September
LIVING IN DEPENDENCE ON ME is a glorious adventure. Most
people scurry around busily, trying to accomplish things through their
own strength and ability. Some succeed enormously; others fail
miserably. But both groups miss what life is meant to be: living and
working in collaboration with Me.
When you depend on Me continually, your whole perspective changes.
You see miracles happening all around, while others see only natural
occurrences and “coincidences.” You begin each day with joyful
expectation, watching to see what I will do. You accept weakness as a
gift from Me, knowing that My Power plugs in most readily to
consecrated weakness. You keep your plans tentative, knowing that
My plans are far superior. You consciously live, move, and have your
being in Me, desiring that I live in you. I in you, and you in Me. This is
the intimate adventure I offer you.
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in
weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so
that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in
weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I
am weak, then I am strong.
2 CORINTHIANS 12 : 9 – 10
“‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets
have said, ‘We are his offspring.’”
ACTS 17 : 28
So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live in him,
rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and
overflowing with thankfulness.
COLOSSIANS 2 : 6 – 7
On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in
you.
JOHN 14 : 20