A gift to the poor
A word for the lonely
A song for the weary
What
moves God is a heart of worship.
Someone willing to bow the knee.
Submission to His wooing.
Recognition of our powerlessness apart from Him.
A yielded vessel.
The power
of God is given to those who have stepped aside and lifted up the name of Jesus
above their own. You can tell when a man
or a woman is full of their self or yielded to God. The power of God is through the yielded
and never wielded.
Those who
are still full of themselves may have charisma and charm, authority, position
and sometimes fame. They may be educated
and informed. But the power of God is
manifested in weakness and humility.
Isaiah
40:29-31
29. He giveth power to the faint;
God
pressed on me to search this word out, faint, because I always thought it meant
the weak-willed, the helpless, those who were despondent and without, but I
found out differently.
The word
faint as used here comes from the Hebrew word, (yaw-afe’) which means fatigued
or utterly exhausted. The faint are not
the despondent or weak-willed, but those who are utterly exhausted from their
labors.
29. He giveth power to the (those
who are utterly exhausted from
their labors) faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.
30.
Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall
utterly fall:
31. But
they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up
with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk,
and not faint.
The power
of God is given to the laborers of God to perform the will of God."
Excerpt from God Thinking LXXXIX - Principles Of Power by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2015
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