SEEING THE GOD WHO LOOKS AFTER HIS PROMISE (25 OF 48)
Scripture: Genesis 16:1-16
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Seeing the God Who Looks after His Promise (25 of 48)
Series: Kingdom Foundations - Genesis
Patrick Edwards
Genesis 16:1-16
Introduction
Confidence is a good thing. Confidence is something that often makes us better at what we do. Ask any athlete. There is a certain amount of self-confidence you must have in order to succeed. If you come up to the plate to bat with doubt in your mind, you're going to strike out. If you come up to the ball for a penalty kick with doubt over you abilities you're going to miss. If you start your golf swing and beginning to second guess your shot or club selection, you're going to shank it. Confidence helps us to perform to our peak abilities. We want our leaders to be confident, for their confidence inspires our own. We want our doctors to be confident, for their confidence comforts and assures us. We want our kids to confident, to dream big and go for those dreams.
Confidence is built on what one believes and where one has come from. In other words, what makes the athlete like Peyton Manning or LeBron James so confident? It is trust in their abilities as well as recognizing what they've already done. Confidence comes from looking at our current situation, seeing how we've gotten here, what's gotten us here, and then moving forward in that same trust that we will continue to succeed as we've already done.
There's a fine line, however, between confidence and arrogance. Again in sports, we see all the time that athlete who thinks too much of his abilities and ultimately falls short of the expectations he's set for himself. We've seen that leader either in the workplace or politics whose arrogance blinds him to the reality of what's going on around him and in turn he becomes completely out of touch and ineffective. Sometimes, confidence is misplaced. In other words, we value a person for the success they've had, when really it was not so much them but their circumstances which yielded the success. In other words, as th ...
Series: Kingdom Foundations - Genesis
Patrick Edwards
Genesis 16:1-16
Introduction
Confidence is a good thing. Confidence is something that often makes us better at what we do. Ask any athlete. There is a certain amount of self-confidence you must have in order to succeed. If you come up to the plate to bat with doubt in your mind, you're going to strike out. If you come up to the ball for a penalty kick with doubt over you abilities you're going to miss. If you start your golf swing and beginning to second guess your shot or club selection, you're going to shank it. Confidence helps us to perform to our peak abilities. We want our leaders to be confident, for their confidence inspires our own. We want our doctors to be confident, for their confidence comforts and assures us. We want our kids to confident, to dream big and go for those dreams.
Confidence is built on what one believes and where one has come from. In other words, what makes the athlete like Peyton Manning or LeBron James so confident? It is trust in their abilities as well as recognizing what they've already done. Confidence comes from looking at our current situation, seeing how we've gotten here, what's gotten us here, and then moving forward in that same trust that we will continue to succeed as we've already done.
There's a fine line, however, between confidence and arrogance. Again in sports, we see all the time that athlete who thinks too much of his abilities and ultimately falls short of the expectations he's set for himself. We've seen that leader either in the workplace or politics whose arrogance blinds him to the reality of what's going on around him and in turn he becomes completely out of touch and ineffective. Sometimes, confidence is misplaced. In other words, we value a person for the success they've had, when really it was not so much them but their circumstances which yielded the success. In other words, as th ...
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