Dear Lord,
Sometimes I look at my problems and wonder if I’m strong enough to endure them all, but I have a secret weapon. I can continually seek Your strength.
I’m sorry when I’m impatient, because You always flex Your muscles and do the heavy lifting. You are always right on time—never too early and never too late.
You are my strength and my song, for You have given me victory time and again. You are my God, and I will praise You and exalt You.
It’s interesting to contrast who You are (the strong one) with who I am (the weak one). In fact, if You weren’t the muscle behind my many victories, I would have zero wins. But You hear my cry, and You always help me conquer even impossible dilemmas.
I’m not sure how You manage to do all You do for me, but You once said, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is made perfect in weakness.” I am strong in You when I am weak. As the apostle Paul explained, Your strength was the very reason he delighted in his weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and difficulties, because when he faced such trials, he became strong in You.
I agree that “I can do all things because Christ gives me the strength.” This is a wonder, a miracle, and a marvel, and I will praise You for all You have done for me.
In the name of Jesus, amen.
Seek the LORD and his strength;
seek his presence continually!
1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV
Wait with hope for the LORD.
Be strong, and let your heart be courageous.
Yes, wait with hope for the LORD.
Psalm 27:14 GW
The LORD is my strength and my song;
he has given me victory.
This is my God, and I will praise him—
my father’s God, and I will exalt him!
Exodus 15:2 NLT
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
2 Corinthians 12:9–11 NIV
I can do all things because Christ gives me the strength.
Philippians 4:13 NLV