Conviction—Know Your Responsibility and Use Your Authority

Conviction is the final component of confidence. Conviction is a fixed or firm belief—the state of being convinced. If we stand for anything, it is because of our conviction. Jesus used His conviction to accomplish the ultimate good. Jesus was so deeply convicted to accomplish the Father’s will of reconciling us back to Him that He was tortured on a cross as an innocent man. This sparked the genesis of the New Testament church and rescued generations from eternal damnation (Romans 6:23). Then Jesus commissioned us with a grave responsibility and an impenetrable authority.

This responsibility and authority bestowed upon us are our “why.” It is our driving force. It is the conviction that fuels us to take a stand. The groundwork has already been laid. We have already begun to establish the Clarity, Connection, and Competency we need to stop sinking into insecurity. Now it’s time to fan the flame of this Conviction by mastering the final two skills required to build confidence: know your responsibility and use your authority; then, you will have the conviction to stand in confidence.

Jesus set the perfect example of what it looks like to stand firm. While His body was weak from fasting for forty days in the wilderness, His Spirit stood strong for the same reason (Matt. 4; Luke 4). Jesus knew the Father, which gave Him conviction, and He knew the Scriptures, which counters the spirit of fear. Like Jesus, we must know our responsibility and face our fears.

As Jesus modeled for us, let love be your confidence in the face of hardship, persecution, and temptation. With the joy set before you of your eternal inheritance, you can endure your cross.

Through adoration for your loving Father, you can ride out the most painful rejection, troubling disaster, and overwhelming chaos and still maintain your confidence.

Through the power of the Spirit living within you, there is no transition, no lack, no loss, no insecurity, no abuse, no injury, no illness, no failure, no threat, no persecution, no rejection, no condemnation, no shame, and no fear that will keep you from the love of God.

This is the confident hope that will give you the endurance to stand firm till your dying breath because not even death itself can separate you from the love of God. As you take these steps of faith, your conviction will serve and challenge others to do no less.

What is your why? What’s at stake if you don’t take a stand for this conviction when fear arises?

This plan is presented to you by Amanda Pittman's book, Stand in Confidence, an Esther Press resource. Learn more about this book here.