Confidence!

Heb 10:35 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.


Can you cast away your confidence? Yes. People do it all the time. You can cast it away when you let fear replace the confidence, when you let worry, when you let anxiety in any way interfere with your confidence. Having confidence means what?


Confidence
CON'FIDENCE, n. [L. See Confide.]

1. A trusting, or reliance; an assurance of mind or firm belief in the integrity, stability or veracity of another, or in the truth and reality of a fact.
2. Trust; reliance; applied to one's own abilities, or fortune; belief in one's own competency.
3. That in which trust is placed; ground of trust; he or that which supports.
4. Safety, or assurance of safety; security.
5. Boldness; courage.
6. Excessive boldness; assurance, proceeding from vanity or a false opinion of one's own abilities, or excellencies.


We can't trust in anyone- not even ourselves- we have to trust SOLELY in Christ. Our confidence has to be IN CHRIST- not in ourselves. The reward for the confidence we keep in Christ is eternal life. Having confidence in Christ is TRUSTING in Christ, relying on Christ, being assured by Christ, Christ is our all in all, He has to be! We cannot get any reward in and of ourselves in anything we do but trusting in Christ- that's it! When we trust in Christ it is everything.


Read some more verses on confidence--


Psa 65:5 By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our salvation; who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea:


God is the confidence of all the ends of the earth!


Psa 118:8 It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.


Our confidence has to be in the LORD!


Psa 118:9 It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in princes.


Trust in the LORD!


Pro 3:26 For the LORD shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken.


The LORD shall be our confidence!


Pro 14:26 In the fear of the LORD is strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge.


The LORD!


I love this--

Eph 3:12 In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.
Eph 3:13 Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.
Eph 3:14 For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
Eph 3:15 Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,
Eph 3:16 That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;
Eph 3:17 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,


Heb 3:6 But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.


HOLD FAST the confidence and the rejoicing of the HOPE firm unto the end. Our hope is Christ!


Heb 3:14 For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end


HOLD the beginning of our confidence stedfast to the end-- the beginning of our confidence is Christ! Salvation in Christ and Christ alone!


1Jn 2:28 And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.


Wonderful!


1Jn 3:19 And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.
1Jn 3:20 For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.
1Jn 3:21 Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.


Confidence toward God- God is greater than our heart! Our hearts must be Christ's heart- He alone has the purest heart!


1Jn 5:14 And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:
1Jn 5:15 And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.


His will! Confidence in Him, according to HIS WILL! We don't have to understand but we have to believe, we have to have faith in our Savior- our Hope- our Confidence!


Heb 10:35 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.


We cannot ever cast away our confidence in our Savior, NOT EVER! The reward is being with Christ forever and ever without end without sin.


What is our confidence? CHRIST! And we can NEVER CAST AWAY CHRIST, NEVER!!!


By HIS amazing grace!
By His amazing mercy!
By His LOVE!


Amen!