What would happen
If every day you set an alarm on your phone before you go to class
Before you go to work before you go wherever it whatever you do
You took a few moments and just said God
Make me bold today
May I have the faith to believe that you'll show up and do what only you can do
Make me bold
Give us
Unshakable spiritual convictions that we have the courage and the faith to obey you no matter what the personal cost
God
even though
It may be painful
make us bold
But God's encouraging you today
to step out
and be bold enough
To follow the leadership of God for your life
And it never ceases to amaze me what God enables a person to do if they will just
Step out
Question for you, how amazed are people by your boldness?
When they look at would they say oh, undoubtedly beyond a shadow of a doubt you
are a disciple a follower of Jesus or would they say you were a Christian really?
There's innumerable ways the Holy Spirit may prompt you to be bold
You may just be in a conversation with someone and suddenly you feel urged to ask them
Do you mind if I pray for you and you're not even comfortable praying out loud, but the next thing you know
You're calling heaven down and believing by faith for the power of God to touch this hurting person right in front of you
You may be in a meeting and there's something that's inappropriate and you're just very lovingly appropriately say now let's not do that
we can be better than that and you might be bold. You might be bold when everyone else is gossiping against someone and
Trash-talking and you just don't participate or you walk away or even bolder you say, come on
Look, let's be better people than that and you just step in
You might see someone that's hurting and say hey, I'm coming to bring you to church this week. I'm not just inviting you
I'm bringing there's a difference between inviting and bringing some of you you've been kind of inviting but you start to bring you know
what but guess what this weekend we're going to church and you invite someone
There are so many different ways
That God might manifest himself to the power of the Holy Spirit
Takes bold faith to be a Jesus person these days
but I want to encourage you
And let it be known in your circle of influence with your friends and your neighbors and your family members and your co-workers. You're with Jesus
It's important. They need to know people like you who love Jesus
Bold faith
A faith that says on the daily basis I want to do my best to make choices that honor Jesus of Nazareth. I'm for him
And I would encourage you to be for him. He's made my life better
Jesus doesn't diminish life. He extends the quality of life. He expands the contentment in life
God wants us to be triumphant
He wants us to be courageous and bold whatever we face in life
And he's made promises to make it possible for us to face anything and everything
And still be standing when the battle is over
I think that some of you are at a point in your life
You're facing something new
Maybe something in your life has come to a to a close
and now
you're facing something new and
Fear always comes against us when we face new things. You're not the only one
Every time you try to make any kind of progress
You can be assured that satan will try to frighten you that's the way that he keeps people from going forward
Boldness often triggers spiritual opposition
There is spiritual opposition and the bottom line is this if you're not ready to face opposition
for your obedience to God, you're not ready to be used by God
Courage is not the absence of fear, but courage is actually forward motion in the presence of fear
You're not afraid you're not a coward because you feel fear
But we're cowardly when we let the fear control us
Rather than continuing to follow the leadership of the Holy Spirit. God will lead us through fear
And into His perfect will for our lives
If you ever really want to live your life led by the Holy Spirit
You have to understand that God doesn't even usually call people that are qualified
Or who feel ready
To do what they're being asked to do
That's why it takes faith to do it
And faith means that you step out based on what's in your heart
Not based on what's in your circumstances
In difficult times dangerous times we don't look around we look we're up
And so we get courage and strength and we're willing to trust God be fearless and bold no matter what God requires of us
Instead of being afraid of new things. We should be excited about new things, but honestly and truly if people would just
have the courage to just follow God for their
individual lives
You would have an outrageously
Wonderful life not everybody might like what you do, not everybody might approve of your choices
You might not always get a lot of encouragement and handclaps when you begin, but God will prove himself to you
If you'll be bold enough to follow God and not the crowd
Myself included we regularly come to places in our life and we haven't been there. We haven't done that
We have no experience with that
And so we have a tendency to want to start backing off from it and just stay in our little boat of safety
Boldness often releases God's miracles in other words when you live with bold faith
You'll often see the hand of God move miraculously in and around you
You won't be surprised by the miracles of God when you're walking in obedience to God
Bold obedience often triggers the faithfulness and miraculous power of God
He wants us to be bold and
Courageous and strong and not afraid to try new things
I think a lot of the reason why people don't step out and try new things
is they already think before they even try about all the things that might happen if they fail
And I think that if you know that how much God loves you really understand how much he loves you
Then you can live without that fear of failure, which immediately sets you free
To try things
If you just do the best you can when you step out
Then God will promote you a little bit at a time so often I think we look at the way
We think it needs to be in its perfection and if we can't do that yet
Then we won't even step out and do anything and I can tell you my beginning was pitiful
But I was following God
Bold Faith
Not critical not harsh not mean-spirited but a passion for Jesus that influences your life
If we would go to Joshua 1
We would see that when God sent
Joshua to take Moses's place to lead the Israelites across the wilderness into the promised land
He said there's only one thing that you have to do
Fear not and be bold
God can't work through fear. He works through faith
Fear opens the door for the enemy to work in our life and faith opens the door for God to work in our life
Fear comes out of your flesh out of your circumstances out of what you think and feel but faith comes out of your heart
And you have to follow your heart
You have to keep your heart safe and you have to keep your heart free
And if you're not following the leadership of God for you, then your heart is not going to be free. It's going to be burdened
And I believe that
Even if you step out to try something that you believe is God and you don't make it all the way God likes that
spirit of
aggression and that
boldness that says I'm gonna step out and try it. I'm not gonna live in fear
So we have a choice of facing the difficulties we face in life in one or two ways
We can do it courageously or we can do it fearfully and God doesn't want his people living fearful
He says I have not given you the spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind
God is ready to give you the best the question is are you ready to trust him for it
I know that everywhere that I go there's always opposition
There's always a plan that the enemy has
To stop the good that we want to do
But I just pray this scripture that God will go before me and send his angels before me and he'll prepare the way before me
And prepare the hearts of the people before me and you know what if you will make a decision
To stop letting other people make your decisions and to step out and try some things
You'll find God's destiny for your life
You'll find what's going to fulfill you and what you're meant to do and what you're meant to be but you've got to be bold
You have to be bold enough to step out and find out