Try..Fail..Try..Fail..Try..Fake It

Does that sound familiar?
Are you tired of trying and failing ?
Do you try again, and again, and again, only to fail? 
 

I once asked God "Why do I always fail?"

He revealed to me  - My problem is I haven't failed enough.

"I am just so weak and helpless I just can’t overcome"
- I say Hallelujah!

You’re beginning to see the light.

God allows us to fail and fail to convince us that we can’t do it.
 We don’t need more determination - we need more deliverance.

Galatians 1:4
Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from
this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father?

To be strong in yourself is to be weak in Faith - To admit
weakness in yourself is to be strong in Christ.

1Corinthians 12: 9- 11

And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my
strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore
will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the
power of Christ may rest upon me.

Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches,
in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake:
for when I am weak, then am I strong.

I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for
I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am
I behind the very chiefs apostles, though I be nothing.

God knows you are weak and helpless - the trouble is you
 don’t know it.

Failure is God’s way of proving it to you.

I mean, is there anything too difficult for God -
including delivering you?

Matthew 19:26
But Jesus, looking on [them], said to them, with men
this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.

Have you learned to thank God for your weakness?

Can you like Paul boast in weakness?

Dear brothers, I left the vision of trying to repair myself.

I’m learning a hard lesson from God which is this - God is
not trying fix me, repair me, or improve me. He’s trying to remove me.

Why should I try to fix what God has condemned?

Romans 6: 6-7
Knowing this, that our old man has been crucified with
[him], that the body of sin might be annulled, that we
should no longer serve sin. For he that has died is justified from sin.

You may fix something in your life - you may be a well
disciplined man.

I’m not saying we should live a loose life, but I’ve been to
some funerals and all they can fix is the outside - everything
else is still a dead man’s bones.
 

"So what are you saying brother  - I should stop trying?"

No - you can still fake it.

Brother Jesse - 4/21/2005