Last night, someone said to me, he said: you’re a strong woman, Beloved. I was speechless for a minute. People have called me strong enough for me to not be surprised about it. Some people even say I’m tough. But the way this person said it was different. It was as though he wasn’t the one saying it. It was out of the blue and it touched my spirit. Like I always say, you can’t move me with flattery. If it doesn’t have a witness in my spirit, I don’t bother much with it.

So, I read the message about a dozen of times.

By the time he said it again, I already got the message so I said: the Lord is the strength of my life. The first response that came to my mind the first time he said it was, I hope I am but that’d be a lie because I don’t hope I’m strong, I know I’m strong because the Lord is the strength of my life. His joy is my strength. I’m strong because he is.

Before now, my strength used to be in my ability to bounce back and move on. Basically, my strength and boast used to be in my intelligence, abilities, resilience and what not but now I understand that all these are nonsense. The Lord is my strength. My intelligence is not my strength by itself. The Lord is my strength through my intelligence. Whatever I have, I have in him. I am strong in him.

So when I saw: you’re a strong woman, Beloved and I was going to counter the statement with how weak I really am. The Holy Spirit began to impress words in my spirit. How my weakness is my strength. How I’m strong because I know I’m weak. How I’m strong because I know I’m unsteady by myself so I’m holding onto God like a toddler holds onto his mother and God being a good father, is not just holding my hand, he’s carrying me in his arms so I don’t go in my strength, I go in the strength of the one carrying me. I don’t live by my strength, I live by the strength of the one carrying me.

Just yesterday, I was still asking if asking God for help and mercy everytime means someone is an immature Christian and the answer I got confirmed everything I previously believed. You can’t do much in/with and for God if you’re not totally surrendered to him and completely dependent on him. God doesn’t want strong people. He wants willing people. Look at Moses, Abraham and all these great men in the Bible especially David. Look at David.

This post is a word for someone: yeahhh, it all seems crazy and you’re so overwhelmed that you’ve lost control of your emotions but the Lord is telling me to tell you that he’s the strength of your life. He says come, rest on me, rest in me. He says lay down your burdens and take my peace. I went through hell to get it for you (he literally did). Tough situations don’t require you to try harder, they require you to look to God. To cry to him. To rant to him. To call him and simply say: help me.

God abeg is a funny prayer we all say but it’s a powerful one. God abeg, help me because if you don’t, who will? Remind him of his words. Isaiah 41 vs 10. Speak his words back to him. This post is similar to my last post so this issue of seeing God as our helper and receiving help from him must be a serious one.

I see people live in constant anxiety and worry and I just wish I could transfer all I’ve learned to them automatically because the hearts of some people are hardened. If you really want to help them, you have to send the Holy Spirit to them or speak to them with the consciousness that your words are spirit and life. God didn’t create you to be crying yourself to sleep and he certainly didn’t give his only son so you can be depressed by everything. He said I have come so that you may have life and have it in full.

Do you even have life? If you’re still trying to order your life by your abilities and intelligence, I don’t think so. Because then life sends one breeze your way and oops! You’re drowning in despair. Having life is Romans 8 vs 28. Having it in full is Romans 8 vs 37-38. Do you have life? If you do, how full is it?

Dear reader, be strong in the Lord.

And always always remember that he is the strength of your life.