I have a growing confidence that is tough to describe, but I think part of it is the fact that my office is now a few feet from Ebenezers and I’m watching that dream become reality right before my eyes! When you experience one miracle you can believe God for anything!

I wouldn’t characterize it as self-confidence. I would characterize it as nothing-is-going-to-keep-God-from-accomplishing-His-purposes confidence. It’s sort of like one of my faith definitions: faith is God proving himself over and over again until you have faith in His faithfulness!

The key to confidence is discerning on the front end: is this a God idea? If it is, then you never give up until the dream becomes reality. You refuse to let it die. That’s what enabled us to hang in there for eight years with Ebenezers. That’s what allowed Joseph to hang in there for seventeen years or Abraham to hang in there for more than two decades!

The gap between “promise given” and “promise fulfilled” in Scripture is amazing! We read in a few minutes what took years to accomplish. Because of that we get discouraged when the dream doesn’t become reality in weeks or months. And that is accentuating by a society where everything moves at light-speed.

But faith is an unshakable confidence in the God who calls things that are not as though they were He is the God who begins the good work. And He’s the God who carries it to completion! By the way, in between the “beginning” and “completing” we’ve got to pray like it depends on God and work like it depends on us.