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The Strength of God

"The Strength of God"

Thank you Lord for the strength we have in You. Thank you God for the strength from day to day. We can rely on caffeine but eventually it runs out, we can rely on vegetables and vitamins to give us strength but my God, the strength we receive from You when we are weak nothing can n'er compare. The strength that comes from You can enable us to love when we are hated on, forgive when people mistreat us, show mercy even when it wasn't reciprocated, give even when we are down to our last dime, have joy in the face of sorrow, long-suffer with others that the world says we ought to give up on--the way you long-suffered with us.

You give us the strength through faith to persevere and see what the end is going to be. You strengthen us for the journey when our knees start to shake and they feel like they are about to give out until we begin to pray and ask the Holy Spirit to strengthen us, to hold us up, to fill us up, to strengthen us for the journey.

Sometimes the circumstances seem insurmountable until we pray and rely on You Lord to strengthen us to climb that mountain.

Jesus had an imsurmountable mountain to climb, a destination known as Golgatha and yet He prayed and He was strengthened in the Garden of Gethsemane until He uttered those three words from the cross, "It is Finished!"

We too as the body of Christ have some, "It is Finished," assignments yet completed and we won't be able to do it in our own strength but I thank God for the strength that is made available to us as Children of the Most High God. Strength that never gives up when our body begins to tremble out of fear and it wants to fail us and tempts us to want to give up!

Truly when we are weak, through Him we are made strong. Lord, We Cannot If YOU Will Not Strengthen us and if you strengthen us, then we will be strengthened and for the many good works that you have given our hands to do, we can utter, "It is Finished," too!

Thank you for the strength that we have through Jesus Christ because it works best in our weakness hallelujah!!!

Lord, thank you the strength we have in You!
Again, I say thank you!

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