"Lord, I CAN NOT ...!"
These complaints often we say when we feel so weak and powerless ... tired ... But if we remember the Lord's prophets, they also experienced the same thing ...
When God called Moses to confront Pharaoh that the Israelites were released, with all sorts of excuses he tried to escape ... as a fugitive and a stutter which he may be able to do the job?
When Jonah was sent to convert the wicked people of Nineveh, he fled to Tarshish instead ...
When Jeremiah was sent to preach the Word of God to the nation's hardhearted and reject the Word, he was crying so hard that he became known as' the weeping prophet. "If you currently feel unable to deal with the ministry, it is because you do it alone without involving God. But there is good news for you:
If you say, "I can not afford ...", 2 Corinthians 3:5-6 says, " Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God, 6 who has made us sufficient to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
When you say, "I do not have anything ..", 2 Corinthians 9:8 writes, "And God is able to bestow all grace to you so that you always affluent in everything and even exaggerated in the various virtues."
If you are also saying, "I do not have the strength ..." Philippians 4:13 gives the answer, "Everything matters to bear in Him who gives me strength."
So let us always involve God in our ministry because He is our strength and abilities! (Vida S.)
