Overwhelming Challenges?

From Judges 6 - 8

 Gideon was a man with some big areas of insecurity, but God was out to change him; to build faith. As is usually the case, it was done as he encountered overwhelming odds. That's because faith tends to lie dormant without overwhelming challenges and, because our Father never gives up on us, the challenges continue all the way through life!
We're called to unequal fights (health, relationships, finances, etc.) where Satan whispers: "You don't have what it takes."

We need to learn to respond: "You're right - and that's a good thing!"

Why?

Take a look at 2 Corinthians 12:7-10

    ⁷And to keep me from being puffed up and too much elated by the exceeding greatness (preeminence) of these revelations, there was given me a thorn (a splinter) in the flesh, a messenger of Satan, to rack and buffet and harass me, to keep me from being excessively exalted. [Job. 2:6.]

    ⁸Three times I called upon the Lord and besought [Him] about this and begged that it might depart from me;

    ⁹But He said to me, My grace (My favor and loving-kindness and mercy) is enough for you [sufficient against any danger and enables you to bear the trouble manfully]; for My strength and power are made perfect (fulfilled and completed) and show themselves most effective in [your] weakness. Therefore, I will all the more gladly glory in my weaknesses and infirmities, that the strength and power of Christ (the Messiah) may rest (yes, may pitch a tent over and dwell) upon me!

    ¹⁰So for the sake of Christ, I am well pleased and take pleasure in infirmities, insults, hardships, persecutions, perplexities and distresses; for when I am weak [in human strength], then am I [truly] strong (able, powerful in divine strength).

God says His power is perfected in our weakness.

As we combine a humility that acknowledges we don't have what it takes, with an unshakeable confidence that God does, miracles happen!


Blessings,

Melissa
Melissa Slagle