Title: How Do You Feel About Your Weaknesses?
Text:
Philippians 4:13 (HCSB)
13 I am able to do all things through Him who strengthens me.
Observation:
I was reading a blog recently, and this comment got my attention. "I tried to give my kids a better life than I had". I can relate to that comment because I believe that is the way my parents thought.
However, I can relate even more to this comment. "What I regret is taking this too far. I've tried to prevent struggle, risk, failure, and injury. But protecting them like that doesn't create a better life; it creates a fragile life. So, I've stopped wishing for them success, and I've started wishing for their strength. In the face of whatever comes". (UnTangled - Dr. Kelly Flanagan)
The best thing we can do for our children and for others is to introduce them to the Jesus Way that we wrote about yesterday. Notice what the Apostle Paul said about his weaknesses.
2 Corinthians 12:9 (HCSB)
9 But He said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness." Therefore, I will most gladly boast all the more about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may reside in me.
Are you able to embrace and overcome your weaknesses? I would like to pray for you to have the strength that the Lord provides to His people.
Prayer:
Father, hallowed be Your name. Father, this is the prayer that I offer for my family and my friends; for all who read this word.
Ephesians 3:16 (HCSB)
16 ⌊I pray⌋ that He may grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power in the inner man through His Spirit,
Father, I pray this prayer in the mighty name of Jesus, Amen.
Isaiah 55:11 (KJV)
11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
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