🔊Our strongest position in spiritual warfare is under His wings, in the shadow of the Almighty. Run to His presence and embrace our weaknesses—fear, anxiety, sadness, and anything that makes you human and vulnerable.
Allow Him to demonstrate His power in you!
💪🏼We often find our greatest strength in the Lord when we acknowledge our human weaknesses. God allowed Satan to afflict Paul to keep him humble and to demonstrate His power in Paul's life.
Paul said:
📖 “...And He (Jesus) said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.”
2 Corinthians 12:9
👉🏼Let's set aside our pride! We all try to appear tough, strong, resilient, unshakable, put-together, and powerful.
But that's just a façade. That's how the world operates, but not us! We know our inner weaknesses. We can't operate from a place of human strength, because that's not what we're called to do. We're called to be "strong in the Lord" that's how we fight our battles — in Him, not through our physical, mental, or emotional strength.
We must acknowledge that we cannot do anything without Jesus. We need to be positioned IN HIM, embracing our weaknesses so He can demonstrate His power and strength in us.
📖"Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil."
Eph 6:10-11
🩸The most astounding demonstration of God's power was through the Holy Spirit who raised Jesus from the dead. Did Jesus operate from a place of human strength? No, Jesus operated from a place of weakness. He was in sorrow, grieving, afflicted, stricken, wounded, bruised, abandoned, despised, betrayed, and rejected. He was "led like a lamb to the slaughter" when He went to the cross. Through all this, He demonstrated God's magnificent power of resurrection destroying sin, and sickness, and taking the keys of death and Hades.
Jesus says:
📖“Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me. “I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.” John 15:4–5.
⚙️Relying on God's strength rather than our own allows His power to be shown through our weaknesses.
We are hopeless and fruitless in our strength. Just as He was crucified in weakness and raised in power, we also need to be weak in Him to live by His power.
📖"For though He was crucified in weakness, yet He lives by the power of God. For we also are weak in Him, but we shall live with Him by the power of God toward you."
2 Cor 13:4
🔊Let's embrace our weakness and everything that keeps us humble!
Those flaws we have, the sickness we're wrestling with, the fears, the loneliness, the defeats! That's where we will find our greatest strength — when we are in Christ! He will turn all that weakness into power! He is the vine, and we are His branches. Apart from Him, we can do nothing.
That's why Paul says to the Philippians, "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me!
🔊Keep looking up!
Remember, He's coming in the moment when we "have little strength"—when we are at our weakest point.
The whole world will witness the most shocking demonstration of the power of God! The resurrection of those who died in Him and the transformation of our bodies in the twinkling of an eye as we are taken to enter heaven and be in His presence FOREVER!
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⚠️ IF YOU ARE NOT IN CHRIST, GET SAVED RIGHT NOW!
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Believe Jesus is the Son of God, who shed His blood for you, died on the cross for our sins, He was buried and resurrected during the third day, according to the Scriptures, so we can have eternal life with Him.
The moment you believe in Him and that He died for your sins - you're saved, justified, sealed until the day of redemption, and rapture ready!
The Holy Spirit will come to live inside of you - He will help you, guide you, change you, and be with you FOREVER!
📖"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life."
For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.
He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God."
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