Unshaken Confidence Amidst Adversity (Part 2)!

INSPIRE Devotionals With Emmanuel Afiawari Wednesday, August 27, 2025 Topic: UNSHAKEN CONFIDENCE (Part 2)! Memory Verse: "But none of these things move me; ..." - Acts 20:24A NKJV Bible Text: Romans 8:35 NLT 35. “Can anything ever separate us from Christ’s love? Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or hungry, or destitute, or in danger, or threatened with death? INSPIRATION: It is often said that trust is earned and not demanded. God has not only earned our trust, He demands that we trust Him. Trusting Him doesn't make Him any more "God" than He already is, it however profits whoever decides to so do. For Job to have declared, "Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him" (Job 13:15 KJV), there must be something he knew about trusting God that should challenge our faith too. Being slain, yet trusting is not a tea party.  The three Hebrew boys told the king, "We are not careful to answer thee in this matter. If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods..." (Daniel 3:16-18 KJV). This level of confident audacity must be sponsored by something deeper than mere head knowledge. They must have encountered God in dimensions that killed their fear. Such confidence comes from deeply intimate fellowship that is lacking in today's believers. TODAY'S TAKE HOME: If anything still moves you to the point of affecting your love for God, just know that you're farther away from knowing what it means to confidently trust God. It has a price! PRAYER: O Lord, I receive grace to boldly declare my stand of trusting you like Job and the Hebrew boys did. I affirm nothing moves me, nothing separates me from totally depending on you, in Jesus name.