BOLD!

Proverbs 28:1 The wicked flee when no one pursues, But the righteous are bold as a lion.

When Elijah commanded it not to rain for three and a half years, he wasn’t timid, he was bold! He was confident. He was full of courage! He was confident that his word would not return void.

When Jesus was telling the sea and the waves to be still, He was bold! He didn’t think for a moment that they would defy His command! Same went when He was casting out demons!

When Abraham in his old age went to fight five kings with his household, he was bold. He didn’t think he was too old for war. His boldness disannulled his limitations. He had victory!

When Esther was going in to report the accuser of her people, she was bold. She didn’t cower at what Haman would do to her. She didn’t hide under the sheets of queenship thinking she’d survive as her people got massacred!

Jacob was bold when he was asking for Rachel. He even worked extra (overtime) just to have her. Ruth as well, though a Moabite she was, was bold when pursuing Boaz as she implemented her mother’s instruction. In the end she got married again!

Rahab (a prostitute) was bold when she cast in her bargain to be saved from the peril that was coming to the Jericho dwellers! She had helped the spies anyway — ‘and now, you too must save me and my house.’ she said. You see righteousness is independent of nationality or tribe or occupation. It’s dependent on faith.

Rahab was a prostitute! If righteousness was dependent on occupation, then I doubt if her promiscuity would have handed her a ticket. She wasn’t a Hebrew either, but somehow she perceived that the Hebrew God would have her, since she had hosted His people. In the long run, she became a Hebrew too. All because of her faith.

David was bold! Do you remember how as a teen he fought bears and lions in the fields? I know times have changed, and we might not have bears around to test our boldness too! But, there are giants all around us. Giants of sickness, poverty and men who might not desire us to prosper.

There’s good news!

God’s word says ‘the righteous are BOLD as a lion’. It doesn’t say ‘the righteous WILL be’. It doesn’t say ‘the righteous WERE…’ No! It says ‘are’! ‘ARE’ and ‘IS’ are a continuous state of being. It’s like saying ‘the sun is hot.’ This means the sun was hot, is hot and will be hot. It’s a fact that won’t change. It is present, and it is continuous. The righteous as well, from the days of our father Abraham, were bold, are bold, and will still be bold.

The character of boldness will never be separate from the righteous person! It’ll always be there. Yes, even unto you who feels like you don’t amount to anything, it’s in there! You only need to realize it, seek it out and wear it!

Like water is wet, you are bold. You have not been given the spirit of timidity and fear! You are strong, brave, and courageous! You stand against Goliath when he has tortured everyone else, and you behead him! You put ten thousand enemies to flight! You raise the dead with boldness. Like Jesus, you call the dead Lazaruses to come forth, and they do!

The other meaning of ‘bold’ is ‘to be daring’. You are daring! You pursue God’s command. You walk out of the boat and onto the water like Peter. (That by the way is a LOOOOOT of boldness. Especially, for you chaps who have studied all about gravity and upthrust and weight and matter and sharks). You dare God to do, and He does exceedingly abundantly above all you dare Him to!

Being an element He gave to us, it will be with you always. Just like good health comes with the package of salvation, boldness comes with righteousness.

You are bold as you apply for that new job. You are bold as you quit the one you know you’ve outgrown. You are bold as you ask that girl to marry you. You are also bold enough to turn down the proposal if you feel the Kairos of your marriage hasn’t come yet.

You are bold enough to build that marriage into a better one. You are bold enough to raise those children in the way they must go! You are bold enough to cast out that cancer! It isn’t bold enough to stay! It shall respond to the curse you send to it just like the fig tree!

You are bold enough to make that move! You are bold enough to do mighty exploits! You are bold enough to manifest what no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no mind has ever imagined. You are bold enough to start that business! You are bold enough to fly on wings as eagles!

‘You are bold enough to keep bolding!’ 😂

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2 Timothy 1:7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear (or timidity), but of power and of love and of a sound mind.