1st Corinthians 11:12 Don’t be so
naive and self-confident. You’re not exempt. You could fall flat on your
face as easily as anyone else. Forget about self-confidence; it’s
useless. Cultivate God-confidence.
Quit focusing on you. Your focus needs to be on God. Let him be your all. He is your everything. Don 't have confidence in yourself. You can't do anything apart from God anyway. Put your confidence in God and see what he can do through you.
People have put me down all my life. So much so I have very little confidence in me. When I start focusing on me and all I need to do in life I don't have confidence to do it. I have a book I want to publish. In me, it wont get done. But because my confidence is in God, I self publish in a couple week and actually hit the publish button when the time comes.
I'm also very self-conscience about how I look. Growing up with insults throw at home all the time damages a person at the core. The only way to permanently rewrite those tapes is to go to God and have him tell you the things you need to hear. Whether it is the "I love yous" that you didn't receive or "You're beautiful" or "You're smart" let God step in and fill that gap. He will sing it over you minute by minute day by day and fill you with the God confidence you need until you can do what he asks of you. Will you be scared doing it? Yep. But with God confidence you will have the courage to do it.
Abba, I pray for anyone reading this that is broken and needs your confidence to heal the breaks. Step in and heal their heart and give them the confidence in you that allows us to step in faith and live for you.
