June 3. How Strong Is Your Shield Of Confidence.

Where does the confidence of your organization, your team, your family, or you come from? Does it matter? I like to believe that it does. Does confidence come from cash flow, people or something else? Confidence is critical but confidence with only one person will not necessarily move an organization.

Confidence does not guarantee that people will work together. It might keep them from collaborating. Confidence of one person will not necessarily grow a family. As a leader of an organization, our value proposition is best served when we have confidence in the why the organization works?

In your organization, where is confidence lacking or lagging? Lack of confidence might be your organization’s biggest liability. It can even be an expense because when we lack confidence there is likely to be a cost. The same can be said for cash flow confidence and the same for lack of confidence in our families.

How can we as leaders collaborate with others to raise the confidence of one another? This exercise of enhancing confidence through collaboration transforms liabilities into assets and expense into income. What can you do about it in the next seven days?

In the early church, confidence was high. Acts 2:42-47 shares some of that growth and development of that confidence. But the passages that follow it in Acts 5 share the story of Ananias and Sapphira and how quickly that confidence is taken aback.

Where is your confidence strong and growing? Where is it weakening? A confidence booster for believers is to remember the power of the risen Lord. We remember that he came back again and died for our brokenness.

For those that do not have a relationship with Jesus, they are missing the benefit of the confidence of our faith. I am curious if we might be able to recognize when others are lacking confidence. It might be an opportunity to share why we have such confidence.

Brothers and sisters, be strong and courageous as we know that our Savior lives. What is the first thing that you can do to transform a lack of confidence from a liability into an asset? Remember who your Savior is? It might be to transform your own confidence, or it might be to enhance other’s confidence.

When we help to build and provide confidence in others through Jesus, we are collaborating in a powerful way. What is the first thing that you can do about it in the next seven days?

Let us pray, Heavenly Father, we have confidence in you. But our world strips and attacks it constantly.

May the shield of faith be the best of armor against that attack. Send your Holy Spirit today to lift the shield for those believers who have lost the strength to hold onto it. Help us to use our shields to bring others and lift them up to your message. In Jesus’ name, we pray. Amen,