When you derive your identity from sources like people’s opinion, your job, your relationship, your financial or social status, you become undone whenever any of those sources shake or fail and it definitely will. Your job can discard you, your relationship can end and people’s opinion changes constantly. These sources are not a lasting foundation, your identity will outlast it. You need to know who you are outside of what people say about you.
Knowing the truth in God’s word will give you the necessary capacity to overcome the tricks of the devil. The Bible says that we should not be ignorant of the wiles of the enemy. He has a lot of wiles, a lot of strategies, and tricks. Through the word, we can discern his schemes and overcome them.
Humility is a recurring theme in Jesus’ ministry and sojourn on earth. And humility is a trait of a courageous ad faith-full person. If anyone had any reason not to be humble it was Jesus. He was God, afterall, and we didn’t even deserve His glorious presence. Yet He made Himself of no repute and came for us. That alone was enough. Yet here on earth He still walked humbly amongst us.
Today, take a moment to reflect on all Jesus had to give up to be your savior. And thank Him for it.
Courageous people know that every single thing that they do for people is done as unto the Lord. And so, they have their focus and their hearts fixed upon God. They are not expecting anything from any person. Yet this is not as easy as it sounds.
So let this be an encouragement for you. If God is asking you to stop something, even if it is a good thing, now is a good time to stop it before things get messy. Because the truth is, God loves you and He will make sure that you do not prosper in your own self-orchestrated way.
If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that people of courage, confidence, and faith, know what God put them on earth to do.
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I understand that sometimes we can pray for something that is so big that it scares us. But, you have to consider that God is rewarder of them that seek Him.
Now therefore, fear the Lord, serve Him in sincerity and in truth, and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the River and in Egypt. Serve the Lord! And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether…
