{"id":2012,"date":"2022-08-16T02:15:12","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T02:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/?p=2012"},"modified":"2022-08-16T02:15:12","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T02:15:12","slug":"go-in-gods-strength","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/go-in-gods-strength\/","title":{"rendered":"Go in God&#8217;s Strength"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Tuesday, August 16<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Go in God\u2019s Strength<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ\u2019s power may rest on me.<\/em><strong>\u00a02 Corinthians 12:9<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Strength is a big deal, and it shows up in many areas of life and in many ways. After all, who doesn\u2019t want to seem strong. In fact, when we consider sports, we all know, for the most part, the trophy goes to the strong, the prepared, or the well trained. However, when it comes to the kingdom of God this principle is the opposite. 2 Corinthians 12:8\u2013 10 says \u2018Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But he said to me, \u201c<em>My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.\u201d Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ\u2019s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ\u2019s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>God\u2019s Word tells us that He works in our weakness. In Judges Chapter 6 we find Gideon a young soldier defeated by the Midianites and hiding in a winepress while threshing enough grain to keep his family alive. God instructed Gideon to go and fight for what is rightfully his. But Gideon did not feel very strong. Gideon didn\u2019t feel he had much strength, but there is one thing he did have. Gideon had the wisdom to listen to the voice of God and obey. Gideon had enough strength to fulfill God\u2019s will.<\/p>\n<p>Gideon\u2019s story proves that God can accomplish great things through people who forget about their human weakness, trust in God\u2019s strength, and obey His guidance.<\/p>\n<p>We need not to rely on self (our own strength) instead we ought to trust in the Lord and rely on His strength to see us through.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, August 16 Go in God\u2019s Strength Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ\u2019s power may rest on me.\u00a02 Corinthians 12:9 Strength is a big deal, and it shows up in many areas of life and in many ways. After all, who doesn\u2019t want to seem strong. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2013,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012\/revisions\/2013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}