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Title: I CAN WITH GOD'S HELP
Category: Happy
Blog Entry: With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. PSALMS 18:29     To keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations, there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. 8 Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. 9 But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." 2 CORINTHIANS 2:7-9       I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want.   I can do everything through him who gives me strength. PHILIPPIANS 4:12-13     My grandmother used to say,   “Can’t never could”, when my brother or I would complain, “I can’t”.     Gideon ‘couldn’t’ fight, in fact in Judges 6 when the Lord called him a mighty warrior, Gideon did the ‘I can’t’ dance.   ‘I’m of the weakest tribe and the least of my family’, he wailed.       The LORD turned to him and said, "Go in the strength you have and save Israel out of Midian's hand. Am I not sending you?" and "I will be with you, and you will strike down all the Midianites together." JUDGES 6:14 and 16     Then Gideon was instructed to destroy the altar of the false gods, of course there were repercussions but still the Lord was with Gideon.   Even when Gideon had his doubts and asked God to ‘prove’ Himself, and then God decided that against a huge enemy troop, described as thick as locusts and too many to count, that Gideon must defeat them with only 300 men.     Of course God through Gideon was successful.     God told a very old Sarah that she would conceive and have a son, and told her, " Is anything too hard for the LORD." GENESIS 18:14.     OK, that’s Old Testament, how about the New?   Ther are plenty of examples of how Jesus performed things we call miracles because we don’t have any idea of how He managed to do what He did.   Yet Jesus said, in speaking of these miracles, “ Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the miracles themselves.   I TELL YOU THE TRUTH, ANYONE WHO HAS FAITH IN ME WILL DO WHAT I HAVE BEEN DOING. HE WILL DO EVEN GREATER THINGS THAN THESE, BECAUSE I AM GOING TO THE FATHER.   And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring glory to the Father.   You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it. JOHN 14:11-14      So, there you have it, I can do all things through Christ, in fact the weaker and more unlikely I am, the more; if yielding to Him, I can achieve for His Glory!     Lord, I know you have overcome the World and I can too with you lifting me to the heights, and giving me hind’s feet to accomplish what you want me to do in this world.   I desire only to Glorify You and to stand in your Glory, blessing others with Your Strength. In Jesus' Name, Amen