{"id":2298,"date":"2022-12-07T01:34:23","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T01:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/?p=2298"},"modified":"2022-12-06T23:35:30","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T23:35:30","slug":"winning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/winning\/","title":{"rendered":"Winning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: right;\"><strong>Wednesday,\u00a0December 7<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Winning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.<\/em><strong>\u00a0II Corinthians 12:9<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Imagine with me a small person attempting to fight giants surrounding him. Who do you think would win this battle, the small person or the oversized giant? The winner of this scenario may seem obvious however, when it comes to spiritual battles the answer is always the less likely to win. In today\u2019s verse we find the answer \u201cMy grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.\u201d I\u2019d rather boast that it was God who created this miracle than ever take the credit knowing that I am but man.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">God simply wants us to surrender our inadequacy to him so that He can fill us with His strength. The moment we decide to let go of our pride and admit that we are weak, we open ourselves to receiving God\u2019s grace, and we are able to depend on Him for strength. If you are in any storm or challenge right now, I encourage you not to have the pressure on yourself. The reason why we often fail at our personal battles is because we don\u2019t consider the source. Instead we rely on the wrong strength, our own limited capabilities. But when we boast about our weaknesses and allow Christ\u2019s power to rest in us, overcoming the giants of our life will no longer look like an impossible feat. But by God\u2019s grace, which is sufficient for us, we will claim victory against our daily battles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our weaknesses don&#8217;t matter at all when we know where to find strength. In God.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Prayer for today<\/strong>:\u00a0<em>Dear God, today I will not stress. Instead I will choose to rely on the strength which You provide. I know that You are perfect in my weakness. Amen.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday,\u00a0December 7 Winning My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.\u00a0II Corinthians 12:9 Imagine with me a small person attempting to fight giants surrounding him. Who do you think would win this battle, the small person or the oversized giant? The winner of this scenario may seem obvious however, [&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-2298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298","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=2298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2299,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298\/revisions\/2299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}