You wouldn’t be where you are if you didn’t have what it takes. Your assignment may be bigger than your confidence, but it’s not bigger than your calling. God has already given you the confidence, the strength, and strategy to defeat the giants and step into your purpose.
Sometimes we’re carrying burdens, weighed down by trouble, living worried. We're trying to fix it all in our own strength. The Scripture says, “Cast your burdens on the Lord, release the weight of it, and He will sustain you.” If you’ll release the burden, quit trying to figure it all out, losing sleep, letting your mind work overtime, then God will carry you.
Have the right perspective: whatever enemies you face—enemies of fear, enemies of depression, enemies of poverty, enemies of insecurity—they have already been defeated. Now here’s the key, if you don’t realize this, you can let a defeated enemy keep you from your destiny.
Don’t try to understand everything that happens along the way. God works in mysterious ways. If you’re trying to figure everything out, you’re going to get confused. There are things you’re not supposed to understand; that’s what faith is all about.
Don’t believe those lies that the darkness is permanent and it’s never going to change. The sun is going to rise in your life again. You’re going to see the goodness of God in ways you’ve never seen.
There may be a period of darkness when it doesn’t look like anything is happening, but if you keep thanking God that He’s fighting your battles, thanking Him that He’s making ways where you don’t see a way, then God will show out in your life.
You may not get a sign. That’s when you have to dig down deep and keep thanking God even though nothing is improving. Keep doing the right thing. When God puts a promise in your heart, you have to have a “never going to quit” attitude.
A key to faith is trusting when you don’t understand, trusting when you don’t have the answers, trusting when it seems like it’s just the opposite of what you were hoping for.