Strength!

Strength – we all need it. We need our heart to beat strong, our muscles to be strong, even our teeth tone strong. Yes, we need strength in all areas of our body to be able to combat the sickness and diseases that lurk around us.

We need even more strength in the inner man:

May He grant you out of the riches of His glory, to be strengthened and spiritually energized with power through His Spirit in your inner self, [indwelling your innermost being and personality], Ephesians 3:18 (AMP)

There are far more effects of the devil at work in our inner man than our outer. Yet we spend countless hours and untold finances working on our physical being, giving little or no attention to building up our inner being with strength. It is so interesting that Jesus said:

It’s not what goes into your body that defiles you; you are defiled by what comes from your heart.” Mark 7:15 (NLT)

While going to the health food store may make you feel like you’re doing something great because it costs so much; in light of eternity, it is far better to worry about what comes from your heart -” for by your words you will be justified and by your words you will be condemned” *Matthew 12:37)

Strength to fight the enemy of our souls is something that we all need, for he never gives up on trying to trap us into doing or saying or thinking something that will weaken our position in the kingdom. The good news is that there is an endless supply of God’s power, which He so freely wants to endow us with. The glory of the Lord is to see His people walking in the strength and authority that Jesus paid for us to wlk in.

Thus we need to be renewed every day with the strength of God, our multi-purpose vitamin that will keep us alert to the wiles of the devil, and able to demolish him.

Maria