Strength

Have you grown tired and seem to feel you can't go on? I know in my lifetime I have gotten to places and said I don't have the strength to continue moving forward. I allow the devil to come in and whisper lies to me about how I was not suppose to be here or doing something I knew was right, he will has told me that I am to weak to continue and the lies continue. The devil is right in one sense, that in and of myself I can't continue, but when I am weak, Jesus is strong, because no longer is it my way, but God's way. In 2 Corinthians 12:10 "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." I must rejoice in my weakness, I must thank God for my weakness, because it can't be about me, but about Christ who lives in me. That is why in James 4:7 it says "Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you." Because when I say God I submit myself to you and I am going to resist the lies of the devil, because it is Your way and not mine, it is Your strength and not mine, it is Your love and not mine. It is easy to think that the devil will just lie to us, but he will use our weakness to make us believe his lies.

My life verse is Isaiah 40:31 "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." The Lord will renew my strength, it therefore is not my strength, but the Lord's strength. I will grow tired and weary, but He is always there. My strength will wither and fade, but God is the same yesterday, today and forever. It can't be about me and that is the best thing of all, not my strength, but Yours Lord.

If you are in a spot in which you feel that you don't fit or don't have the strength to continue, God has you there for a reason. He wants you to not rely on yourself, but to submit to Him, surrender and say Lord I don't have the strength, the wisdom, the power to do this and then He wants us to rely on Him, His way, His truth, His wisdom, for it can't be about us, it must be about Him. Remember when we are weak, He is strongest, because no longer is it about my way, but His way.