Bible Study Understanding the strength of God - Philippians 4:13

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Praise the Lord.

"THE STRENGTH OF GOD"​


Glory be to God's most holy name!

Beloved ones! I am very glad to meet you at this auspicious time. The word that our Lord God wants to speak to us today, means "the strength of God".

Beloved! We see two types of people, the strong and the weak. No matter how strong one is, if a weakness or a fever comes, that's it. That strong man becomes very weak. The strong man needs to be saved in the hospital by injecting him with glucose or another human blood. That is the strength of man. Man draws nearer to our God in his weakest hour. He turns to God and asks God that the Lord strengthen me. When a man applies, he applies like this. He receives the strength of God by saying, "I can do all this through Christ who strengthens me" (Philippians 4:13). Just as the moon receives light from the sun and gives light at night, so do we turn to God our Lord every day, Lord! 'Strengthen me' should be asked every day. Our Lord God can give strength to those who ask Him. God's people should be very careful in this matter.

One day I saw a weak man. When I asked him, he told me. He has a kidney problem. So I am doing dialysis, he said. Then we advised him. We taught him to pray to God like this. Lord God forgive me all my sins, have mercy on me, and prolong my life. We told him to ask God to change his weakness. He didn't give any answer. The next time I went to ask him, he had died. Look, many people like this as honorable. Yet he is a Christian. But he did not pray. He did not ask the Lord to strengthen him. Therefore death befell him.

In the church where we ministered, I would have someone help with the temple work on the holy day. He is 82 years old. He said to me, Pastor, I am 82 years old. He asked that it would be good if the Lord would extend his life by another five years. Well, we told him, let's pray. At night an elder came and said that he has extended your life by five years. The next time he met and told me, in a dream, the Lord had added five years to his life. Accordingly, he lived again for five years. At the end of those five years, he said, he should ask the pastor to pray to the Lord to extend his life for another five years.

Some people ask God for a long life and live a long life. Beloved! Each of us cannot live in this world without God's strength. Satan is weakening the whole world with the little power he has (Amos 3:11). Therefore we need the strength of our Lord Jesus Christ. Now let's get down to business.

Let's learn about God's strength! God created this world with His mighty hand and mighty power. The prophet Jeremiah says this. Ah, Sovereign Lord, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and outstretched arm. The prophet says that nothing is too hard for you (Jeremiah 32:17). We see that our Lord Jesus Christ made the heavens and the earth by His power. Look, when we look at the heavens and the earth that God made, we see how powerful our Lord God is. When we see any of His creations, they are a wonder to our eyes. So powerful is our Lord.

Many today are ignorant of the power of our Lord. See, the Israelites were in the land of Goshen in Egypt. Moses, the man of God, tried hard to rescue them according to God's command. But Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, vowed not to release the Israelites. Therefore our Lord God sent ten kinds of plagues. After that, the king of Egypt released the Israelites. Thus our Lord God showed His strength among the Egyptians. That is, He redeemed the Israelites with His mighty hand and mighty sword. Look, just as Israel was rescued, we who were trapped in sinful Egypt and found in the hand of Satan, rescued us from the devil with His strong hand and mighty sword, and now our Lord is leading each one of us.

God's strength is much greater than human strength. It is much bigger than many millions of billions of times. Every human being in the world lives in the power of God. No matter what religion he belongs to, he is sustained by the strength of God. A person may be a Christian, or a Muslim, or belong to any other religion, but the great power of God sustains them.

Glory be to God's name! Also, read the scriptures. The word of God says. Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit says the Lord Almighty (Zechariah 4:6). Look at how the Lord strengthened the boy named Samson. He stood alone against a lion and by the power of God's Spirit, he tore the lion's jaws open (Judges 14:1-6). Another time, he caught three hundred foxes and tied them tail to tail in pairs. He then fastened a torch to every pair of tails and destroyed the Philistine's wheat field (Judges 15:1-5).

Then he once killed a thousand Philistines with the fresh jawbone of a donkey (Judges 15:9-16). Finally, in a large house where tens of thousands (three thousand) Philistines, the king of Philistines, and the nobles of Philistines had gathered, he pushed away the pillars supporting the house with his two hands and broke it, killed the entire crowd (Judges 16:23-30). By the power of God's Spirit, our God has done such great things with a man named Samson. It is like that, even now, the Israelites are making a big deal about the Philistines.

Beloved! The strength of God that you and I have received from God is not enough. We still need to receive God's strength.

Look, David was a little boy when God's servant David went to battle with Goliath, a little youth. He went to fight with Goliath without any weapon in his possession. David had only one sling. But our Lord God, who was greater than that, was with him. David trusted in our God in everything. So he killed Goliath with a sling and brought victory to Israel (1 Samuel 17:4-54).

While meditating on this one day, the Lord spoke to the servant. I mean, I was thinking about how David killed Goliath with a slingshot and stone. Then the Lord revealed to the servant a secret that is not told in the scriptures. That is, when David went to fight Goliath, he went with faith. But when he saw that demon named Goliath, he got scared and threw the stone at him and when the stone weakened and was about to fall, the Lord said that the Lord took the stone and hit Goliath on the forehead and killed the demon. So David did not kill Goliath. The Lord killed Goliath and made David famous, and said that the Lord had done that because it was the Lord's will that David be the king of Israel.

So we are successful in many things. But the Lord won, not us. But we celebrate and declare victory. But it is our God who gives us victory. Therefore we must give glory to Him. Thus God, our Lord, is the one who hides and gives us many such victories. But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ (1 Corinthians 15:57).

Therefore servants of God! People of God! You have received the anointing of the Holy Spirit, not just to speak in tongues or to pray in the Spirit, or to sing, or to preach, or to call names, or not just to be reshaped. The Lord says that God has given you the anointing of the Holy Spirit for another purpose.

While meditating on this one day, the Lord spoke to the servant (me). I mean, I was thinking about how David killed Goliath with a slingshot. Then the Lord revealed to the servant a secret that was not told in the scriptures. That is, when David went to fight Goliath, he went with faith. But when he saw that giant called Goliath, he got scared and threw the stone at him and when the stone was weakened and was about to fall down, the Lord took the stone and hit Goliath on the forehead and killed the giant. So David did not kill Goliath. The Lord killed Goliath and made David famous, and anyway the Lord did that because it was the will of the Lord to make David, the king of Israel.
So we are successful in many things. But not us, but the Lord, who triumphed. But we celebrate by declaring victory. But it is our God who gives us victory. Therefore, we should give glory to Him. God, our Lord, is the one who gives us many victories from hiding. Praise be to God who gives us victory through our Lord Jesus Christ (1 Corinthians 15:57).

Therefore, servants of God! People of God! The Lord says that you have received the anointing of the Holy Spirit not only to speak in tongues or to pray in the Spirit or to sing songs or to preach or to call names or to be transformed but for another purpose.

This God has given us the power of the Spirit to fight with Satan, the adversary of God. The Lord says that the strength of God's Spirit that we have now received is not enough. Our Savior Jesus Christ says.How can anyone enter a strong man's (Satan's) house and carry off his possessions unless he first ties up the strong man? If it ties, then He says he can rob his house.
(Matthew 12: 29)

The thing about this is that he (Satan) will cause many souls to sin and keep them captive and under his control, says the Lord. So, people of God! Servants of God! Be prepared. The prophet Isaiah says that when the enemy comes like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord will raise a banner against him (Isaiah 59:19). This is the time the prophet spoke of. Therefore, the souls whom Satan has enslaved must be snatched from his hand. We must free those souls by fighting with him and make them our God's. For that, we are proclaiming good news for every soul and freeing them from the clutches of Satan. But Satan keeps many people under his control by making them sin. These days are the time to free the souls under Satan's control. Therefore, servants of God! People of God! And yet you must ask and receive God's strength from God. God, strengthen me! We need to pray to our Lord God that God, strengthens me. Only with the strength of God can we defeat Satan.

Today, many of God's servants have reduced their waiting in God's presence, so many of God's servants are seen as weak. Therefore, we cannot serve the Lord by fleshly strength. We need more of God's strength, the strength of God's Spirit. What we need to do for that is to get used to waiting long in the Lord's presence. The prophet Isaiah says that those who wait for the Lord will rise up with new energy and fly like eagles. They shall run and be not weary, and walk and be not weary (Isaiah 40:29-31). Get used to waiting in God's presence from now on rather than serving. We have to wait and pray for a long time to protect ourselves, for God to give us His strength, and for God to protect the people in this world with His strength. For the time to come is very wicked.

Those who do not have the strength of God cannot do anything and cannot overcome. Only by the power of God can a man protect himself (1 Peter 1:5) and protect others. Well, for these things to be like this, in the coming times, there will be a time when Satan and his group will be put to an end. That is what the scriptures of God say. Finally, my brothers, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. Put on the whole armor of God so that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

For not with flesh and blood, but with spirit, with powers, we have a struggle with the evil rulers of this universe and with the hosts of wicked spirits in the heavenly realms. Therefore, put on the whole armor of God, that you may stand against them in the day of evil, and stand as having done all, and be mighty.

Those who have girded your sides with the belt of truth, those who have put on the breastplate of righteousness, and those who have touched their feet with the footstool of preparation for the gospel of peace, stand firm as those who are able to put off all the garments of fire, and above all, having faith and holding the shield. Take the turban of salvation and the sword of the divine spirit. Praying in the Spirit at all times with all kinds of requests and supplications, the Apostle Paul tells us to be awake with great determination and supplication for all the saints (Ephesians 6:10-18). That is, Paul says that every servant of God and child of God must stand upright like a warrior standing for battle.

Suddenly war can start. That war is like this. It is a war in heaven. It is a war with the devil and his angels. Under the leadership of Christ, the man of God, Michael, together with his angels (God's servants, and God's children) is the battle that we have to do with Satan and his group. It is a war that will soon take place (Revelation 12:7). After that, this world will come to an end. We have come to such an end time. So let's get more of God's strength and prepare ourselves to fight Satan!

Behold, the Lord is coming!!

Beloved ones!

Since this message of the Lord is the message of the Lord that prepares you for God's work by getting the strength of God, we kindly ask you to read this and forward it to others and groups, on social media and serve the Lord.


Jesus bless you!!!
 

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