Today's message reminds me to acknowledge my weakness as a human being and recognize my need for my source, my provider and my ABBA FATHER.
God doesn’t need us to be strong in ourselves, our abilities, or our know-how! Proverbs 3:5,6 exhorts us, Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and He will make your paths straight.
Often times I thought I was capable to do things well without anyone's help. However, the fact is--there are so many things in life I can't control. There had been occasions I knew I could do nothing to change the situation. During those times I was again reminded that we humans are so weak and helpless without God.
What can we do then?
1. We acknowledge our weaknesses.
Let’s admit our limitations. Without Christ, we are weak — and not just a little weak — we’re totally helpless and hopeless. But believer, we are not without Christ!
2. We rely on His strength!
We are able to stand strong when we look to Jesus and depend on His powerful life within us!
Father God, I am weak and helpless without you. I need you to guide my path, my mind and my actions. Thank you that you are the strength, the provider and the source of all understanding. I ask that you will lead me in the midst of my dark days, I pray that I will seek you and I will seek you with all my heart.
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. 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.
2 Corinthians 12:9-10 NIV
https://bible.com/bible/111/2co.12.9-10.NIV
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