God is my Strong Fortress.
—2 Samuel 22:33
God wants to give you strength for every situation you face. He doesn't only want to give you strength, though; He wants to be your strength.
Many men and women of the Bible knew God as their strength, and they are great examples to encourage us to trust in His strength too. David wrote in Psalm 18:29 that by his God he could run through a troop and leap over a wall. In 1 Kings 19:4-8, an angel of God ministered to Elijah, who was tired and depressed, and Elijah went forty days and nights in the strength he received from that one visit.
How do we receive strength from God? We receive by faith, by believing His promise to strengthen us. That faith will quicken your body, as well as your spirit and your soul. At our conferences, the Holy Spirit has strengthened with fresh determination people who felt they could not go on. His healing power came as we waited in His presence and received it from Him.
By faith you can receive strength to stay in a difficult marriage, raise a difficult child, or stick with a difficult job. You can receive strength to do great things. Don't worry about your natural weaknesses, but remember that Christ's strength is made perfect and shows itself most effective in our weakness (2 Corinthians 12:9).
Have you been trying to push through difficulties on your own? If so, make a change right now. Start getting strength from deep within you, where the Holy Spirit dwells.
Love God Today: “Lord, I do not have much strength on my own. I receive the strength you want to give me through Your Holy Spirit. I believe I can do whatever I need to do in life through Jesus Christ.”
The Divinity of Jesus Christ
by Dr. Paul Chappell
“For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.”
Isaiah 9:6–7
It was not long after Jesus returned to Heaven following His resurrection that heresies about the nature of Christ began to impact the church. Some false teachers denied the humanity of Jesus while others denied His divinity. The tragedy of false doctrine regarding Christ is that it deforms our thinking and keeps us from seeing Him as He truly is—both God and man.
Charles Spurgeon said it well: “He who never began to be, but eternally existed, began to be what he eternally was not, and continued to be what he eternally was.” Jesus didn’t become God when He was born in Bethlehem’s manger, nor did He cease to be God at that point. As God He existed in eternity past, and as God, He humbled Himself to take on flesh and be born as a baby in a manger.
The key to understanding and worshiping Jesus as we should is to take what the Bible says about Him seriously. Colossians 2:9 says, “For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.” Jesus was more than just a baby in a manger. He did not come for the primary purpose of being a good example or doing good deeds. His life was focused on fulfilling the will and purpose of His Father in Heaven, and His express purpose was to “save his people from their sins” (Matthew 1:21).
Isaiah 9:6–7
It was not long after Jesus returned to Heaven following His resurrection that heresies about the nature of Christ began to impact the church. Some false teachers denied the humanity of Jesus while others denied His divinity. The tragedy of false doctrine regarding Christ is that it deforms our thinking and keeps us from seeing Him as He truly is—both God and man.
Charles Spurgeon said it well: “He who never began to be, but eternally existed, began to be what he eternally was not, and continued to be what he eternally was.” Jesus didn’t become God when He was born in Bethlehem’s manger, nor did He cease to be God at that point. As God He existed in eternity past, and as God, He humbled Himself to take on flesh and be born as a baby in a manger.
The key to understanding and worshiping Jesus as we should is to take what the Bible says about Him seriously. Colossians 2:9 says, “For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.” Jesus was more than just a baby in a manger. He did not come for the primary purpose of being a good example or doing good deeds. His life was focused on fulfilling the will and purpose of His Father in Heaven, and His express purpose was to “save his people from their sins” (Matthew 1:21).
Today’s Growth Principle:
When we see Jesus for who He truly is, our appreciation and celebration of Christmas will never be the same.
He Is Your Strength
by Joyce Meyer - posted December 10, 2016God is my Strong Fortress.
—2 Samuel 22:33
God wants to give you strength for every situation you face. He doesn't only want to give you strength, though; He wants to be your strength.
Many men and women of the Bible knew God as their strength, and they are great examples to encourage us to trust in His strength too. David wrote in Psalm 18:29 that by his God he could run through a troop and leap over a wall. In 1 Kings 19:4-8, an angel of God ministered to Elijah, who was tired and depressed, and Elijah went forty days and nights in the strength he received from that one visit.
How do we receive strength from God? We receive by faith, by believing His promise to strengthen us. That faith will quicken your body, as well as your spirit and your soul. At our conferences, the Holy Spirit has strengthened with fresh determination people who felt they could not go on. His healing power came as we waited in His presence and received it from Him.
By faith you can receive strength to stay in a difficult marriage, raise a difficult child, or stick with a difficult job. You can receive strength to do great things. Don't worry about your natural weaknesses, but remember that Christ's strength is made perfect and shows itself most effective in our weakness (2 Corinthians 12:9).
Have you been trying to push through difficulties on your own? If so, make a change right now. Start getting strength from deep within you, where the Holy Spirit dwells.
Love God Today: “Lord, I do not have much strength on my own. I receive the strength you want to give me through Your Holy Spirit. I believe I can do whatever I need to do in life through Jesus Christ.”
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