1 John 5:13-15 “I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have what we asked of him.5” (NIV)
In 1872, British evangelist Henry Varley leaned into a young D.L. Moody during a private conversation in Ireland and said, “The world has yet to see what God will do with a man fully consecrated to Him.” The words cut to the bone. As Moody crossed the Atlantic back to America, he recalled that those words seemed engraved into the deck beneath his feet. They haunted him in the best possible way. His response became the defining declaration of his life: “By God’s help, I aim to be that man.”
What gave him this confidence? John spells it out above. Moody knew he was a child of God with an eternal home in heaven. That settled identity produced bold prayer. And bold prayer, aligned with God’s will, produced a life fully surrendered to the mission. The result was staggering. This fifth-grade dropout who could barely spell spoke to over 100 million people and saw countless souls come to know Christ. He would often say, “I know perfectly well that, wherever I go and preach, there are many better preachers than I am; all that I can say about it is that the Lord uses me.”
That is confidence in action.
Where is yours today?
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