Based on the KJV devotional and Pastor Chuck Swindoll's Insight for Living.
All things are possible to him that believeth. — Mark 9:23
"Many professed Christians are always doubting and fearing, and they forlornly think that this is the necessary state of believers. This is a mistake, for “all things are possible to him that believeth”
But I believe, that believing is not enough! Remember Moses?
God works best when we give up. When we lose that last sense of independence, of control and the smallest iota of self dependence.
Let me draw on Pastor Chuck Swindoll now, and see what he has to say about such times -
"Moses felt as low as a slug's belly. Way down there. He still hadn't rid himself of the idea that he was supposed to be the deliverer, and that he was somehow failing. How many times had God explained it to him? Yet, like many of us, he had trouble keeping a grip on the Lord's assurances". Are we not like Moses?
What was Moses to do now? ......(he may have thought) I'm at the end of my rope. How in the world are You going to pull this off?"
Moses didn't know it at the moment, but he'd put before the Lord the best proposition yet. I'm at the end of my rope. How are you going to do it?" (don't we ask the same question?)
"Before we go any further, I'd like to underline a major truth in this world of ours that I don't pretend to understand. Here it is: the best framework for the Lord God to do His most ideal work is when things are absolutely impossible and we feel totally unqualified to handle it. That's His favorite circumstance. Those are His ideal working conditions".
"Time after time, He brings us to our absolute end and then proves Himself faithful. That, my friend, is not only the story of my life, it's the story of the Bible in a nutshell."
And that is how you weather the Storm!
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