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are manifested…our confidence in Him and His

in Hebrews 10:35-36, little did I know then what

Word is what is tested!

I know now; I realised that every struggle,

Hebrews 10:35 –36 encourages us not to cast
away our confidence; that confidence in Him is
what will bring us a great reward, a
manifestation of those things we are believing
God for; yet we are told that in the midst of the
trials, the processes, disappointments, delayed
promises, circumstances and issue of life,
rejection from loved ones…we are encouraged

circumstance, trial and test would seek to
develop my confidence in God’s will for my life.
No matter who or what criticised my actions,
obedience and trust in God, I stayed and held
onto what I believed God told me and He has
never disappointed me, even in the midst of my
own disappointments, God has never
disappointed me.

NOT to CAST AWAY our confidence in what

“Do not cast away your confidence”, that

God is doing and what He has told us. We are

confidence is an un resounding faith in God that

told not to cast away that confidence because the

no one can take away from you; the confidence

trials and tribulations can be so intense that it’s

in God is your great reward and that confidence

possible that we can lose that confidence in God

will be tested and being tested brings about a

through the trials….but rather don’t lose that

patience in you that you don’t feel the need to

confidence!

defend your actions to anyone; defend your

So it doesn’t matter what the circumstance is,
never cast away your confidence – your faith in
Who God is and what He has told you.

stillness in God and defend your process no
matter what others may say, you don’t feel the
need to explain yourself. You leave all the
vindication to God, your place is to be still and

What’s the reason you must never throw away

stay humble to the process.

your confidence even when the trials are intense
and sometimes don’t make sense to you?

And when you’ve come to that place of patience
– the bible tells us that after your come to that

You have need of endurance!

place of confidence, then you have done the will

You have a need to be constant in your

of God and so you may receive that which He

confession in the trial; you have a need to

has promised you.

persevere, a need to continue bearing up, a need
to be steadfastness; a need to hold out; a need for
patient endurance.
The word “endurance” is to “remain”, it
describes the capacity to continue to bear up
under difficult circumstances, not with a passive

But let patience have its perfect work, that you
may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.
James 1:4
That’s when you have come into God’s Rest and
He will bring you to His Promise for your
destiny.

complacency, but with hopeful fortitude that
actively resists weariness and defeat.

Therefore do not cast away your confidence, it
has a great reward.

Many years ago as I meditated on this promise

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