How I Built my Confidence As A Christian (Self Worth Through God)

The Disciples Journal

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🗓️ 7 August 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

I didn’t realize how much of my confidence was wrapped up in how people saw me… until God started stripping that away. In this episode, I’m talking about where our confidence really comes from — and what happens when you try to build your identity on things that shift. Your job. Your relationship. Your reputation. Even your emotions. We walk through Matthew 16 and how Peter’s revelation of who Jesus is led to Jesus revealing who Peter was. And that’s the moment everything changes. If you’ve ever wrestled with insecurity, people-pleasing, or feeling like you’ve lost yourself — I think this one will really speak to you. Finding who you are starts with finding Him. And if you want to go deeper in the Word daily, check out my devotional podcast After God’s Heart. We walk through Scripture every morning together. You can try it free for 7 days using the link below: https://patreon.com/aftergodsheart Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to The Disciples Journal. I'm your host, Darren Starks, and this is where you learn to walk with Jesus every single day. I hope you're doing well. First and foremost, this past week has been amazing for me this past Sunday. I had a youth leader meeting and we went around the room and everyone
0:23.9	gave their highs and lows about something in our life that was going really well and something
0:28.4	they felt was challenging. And with where I'm at right now, I really said that I'm not facing
0:36.5	any challenges per se, but that really goes
0:41.6	into why everything seems to be going so well, because I am doing really deep work, and I'm
0:51.3	realizing there's a lot of things in my past that I've confessed but I never
0:54.5	really processed and so this past week in particular but really the past two months I've been
1:01.0	on this interesting journey of taking a peek back in the past not to dwell but to heal from
1:09.5	different places I didn't even know we're still there.
1:11.6	This is coming up because of relationships that I'm in when it comes in terms of the community that I'm not a part of that I mentioned to you all about two weeks ago.
1:20.6	Walking with people is such a mirror. It reveals the places in you that are not of him and that he really wants to do work on.
1:29.2	So it's this beautiful process that is a high, but also it's challenging because you're really starting to see how wretched you are, or at least me.
1:39.8	But I've absolutely loved it.
1:41.6	So I start there because I really hope you're doing well.
1:44.7	And I want to encourage each and every one of you that this sanctification process
1:52.0	in becoming more like Christ also includes the healing of your soul.
1:57.7	And to not neglect that.
1:59.2	Because I think when we're young young particularly or even if you may
2:02.3	be older we get in modes where we're just surviving but not actually living and we're just
2:08.6	going through the motions of life instead of being present in it so if that feels like that's you
2:15.8	right now just take a deep breath know that he is with you
2:22.1	he is the comforter and wants to guide you into the truth one of who he is and all of what he's
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