Power My Strength

Power

My Strength

 

Where does your strength come from?

Who is coaching you to turn your weaknesses into strengths?

Who is with you when you are knocked down?

To strengthen you to win the next round?

 My Strength

I have met some tough people in my life.

I once knew a body builder,

but he could not hold a job.

Also, a woman who said she was strong,

she could argue, raise her voice and use

the “F bomb” multiple times in a sentence.

What is strength?

David says the Lord is His strength.

But what did that mean?

Psalms 18 is a song

describing David’s strength.

In order for David to find strength

he says he had to be blameless…

“I have been blameless before him and have kept myself from sin. 

The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness,

according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight.”

Psalm  18:23,24

There is a saying that says…

“My strength did not come from lifting weights.

My strength comes from lifting

myself up when I am knocked down.”

David must have trained His body

to have the strength of a warrior.

But the strength that guided

that body came from within.

David walked blameless before Saul.

Saul knocked David down many times.

David although strong in

body had personal failures.

Like you and I, David had many

times that he was knocked down.

Those times of being knocked down are

times that challenge us to call upon the Lord.

When the Lord reaches down into the

depths of our weakness, His hand does

more than pull us back to our feet.

The getting up after being

knocked down is to strengthen us.

There is a chart that describes

four different personalities.

Each of these personalities

has strengths and weaknesses.

The Lord wants you to be strong.

After all He said, He created us to rule.

Take a look at the chart below.

Which strengths has the Lord given you?

How has your strength become your weakness?

The Word of God is full of

instruction to make you strong.

It is like a coach.

There are times you get knocked down

and the coach tells you not only to get

up but teaches us through that situation.

I have come to realize we cannot stop the battles.

 

We will always be in a fight.

But as we allow the Lord to train us we

become stronger inside even when our

bodies become weaker on the outside.

David’s song is a song not

only of joy but strength.

He has seen the Lord strengthen him.

He is now enjoying a confidence because he

recognizes the strength the Lord has built in him.

“It is God who arms me with strength and makes my way perfect.

33 He makes my feet like the feet of a deer; he enables me to stand on the heights. 34 He trains my hands for battle; my arms can bend a bow of bronze.

 35 You give me your shield of victory, and your right hand sustains me;

 you stoop down to make me great. 36 You broaden the path beneath me,

so that my ankles do not turn.”

Psalm 18:32-36

 Maybe the battles you and I fight are more

about strengthening us than the issues around us.

God wants to perfect your strengths.

When He does, you will be like David who

sings to the Lord for the strength He built in you.

  

Scripture Reading

Psalm 18:1 NIV

I love you, O LORD, my strength.

Psalm 18:23-36 NIV

23 I have been blameless before him and have kept myself from sin. 24 The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight.

25 To the faithful you show yourself faithful, to the blameless you show yourself blameless, 26 to the pure you show yourself pure, but to the crooked you show yourself shrewd. 27 You save the humble but bring low those whose eyes are haughty. 28 You, O LORD, keep my lamp burning; my God turns my darkness into light. 29 With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall.

30 As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the LORD is flawless .He is a shield for all who take refuge in him. 31 For who is God besides the LORD? And who is the Rock except our God? 32 It is God who arms me with strength and makes my way perfect. 33 He makes my feet like the feet of a deer; he enables me to stand on the heights. 34 He trains my hands for battle; my arms can bend a bow of bronze. 35 You give me your shield of victory, and your right hand sustains me; you stoop down to make me great. 36 You broaden the path beneath me, so that my ankles do not turn.