Sermon Tone Analysis

Intro

apologize for not giving an update on dad

thanks for the gifts and well wishes.

i was surprised at how many people called me “king”

rules 1) only miss 3 weeks 2) gotta see your face - I will call you out 3) ready to participate

You grow on purpose

Define confidence

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.

Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”

Helen Keller

“Believe in yourself!

Have faith in your abilities!

Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.”

Norman Vincent Peale author of The Power of Positive Thinking

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“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.

You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror.

I can take the next thing that comes along.'”

Eleanor Roosevelt

As good as these are, you have to do something to get something.

The difference in confidence in God but yes is that when you are gosh did you just are.

Because of what you are you demonstrate the characteristics that others try to get by being confident.

You’ll never have confidence if you don’t know why you are to be confident.

You’ll never be “Godfydent” if you don’t know the ‘Who’ you can be confident in!

1-Nothing is Mine

Ownership hasn’t changed.

The only thing that’s changed is stewardship.

Ill: You own a piece of real estate.

You vet the tenants, but they don’t take care of your property.

Another layer - you have manager that checks up on it because the property is in a different city and state.

He permits and even joins in on the un-welcomed lifestyle.They’re living there but you own.

You can evict them whenever you get ready.

2 cor 10.26

as long as I remember and operate from my place of authoirty, all I have to do is call in a work order.

People like to rent cause whenever anything goes out, unlike a home owner, the landlord has to fix it!

app: Daddy you’ve got some bills to pay - God’s will God’s bill!!!

2 cor 10.26

2-I Don’t Have to Do the Heavy Lifting

Noah had to build it

Israelites had to clear but God was going to drive out their enemies from in front of them

They had to walk across Red Sea - God had to wall up the water

Walk around Jericho - God had to cause the walls to fall down

Peter Had to walk on the water - Jesus had to congeal the water

Notice, I didn’t say you don’t have to do ANY lifting!

3-I Can Never Be Too Weak

INFIRMITIES - incapacity n. — lack of physical, natural, or preternatural qualifications.

REPROACHES - act of hubris n. — an offensively disrespectful act or statement that is outrageously forward or bold.

NEEDS - distress ⇔ necessity n. — a distressing state; especially one those that arises out of matters of necessity.

PERSECUTION - persecution n. — the systemic hunting down of adherents of a particular religion to inflict pain or death upon them; especially to destroy the religion by destroying the adherent or by forcing the adherent to renounce their beliefs.

2 cor 12

DISTRESSES - constricting distress n. — a distress of an especially oppressive and constricting condition.

What keeps yo