For Power Is Perfected In Weakness

And he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.”  Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weakness, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me.  – 2 Corinthians 12:9

Weakness – want of strength; want to do things great and glorious

Ah, weakness.  The mention of the word makes us feel insecure.  I mean really, who wants to be weak?  We all want to be strong, confident, and powerful forces to be reckoned with.  That is the desire of our hearts.
 

But what happens when our weaknesses come out?  How do we feel?  What happens inside of us when things don’t go the way we planned?  How do we handle that, in the moment?

We sincerely thank you all for coming out and supporting us.  We love to minister in song and our concerts are really that for us.  They are opportunities to minister and be ministered to.  We wanted each one of you to be encouraged in your faith.  If you needed to get closer to God, we hope we inspired you.  If you wanted to get to know God better, we hope our personal testimonies have given you a glimpse of what Our Wonderful God is like.  If you were feeling somewhat dull or stagnant, we desired that your fire for the Lord was rekindled.  We believe this was accomplished because it is the desire of God but…it was all done in our state of weakness.
 

Remember how I shared that it’s very hard getting ready for these events?  Well, I think we all learned that it can be just as hard going through.  That night was the most challenging we’ve ever had.  We had the whole night planned out.  We did our best to pull together an event where we could enjoy the presence of God in praise and worship and where we would take you into our own prayer closets.  We prayed and planned, thought and rehearsed.  Hours and hours of hard work along with the band.  We wanted everything to be perfect, but sometimes no matter how hard you try and how much you plan, it just doesn’t go that way.  Can anyone relate?

At one point during the concert, Nedra let you know that we were struggling up there and believe me it was so true.  Our prayer for that night was that we would, along with you, experience God in a new way, a deeper way.  We wanted to experience God in a way we never have before.  God will forever be a genius and a comedian.  He absolutely answered our prayers but in a way that we never expected.  God worked through our weaknesses.  Veronica shared the Scripture that night and it’s not until right now, as I write this, that I realize the depth of that Word.
 

God tells us that His power is made perfect in our weaknesses.  His power is performed and executed in those times when we are in want of strength – when we are weak but want to do a great and glorious thing.  It is so important to realize and take to heart that we cannot do mighty spiritual exploits in our strength.  No amount of talent, skill, effort or planning was going to bring about what we prayed for.
 

As much as we hate it, there is a undeniable and God glorifying strength in our weakness.  The problem is that we have a love/hate relationship with weakness.  We know God says we are strong when we are weak but we hate to be weak.  I believe we all struggle with this.  The joy in all this is that we have an amazing God who wants to teach us to rest in Him and let Him perform through us.  Let Him do the hard work which is all spiritual as we present our bodies as living vessels for Him to use.

We really had a wonderful time with you.  I know I speak for all of us when I say we really had a great time praising and worshipping God but what we want you to know is that there is no doubt in our minds that if you’ve experienced any encouragement; If you left uplifted, challenged, seeing God differently, strengthened to go through a trial in your life, I mean, anything you received, just know that it was entirely the power of God which accomplished it.  The gifts you received had absolutely nothing to do with us what so ever and so it should be.

So, with even more conviction, we say along with Paul that we rejoice and will boast in our weaknesses because His power was made perfect and we want God’s power to continually rest on us!

God Bless.
Rachel
Refining Faith