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Dear God, Give Me Strength

Stop depending on your strength or the world's God is the only one strong enough to get you through.

Pam Diaz
Feb 28, 2017
Daytona Beach, Florida
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Dear God give me strength is the motto I aspire to have in life. There is nothing as good, as calming, as providing as God's strength. How many times have I falsely depended on my own strength or the world's strength to do things just to struggle and or fail? Way too many for my liking and probably too many to count. How many times would I have been better off depending on God's strength? Every single one of the times.

Psalm 46: 1-3 says "God is our refuge and strength, and ever-present help in trouble. Therefore we will bot fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging."

I can't think of many things that are scarier than the earth giving way and the mountains crumbling away into the ocean (except for big spiders really) but knowing that even in the midst of all of that happening we wouldn't have to worry because he would be there providing his ever-present strength gives me a hope I can't find anywhere else.

why then do we doubt him and his power when it comes to the little things? Worried about school? God has your back. Don't feel like going to the gym? Ask God for the strength and he will provide. Want to stop procrastinating? God will give you the power if you only ask.

God is looking out for you in every situation. Even in those burdens that weigh you down and threaten to floor you he is there waiting for you to let him help. Ask and he will step right in with you. I can't tell you that he will take that weight completely off, that is not how it always works, but he will at least help you carry your burdens to the finish line. One thing I'm sure of is that while he may not take your sorrows and burdens away he will never ever let those burdens win you over and take you down.

Isaiah 41:10 also says " So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand."

How amazing is it to know that someone so powerful has our back? Not only that but that we have NOTHING to worry about because he will not only give us his strength in every situation but he will help us in every situation. No conditions attached, no if, and, or but!


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