Most successful Christian leaders have learned to asses and maximize their use of Divine strength while handing him over their issues and weaknesses.
God himself knows that we are weak and incapable of doing it on our own, and he tells us to rely on his strength and this is what grace is all about.
Utter helplessness without the strength of Almighty God.
Psalm 119 verses 176-“I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments”.
God never pursues after our weaknesses and failures, and will never magnify them. Every time we fall, he is grieved, and he seeks to immediately have us back on our feet.
If you have been involved in speaking in Christian meetings, it becomes easy to understand what divine strength can help you to do when you feel weak and incapable. I remember a few occasions when I had to preach in a meeting, and may be before getting there, something may have happened that made me to say what I should not have said, or do what I should not have done. You know as well as I do that on such occasions you ask God for forgiveness, and plead the blood of Jesus. It however does not end just like that. The enemy still comes back with accusations, and tells you why you are not qualified to stand before God’s people.
If you are not careful, feelings of guilt and condemnation come back and you are wondering how you will cope. If you pray well in the spirit, you will be amazed at what happens the moment you climb upstage.
The moment you climb upstage, you are clothed with the divine presence in that arena of faith. You are now filled with boldness and faith, and suddenly, every word you utter is endured with power. Words of wisdom also rush out forcefully, and if you go back sometimes to listen to the recorded message, you will observe that what was taught was obviously beyond your abilities. This is what the grace of God does.
Maybe you have heard of, or even seen that great American preacher who was born without limbs. Going by ICIDH concepts, a man like that great Pastor would have been so handicapped by his disabilities that there is no way that he would have become a preacher, talk less of winning thousands of souls into the kingdom of God. He however discovered something about how the strength of God can cover his physical weaknesses. What more excuses can someone with four limbs give for his failure?
It is important to know that the enemy likes to hit you at that weak point, and always magnify your weakness. If we are conscious of this, we will no longer feel defeated or taken aback, when someone keeps harping on our weakness. It is easy to know who he is working for: the devil is his master.
One of the things that good mentors have learned to do is to keep magnifying and harping on the strength of their mentees. It has been discovered that the mentee will be ultimately pulled in the direction of his mentors words. If his weaknesses are constantly talked about, he will be pulled in that direction, and he will crash and fall.
A wise mentee will therefore ultimately pull away from a mentor that feeds him spiritual poison by constantly emphasizing his weaknesses, especially if he at the same time tells everyone that can hear him that he does not see you succeeding. This is negativism and cursing or negatively prophesying which will impact negatively on the destiny of the mentee if not countered and cancelled.
One thing that you and I must quickly do now is to make sure that we pull away and stay away from those people who cook and feed their followers and friends spiritual poison(constant accusations, harping on your weaknesses and failures all the time, gossiping and slandering people) because with them, failure is inevitable. These people will cause you to develop the mindset of a sin-sick bound sinner who is weak and helpless and cannot be freed. This wrong mindset will leave you blind to the strength, power, grace and resources of God that are available to you. The tell you that you are not qualified to have this or that, and tell the World that you have no right to receive this or that, they make you look like a beggar that has no choice.
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