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Don't Throw Away Your Confidence Part Two!
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Don't Throw Away Your Confidence
Part Two!
My dear friend, today we take a look again at Hebrews 10:35. It reads:
Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward.
Like I shared with you yesterday,this verse suggests that the believers in question were so tired and frustrated with waiting for God's promise to come to pass that they were tempted to drop "this whole faith thing" and forget the promises of God they had been holding on to for so many years.
It was like they were beginning to think that living by faith was what had restricted, bound, and kept them in the same place all those years.
The use of the word "cast away" suggests that the Hebrew Christians were thinking, "If we hadn't stood so firmly on the Word of God all these years, at least we could have done something else with our lives"
They must have mused "Let's just forget the promise God gave us. We've held on long enough! Let's just toss it aside and forget about it. At least then we can begin to move on with our lives and do something different. Enough of this fantasy that God is going to do something miraculous for us! Let's drop this promise that has held us back and move on with our lives"
Hebrews 10:35 is God's response to these kind of lying thoughts, accusations, and doubts. God cries out to them to hold tight and to never let go of the promises He had made to each of them.
And God is saying the same thing to us today!
The word "confidence" is the Greek word paressia. This word means boldness and depicts a very bold, frank, outspoken kind of language. It carries the meaning of being forthright, blunt, direct, and straight to the point.
In this verse, it refers to the bold, brave, fearless declarations and faith confessions regarding God's promises that these believers had been making.
They had been professing, declaring, and laying claim to the promises of God's Word for their personal lives. They had done it boldly, audibly, and publicly. What they believed, they had declared loudly!
However, now that the results weren't forthcoming and they were growing tired, they were feeling tempted to toss it all away and count it as nonsense.
But Hebrews 10:35 urged them to hold tight and to keep believing!
And now you must hang on to God's promises just as these Hebrew Christians were told to do.
Hebrews 10:35 could be rendered to read:
Don't discard, dispel, dismiss, dump, or cast off your bold declaration of faith, because it has great recompense of reward.
Again today I am urging you—don't let the devil talk you into tossing away your faith.
You've waited too long and have invested too much of your life into this promise for you to walk away from it now. If you walk away from what God promised you after waiting all these years, it will mean that all those years were for nothing!
The manifestation of your dreams is probably just around the corner.
That is why the devil is working overtime right now to discourage you!
He wants you to discard your faith now because he knows that if you hang on much longer, you'll see your dreams come true!
Habakkuk 2:3 [GW] states:
The vision will still happen at the appointed time. It hurries toward its goal. It won’t be a lie. If it’s delayed, wait for it. It will certainly happen. It won’t be late.
My dear friend,it's time for you to hang tight, hold on, and keep believing, because it won't be much longer until you are standing in the middle of your dreams!
It's a resoundingly blessed day for you in Jesus name!
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