How do you define confidence? There are two types of Confidence,
Self Confidence and God Confidence also known as a biblical self-confidence.
Self-confidence is having faith in oneself to do what seems right in one’s own eyes and to walk in one’s own ways. Self-confidence has limited potential.
Confidence in God is when your faith is rooted and grounded in who you are in Jesus Christ. It is about being confident in who God is,
in the finished work of Christ on the Cross. God confidence has unlimited possibility.
The world will dictate to you how you should have confidence. Weather to have confidence, in yourself and your ability to accomplish your goals and dreams. Are does your confidence come from God?
Self-confidence promoted by the world has selfish ambition, and selfish needs and desires as its goal, the confidence of the believer has a right relationship with God as its aim.
The world put their confidence in money, in their beauty, in people, and Confidence in Others/Not God. When your focus is on God, your confidence is in Him as well.
These Powerful Bible Verses About Confidence in God will empower you to the next level in your faith.
“I can do all things through Him who strengthens me.” (Philippians 4:13)
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How to Have Confidence in God
As born-again believers, our reliance and confidence are in God, and not in the world. Our confidence comes from our relationship with Christ. It derives from who we are in Christ.
God is our ever-present help in time of trouble. In every situation and circumstance of our lives, God’s promises will always stand. We can live with the belief that the Lord is our confidence!
I know that sometimes as Christians, we struggle with the ideal of letting go and trusting God but having confidence in God is something most believers struggle with.
Even though we are aware of his great love for us, we find it hard to apply that knowledge during the trials of life.
When you are truly listening to the Holy Spirit and putting all your confidence in Him you will make it through every trial and test stronger then when you went in.
God already knows what you are going through, and He wants you to seek Him and rest on His promises. You can have confidence in His promises:
“It is the Lord who goes before you. He will be with you; He will not leave you or forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed.” – Deuteronomy 31:8
As a believer our confidence only comes from having confidence in Jesus Christ. God has already provided everything you need for your spiritual growth
What Does the Bible say About Confidence in God?
The Bible is very clear that we should not place our confidence in ourselves, others, or in anything but God himself. (Psalm 118:8-9; Psalm 146:3; Proverbs 25:19; Micah 7:5; 1Tim. 6:17)
We all need confidence, but the question is where does true confidence in God come from? It only comes from Christ. If your confidence is coming from any other source, it will fail in the end.
So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded. Hebrews 10:35
You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised. Hebrews 10:35-36
We must be still and wait on the Lord in any situation that we may face in life. Our confidence is in God.
Be confident in this that He who began a good work in you will finish it. God will never leave you and He promises to work in you until the end conforming you into the image of Christ. Philippians 1:6
We are to follow the Lord with confidence. we are saved is by the work of the Holy Spirit in your life leading you in obedience. When you are living in the will of God you become more confident.
The Bible calls David “a man after God’s own heart” twice. The first time was by Samuel who anointed him as backslidden King Saul’s successor, “But now your kingdom shall not continue.
The Lord has sought for Himself a man after His own heart” (1 Sam. 13:14, NKJV).
David’s confidence was in God. David was not a perfect man by any means. When he sinned, he sinned in a big way, but we must not think of his story as one man’s isolated sin.
It is the story of every man and the complex behavior that surrounds our sinful actions. When David compromises the gospel, he shows the deepest struggle of every man to live by the Word of God.
“What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee. In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me.” Psalm 56:3-4 KJV
Stop trusting in the flesh and what you can do for yourself. Is there anything too hard for God? God can do more for you in one second than you can do in a lifetime.
Trust in God. Get closer to His presence. Seek Him. He will deliver you. God has always been my confidence even when there were small doubts. He has never let me down.
Get to know Him and your trust in Him will increase. Spend time with Him in prayer. When you are confident in the Lord you will be confident in other areas in your life.
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Bible Verses About Confidence in God
Here are twenty-four uplifting bible verses on confidence in God. These verses let you know that you have full confidence in God.
These verses declare that He will not leave or forsake us, He is with us, He exalts us, He cares for us, He helps us, He sustains us, He strengthens us, and He upholds us.
Our God is in love with all His children, and He will continue to allow us to go through trials (sometimes extremely tough and anguishing ones), but He is right there with us through it all.
He has ordained every single moment of our lives and we can trust that He is doing something when life is happening.
“I have confidence in your strength; you are my refuge, O God.” Psalm 59:9 (GNT)
“For the Lord will be your confidence and will keep your foot from being caught.” Proverbs 3:26 (NKJV)
“Being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.” Philippians 1:6 (NKJV)
“So do not throw away your confidence, it will be richly rewarded.” Hebrews 10:35 (NIV)
Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him. He will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought. — Jeremiah 17:7-8
This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us — whatever we ask — we know that we have what we asked of him. — 1 John 5:14-15
Do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded. You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised. — Hebrews 10:35-36
We are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who believe and are saved. — Hebrews 10:39
Have confidence in your leaders and submit to their authority, because they keep watch over you as those who must give an account. Do this so that their work will be a joy, not a burden, for that would be of no benefit to you. — Hebrews 13:17
In him [Jesus our Lord] and through faith in him we may approach God with freedom and confidence. — Ephesians 3:12
I am suffering … Yet I am not ashamed, because I know whom I have believed, and am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him for that day. — 2 Timothy 1:12
Do not envy a violent man or choose any of his ways, for the LORD detests a perverse man but takes the upright into his confidence. — Proverbs 3:31-32
I can do everything through him [Christ] who gives me strength. — Philippians 4:13
For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ. He died for us so that, whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with him. — 1 Thessalonians 5:9-10
In this way, love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment, because in this world we are like him. — 1 John 4:17
You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them [those who deny that Jesus is from God and who have the spirit of the world], because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. — 1 John 4:4
Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death. — Romans 8:1-2
Now, brothers, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received and on which you have taken your stand. — 1 Corinthians 15:1
Have no fear of sudden disaster or of the ruin that overtakes the wicked, for the LORD will be your confidence and will keep your foot from being snared. — Proverbs 3:25-26
In you, O LORD, I have taken refuge; let me never be put to shame; deliver me in your righteousness. — Psalm 31:1
What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all — how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? — Romans 8:31-32
He answered, “Do you not know what these are?”
“No, my lord,” I replied.
So he said to me, “This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel: `Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,'” says the LORD Almighty. — Zechariah 4:5-6
Do not envy a violent man or choose any of his ways, for the LORD detests a perverse man but takes the upright into his confidence. — Proverbs 3:31-32
So, we say with confidence, “The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?”— Hebrews 13:6
Place all your confidence in God and He will guide all your steps one foot at a time. Stay strong in the Lord and be confident in all His promises.
“Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.” (James 1:12) May God continue to bless you as you live a life worthy of the calling!
Prayer
Father, in the Name of Jesus,
Imprint your truth in my heart that I will find confidence in You, rise above the storm clouds in my life, even as David did. Thank you that you are my confidence frim and strong. Thank you Lord for moving in my life. In Jesus Name. Amen.
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