Every one of us, without exception, have weaknesses.

Without exception, every single one of us have at least one weakness.

I have multiple weaknesses.

Some of us have an easier time than others in our ability to confess and acknowledge our weaknesses. There are some

people who allow their weaknesses to control their lives. There are some who focus so much

on their weaknesses that they become so paralyzed by those weaknesses.

And here is something of vital importance. Listen to me carefully. To acknowledge our strength

is good, but to acknowledge our weaknesses is even better. But here's the problem. Here's the danger.

What really causes us pain, what causes us defeat, what really hinders us from living,

joyful, fulfilled, and fruitful life for Jesus Christ, what hinders us from walking by faith and what keeps us staying still

because we live by sight is when we mistake our weaknesses for strength. Or we try to rationalize

our weaknesses. And when we do that, we don't give God the Holy Spirit an opportunity to take those weaknesses,

turn them around, and use us in a mighty way.

Take, for example, a control freak.

And I'm sure you don't have anybody like that at your house.

But that person, when he or she confesses that weakness and when asked the Lord God to come and to strengthen them,

God not only going to forgive, but he's going to give the victory over these weaknesses.

But if I say, well, if I weren't like this, nothing would get

done. If I weren't like this, I could never be successful. That is rationalizing a weakness,

not acknowledging it and confessing it, or take the person who's filled with doubt all the time. Now, most of us

have some doubt sometime, but if you see a person who is constantly living in doubt, and if that

person confesses that doubt to God, if that person asks for the power of God to replace this doubt with the gift of faith,

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