“God wants to use you at your point of greatest giftedness. That’s a given. He is the one who gave you those gifts in the first place. But God also wants to use you at your point of greatest weakness. Why? Because that is where His power is made perfect. That is where we present […]
God wants to use you at your greatest point of giftedness, no doubt. He’s the one who gave you those gifts in the first place! But God also wants to use you at your point of weakness. Why? Because it’s in our weaknesses that His power is made perfect. He doesn’t just anoint our strong […]
“It doesn’t take long for suffering, trial, and difficulty to become a crisis of faith. There are moments in suffering when God doesn’t make sense to us. . . . There are circumstances that don’t look at all like good gifts from his hands. These moments can easily morph into a crisis of personal faith.”- […]
“Tested, proven, genuine faith comes when we let God lead us into weakness. That is a reason to rejoice.”- Banning Liebscher “These [trials] have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith – of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire – may result in praise, glory, and honor when […]
“It’s one thing to say we believe God raised Jesus from the dead and that we have the hope of eternal life through faith in Him. It’s another thing to put our faith in the God who raises the dead as He leads us into experiences of weakness.”- Banning Liebscher “By faith Abraham, when God […]
“Experiencing weakness gives us access to two things we can get no other way: proven faith and supernatural strength.”- Banning Liebscher “We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired of life itself. Indeed, we felt we had received the sentence of death. But this happened that we might […]
“He [God] know our deepest fears and longings better than anyone, and He is supremely confident that these places of weakness and vulnerability are where He can prove Himself trustworthy to us.”- Banning Liebscher “The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer; My God, my strength, is whom I will trust.”- Psalm […]
“The gift of weakness is that it leads us to the only strong one. And his strength is enough. Enough for this day. Enough for this life. More than enough, actually. It is all that we need.”- Ann Swindell “But he said to me, ‘My strength is sufficient for you, for my power is made […]
“As humans who live in a broken world, we come to know weakness in the same way we come to know a new scar on our flesh; what is at first unfamiliar and new eventually becomes normal, consistent, even expected.”- Ann Swindell In Chapter 2 (“When Waiting Makes You Weak”) of Still Waiting, Ann Swindell […]
“The degree to which I allow weakness to become thirst for more of God, and the degree to which I allow myself to lean into that thirst rather than run from it, is the degree to which I am becoming my best self.”- Sara Hagerty “As the deer pants for streams of water, so my […]
[God’s] nearness is most brilliant when I am most weak, here at the nexus of hiddenness and vulnerability before God. He redefines my circumstances even without changing them.”- Sara Hagerty “But you, O LORD, do not be far off! O you, my help, come quickly to my aid.”- Psalm 22:19 (ESV) Sara Hagerty concludes Chapter […]
“When it comes to our dependence on God, it is all grace or no grace. . . . it must be grace all the way down. We bring nothing to his relationship except our nothingness. . . . We bring our pit and he brings his rope.”- Jared C. Wilson “But he said to me, […]