Weaknesses

Recently God has really been guiding me to this verse lately so I thought i would share it with you:

2 Corinthians 12:9 But he said to me, "My Grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." 

When you take time to think about this verse and what it means it truly is amazing. God is saying that His power is made PERFECT in WEAKNESS. Not in strength, not in satisfaction, but he says in weakness. Its so easy to look at ourselves and pick out all our flaws and weaknesses and by doing that you can grow to hate yourself but that is not the purpose of our weaknesses. We have to look at the bigger picture. Our weaknesses are set up to reveal God's power but for this to happen we need to turn away from trying to overcome weaknesses and rely completely on God with them. In 2 Corinthians 12:8 Paul PLEADS with God THREE times to take away a physical weakness which we are not told what it is but we are told that it was a thorn in the flesh so a physical weakness which may have hindered his ministry yet God directed him to verse 9.  Often when we have strengths in areas it can cause us to get tempted to depend on ourselves which hinders our walk with Christ resulting in it being ineffective because we are making ourselves our own foundation when we need it to be about God and not us. If you have a physical weakness in your Chrsitian walk its not given to hinder you but that it can be used by God to reveal his power and to keep your eyes on him and not ourselves which I have also been learning through the reading and studying of these verses.
God bless you all, Jaleen :)
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Self Dependence

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God has been showing me recently that I don't pray enough in times where I am going through hard situations or temptation I often feel to take the matter into my own hands because I want control, I want to sort out the situation in my own strength and to be independent and then come in prayer and thanksgiving to God afterwards but God has been showing me recently that this approach wrong because its self dependence instead of God dependence and it leads to self praise 2 Corinthians 3:5 (NIV) Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God. This means that we, as Christians need to be depending on God instead of ourselves in hard times if we depend on ourselves in hard times we are tempted to claim the glory of being able to depend on ourselves you may be thinking how do I depend on God? One verse that has really come to me during hardship and desire to pursue my own way is Matthew 6:33 "But seek first the Kingdom of God and all these things shall be added unto you. We seek the Kingdom of God first by putting our hope in Christ and seeking his word before anything else that means coming to him in prayer and reading before giving thought to any other worldly ideas and pursuits. When Jesus then says in this passage all these things shall be added unto you He is talking about the all of the worries of life. He understands that we will be tempted to worry and he tells us not to in Matthew 6:25-34 He tells us why we should not worry because God is in control of everything so the more we put dependence on our own control the more we will fall into worry. So today instead of pursuing our own solution to life's calamities remember God understands more than anything you even understand about yourself! Please take time to pray about seeking God's will instead of seeking your own will and your own dependence which will only lead you to worry. 
God Bless you all, love in Christ alone
Jaleen 
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