When faith is firm, confidence follows.

It was the late 1970s. I was a Lieutenant in the Army hospital at Lucknow, working as a nurse, when an emergency unfolded in the Labour room. The baby was breech. There were no doctors, and I was the only trained nurse with a student.

For a moment, everything felt still. Then the ‘breech delivery procedure’ I had learned earlier came flooding back to my mind. It was as though the textbook was open before me.

With confidence, I spoke out the steps to the trainee nurse while conducting the breech delivery. By the time the doctor arrived—anxious and concerned—the baby had been delivered safely. He relaxed when he saw everything had been done according to protocol and commended me.

This incident planted something deep within me: never to lose my faith.

Years later, in the early nineties, I faced a very different situation. I was low on finances but high on faith and confidence.

At the age of 42, I attended my first job interview at a software company. I didn’t know the answers and said so.

To my delight, I was offered the job! The success came not from my education as a BSc nurse but from confidence.

Confidence helps us take risks. It enables us to step into the unknown. When our confidence is rooted in God, it allows us to move forward without fear.

There was another season when I learned this lesson more deeply.

Confidence strengthens your prayer life. I was sitting on a park bench,  praying deeply, asking God to send a helper for my aged mother-in-law.

Later that same day, a lady walked into my house and helped me in my time of need. My faith and confidence in God grew stronger. True confidence begins with trust in God’s character. As the prophet declares in

Jeremiah 17:7: “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in Him.”

Recently, I met a lady in a remote village who shared her testimony.

Her goat was having a difficult delivery. No veterinary doctor arrived. The young one was stuck in the birth canal. She prayed.

She said she received the confidence to help deliver the kid herself—something she had never done before. Both the mother goat and the baby survived.

Different decades.Different places.Different situations.The same principle.

We are all familiar with our five senses. But as believers, we have a “sixth sense”—Faith.

Every believer needs faith—whether rich or poor, young or old.

Faith means believing something is real even before you see it.

A farmer sows seed believing that a harvest will come—even when the field looks empty. That is faith. But he also needs confidence—confidence that the season will change, that rain will come, and that God will honour the process.

Looking back over the decades—from the late ’70s hospital ward to the early ’90s interview room, from a park bench in 2010 to a remote village in February 2026—one truth stands out:

Faith anchors the heart and Confidence steadies the hands.

But confidence must not turn into arrogance or pride…

Our confidence must always remain anchored in Christ.

Faith is not just a STEP but a WALK.
And it is a walk with confidence in Christ.

Now at 72 years, this refrain resonates with me strongly:
I’m still in Your hands.
This is my confidence,
You’ve never failed me yet…