01.22.12 - Building Your Confidence

Today we continue our BUILD series - Everyone here is a builder. We are building homes, families, business - you need your confidence built!

Confidence is:

• The belief that one can rely on someone or something; firm trust, feeling certain about the truth of something.
• One of the single greatest assets of our life that allows us to try new things, accept challenges, take risks, step out of our comfort zone into an uncertain place with grace. 

*Pride is unmerited confidence, arrogance. God is opposed to the proud. Real confidence comes from humble trust in God. 

*There seems to be more people with heads hanging down, not gonna try again, dissapointed. If that’s you God has a new confidence for you. It’s time for you to get back up - to get your confidence back!

How do we gain confidence?

1. You gain confidence by experience. 1 Sam 17:32-37

•  Many times we think we’re ready for the Giant before our bear or our lion.  
• 10,000 hours of training to be a professional. 10 years of purposeful training. 
• When our practice stops, our confidence dissapears. 
• Many leave their field too early. People who are always going somewhere go nowhere. 

2. You gain confidence because God is with you. vs 37

• Self confidence because of experience - God confidence because of relationship!
• Something about knowing I am right with God. Rom 8:33
• Sin comes to steal your authority and your confidence. 
• God’s promises come to fill you with confidence. Ps 62 

2. You gain confidence when you live in the grace God has given you. vs 38

• Self confidence because of experience - God confidence because of relationship!
• Some are trying to fit into a grace that wasn’t made for them - out of their “grace zone.”
• God has a grace that is tailor fit for you. Rom 12:3-8
• If you try to wear Saul’s armor you’ll be weighed down. 
• Your little sling and rocks were designed for a giant that Saul could not kill and all others were terrified of!
• Safeguard your confidence - 2 Cor 10:12-18
  •  don’t fall into the comparison trap
  •  stay within the boudaries of God’s plan for you
  •  boast in the Lord knowing you are approved!
• You are an AWESOME you & a terrible someone else!
• God wants the authentic version of you to be shown. 

You have confidence because of experience...

You have confidence because God is with you...

You have confidence in the grace God has given you...

Today live in confidence - a confidence built by trust in God

01.22.12 - Building Your Confidence