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Power for the humble

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2 Cor. 12:9. . .”And He has said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness ‘ Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me.”
What weakness are you struggling with? Are you experiencing the power of God in your life? Remember God resists the proud and gives grace to the humble. You can only experience God’s power when you truly realize how weak you are. How else can God be glorified? Maybe you have dreams of getting a certain job but have some type of disorder that keeps you from getting it. With God’s help, He will help you to get it in His own timing, and when you do you won’t have anything to boast about because you will have been too humbled from realizing your own weaknesses. Remember God wants to bless you but He has to take you through a fire first so that when He does give you what your hearts desire is you won’t be too full of confidence in yourself.
Maybe your weakness is depression or an addiction and you’re enslaved to some sin. As you realize your helpless to beat it by your own power and throw yourself at the mercy of God you will gradually began to overcome it. Remember what the Lord said to Moses, “my grace is sufficient for you for my power if perfected in weakness.” If you overcome something in life and you’re boasting about it, then God probably didn’t help you through it. So like Paul, boast about your weaknesses so that God’s power may shine forth and nonbelievers will stand in awe of your God-thus opening a door for Him to begin a work in them.

Wanting to be made well

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John 5:6. . .”When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had already been a long time in that condition, He said to him, “Do you wish to get well?”
Notice Jesus asked the man by the pool if he wanted to get well. The Lord lives to save but only if we realize our need and actually want to be set free and live for Him.

If you’re reading this email and you haven’t found God in your life, do you wish to get well? Have you realized how sick you are? There’s a good physician waiting to heal you if you’re willing to give Him your life. He doesn’t even cost anything. In fact He’ll even pay your bill for you.

As for those that have been “treated” by the good doctor, do you wish to get well? Have you made spiritual growth a commitment or are you stuck in a rut just going through the motions everyday.

Life’s most important relationship is quite an adventure buy you wouldn’t know it by talking to a lot of christians. In fact if every christian actually shared their faith more (I know I need to work on this too), probably at least half the world would be saved.

Strength of Character

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We’ve heard the old saying “Survival of the Fittest” and the famous one “God helps those who helps themselves.” Is this Biblical? Who are the fittest and the ones to whom God helps that help themselves?

Mental illness along with illnesses of the body are usually not found in those that consider themselves “strong.” Even the “strongest” person admits they have weaknesses. So why don’t we acknowledge our illnesses, particularly mental, as our weaknesses? We admit our character defects which for the most part include our sins. So why don’t we consider our infirmities as weaknesses? After all when you struggle with something for a long time it can wear down your body’s immune system. This is especially true when as we get older and prolonged years of stress & anxiety “weaken” our immune system and we end up having to take medicine as we get older.

So who are the ones who are the fittest? Some have a strong faith in God and some are strong in and of themselves. However no one is entirely that strong in and of themselves apart from God. Therefore it’s God who gives you the grace to make it through each day. You’re just deluded into thinking you’re such a “good person” in and of yourself.

Years of being grounded in the Word of God can “strengthen” your character as well. As you pray and seek God you can better discern His Will for you life so that you know almost exactly what to pray for. Then you stand on the Word and trust in God’s timing for the answer. God for the most part either says Yes when He grants it to you or wait. He only says no if it goes against His Word. Although all your prayers have their yes in Messiah Yeshua as everything you ultimately seek can be found in Him; security, significance, salvation, purpose,

So to sum it up Survival of the Fittest can best be attributed to Survival of the Faithful. Although no matter how godly or faithful you can get you can always get struck down with cancer, heart disease, mental illness. You will be healed of it even if it kills you; i.e. if God uses it as His means of Grace to call you home.

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Sick body or sick in spirit?

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Prov. 18:14. . .”The strong spirit of a man sustains him in bodily pain or trouble, but a weak and broken spirit who can raise up or bear?”

Ever known someone who was negative or pessimistic? That’s signs of a broken spirit. Even though your days are ordained by God, a person who is strong can will himself to live or overcome any adversity (even mental problems). Technically it’s actually God who’s giving Him strength whether he acknowledges it or not. And if you’ve received Christ as your Lord & Saviour you have no reason to have a weak and broken spirit by the power of the Holy Spirit. I know I’m guilty of this too sometimes but that’s no way to justify it. If this devotional speaks to you, get up off your mat and Go after God!!! Do whatever He’s calling you to step out in faith and do and quit using your thorn as an excuse. Remember God gives you that thorn so that His grace may be sufficient for you. Whatever the Lord is calling you to do-whether it’s to pursue that godly man/woman you want to spend the rest of your life with, or that business you want to start, or that mission trip you want to go on, or that church you want to plant

Let the good stress in

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Stress can be the number one killer as well as the root cause of most every sickness. Of course who am I to say these things since I don’t have a license to talk about anything medical or psychological. I am just a self-educated blogger. Self-education doesn’t count for much in a scientific world. Even if you read all the right stuff and know just as much as any medical professional.

Most people don’t know that there are two kinds of stress; there is distress and there is eustress. Distress is the one that most of us are more familiar with. This is the state of suffering, agony, and state of being in trouble. The distressed state is normally temporary but won’t feel like it when it is being experienced.

You have to be at a higher state of awareness to understand eustress. This is defined as psychological stress that is moderate or normal and can be beneficial. Just like there can be healthy fears. The healthy kind of fear and stress is that which motivates us to do better and achieve more; as long as we are balanced about it and don’t get too caught up in our life’s work. The latter can turn to distress really quick.

Practicing mindfulness can help us to alleviate the distress and allow more of the eustress in and help keep us focused in our life’s pursuits.