Live life in Christ's strength

I am strong for all things in the One who constantly infuses strength in me. Philippians 4:13 - Wuest's Expanded Translation

Wow... It's been a bit since I read from the Wuest translation.. I for got how much I like it! When I read this scripture I heard the Holy Spirit say to me;

Are you finding yourself weary in what you are doing?

I have been doing a lot of work lately getting ready to and painting the Power Tower, the churches 24 hour prayer ministy. Needles to say I have been really sore! When I read this scripture it reminded me that I need to look to Him for my strength. I needed to, in prayer, ask Him to exchange my weakness for His strength.

When things seem to be overwhelming, It could be because you're trying to live and work in your own strength! As Christians we need to be living in a flow of Christ's strength. We need to be going to the Lord in prayer, laying down our burdens at His feet and seeking His strength.

The Lord has given us a precious promise, "Cast your burden on the Lord and He will sustain you". Psa.55:22.

As a young Christian I took a lot of falls by not knowing where my strength had to come from. Then as I started to mature, I was reading what Paul said about where he was drawing strength from and realised how much I was living in my own strength.

Thinking about it, I could see what a strain it was putting on myself. What a release it was to change and start to ask Him to make me strong!

I turned to the Lord's strength. As a result, my daily weariness went away! Life's pressures had gotten in the way and kept me from living vitally united to the Vine, Jesus Christ.

When I drew from the Vine I experienced His strength at work in me sustaining me. John.15:5.

If there was ever a Christian who might have been qualified to do all things in his own strength it was Paul.

Paul seemed to have everything going for him in the natural. Nevertheless, as he testifies in his letter to the Philippians, he didn't attempt to do all things that way, he did them instead in the strength of the One who constantly infused strength in him. May you live that way too.

Ask the Lord for His sustaining strength. May God by His Spirit make you strong in the Lord! Phil.3:4-6, Eph.6:10.

Live life in Christ's strength