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When I hear the word confidence a million thoughts begin to race through my mind. It isn't hard to look at someone and know whether or not they are confident but what actually goes into that? What is it that we see in that person? I started the Confident Woman Devotional to try and learn more about what God views as a confident woman and how his daughters should live their lives in confidence. A lot of the issues that I read about are rooted in fear. Fear of rejection, fear of failure, fear of acceptance or approval. But we are reminded in Joshua 1:9 that God is with us wherever we go, so why are we constantly afraid? We each have gifts and talents but we must be willing to take a risk sometimes in order to use them. You rob yourself of what you can do in your life and the lives of others by simply being afraid. It won't always be perfect or go the way you planned but that is okay.  We aren't guaranteed that there won't be struggles along the way but we are guaranteed that He is with us every step of the way. Fearful, under-confident people are constantly rejecting themselves, rather than accepting the person God intended them to be. There are a thousand different things you can do to become more confident, but if you don't accept yourself will you really be confident? 

 For as he thinks in his heart, so is he. Proverbs 23:7

 xoxo

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