Today’s Reading:
2 Corinthians 12
2 Corinthians 13
“But he answered me, “My grace is always more than enough for you, and my power finds its full expression through your weakness.” So I will celebrate my weaknesses, for when I’m weak I sense more deeply the mighty power of Christ living in me.”
2 Corinthians 12:9 TPT
The Spirit of the Lord says,
I can work with weakness. The show of weakness is the display of humility. That is all I need to work with to perform miracles. That’s all I need to work with for My power to be put on display. How was it that the loaves and the fish were multiplied? In thanksgiving and in the acknowledgement of need, of insufficiency. I Am the all-sufficient God. I Am the all-sufficient One. My power is made perfect in weakness. Weakness is a portal for My strength. Release your struggles, your pain, your lack, your need to me. Don’t grip them tightly with fists of control. Give them to Me with open palms, and watch what I can do with them. Relinquish your fear of lack, and just lay the reality of it in open hands before Me, thanking Me for all My provision. My Spirit moves in portals of weakness. My Spirit moves in vessels of humility, openness and submission.
“So I’m not defeated by my weakness, but delighted! For when I feel my weakness and endure mistreatment—when I’m surrounded with troubles on every side and face persecution because of my love for Christ—I am made yet stronger. For my weakness becomes a portal to God’s power.”
2 Corinthians 12:10 TPT
Stoicism is not usually the place where I do miracles. Open hands and uplifted heart and eyes is where the lightning of My love likes to strike. My fire falls on an offering. My fire falls on an honest and willing sacrifice. The sacrifice of open humility and acknowledgement of need is a portal, is an altar that I can fall on with power. This is the kind of heart, the kind of hole, the kind of place I like to fall in power and in love. My power and My lighting strike, My fire falls on those with open hands, with pure hearts and with an acknowledgement of need. Those are the magnets for My power, for the miraculous. Those are the pure stones upon which faith is built. As you lift up your open hands, as you empty your heart and your lack out before me, place the stones of remembrance on this altar of need. Faith attracts My fire. Faith attracts My power. And faith comes from rehearsing, recounting, remembering My faithfulness.
“Christ is not weak or feeble in his dealings with you but mighty and powerful within you. For although he was crucified as a “weakling,” now he lives robed with God’s power. And we also are “weak ones” in our co-crucifixion with him, but now we live in God’s triumphant power together with him, which is demonstrated on your behalf. Now your souls will be strengthened and healed if you hold steadfast to your faith.”
2 Corinthians 13:3-5a TPT
Bring your needs before Me. Open up your weakness and acknowledge your lack, your insufficiency before Me. Place your stones of remembrance, your recollections of My faithfulness on those, and watch as My fire falls on that kind of offering. Watch as My fire falls and My miraculous power delivers on the altar of humility, thanksgiving and faith. Watch.
How to Respond
- Pray, Lord I lay my life and my need out before you. Help me to recount Your faithfulness. You have never failed me or forsaken me. You never lie, You never lose and You never leave me hanging. You are the all-sufficient One. You supply my every need. And in You all of my desires are met. Lord, show me how to be a pure vessel, an open vessel of admitted weakness where Your miracle working power can fall.
- Declare, the Lord’s power is made perfect in my weakness.
- Decree, I will see the Lord move in miracle working power as I lay my life, my lack, my need out before Him alongside my recounting of His faithfulness. I will be one whose life is marked by humility, thanksgiving and faith.
For more encouragement from Glory & the New Wine, check out the post from this day in 2022: The Harvest of Hearts
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