Jesus told His disciples, \u2018Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.\u2019<\/i> (Matthew 26:41 NKJV) What did He mean by that? He meant that without the empowering presence of the Holy Spirit, which He\u2019d just told them they\u2019d soon receive, they weren\u2019t equal to the challenges they were about to face. It wasn\u2019t a matter of His doubting their devotion and willingness to serve Him; He just knew they couldn\u2019t do it by themselves. And you can\u2019t either. So the sooner you stop trying, the better off you\u2019ll be! <\/p>\n
God isn\u2019t looking for educated, sophisticated, well-meaning flesh, or any other kind of \u2018flesh\u2019, for that matter. He will only bless you when you acknowledge your total dependence on Him. That means praying and leaning on Him before you start, and continuing to pray and lean on Him until you reach the finish line. It also means that if God doesn\u2019t send you and you insist on going, or if He tells you to do something and you try to accomplish it in your own strength, you\u2019ll surely fail. And what\u2019s more, He will allow you to keep failing until you reach the place where you can say like Paul: \u2018Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God. He has made us competent.\u2019<\/i><\/p>\n
It\u2019s when we reach the end of our resources that God\u2019s power kicks in. So the word for you today is: instead of leaning on your own strength and resources, depend wholly and solely on God. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jesus told His disciples, \u2018Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.\u2019 (Matthew 26:41 NKJV) What did He mean by that? He meant that without the empowering presence of the Holy Spirit, which He\u2019d just told them they\u2019d soon receive, they weren\u2019t equal to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}