ENCOURAGE YOURSELF
1 Samuel 30:6-20
If we need encouragement and no one is around to give it, encourage yourself as David did. He had a positive attitude about himself, and you should also. We all should be careful of having a prideful attitude, but it is not wrong to have a good and confident attitude towards ourselves.
David was in a seemingly hopeless situation, his city was destroyed, its woman and children captured, and his men blamed him for their misfortune. He encouraged himself in the Lord. Later on, that situation was totally turned around.
Earlier in his life, when David was just a boy, everyone around him discouraged him concerning his ability to fight Goliath. David, however, was confident in God. He believed that God would be strong in his weakness and give him the victory. He went out in the name of Lord, with a heart full of confidence, and became giant-killer who was eventually crowned king. David had no one to believe in him but God, so he believed about himself what God believed about him; he believed in God’s ability in him.
Confidence is something we decide to have. It is a decision to step out boldly into whatever we feel God is leading us to do. We learn about God about his love, his ways, and his Word then we have confidence. If we do not believe, we live in doubt about everything. Self-doubt makes us double minded, and James 1:8 teaches us that a double-minded person is unstable and uncertain about everything. We really cannot go forward until we decide to have confidence in God and in ourselves.
We have to take a big step of faith and stop doubting yourself. As the old saying goes, “Don’t sell yourself short. “We have more capabilities than we think we do, we are able to do a lot more than we have ever done in the past. God will help us, if we put our trust in Him and stop doubting ourselves.
Like everyone else you will make mistakes but God will allow you to learn from them and will actually work them out to your good if you will decide not to be defeated by them. When doubt begins. Believe whole heartedly in God, believe that the he is in you, and believe you are able to do whatever you need to do through him.
Let us pray:
Heavenly Father you are our strength, does not matter what situation we are , your peace joy and encouragement is our portion. Your name always glorifies in our life. Amen Amen
Sol Pia