The Birth Of Confidence In God

                             

Then the LORD put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth. Jeremiah 1:9.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: You can never have power with God until you have come to the end of your own strength...

The death of self-confidence and the birth of confidence in God is one of the outcomes of the touch of God. You can never have power with God until you have come to the end of your own strength. When God touched the hollow of Jacob’s thigh, the muscles He touched was the muscle connecting the thigh; the femoral nerves, veins, arteries, which in essence is the strongest muscle in the body. That means He touched Jacob’s most powerful place (thigh muscles) and weakened it. The Bible says he left there with a limp (he may have limped for the rest of his life). That is the reason why the children of Israel never ate the meat from the hollow of a bone. When Jacob left with a limp, God seemed to have said, ‘Now that you are weak, you have really become strong. As I have collected your strength, you can now collect my might.’

Many of us rely on and boast about too many things. We are over-confident about many things and God seems to be saying, ‘As long as that strength is there, I can’t help you. Let me take your strength and give you my might.’ Ask God to touch anything that is the source of your confidence. This is a dangerous prayer because God might disconnect you from a godfather or from something that might be the reason for your boasting. He may cut you off from a source of income that constitutes your vainglory, but it is good because then you will be exposed to inexhaustible resources, power, and the flow of God.

ASSIGNMENT (S):
1. Bury every confidence you have in your personal ability or intellect and let your confidence be in God.

PRAYER: Lord, touch, take and remove anything that is the source of my confidence, in Jesus’ Name.

DAILY READING: MORNING: Ex. 3: 1- 9:35; Mt. 19: 13 – 30 EVENING: Ps. 24: 1-10; Prov. 6:6-11

QUOTE: There are people from whose life you will learn how to do it; and there are other people from whose life you will learn how not to do it. Culled from 10 PRINCIPAL SECRETS OF PRINCIPAL PEOPLE by Dr Paul Enenche.

Extract From: Seeds of Destiny, 29/01/2015.