Here’s an interesting question: Do you think God wants you to face your world, your life, with unwavering confidence? Is there anything to be gained by lacking confidence? What message does it send if you and I, as Christ-followers, appear uncertain or doubtful? Does that bring glory to God?

On the other hand, does it bring glory to God if you have the kind of self-confidence the world says is necessary? This confidence is proud and self-focused, self-assured and braggadocious? It brings glory to yourself.

We certainly need confidence. But putting a lot of it in yourself is risky, because it’s undependable. You can feel confident one day or about one thing, and then the rug gets pulled out from under you the next day and there goes that self-confidence out the door.

It’s God-confidence you and I need, not self-confidence. His confidence makes a difference in the way we live and our ability to do what God put us here to do. And it will look different on each of us. However, there are certain things we must be confident of to face life with God-confidence. I want to share some necessary tools for the God-confident woman.

The first tool you need is to be totally confident of your faith.

Confident in your relationship to God through Jesus

I know whom I have believed, and am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him until that day (2 Timothy 1:12b).

Confident in God’s sovereignty

For you have been my hope, Sovereign Lord, my confidence since my youth (Psalm 71:5).

Confident in God’s love

For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord (Romans 8:38-39).

Confident God will never leave you or forsake you

God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you” (Hebrews 13:5b).

Confident that God answers prayer

This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us (1 John 5:14).

Now, if you are confident of those things, then you have the foundation for God-confidence. That’s where it begins.