by Joyce Meyer
My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is steadfast and
confident! Psalm 57:7
Notice that this passage says that not only must
our heart be fixed and steadfast, it must also be confident. I have discovered
that staying confident at all times is vital to successful ministry.
I have found that even while I am busy ministering,
even while I am up in front of an audience teaching, the devil will try to
introduce thoughts into my head to make me lose confidence. For example, if two
or three people look at their watches, the devil whispers to me, "They're
so bored they can't wait to get out of here." If a couple of people get up
and leave to go to the restroom, the devil will say, "They're leaving
because they don't like your preaching."
Whatever we do for the Lord, the devil will try to
do something to cause us to lose confidence. He doesn't want us to have
confidence in our prayers. He doesn't want us to believe we can hear from God.
He doesn't want us to have any confidence concerning the call on our life. He
wants us to go around feeling like a failure. That is why we need to keep a
confident heart within us all the time. We shouldn't drag ourselves out of bed
each day in fear or discouragement. Instead, we should get up every morning
prepared to keep Satan under our feet.
How do we do that? We do it by confidently
declaring what the Word says about us such as, "I am more than a conqueror
through Jesus. I can do all things through Christ Who strengthens me. I am
triumphant in every situation because God always causes me to triumph." As
we will see, that not only causes the devil to leave us alone, but it also
strengthens our confidence.
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