The Daily Guide
Natural strength or His strength
For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ...that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through his Spirit in the inner man.
Ephesians 3:14-16 - NKJV
Trying to operate out of your own mental or physical strength isn't the best way. It means sometimes you will have an adequacy for the challenges and sometimes you won't. It also means your physical frame will be under strain. There's a better way. You can go to God for His glorious strength! It is better to live out of God's glorious strength that's deposited by God's Spirit in your inner man! Prov.18:14.
Look at Paul. How was he able to minister so extensively? He lived a rigorous lifestyle with much physical deprivation. Yet in his ministry he laboured untiringly with an energy surpassing all his fellow workers. How did he do this? By operating from out of God's glorious strength in his inner man! Look too at Caleb, Joshua and Moses all of whom accomplished great things for God while over 80 years old! I believe all the saints of God who accomplished notable things for God lived in that strength. Josh.14:10-11.
What are you accomplishing? In God's glorious strength it will always be far more and far greater! And by it you'll be saved from walking on the edge of physical exhaustion or the strained outer limits of your mental capacity. Live less on the basis of your exterior man. Call on God for His strengthening in your inner man with His might and begin learning to operate out of your inner man and the strength and wisdom He gives you there.
Live out of God's strength in your inner man!
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