Whose Power?

When we feel we can’t, lets be honest, we usually don’t even try. We might recognize an area of our life and know that we need to do something, perhaps it is a sin in our lives that our eyes have been opened to and we know we need to change, but we respond with “I can’t”.  Too often the “I can’t”  isn’t uttered while we are in the midst of the climb trying to reach the top sweat beads dripping from our forehead and our grip loosening from the slippery slope to which we cling.  No, rather we are usually standing feet firmly planted on the ground haven’t even put on the climbing gear yet and just looking up at the mountain saying “I can’t”.  Yet as Christians we claim that we have the Spirit of God… read that again, the SPIRIT of GOD!  Such power that we will do the works that Jesus did and greater works.  We know a Helper has been given to us that dwells with us, and is IN us. (John 14:12,16-17) So why is it that we claim this power but then demonstrate such weakness?  We merely look at the mountain and say “I can’t”. Oh what the Lord might do if we boast in our weakness knowing we can’t BUT that He can and through that we press on.  We step into the climbing harness, take that first step off the ground and we start. Just because we have been given the Spirit doesn’t mean that we don’t have to do anything. It doesn’t mean that we can just sit down and say “I can’t but God can” and we magically appear on the top of the mountain. No.  It will require stepping into the unknown.  Going through the trials. But when the sweat is dripping from your head and you’re loosing your group you press on because you know God can and you rely fully on His strength.  That is the Spirit he has placed within you.  The climb is never easy, but the view from the top is always worth it.  What battle is before you that you are looking at it with the “I can’t” view?

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As a busy homeschooling mom I rarely get time to myself let alone “quiet” time.  However I have the desire to know God and the only way to know Him is by what has been revealed in His word thus I must know His word.  What better way to learn about God (grow in Him) than to ‘go to church’ on Sunday I thought.  So Sundays would roll around and I would go to church for my weekly feeding.  I would either leave feeling less than satisfied or full for a moment only to have the hunger pains return a short time later.  I, of course, attributed it to something lacking in the church or the messages when really what was lacking was my own personal study.  We shouldn’t be going to church on Sunday to feed because we have been starving all week.  Rather a message we hear on Sundays should just be a dessert, an extra cherry on top, because we have been filling up and feasting on Gods word throughout the entire week. Continue reading “10 Free Christian Apps To Download Today”

Prone To Wander

‘Prone to wander, Lord I feel it… Bind my wandering heart to thee.’

The verses of this song ring so true. I am prone to leave the God I love. This is not something I, or you, suffer from alone. As Paul wrote in Romans 7:15 he states “For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.” We know that our flesh and spirit are at war with each other to keep us from doing what we want to do. Galatians 5:17

But we are not lost and left there…wandering. In the verse prior (Galatians 5:16) it says to walk by the Spirit and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.

George Müller said the first business of the day was to have his soul happy in God. —So how do we do this? He goes on to answer that by saying– the food for the inner-man is the word of God. (paraphrased) 

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