Strength In Weakness

2 Corinthians 12:9 Each time he said, “My grace is all you need. My power works best in weakness.” So now I am glad to boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ can work through me.

It's okay to be weak because God is strong ~ It's okay not to have all the answers because God knows it all ~ It's okay to be wrong because God makes all things right!  Know that God has allowed it for His purpose. It's not personal even when everything around us seems to be against us. It is God who can work through us in our darkest hour. 

We can do ALL things through Christ 

who will strengthen us!

Facing Failure

Do not rejoice over me, my enemy; When I fall, I will arise;
When I sit in darkness, The Lord will be a light to me. Micah 7:8

Micah said, when I fall, I shall arise. I may stumble, I may make mistakes and I may fail, but with God's help I am determined to get up and keep going.  Life is full of failures for all of us!

Failure comes in many forms such as not living up to our own expectations or the expectations of others. There are times we have been a disappointment to others or to ourselves. There was once a man who said, “We are either failing, or living with the consequences of failure, or recovering from failure, or facing failure in the face, or living with the fear of failure.” 

In almost any area of our lives, we can feel like a failure. We may have failed our parents, our spouse, our kids, our friends, our co-workers, our neighbors and the list goes on.  A great reminder of failure is the verse, Romans 3:23 "For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God."  

Failure is not just something for a limited few but instead is common to everyone.

These are treats the kids at church made on Sunday, January 2014.

I Think I Can

  2 Corinthians 10:3-5 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ...

Many times we are defeated by the biggest bully in our own life ~ our own thoughts! Our minds can trick us and make us believe we cannot do something before we have had a chance to try. We see it in our small children as they begin to learn a new sport or trying something new. They do not believe they can do it until they begin to try, fail and try again. 

Some of us grow up with those same childhood fears of failure and allow our minds to convince us that we are not capable to do it, or learn it or succeed. We all have bully's in our life but many times we ourselves are responsible for allowing the bully in our thoughts to win. God clearly shows us in the scriptures that ALL things are possible with Him. Trust God instead of the bully in your head and see what a difference it can make in your day!

~Don't let the problem Work you, Allow God to Work the problem for you~
Terry Squires @OneImpactBible 




This picture was taken at my home, April 2012.