158. God-Confident NOT Self-Confident

If you’ve been to UncommonTEEN Live, our conference, you’ve heard me say these 3 phrases:
1.    Dare to be Beautiful
2.    Dare to be Confident
3.    Dare to Shine (or Lead)

 

But why do I start these phrases with the word “dare?” 

The definition of dare is: to have courage, to have strength of mind to undertake anything, to be bold, to not be afraid, to challenge. 

  love this: to have courage, to be bold, to not be afraid. 

 The reason I start each of those phrases with dare is because it takes courage, boldness, and faith to truly be beautiful (which we’ll talk about more next week). 

It takes courage, boldness, and faith to shine your light for Jesus, and it also takes courage, boldness, and faith to be confident in the world we live in, and that’s what we are going to talk about today. 

This month, as we talk about lessons that we can learn from Esther. She is definitely someone that I think of as someone who had courage; she had boldness and stepped out in faith to change her generation. 

 When she was presented with a problem, she could have given up and said that there was no hope, but instead, she chose to step out and do something that could have ended in her death. 

She was at an impasse. On the one hand, she could die because of a decree made by an evil man named Haman, who was going to wipe out the Jews. Esther was a Jew. However, in order to save the Jews, she had to see the king uninvited, and nobody saw the king uninvited. If they did and he didn’t want to see them, they would immediately be put to death. 

 So, Esther has a choice between death because she’s a Jew or death because she is about to go see a king uninvited.

 

If you’re new to the Bible or new to the UncommonTEEN podcast, I encourage you to take time to read the book of Esther and then go back and listen to the last two episodes: “God’s Got You” and “Step Into Your Purpose.” I know it will bless you! 

There is a fight for our lives. We not only see this with Esther…but we h

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Even if someone fails to see

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