My Strength is perfected in weakness... 2 Corinthians 12:9

This thought is amazing to me. In my weakness Christ is MORE glorified! This is completely opposite from what we've learned from the world. This world feeds our pride and we are led to believe we have to be something more than what He has called us to be in order to be appreciated and noticed. But here Christ is saying through our WEAKNESS and in our HUMILITY we are to present ourselves to Him so that His STRENGTH can be perfected in us. Only in recognizing and surrendering our weakness will we be made strong.  

2 Cor 12:10  Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in insults, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for the sake of Messiah. For only when I am weak, then I am strong!!! 

We can be confident in the strength and ability that He provides because our part is minimal. Here in 1 Corinthians 3 He’s showing us that we are merely planters and waters. ONLY ABBA is able to give the increase. Neither the planter nor the waterer are anything but all glory goes to ABBA and to Him alone.

1 Corinthians 3:6,7 I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase. 💕

John 9:41 Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would have no sin; but since you say, 'We see,' your sin remains. 

It's the acknowledgement of our weakness and our need for His Strength that's needed to enable us with the ability to accomplish anything. These verses should give us a new kind of confidence because being fruitful is then not based on our ability to produce. It’s based on our understanding and ACKNOWLEDGMENT of our weakness and then surrendering to the ONLY One that can give Strength and Power.

So we need only recognize and see our feeble state for what it actually is and seek Him daily for the guidance and strength that we need. He sees us as we really are and the weakness that we possess and He is wanting to strengthen us and enable us to do the work He has called us to do. Isaiah 40:29  He gives power to the faint, and to those who have no might He increases strength 💕

The Bible tells us Christ first was crucified in weakness but now He lives with the power in which Elohim provides. We too, for though we are weak in the flesh it is through the power of Christ in our hearts and His manifestation in our lives; that gives us the power needed to overcome our weakness and reign with Him for eternity 💕