Our Strength

I have been doing a lot of thinking about my strength, strength isn't just in my muscles, but it is in my ability to walk as Christ calls me to walk. I understand how easy it is to rely on my own strength and when I get tired and weary I just want to stop, but that is my strength. I have thought about how many times I say I can't handle it or I don't want to do that, it isn't me, but in life what does God call me to do? He wants me to run the race, not out of my strength, but in His strength. When I hit rock bottom, it was when I tried to do it all on my own, I was the one that said I could do it, my way all by myself, but sometimes God will take us to the end of our rope, so that we see that it is no longer about MY rope, but the rope that God is giving me. How many people do you know that are so tired from their jobs, so tired from fighting the fight but running on empty, because they are basing life on themselves. In Isaiah 40:30-31 "30 Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; 31 but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles;
they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint."

That verse is my life verse, because when I do it all myself, it is all about me. I need to make my life not about myself, but about God. When I hope in the Lord, He will give me the strength to do it. It is no longer about my strength about what I can or can't do, because it is about Christ who lives in me.

The enemy loves to feed me lies, about how I am not worth where I am or how I can't do it and I when I allow the enemy to speak to me, soon my whole life changes to be this pile of junk, but when I finally silence his voice and say Lord, You have said I can do it, You chose me, I don't understand why, but You picked me, what do You want to teach me in where You have me. I stop making it about my strengths and make it about His strength. It isn't about what I can't do, but what He can do through me.

God will use me, once I stop fighting and starting saying use me, it is not my strength, but Yours Lord. When it is God's strength and not mine, look at what He promises:
Philippians 4:13 "I can do all this through Him who gives me strength."
Isaiah 40:29 "He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak."
Psalm 119:28 "My soul is weary with sorrow; strengthen me according to Your word."
Ephesians 6:10 "Finally, be strong in the Lord and in His mighty power."
2 Corinthians 12:9-10 "But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. 10 That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships,in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong." Did you get that? His power is made perfect in our weakness, because it is no longer about "I", but Christ that works in me.
Nehemiah 8:10b "for the joy of the Lord is your strength."

The devil wants us to rely on our own strength, he wants us to say I can't do this, so I wont even try, but God wants us to not make it about our strength, but His strength. What can't we do, when we rely on His unfailing strength? So remember this, that when you say you can't do it or other lies, remember Galatians 2:20 "I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me." So we must 2 Corinthians 5:7 "For we live by faith, not by sight."