Misplaced confidence can get us into trouble. Many people have self-confidence. They are confident in their abilities. They are self-reliant and self-assured. They rely on their powers. Some people have confidence in money, or possessions, or their position, or their jobs, but we are to have confidence in the Lord. Our confidence cannot be founded on human resources but on divine ones. Man cannot help us. We cannot hope for money. Jobs do not bring certainty. We cannot put our trust in possessions. Our only confidence must be in God. Our only certainty is the Lord. Our hands are not sufficient, but God is sufficient.
Do we have confidence in the Lord despite affliction? Do we have confidence in the Lord that He can deliver? Do we have confidence in the Lord’s love for us? Do we have confidence in the Lord’s power? Do we have confidence in His wisdom? Do we have confidence in His goodness? Do we speak with confidence the word of the Lord? Do we have confidence in God that it will be exactly as He has told us? It is time to put our confidence once and for all in the Lord.
II Corinthians 3:4-5 “Such is the reliance and confidence that we have through Christ toward and with reference to God. Not that we are fit (qualified and sufficient in ability) of ourselves to form personal judgments or to claim or count anything as coming from us, but our power and ability and sufficiency are from God.” Confidence towards God is solid. He is the only one who can help. He is never lacking in anything. He is always there. God is the one we can rely on, and that is what He desires from us. He wants us to trust in Him.
Proverbs 3:26 “For the LORD shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken. “ He will keep you from being caught or snared, but He must be your confidence.
Copyright @June 2025 Carol Wright/Oasis Worship Center
As we are sensitive to the Holy Spirit and allow Him to operate in our lives, He will place us in situations where we can be a blessing to others. We are blessed to be a blessing. We often think of blessings as financial means but blessings go far beyond that aspect. It is a matter of us listening and obeying the Spirit of God. The Holy Spirit will bring people and opportunities into our lives where we can be a blessing by reaching out. Lives will cross our paths so that the Holy Spirit can work through us to touch someone else. Sometimes we are not aware that we are touching another person’s life but often the Holy Spirit will gently lead us to do something for someone us. You might be the remedy in some person's life, your phone call, being a friend, giving a helping hand, praying with someone and the list goes on. The most important part is being intimate with God and then obeying the Holy Spirit. It is out of intimacy that will come fullness and sensitivity.
The Word says they will know we are His disciples by our love and the goodness of God will bring them to repentance. The Word also states that the glory of God will be manifested in the earth. Many believers think of God doing some great miracle or act where his glory is manifested but He manifests Himself through us His disciples and followers. As we touch people’s lives reaching out to them one person at a time as the Holy Spirit directs we will see churches increase dramatically. Our reaching out can be both believers and non-believers. Our reaching out to a certain person could be a one-time event or it could be a continual showing of compassion and love. As we are consistent in displaying the goodness of God, it will eventually bring some to a place where they step into belief in God and that His standards for living are far better than where they have been. All people are valuable and precious to God.
I think a song that states, “Thank you for giving to the Lord I am so glad you gave “. This song is about how lives were touched and changed by someone giving to the Lord, teaching Sunday school, giving to missions, or some other way. We can have an impact both in and out of church. We need to reach out we all have something we can give. Part of the vision of this fellowship is reaching our world for Jesus by touching the lives of people. We often think we need someone to reach out to us, but in us laying down our lives and out of our need for someone to pray for us, etc. we pray for someone else or do some good act of kindness we will also be ministered to.
Copyright @June 2025 Carol Wright/Oasis Worship Center
We need to wake up to God’s blessings around us. God daily brings blessings into our lives. The Word of God continually tells us we are blessed. Blessings promote and contribute to our well-being and prosperity. Blessings are divine favor. We need to focus on the blessings and goodness of God instead of focusing on the problems. Stop always seeing the problems and start seeing the blessings.
It is a blessing to be alive. It is a blessing to have good health. It is a blessing to have food and provision. We live in a blessed nation. It is a blessing to be able to go to church, hear the Word of God, and worship God. We are blessed beyond measure and we don’t even realize it most of the time. Instead, we moan, complain, and whine about our problems.
Your problems are temporary or subject to change. God wants us to rejoice through our problems. But how can I be joyful in my problem? If our focus is on Him, He is the cause of our joy. You will be more effective in your life. If you focus on what God has already done for you. Praise God for the solution that He has for your problem. His provision was there before the problem even arose. He has the answer. We often allow the pressures of our situations to keep us down and depressed because we focus totally on the problem instead of focusing on the Father God. Do not allow your problems to consume your thought life. It does not matter what the devil tries to do, God is more powerful and mighty. Laugh at the devil. When you rejoice and praise the Lord, the devil will wonder what is wrong with you. Your problem is not the biggest thing in your life, God is! He’s I am that I am. He is all that you need. You are blessed you have the greater one on the inside of you. Just remember the devil is the lesser one. Nothing is too big for God.
Psalm 115:11-15 “Ye that fear the LORD, trust in the LORD: he is their help and their shield. The LORD hath been mindful of us: he will bless us; he will bless the house of Israel; he will bless the house of Aaron. He will bless them that fear the LORD, both small and great. “The LORD shall increase you more and more, you and your children. Ye are blessed of the LORD which made heaven and earth.
Copyright @June 2025 Carol Wright/Oasis Worship Center
Often, we focus on our problems instead of focusing on the Lord and His limitless power. How do we focus on the problem? We talk about the problem to anyone who will listen. We think about the problem, and we try to figure out how to handle it. We are caught up in the problem and then we begin to fret and worry. What we are doing is magnifying the problem over the one who can solve the problem, the Lord God Almighty. The problem has increased in size to us. What we need to do is adjust our focus back on God and ask Him to help us. We just need to say something like this, “Lord I have this problem I do not know what to do. Lord, even if I did know what to do I cannot handle it in my strength. I need your grace (power).” When we give Him the problem and focus on Him, He can begin to work.
We need to know that there is nothing too hard or difficult for God. He has limitless power He is the Almighty God. He has the power to solve all of our problems if we would let Him if we would ask Him. Zechariah 4:6b in the Amplified Bible says, "Not by might, nor by power but by my Spirit [of whom the oil is a symbol] says the Lord of hosts.” It is not by our might or our resources that we will solve the problem. It is not by our power or our ability that we will solve the problem. The Spirit will meet the issues or problems in our lives and resolve them. It is by His awesome power.
Although our problems in life may seem to be a mountain to us with God, they are a molehill. What we need to do is not look at the problem but at the Lord God and His power. When we look at the Lord and focus on Him, we magnify Him. We overcome our problems through our trust in God. We believe He is more than able to take care of our situations. When we put our trust in Him and focus on Him, His power goes to work on our behalf.
Copyright @June 2025 Carol Wright/Oasis Worship Center
Our need or necessity for God never diminishes or decreases. We need to have a constant dependence upon Him and His grace. It is in Him that we live, move, and have our being. In Him, we live and are not dead we have breathed, real and true life. In Him, we are active. In Him, we are blessed. We need Him so that we can continue in His ways and methods, righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit. It is in Him that we have character. In Him, we have vital power, and we are powerful, strong, and efficient. In Him, we are fresh. It is only in Him that we can have life as God has it.
People often get born again and think that’s all I need. We need God daily. We cannot just take one breath and never breathe again. Breathing is necessary and must be constant. We are dependent upon it, so it is with God. It is in Him that we move. In Him, we are set in motion. Motion that comes from life. It is in Him that we are or exist. Just as a branch without life is dead so are we. A branch must be hooked up to the source of life. We must be hooked up to the source of life. We must stay continually connected to God.
John 15:5 states apart from Him I can do nothing. I can do nothing that is acceptable. In Philippians 4:13 it affirms that I can do all things through Christ that strengthens me. If we take the opposite approach, then we can do nothing without Him and His strength. Philippians 4:19 “But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. “ We usually use this in regard to giving. But God must continually supply our need in everything. Whatever our necessity is what God will supply for us, but we must realize that we need Him. He is the supplier of everything. He is our need. Hebrews 4:16 “Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need. “Come to Him because He is your need. You need Him every day.
Copyright @May 2025 Carol Wright/Oasis Worship Center
The Lord God provides and blesses us in numerous ways. Sometimes, we do not recognize the blessings or provisions because they are not what we imagine. We often do not think the Lord God is blessing our giving, as we continually expect money in return for our giving. The blessings may come from things not wearing out or breaking down, and we do not have the cost of replacing them. We are blessed not to have health issues, and we do not have to pay for medical expenses. We are blessed when food purchases stretch farther than we think, or come from unexpected sources. If we stop and ponder, we can all think of how the Lord has blessed us in numerous ways.
Yes, the Lord God may bless our giving with promotions or jobs with better pay and benefits. Yes, the Lord God's blessings may come in unexpected gifts of money or material goods. But the one thing we should be assured of is that the Lord God can furnish our personal needs. He desires us to be reliant on Him and not be self-reliant. As we give, we are placing ourselves into the hands of God, knowing He is more than enough to take care of us.
II Corinthians 9:7 (NKJV) “So let each one give as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver.” We all can be cheerful givers, knowing the Lord God can take care of us.
Copyright @May 2025 Carol Wright/Oasis Worship Center