titles i'm the new manager over at xyz or i'm the owner of abc notice all of their titles their titles their relationships it's not your identity it's not who you are we only know ourselves watch this we only know ourselves in relation to our commitments and our connections but if you were in between commitments and had lost all your connections who would you be wait hold up i want you to see this just here's the question i want this to pop out on the screen for you watch this [Music] if you are in between commitments you know that means you're not in a relationship or or you're not you don't have a job right now or you have a job you like okay and if you lost all your connections who would you be if all your friends turn on you okay if your family don't treat you right who will you be without it confidence is about assurance it's a it's about what you are sure of what you believe about yourself based on what you know for sure watch this confidence is about assurance it's about it's about yeah let me break this down because i want you to sit as it is y'all forgive me i'm getting against excited about this see this it's about a church it's about what you are sure of what you believe about yourself based on what you know for sure all right [Music] so let's let's end with this question right here if you were if you're in between commitments commitments dealing with your functionality your jobs all your and you lost your connections who will you be if you can't say i'm this person's mom you you your your child don't talk to you anymore that's your children turning you you can't say i'm their mom anymore the husband divorced you can't say i'm his wife anymore you lost the job you can't say you're the manager the owner or whatever over there okay he locks the church you can't see the pastor who would you be with all of all that and this is where the enemy traps us into hopelessness where life becomes so joyless and bitter because we don't know who we are so what we tend to do is misery loves company so we would turn on other people we hate to see success we hate to see people prospering because we don't know who we are i want us to pray for a revival of confidence in god we need a revival of confidence in god [Music] we need a revival i'm i'm just jacking up my spelling i'm going to type this it's the last thing i'll do tonight jesus yes put it in the comments we need a revival of confidence in god [Music] yeah so let me let me let me take this off share real quick i pray this help you tonight i pray this brought you into a place of of yeah put that in the comments we need a revival of confidence in god who would you be who would you be if you if you can attach your name to commitments and connections to what i do i'm connected to could you say i'm a son of god i'm a daughter of god could you say that could you say that i'm the disciple who jesus loved i'm the person that god sent jesus to die for if you're here if you're watching this and you you're not sure of your relationship with god i want to pray for you right now father i pray for the person that's watching tonight whose relationship with you is in question but they really really want to to walk with you they really want to get back on track father give them to just make the decision and do it to connect to just jump in and say i gotta belong to you forgive me of my sins and just begin to walk with god just just go into it just talk to jesus like he's always been there because he's always been there we need a revival of confidence in god because when a revival of confidence in god happens believers will do brave things the people that know their god will do exploits is what the bible says the word no is the people who have confidence in their god will attempt things that other people won't attempt they will do exploits they won't dream small they won't shrink god's assignment for their life they will let it be big and if god gives them something smaller so i want you to do something small they won't try to make it bigger than it is why because their confidence is in god that the results are going to come from god all right whoo yes indeed this blessed me tonight just sharing it so tonight listen as we get ready to um to sign off it's offering time it's it's time for a tithe offering if you're a member of all nations atlanta then i want you to to um let's follow the instructions on the screen and it's time to give i want you to sew um i texted uh the code anwar atl and the dollar amount to the number seven seven two nine six um anwar atl and the dollar amount to seven seven two nine six and i was i just wanna listen i want you to sew i want you to sew now we don't want if you if you're not a member of honest atlanta please don't send your tithes to us but send us an offering remember all nations atlanta listen it's time offering time and i want you to know this be confident in god um i remember i'm always afraid to not give i'm gonna tell you why unless i use the word i use the term afraid it's because i i have more confidence in what god could do for me financially than what i can do for myself and whenever there's a situation that comes up there's a financial whatever i also look to god and say i trust you my confidence is in you so you sow we gift we give into the kingdom of god regardless of what the world is saying regardless of them mocking the church whatever they do let them do that but that's not who we are we are the people who have confidence in our god and confidence in his system and confidence in the things that he put in place and confidence that he will help us keep these things clean and pure and if they're out of whack get them in whack get them back to what it's supposed to be so that no one could point at the church and make mockery we thank god for the blood of jesus christ for the finished work okay so i want you to go in so again um text anwar atl in the dollar amount to 77296 i want you to sow tonight and let the lord um let the lord give you a harvest on your giving okay i hope this bless you tonight um said emails whatever uh let us know how it touched your life i pray that this opened your heart to at least starts a conversation between you god give you something to pray about and again we ended up tonight with this we need a revival of confidence in god i love you i look forward to seeing you don't miss sunday something in store is going to bless you tremendously come to church be in church you know and it is a wonderful wonderful news we average so many visitors each sunday i'm wondering what would happen all when all the partners show up in the visitors show up too we'll be out of space and space is something i want to talk to you about all right i love you god bless you i'll see you on sunday [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] you

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Published: Tue Sep 06 2022