• 1 Kings 19:1-18
• When a person is about to be destroyed, they go into isolation.
• Isolation is different from going to a solitary place.
• For a child of God, you choose when to die. Phili 1:23-24
• Be careful after having a breakthrough.
• Its very easy to keep referring to a cheap past especially because you don’t want to break any new record.
• On an evil day, your usual source of encouragement may not be there. Eph 6:13
• Be very careful when you say you are the only one passing through a certain problem.
• Don’t try to make your problem special.
• There are other people that went through that problem but chose not to give up.
• There is no temptation that is not common.
• Don’t try to exaggerate the problem that you are going through, like you are the first one to face it.
• The idea that you are the only one facing that problem is a deception of the enemy to bring you down.
• Confidence is very important.
• Confidence is:
i) freedom from doubt, fear
ii) a belief in yourself and in your abilities
iii) the feeling of trust.

• What is God-confidence?
God-confidence is the belief that God is faithful, loving and able, and that one should look to God and not themselves.

Heb 10:35, 11:1, 3:14
• Confidence is the word that winners know.
• Confidence is the overcomer’s slogan.
• It is confidence that commands authority.
• Jesus was confident as He taught (Mat 7:29).
• Confidence is a war strategy.
• The devil wants you to cry but don’t give him your tears.
• Don’t give satan joy, let him know that you will never give up.
• When you don’t know something, tell satan that even though you might not know something you are connected to someone who knows everything.
• Tell satan that while he can’t grow in power, you are growing in power every day.
• The thing you are fearing will come to pass.
• The problem with many christians is that they don’t take a confident stand.

What should be the basis of a child of God’s confidence?
1. The ever-abiding presence of God (Psa 23:4, 1 John 4:4, 1 Chr 20:15, Isa 30:15, Dan 3:16-18, 6:10, Mat 28:20)
• Any warfare you’re facing is not only your warfare , it is God’s warfare.
• Don’t be involved in anything God is not involved in.
• If you take wrong steps, confess your way back into confidence.
• Your strength is in your confidence in God.