Faith Filled Family Magazine August 2016 | Page 103

Let’s look into God’s word to
gain some of that knowledge of
his strength.

him, so when we are in a time of
need of strength, we are in the
right place to be asking for it.

HUMILITY
God wants and needs us to
come humbly to him in seeking
his help. If we come with arrogance or expectations of it going
our way, it will not turn out well for
Psalm 37:39
us. If we come humble, meek, or
“But the salvation of the righ- submissively it shows where our
teous is from the LORD; He is heart is. That we truly are seektheir strength in time of trouble.” ing His help- not just doing it for
our own good.
Psalm 138:3
“In the day when I cried out, You LAY IT DOWN AND SURRENanswered me, and made me DER
bold with strength in my soul.”
“My flesh and my heart faileth:
Matthew 19:26
but God is the strength of my
“But Jesus looked at them and heart, and my portion forever.”
said to them, ‘With men this Psalm 73:26
is impossible, but with God all
things are possible.’
We cannot come to Christ with
our list of how things need to go.
Psalm 46:1
We need to lay down our conGod is our refuge and strength, trol, our expectations, our role
an ever-present help in trouble.
in the solution at the cross and
allow God to enter it. We need
TRUST
to surrender to his strength for
it to shine through. We unfortuPhilippians 4:13
nately are the obstacle between
“I can do all things through Christ God and his strength shining
who strengthens me.”
through when we come with our
own ideas and ways. We need
It is especially important we trust to leave it in His hands and allow
in that power. It is not enough to Him to work.
just believe it, Even the pharisees did that! We need to trust Why is it important to seek
in it and that is where our heart Christ’s strength during tough
comes to the right place to come times? The answer is simple to
to Christ.
say yet hard to do; our strength
simply falls short compared to
Christ. We just cannot do it on
ASK
our own strength.
We need to be in constant communication with God. It’s not a The other side to look at is to
relationship we can just come to look at when we don’t pray for
with requests and demands. We Christ’s strength and try and do
need to have a relationship with it alone. The reality is it’s detPsalm 27:1
“The LORD is my light and my
salvation; whom shall I fear?
The LORD is the strength of my
life; of whom shall I be afraid?”

rimental to the situation. For
example, my husband struggles
with mental illness and we lived
for years with it undiagnosed and
untreated. I cried out for years,
trying to find worldly ways to fix
the situation and do it all on my
own. It was miserable, and it just
got worse. When I finally surrendered and accepted I cannot
endure it myself, I cried out to
God and humbly took this situation to Him. After coming to him
in the right heart, our lives started
to change forever. God was able
to change a situation where my
husband was drowning for years
to excelling in a matter of days,
and it never went back the other
way. I learned a hard lesson in
God strength during this time. For
myself, I could not have endured
that painful time without Him.
For my husband, he wouldn’t be
healthy and have this beautiful
testimony without that strength.
What we learned, was that doing
it alone is complete misery and a
failure from the beginning. Running into Christ’s arms and allow
his strength to overpower yours.
If we believe in His power, trust
His power, come to Him humbly,
ask for His help and do our
best to remove ourselves from
the solution, then that is where
Christ’s strength can enter the
situation and move mountains.
I encourage you to get to know
God, learn his truths in his word
so that you can surrender yourself and allow his power to take
over.
My name is Danielle Foisy, I
am a wife, mother and blogger
for Christ. Please visit www.
thestruggleis.com for more faith
based reading.