{"id":129907,"date":"2021-10-13T04:10:49","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T09:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/?p=129907"},"modified":"2021-10-07T09:08:23","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T14:08:23","slug":"28-z","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/13\/28-z\/","title":{"rendered":"28.z. “If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Colossians 1:11\u00a0 <\/span>being strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy; giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light. He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Isaiah 45:24<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u201cOnly in the LORD, it shall be said of me, are righteousness and strength; to him shall come and be ashamed all who were incensed against him.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Ephesians 3:16<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being,<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Philippians 4:13<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0I can do all things through him who strengthens me.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>2 Corinthians 4:7<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Proverbs 24:10<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>2 Corinthians 6:4-6<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0but as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: by great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities\u00a0\u00a0beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, hunger;\u00a0\u00a0by purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, the Holy Spirit, genuine love;<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Hebrews 12:1-2<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

His strength is there to help us meet all of life\u2019s challenges and to endure and overcome problems with circumstances (patience<\/b>) and people (long-suffering<\/b>) with joy. We find it easy to be patient and long-suffering when everything in our lives is free from trials and troubles. In other words, we think we will be patient and long-suffering when they invade our lives. We think we will be strong, steadfast, face it with courage, and will honor and glorify Jesus Christ through it, and then, Bam!! life happens and just the opposite happens.\u00a0 <\/span>Our greatest failure is trying to or thinking that we are facing the trial or trouble alone and in our own strength. When we do, subconsciously we may know it is beyond our ability, but still, we plod on trying to overcome it in our self-reliant way. We may even consciously concede to the fact that is beyond our ability, but we still try to rely on ourselves.\u00a0 <\/span>Why is that?\u00a0 <\/span>Sometimes it is because of our spiritual growth or lack thereof, living in sin, not having a desire to surrender it into God\u2019s hands, shallow faith in God\u2019s power, thinking that we are not worthy of God\u2019s help, or a host of other reasons.\u00a0 <\/span>It is hard to yield to God\u2019s power, strength, purpose, and plans.\u00a0 <\/span>It is hard to wait on the Lord.\u00a0 <\/span>Should it be?\u00a0 <\/span>All throughout our lives, we must continually grow in faith, hope, trust, reliance, understanding, knowledge, and wisdom. Learning to do this takes continual practice, surrender, and yielding.\u00a0 <\/span>It is with an intentional choice and desire to honor and glorify Jesus Christ in all we say, think, and do that we find learning applicable.\u00a0 <\/span>God\u2019s Word becomes more than food for our souls.\u00a0 <\/span>It satisfies, fills, empowers, and we learn to discern the leading of the Holy Spirit in our lives. How do we begin to apply this in our lives?\u00a0 <\/span>Commit and Discipline yourselves to be in His Word and then practice surrender, yielding, seeking, and waiting on the Lord.\u00a0 <\/span>Will we fail at times? Yes. However with continual practice, we will become more and more steadfast and resolute in our daily lives, and when trials and troubles fall upon us our natural reaction will be to place it in God\u2019s control, power, purpose, and plans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Colossians 1:11\u00a0 being strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy; giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light. He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his … Continue reading “28.z. “If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small””<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3625,1353,2917,1157,15160,3773,3345,5659,777,227,519,684,1758,552,530,76,15408,232,646,15161,3390,165,198,409,340,283,2284,187,796,56,394,205,619,7343,5660,28,3271,121,15162,208,468,2287,15163,3215,32,6944,1043,6231,29,279,6773,618],"class_list":["post-129907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers","tag-adversity","tag-afflictions","tag-all-things","tag-ashamed","tag-beatings","tag-calamities","tag-christ","tag-clings","tag-darkness","tag-delivered","tag-endurance","tag-faint","tag-forgiveness","tag-gather","tag-glory","tag-god","tag-hardhips","tag-holy-spirit","tag-hunger","tag-imprisonments","tag-inheritance","tag-jesus","tag-joy","tag-kindness","tag-kingdom","tag-knowledge","tag-labors","tag-light","tag-lord","tag-love","tag-might","tag-patience","tag-power","tag-purity","tag-race","tag-redemption","tag-riches","tag-righteousness","tag-riots","tag-saints","tag-servants","tag-sins","tag-sleepless-nights","tag-son","tag-strength","tag-strengthened","tag-surpassing-power","tag-surrounded","tag-thanks","tag-treasure","tag-weight","tag-witnesses"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129907"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129910,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129907\/revisions\/129910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}