God is big, I have been teaching this for weeks on this blog – God is big. But now it is time for us to be challenged. God is big, and we must act like it, and the number one way we need to act is boldness!
When we are convinced that God is a great, big God and we honour His Word we should be bold. We should not be wondering and wavering about what to do, we should trust the Lord, and fix our heart and our hope on Him completely.
When I realized Jesus wanted everyone well, I become really bold about driving all over the nation and preaching healing. When I realize Jesus wanted everyone wealthy, I became bold in taking offerings! When I realized Jesus was love, I boldly forgave people who wronged me. When I preach on righteousness, healing, prosperity, there always seems to be some Christians who don’t believe – in the early days religious people made me as nervous as if they were cannibals I was preaching the gospel to and they might eat me!
When you are preaching to people who are not listening, who are shouting out at you, and you do not feel the presence of God, satan is screaming give up, stop trying to plant a church here, you need to be persuaded God’s Word is true!
I have found that the bolder I am, the more I inspire others to trust God. Sometimes I am praying for someone and I feel nothing, but I still have God, I still have the Word, I still have the promises, I have everything I need so I pray with boldness, I thank God that person is healed or blessed or whatever they are believing for, and I praise Him for the truth of His Word.
Hebrews 10.35 says do not throw away your confidence. Some of us develop great confidence but because nothing happens in about two days, we just throw it away. It was real confidence in the real promises – it was genuine faith – but people throw it away too quickly. It’s like planting a real seed in real soil, then digging it up before it ever sprouts!
You have to hold on tight to your boldness, hold on tight to the Word, hold on tight to the promises. You are not just sitting around waiting for God to do something though – that’s not confidence, that’s not boldness – no you are speaking the Word, praying the Word, acting like the Word is so, acting like God is big, and expecting all of God’s goodness to manifest. GOD IS BIG AND YOU ARE ACTING LIKE IT – rejoice like it, sing like it, shout like it, dance like it.
Boldness comes when we take God at His Word – you can fake it but not for long. We must stop limiting God and act like He is big, we need to quit making excuses for our doubt and unbelief and start expecting great things from God!
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