Jennifer Maggio
How does one have the strength to move on from the depths of pain produced in the battlefield? How does one endure a traumatic loss and find hope again? How does one battle cancer and learn to laugh again?
You need to know that strength is not about your battle. It is more about what you do while you are in the midst of it. We must get good at the battle. It’s coming. Strength requires different weapons at various intervals. Strength will require you to let the past go. It will require you to forgive. It will require a quiet response when they gossip or lie. It will require prayer in the midst of the biggest problems of your life.
Here are some things the Lord has taught in the midst of my most intense battles:
Persevere despite how you feel.
There have been many seasons and many battles in my life that seemed too great to endure. The raging waves came, time and again, crashing over me with barely a moment to catch my breath before another came to take me down. I have drawn the white flag from my pocket more than once, certain I would throw it at any moment. But God has sustained me. When I thought my rebellious teenagers were going to take me out, he gave me just one more fight in me. When the critics of the ministry were loud, I kept putting one foot in front of the other. When the pain of grief and loss put me on my knees, and I thought I couldn’t cry another tear, my Father lifted my head. Perseverance is about the power of God rising up on the inside of us to hold us when we feel weak.
Our weakness glorifies God.
The world has taught us weakness is a flaw. Vulnerability is to be mocked and trampled. However, our weakness boasts of God’s glory. Our strength is not our own. Any victory is by the power of a faithful God. I don’t know about you, but I haven’t gotten into a whole heap of trouble when I try to battle in my own strength. My own strength will leave me exhausted and defeated. But the strength of God? Well, that strength is promised victory. It’s not by our strength but by His spirit.
You are promised victory.
As a son or daughter of the King, you are an heir of His authority. When we walk in authority, the authority Jesus paid for us to have, our perspective shifts, and we see ourselves differently. We see ourselves as stronger. We see that the enemy must flee. We see that though the wall is tall, it falls. We see that though 10,000 encamp around us, they all fall. We see our purposes become bigger. There may be many dark days where victory doesn’t seem evident from any side. I’m sure Moses knew something about that. Daniel and Joseph and David could probably all relate. But we know the end of their stories. The end of your story will be no different.
مقال روحي مشجع ومن وحي الكلمة بيتكلم بخطوات عملية أزاي أتقوى في الأوقات اللي بخوض فيها معارك لوحدي. .
