We are by no means qualified, experienced, and or adequate enough to do the things that God wants us too. But good news! God doesn’t expect us to be. Actually, he prefers that we’re not because God shows his strength the most through our weaknesses. God takes our broken offerings to him and multiplies them abundantly. He shows his extravagant faithfulness in so many ways, including:
- Taking the offering of the little boy’s meager 5 small loaves and 2 small fish and feeding over 5000 people with 12 baskets of food leftover.
- By answering the Israelite’s cry for clarity by making Aaron’s staff not only sprout buds but blooms and ripe almonds.
- Answering a missionary’s prayer for just one banana by literally filling her prison cell with them.
We need to understand these principles of God’s character: He is the same past, present, and future; and His faithfulness is overwhelmingly extravagant and abundant especially when paired with our weaknesses when we hand them to Him to use for His purposes.
2 Corinthians 12:8-10
8 Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. 9 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. 10 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.
Show notes:
- The story of the 5 loaves and 2 fish can be found in Matthew 14:13-21, Mark 6:30-44, Luke 9:10-17, and John 6:1-14
- Unstoppable by Christine Caine
- Evidence Not Seen: A Woman’s Miraculous Faith in the Jungles of World War II
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