Positive Quote for the Week-Don’t Underestimate Your Strength

January 26, 2023

Positive Quote for the Week-Don’t Underestimate Your Strength

“Those moments of fragility and vulnerability do not define you! Strength is birthed when you overcome your weaknesses!” Erica Willis

No matter who you are, you are going to experience situations and circumstances that make you feel vulnerable and fragile. What you do with those moments will either give you the strength to push forward or it will paralyze you right where you are.

When we go through the struggles of life that threaten to take us out, you best believe the enemy is right there just waiting for an opportunity to take your moment of helplessness and multiply it. He wants nothing more than to stop you from walking in the purpose that God has for you, but he doesn’t deserve that satisfaction!

True strength is birthed when you overcome your weaknesses. When you realize that no matter what you face in life, you are not facing it alone. The Lord provides us with so many promises throughout Scripture that you can stand on. One powerful verse in particular is Isaiah 40:29 when the prophet writes, “He gives power to the weak, And to those who have no might He increases strength.”

When you feel like you are at your absolute lowest place in life, He gives you the power and strength to continue to fight on. When I had to overcome some of the most turbulent storms that I had ever had to endure, I know that I wouldn’t have made it through without the Lord’s strength. His guarantee to you is that He will never leave you nor forsake you, Deuteronomy 31:6.

He doesn’t promise that we won’t go through trials and tribulations in life, those are going to come no matter what. John 16:33 provides us with a description when John states, “These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.”

The Lord is your peace in the midst of your storm and the calm in the middle of calamity. Don’t allow those fragile and vulnerable moments to define you making you remain stagnant. The devil is a liar! Let the only thing that is birthed out of your moment of weakness be your strength!

I am going to list some Scriptures that you can meditate on regarding having strength:

Psalm 121:1-2 “I will lift up my eyes to the hills—From whence comes my help? My help comes from the Lord, Who made heaven and earth.”
Nehemiah 8:10 “Then he said to them, “Go your way, eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to those for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord. Do not sorrow, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”
Isaiah 12:2 “Behold, God is my salvation, I will trust and not be afraid; ‘For Yah, the Lord, is my strength and song; He also has become my salvation.’ ”
2 Corinthians 12:10 “Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong.”
1 Corinthians 16:13 “Watch, stand fast in the faith, be brave, be strong.”
Psalm 73:26 “My flesh and my heart fail; But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.”
Joshua 1:9 “Have I not commanded you? Be strong and of good courage; do not be afraid, nor be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”
Philippians 4:13 “ I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.”