“Confidence”
Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward. For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. (Hebrews 10:35–36 KJV)
That’s a wonderful scripture! It’s one of my favorites. You have need of patience that, after you’ve done the will of God, you might receive the promise. You will receive it.
I want to call your attention especially to those words that you are not to “cast away your confidence.” It does have great recompense of reward, because God will not fail. He cannot fail, if you keep confidence and don’t just throw it away. Just think of one giving up and throwing away their confidence just as God is getting ready to answer prayer!
You search the written Word of God and you’ll find so many times that He mentions this word “confidence.” I’ve been amazed at how many times it is in God’s Word.
I said to you once that it took time for God to grow an oak and even to make a rose, and this is certainly true regarding prayer. There are many reasons why prayer cannot be immediately answered. I know it’s hard to understand, someday we will!
It is this holding on, beloved, and not throwing away your confidence that makes the difference in how some get the answers and some do not. It is this spirit of great confidence that God will meet us if we will believe Him and trust and just fight on. [1]
God's timing is always perfect. Trust His delays. He's got you. - Tony Evans
[1] Anchor Hold On
