His Power Made Perfect

     Sometimes things are hard.  Sometimes we feel like we aren’t going to make it.  Sometimes we feel like we can’t do anything right and that everything we do makes everything worse. It’s been a challenging couple of weeks with lots of good things and lots of not so good things. A lot of ups and a lot of downs.  A lot of running in the same circle, with a fear of never getting out. 

     But something that the Lord has spoken to me is this: my grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.  Something that I’ve never been good at as a leader or actually in any situation, is sharing the things that the Lord has been putting on my heart.  God speaks to me and often asks me to share it with those around me, but I struggle to share.  For some reason I allow myself to fear man.  I allow myself to believe the lies the enemy feeds me that the words I have aren’t important and that they aren’t really from God. 

                                     

    This fear that I have has kept me from allowing the Holy Spirit to move when He wants to and that unfortunately causes you to go in circles.  But our fears and our weaknesses don’t stop God from doing what He wants to do.  It actually perfects His power. So instead of allowing my mistakes to control me and make me feel bad about myself, I can praise the Lord and allow Him to take control in my weaknesses.

     It hasn’t been an easy thing to learn.  It’s hard to let go of your weaknesses and allow God to work in them.  Most of the time you want to fix your weaknesses before you come to God because you don’t want Him to see your imperfection, but we have that all wrong.  God doesn’t need us to be perfect before we come to Him.  He just wants us to come to Him with all our mistakes and all our weaknesses, because in those His power is perfected and everything is made into good for those who love Him.