What can make us appropriately assertive? - Assertiveness - TouchPoints

Acts 4:13, 29, 31The members of the council were amazed when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, for they could see that they were ordinary men with no special training in the Scriptures. They also recognized them as men who had been with Jesus . . . And now, O Lord, hear their threats, and give us, your servants, great boldness in preaching your word . . . After this prayer, the meeting place shook, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit. Then they preached the word of God with boldness.

Acts 9:27-28Then Barnabas brought him to the apostles and told them how Saul had seen the Lord on the way to Damascus and how the Lord had spoken to Saul. He also told them that Saul had preached boldly in the name of Jesus in Damascus. So Saul stayed with the apostles and went all around Jerusalem with them, preaching boldly in the name of the Lord.

2 Corinthians 3:12Since this new way gives us such confidence, we can be very bold.

Proverbs 28:1The wicked run away when no one is chasing them, but the godly are as bold as lions.

Our relationship with God makes us assertive in our convictions and our desire to follow him. When we belong to a God who is holy, eternal, all-powerful, all-wise, ever-present, and loves us without limit, we have reason and strength to do what is right and to tell the world about him assertively.

Acts 14:3But the apostles stayed there a long time, preaching boldly about the grace of the Lord. And the Lord proved their message was true by giving them power to do miraculous signs and wonders.

The apostles stayed there a long time, preaching boldly about the grace of the Lord. The Lord proved their message was true by giving them power to do miraculous signs and wonders.

Acts 19:8Then Paul went to the synagogue and preached boldly for the next three months, arguing persuasively about the Kingdom of God.

1 Thessalonians 2:2You know how badly we had been treated at Philippi just before we came to you and how much we suffered there. Yet our God gave us the courage to declare his Good News to you boldly, even though we were surrounded by many who opposed us.

God gives us the courage, through the power of the Holy Spirit, to be assertive in the delivery of his message.

2 Corinthians 4:13But we continue to preach because we have the same kind of faith the psalmist had when he said, “I believed in God, so I spoke.”

Our faith causes us to be assertive in the way we speak about our God.

Ephesians 6:19-20And pray for me, too. Ask God to give me the right words so I can boldly explain God’s mysterious plan that the Good News is for Jews and Gentiles alike. I am in chains now, still preaching this message as God’s ambassador. So pray that I will keep on speaking boldly for him, as I should.

Prayers help us be assertive in our faith, as we boldly live for Christ.