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This past Saturday was the women\u2019s breakfast at our church. It was so awesome. The topic was Strength. Several things stood out to me during the message. Our pastor\u2019s wife Ashley spoke about not only strength but weakness. She said \u201cGod\u2019s strength is our weakness \u201c and referenced \u201cHow long, LORD? Will you forget me? How long will you hide your face from me? How long must I wrestle with my thoughts and day after day have sorrow in my heart? How long will my enemy triumph over me? ~Psalm 13: 1-2 (NIV)and \u00a02 Corinthians 12:9 (NIV) \u201cBut he said to me, \u201cMy grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.\u201d Ashley reminded us that pain is often times the process that God uses to bear fruit in our lives and that we will find our strength when we Believe the Lord is with us. A few key points that she impressed upon us were:<\/p>\n
She left us with a few questions that I am still working on the answers to but wanted to share them with you.<\/p>\n
How would you answer those four questions?<\/p>\n
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This past Saturday was the women\u2019s breakfast at our church. It was so awesome. The topic was Strength. Several things stood out to me during the message. Our pastor\u2019s wife Ashley spoke about not only strength but weakness. She said \u201cGod\u2019s strength is our weakness \u201c and referenced \u201cHow long, LORD? Will you forget me? How long will you hide your face from me? How long must I wrestle with my thoughts and day after day have sorrow in my heart? How long will my enemy triumph over me? ~Psalm 13: 1-2 (NIV)and \u00a02 Corinthians 12:9 (NIV) \u201cBut he said to me, \u201cMy grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.\u201d Ashley reminded us that pain is often times the process that God uses to bear fruit in our lives and that we will find our strength when we Believe the Lord is with us. A few key points that she impressed upon us were: Go in what you know Be committed to grow Commit to doing what God has asked you and that\u2019s it Comparison is the thief of joy and tells God his handiwork isn\u2019t good enough Be in the moment Live moment by moment Step out of the boat Don\u2019t underestimate God when someone underestimated you She left us with a few questions that I am still working on the answers to but wanted to share them with you. \u201cWho has failed to see your heart?\u201d \u201dWho has underestimated you?\u201d Who or what is your Goliath?\u201d Who is your God?\u201d How would you answer those four questions? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[24],"tags":[42,26,41,40],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s9Y6g5-strength","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":308,"url":"https:\/\/sefosterauthor.com\/blog\/index.php\/2018\/06\/25\/how-do-you-decompress\/monday-musings\/sefoster\/","url_meta":{"origin":319,"position":0},"title":"How do you decompress?","author":"sefoster","date":"June 25, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"So I had the bright idea that I wanted to have my Etsy shop show in the sidebar of my blog. 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