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#1,134: God Uses our Weakness for His Purpose

• Loren Hicks

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God uses our weakness for his purpose. It’s in our weakness that the power of God shines through our lives. It’s in our deficits that we discover God’s strength and power.


Main Points:

1. We sometimes disqualify ourselves from being used by God because we don’t think we are strong enough, smart enough, or capable enough. Yet, being used by God is not about any of those things. It’s more about letting God use what we have. He adds his power to our lives which enables us to do what God calls us to do.

2. We wonder why would God want to use us.  God must be mistaken.  If God knows all things, and if God knows me, then he knows I’m not qualified, I’m not capable, and I don’t even know if I’m willing.

3. God chooses unlikely people to accomplish his purposes so his power can be displayed in their weakness.  God uses people who will depend on his power rather than their strength and abilities.  They are humbled knowing it wasn’t them, but God.  God receives the glory.


Today’s Scripture Verses:

2 Corinthians 12:9-11 - “But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.”

2 Corinthians 4:7 – “But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us.”


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