When We are Weak God is Our Strength—R Fritz
We battle issues every day throughout our life and after a while, the battles finally drag us down. They take us to a place where we have little or no peace. Our peace comes from the Holy Spirit, as we must remember where our peace comes from. John 14:26-27 says, and this is Jesus speaking “But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not let your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.” Our stress level depends on us remembering who our peace and where our answers are located. We must ask the questions that give us our answers. That is how a relationship is fostered and how we communicate with the Holy Spirit; there are no special words or a different language we must figure out, only normal words.
Our words come from the heart as we go through life and go through situations, we can speak positive or negative words, or say nothing. I learned to say nothing most of the time because our frustration comes out through our thoughts, then our words. Satan also sees how his plan to destroy us or make life harder or miserable is working. Our weapon against Satan is the Holy Spirit with love and hope. That comes from knowing who God is through reading the Bible or through communication through the Holy Spirit, and reading how people in the Bible overcame. Experience is what we learn by walking through issues and listening to other people who have come before us. We do not have to go through what somebody else goes through if we listen to others. One thing I did was believe some of the things people told me, and if God did whatever they said to them, he would do it for me, and it happened. That is what belief does, because without faith it is impossible to please God. Hebrews 11:6 says, “But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.” Our faith comes from us believing who he is and believing he is able and will do what we ask. Faith comes from hearing what God did for somebody else. Hebrews 11 speaks of what people in the Bible did. We must get to a point when we trust God with our lives.
When we are beaten down and weak in spirit, that is when we ask the Holy Spirit to shine for us, take over in our life as we must let the Holy Spirit work through us. The Holy Spirit is a Spirit (God’s Spirit) who, if we surrender to it, becomes who we are. The Holy Spirit uses our spirit, gifts, and experiences, then add his Spirit to change our old, sinful life into a new person with God’s characteristics of love, grace, and mercy, with God’s rules written on our hearts. We should know that the Holy Spirit is in a fight for our spirit with Satan, where we are brought into this world with sin, where we hear Satan (our thoughts) where our family directs our path to God or God sends somebody to deliver the truth and slowly we start to see things spiritual even when we do not know what we are seeing. The Holy Spirit does not force anything on us; it is a mutual understanding where we make all the decisions and are therefore responsible for ourselves. Satan, on the other hand, tries to be in control of our lives from birth to death, manipulating every decision through lies and deceit. Satan does not ask or give us options it is decisions that fit what he puts us through, using our emotions to drive us where Satan wants us. It is meant for us to go against God and his commandments; it is the test we go through where our faith is strengthened. I had been battling some stuff for a few days and went away on the weekend, then came back to battling the same issues. I heard the Holy Spirit say to me, “For when I am weak, I am strong.” My perception of the circumstances that I was dealing with changed positively. God’s word took the lie that Satan provided through Satan’s ability to make our circumstances look worse than they are through our thoughts, and how we see things. 2 Corinthians 12:9-10 says, with Jesus’ speaking, “And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly, therefore, will I rather glory in my infirmities (weaknesses)that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore, I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then I am strong.” Our weakness lets us give the Holy Spirit in us to become our strength. We have a verse with God’s word changing a situation, which is what I have seen happen before. When I climbed a mountain year ago, back when I got near the top, Satan told me that “I was not going up or going down,” then the terrain changed as I looked out. That was when I told Satan to “shut up, I am going to the top,” which brought back the truth that the terrain was as it was. The perception changed through my eyes until I called the lie out. That is what Satan does, he lies, we must understand that truth.
When we battle things, we see things mostly in the flesh. When we get the help we are looking for from the Holy Spirit, we see the breakthrough we are looking for as the truth comes from seeing in the spirit. That is why prayers and our relationship with the Holy Spirit are so important and why we need to grow that relationship. When we understand, and the Holy Spirit intercedes in our lives to show us the truth, we need to be thankful and learn our lesson to become who God meant for us to be. Strength comes from the Holy Spirit. God Bless.
