God Promises His Strength
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 11 July 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
In today’s devotional, we’re continuing our series of taking hold of God’s promises by looking at his promise of strength. Every day I wake up, I’m reminded of my weakness. No human has ever lived a perfect day. But the goodness of this promise lies in that God promises his strength when we are weak. In his grace, you and I can live with the real, meaningful, and powerful strength of our God.
Our Scripture for today comes from Isaiah 41:10, and today's worship is Help is on the Way by Amanda Lindsey Cook.
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We just launched Vol. 7 of our First15 Devotional Series, Trust. And I couldn’t be more excited!
Trust is one of the devotional books I’ve been most anticipating, because of how critical trust is to our ability to thrive in and out of life’s difficult seasons.
This year has been arguably the hardest year we’ve faced globally in a generation. The pandemic has quickly taken its toll in every corner of our society, and every corner of the human heart. And the effects of systematic racism, and our lack of true racial reconciliation across the U.S. and beyond has brought us face to face with the mountain of division we’ve yet to overcome.
Personally, when life is good I find it easy to trust God, to be grateful for the ways he’s providing for me. But when my circumstances get hard, I find myself taking my life back in my control, and suffering as a result.
In Scripture, so many of God’s promises of peace, of provision, of safety are linked to our trust. Trust is like the “yes” that empowers God to move in deeper and more profound ways in and through us.
So I want to sincerely encourage you to get Trust today, to immerse yourself in this 5-week guide that will help you genuinely and wholeheartedly trust God. Because when you give God your trust, you’ll find an abundant peace and life that can carry you with unshakable joy through even life’s hardest challenges.
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| 0:00.0 | In today's podcast, we're continuing our series of taking hold of God's promises by looking |
| 0:11.4 | at His promise of strength. |
| 0:14.0 | Every day I wake up, I'm reminded of my weakness. |
| 0:17.2 | No human has ever lived a perfect day. |
| 0:20.9 | But the goodness of this promise lies in that God promises His strength in we are weak. |
| 0:27.8 | In His grace, you and I can live with the real, meaningful, and powerful strength of |
| 0:33.4 | our God. |
| 0:34.9 | Welcome to the first 15 podcast. |
| 0:39.3 | Creator God and His infinite wisdom and love choose to create mankind knowing full well |
| 0:45.8 | that we would choose our ways over His. |
| 0:48.4 | We're made with a terrible capacity to live out of our own strength. |
| 0:54.5 | As a result, we see in both Scripture and in our own lives incredible failures. |
| 1:01.1 | Examples of our collective weakness played out before our very eyes. |
| 1:05.5 | We see it in the declining morality of our society. |
| 1:09.3 | We see it in the very lives of those around us that just can't seem to get it together. |
| 1:15.9 | Weakness seems to be threaded into the very fabric of our world. |
| 1:20.6 | Our world is plagued by the weakness of those who inhabit it. |
| 1:26.0 | But the Bible also contains the incredible stories of the victories of God's people. |
| 1:31.7 | The list goes on and on. |
| 1:34.2 | Moses and the Egyptians, David and Goliath, Samson and the Philistines, and the early church |
| 1:42.0 | spreading the gospel across the whole world despite insurmountable odds. |
| 1:47.7 | And along with all the stories of victory, Scripture also contains many stories of failure. |
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