Have you ever been broken?
Are you broken now?
Do you know that that is a very good place to be?
When you come to the end of yourself, that is when you find God!
As long as you are trusting that "you can" - He won't!
The purpose, of the very storm you are going through, is to bring you to where you need God! If you still have plans on how you will get out of the mess; overcome this trial; be or stay strong, then you don't need God! It's when the options have run out and you throw your hands up and surrender, that He steps in!
If you are praying for a person or a situation, and yet are still in your own strength trying to "help God", you are tying His hands!
Do you remember when your children were young; them attempting to do something for the first time and you wanting to help them, but they pushed you away because the were determined to do it themselves; so you stepped back and kept your hands off! Well God is like that too! When His children have gotten themselves in a pickle and ask for His help but won't relinquish control, He just steps back and waits until we've exhausted all avenues; until in desperation we cry out to Him, "Help me LORD!"
The world and the church believe that God wants us to be strong. That is a lie!
“But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.” James 4:6 KJV
When we come to the end of ourselves; when we humble ourselves before God and cry out to Him, then He will act!
“Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.”
Ephesians 6:10 KJV
Being strong in The LORD, is not relying on our own abilities!
If you can do it; if you are "staying strong" then you are getting the glory and THAT does not please God! He wants all the glory!
If you step away and let Him have total control; if you don't help Him; THEN you will see a miracle occur and there will be no doubt that He did it! He WILL get ALL the glory!
He may or may not use man to accomplish His task, but I promise you, the solution will be in His perfect timing and you WILL know it was God!
Do let go of the control that you THINK you have!
Repent of trying to be God!
Even so - MARANATHA!
From 5/12/14
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