THY FOOT WILL NOT BE TAKEN

"For the LORD shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken" (Proverbs 3:26). 

Confidence belongs to the family of courage, boldness and determination. Wherever you see confidence, you will also see sterling endurance and a refusal to give up. Where you find all these things, victory, success and fulfilment are often inevitable. God wants you to approach life with confidence. And we are not just talking about the self assurance that is rooted in mortal man, for that has its limits. Rather we are talking about the confidence that is rooted in God. If you will follow God and obey His words, you will have enough confidence with which to handle life. You will have the confidence that won't fail because it is resting on a divine force. It is the confidence of God. 

Thank God that the believer can have access to this confidence because he has not received the spirit of fear which brings about oppression, torment, defeat and failure (2 Timothy 1:7). Rather, God has given us the Spirit of love, of power and of a sound mind which engenders super confidence. The child of God has confidence to relate with divinity, for we have confidence by the blood of Jesus to come into the presence of the almighty God and call Him Father. That privilege is accessible only to those who have received Jesus Christ into their lives as personal Lord and Saviour. Such have received the Spirit of God, the Spirit of adoption whereby they could call God Father. They are no longer slaves, strangers or aliens, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God. Consequently, they have the confidence of a dear child in the household of a loving Father. That brings constant victory and good success to life and living. 

The confidence that the Spirit of God produces in you puts you in a good stead to resist the devil. Child of God, I say to you, dare to resist the devil. God's command to those who have submitted to Him is: "Resist the devil, and he will flee from you" (James 4:7). Sometimes people have asked me to help them beg the devil to stop oppressing them. My normal response is that I don't do such jobs. I don't beg Satan. He is too small to earn such respect from me or any child of God for that matter. He is such a crap who does not deserve the dignity of your supplication. The one who supplicates God cannot also be begging the devil at the same time. God forbid! So, we resist the devil because that is what the Bible tells us to do. 

The confidence that the Spirit of God produces in you also infuses into you all that you need to confront your challenges. Child of God, I say to you again, dare to confront your challenges. Challenges are part of life and they are meant to be solved. You commence the process of solving your challenges by confronting them and not by running away from them. The challenges of life want you to shift your ground, change your convictions, abandon your dreams and look away from what God has said and settled. But you must dare to stand your ground even if all other grounds around you are shifting and shaking. Here's what I've found, if you run away from challenges, they tend to run after you and overtake you. But if you will defend your lot, you stand to gain a lot in life.