Boldness

But those who are God's pleasers, they only fear God.

Boldness is courage to speak up and act for God, sourced in God, and aimed at God's glory.

Arrogance is courage sourced in self, aimed at self-glory.

Boldness grows in proportion to certainty, and certainty grows in the word.

Stay with the word.

In case you are doubting, go and search the scripture until you find something, and stay with it.

When they saw the boldness of Peter and John, they realized that they were unschooled, ordinary men, and they were astonished, and they took note of these men that they had been with Jesus.

The kingdom need lions, not peacocks.

Recapping today's show, how to change your relationship with uncertainty.

Number one, boldness is usually a different calculation, is not a different personality.

Boldness is not a personality trait.

It's a Description of behavior that happens when you are unconsciously competent and you ask yourself better quality questions.

Number two, skill shrinks the amount of uncertainty you actually face.

I was lacking a certain purpose.

Boldness will start a certain business.

But the moment you have your heart in great expectation like that, God begins to move.

He sees

I ask you to distinguish a bold decision from a reckless one.

Boldness recognizes a worthwhile opportunity.

examines the possible consequences, and acts despite reasonable uncertainty.

Recklessness treats uncertainty as a reason to abandon examination.

But if you're living your life like that, there's going to come a day where you realize, holy smokes, I waited so long, I never did that thing I wanted to do.

So commitment itself has boldness and genius to it.

There's this beautiful quote that Kvothe says, he's a philosopher, that whatever you can do or dream, You can begin it.

Whatever you can do, whatever you dream of, you can at least begin it.

Because boldness, like beginning something that you didn't even know you could do, boldness has genius in it.

Boldness has power.

Boldness has magic.

which tends to make true prayer impossible.

Boldness obviously means an absence of restraint or fear in any shape or form.

You just think of the picture of a bold man.

He's a man who steps straight forward.

He's not conscious of inhibitions.

He's not hesitant or doubtful or uncertain.

Boldness is the exact opposite of all that.

Here's his first term, with boldness.

I got pissed off.

And I wrote on a three-by-three Post-it note those words that became the title when I was trying to figure out what the title was, 10 Seconds of Boldness.

And what that story is, I won't tell the whole story here, but the bottom line is I started finding the 10 seconds of boldness to do the stuff that was uncomfortable, that I didn't want to do, and I did it anyway.

And what happened was I was coming from a place of not selling but serving, of asking people how they're managing with this worldwide pandemic that's going on.

[clapping] I don't know if I'm preaching.

The third quality an ambassador must possess, number one is the anointing, number two is the mindset, number three is boldness.

Boldnessss.

Someone say boldness.

Boldness.

Oh, boldness.

Boldness.

Listen, I have come to the conclusion that no matter how anointed you are, without boldness, you can't do much.