According to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being. Ephesians 3:16
We often find ourselves quick to encourage others to hand something over to God, or pray about it, or trust that God’s knows the outcome and is working out His purposes. We reach into scripture and share a verse, urging another to keep trusting and not give up because we serve a great God – a God of hope and of promise. How often have we done all of this while failing to do it in our own lives?
Words can flow easily when we are speaking into someone else’s storm, and yet when the wind blows in our direction, those same truths get blown from our grasp. So, while we tell others to lay their burdens down at the feet of Jesus, we are still desperately hanging onto our own. I don’t think, though, that it is all about a lack of faith, but that we simply see our personal circumstances through human eyes and assess them on the scales of human limitations. We forget that God’s power is not bound by what we see.
I believe; help my unbelief. Mark 9:24
Paul’s prayer in Ephesians 3, reminds us that strength does not come from rehearsed words or our own human resolve. It comes from the Spirit of God, working deep within our inner being. His power is not surface-level encouragement – it’s a transforming force that steadies us when our faith gets tossed about.
Like the father in Mark 9 who cried, ‘I believe; help my unbelief,’ we can be honest with God about our struggles. He doesn’t turn away from our weakness; He meets us there and strengthens us far beyond what we can muster. God has a rich resource of everything we need in every area of life, we just need to reach out and take hold of it. Let’s not only speak encouragement to others – let’s receive it ourselves.
Never stop trusting and believing that the Spirit within you is greater than the storm around you.
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