The Secret of Strength and Power

UV 693/10,000 The Secret of Strength and Power “He gives strength to the weary, and increases the power of the weak.” Isaiah 40 v 29 Once after a particularly trying circumstance in the days of my youth, while I was yet in school, I wrote on a piece of paper, “ Weakness is a part of my nature, the power to overcome comes from God.” Yes, He is the source of our strength, the cause of our power. For many their physical strength or their intellectual acumen or their beauty or their talent or their wealth or their influence or family name are the source of their strength. But history and our own experience have clearly demonstrated the severe limitations of relying on such temporal sources of strength and power. The ordinary or average people wither like grass and the so called extraordinary fade like flowers. Their strength often will turn out to be the cause of their destruction and fall. The enduring and eternal source of all power is the Lord God of hosts. In our weakness is His strength revealed. He provides the strength in our areas of weakness by grace. He uses us in the areas of our weaknesses more than in the areas of our natural strength so that we will have no confidence in flesh and we will have no reason to boast. He renews our strength constantly. He encourages the weary of life with a Word from scripture. He feeds His flock like a shepherd with eternal truths that revitalize them, nourish them and cause them to grow or increase in emotional strength and spiritual power. He trains us like a mother mountain eagle trains its eaglets for flight by a gentle push from its nest on the cliff. His caring mighty wings are there below us to catch us in the event of our free fall. The cause and source of our strength and power is not because of who we are but on account of who God is: He is the everlasting God. Hence, His power is everlasting. His holiness is the source of His power. He does not grow tired or weary. No one can understand the extent of His knowledge, wisdom and understanding. The Lord increases our wisdom and thereby enhances our personal power potential( PPP). He counsels us in the way we should go, the decisions we should take, the relationships we should cultivate as also He warns us about the ways we should avoid and the decisions we should not take and the relationships we should avoid. He deals with our fears and anxiety. He increases our inner peace and joy which in God’ eyes are synonymous with human power and strength. He protects us from bad news and sends us good tidings so that we rejoice in Him. He sends people and circumstances our way to test our strength and thereby increase it. He gives us opportunities to expand our influence as leaders. He will invest in us an unflagging zeal and anoint us with an indefatigable spirit of perseverance, confidence and persistence. The memory of each victory that the Lord has given us through the years will increase our enthusiasm or spiritual energy. No personal deficiency is a challenge for God as long as we submit it to the Lord. When Moses pleaded that he stammered and was not a good communicator, the Lord gave him the strength of miraculous power to communicate both verbally and with his rod. He asked him to take Aaron along as a spokesman but we find that it was Moses and his stick that did all the talking that drove terror into the heart and mind of mighty Pharaoh and all Egypt, the superpower of those times. The Lord renewed the physical strength of Caleb so that he retained the same strength and power into his eighties that he had at half that age. Today, the Lord calls me a Caleb as I have been praying, “ Lord give me the same strength that I had at forty even at the age of eighty.” It is through prayer and meditation on the Word that we drink at the fount of His strength and power. We need to wait on the Lord for strength to slowly but surely bubble up inside us like a brook that slowly arises from a spring but suddenly becomes the rush of the mighty Jordan river. Prateep V Philip Listen to this Blessong and feel your strength rising in you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gZ2LeFTQ4I