How to Get Confidence From God

I told a friend recently that if he wanted to gain confidence as a public speaker, he should practice. I told him to just accept any invitation, large or small, and get some hours down.

He thanked me but also mentioned he wanted his confidence to come from God, from his faith. He wasn't being snooty or anything, trying to passively let me know what a great Christian he was, because if he'd been doing that, I'd just have shrugged my shoulders and let it go. But my friend was being genuine.

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