Today, we would like to talk about inner stregnth. this is where when your physical body is enduring so much that when it cannot take it anymore, your inner man, or spirit through your heavenly father gives you the strength to push on. Your Heavenly father wishes you to believe you are stronger than you alone wish to believe. below is some information about inner stregnth and what the bible says about it.
One of the strongest men who ever lived was Samson. He was so strong that he was known to have killed a lion with his bare hands, caught three hundred foxes, and killed a thousand men with a jawbone of a donkey.
However, while he was physically strong, sadly, he was morally weak because he was ruled by lust.
Samson’s strength, therefore, was not true strength for true strength is not merely outward, but inward. True strength is the kind of inner strength that enables us to control our own emotions and appetites.
Does your strength today come from your inner man or outer man?
The inner man is the person’s mind, conscience, and will. The outer man involves our physical bodies. The Bible mentions this in 2 Corinthians 4:16.
2 Corinthians 4:16 which says: “Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day.
As Christians, there is a great need for us to be strengthened in the inner man. Otherwise, Paul would not have prayed for it in Ephesians 3:14-16.
Ephesians 3:14-16; I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named. That He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through the Spirit in the inner man.
There was a certain pastor’s wife who had an encounter with a thief. One day, when her husband was not at home, a very notorious thief came through the gate of their house. As the thief came close to where the pastor’s wife was, she shouted at him the words “In the Name of Jesus!” Quickly, the scared thief fled out of their premises. In that moment, she experienced God’s power which strengthened her with might through the Spirit in her inner man.
To be strengthened with might could also mean to be enabled with a high degree of spiritual abilities for resisting temptations and enduring persecutions.
Joseph in the Bible was a man who had this kind of inner strength. He was strengthened by God in his inner man to resist and flee from the lustful temptation and advances made by his master’s wife.
The Early Church, on the other hand, led by the twelve Apostles, suffered greatly because of the persecution from Jews and Gentiles. They were imprisoned, stoned, driven out from cities, and beaten with rods for preaching the Gospel.
But despite all their difficulties, the Church was strengthened by God and they even grew daily in numbers. Today, Church persecution is still happening and such churches continue to draw their strength in the inner man from the Spirit of God.
Certainly, inner strength is the kind of strength that we should desire. Inner strength from the Holy Spirit gives us the strength to serve God, do our duty, and persevere in our Christian walk with cheerfulness despite all the troubles.
Is your life filled with troubles and ill-treatment from others? Jesus did not promise that our lives will be free from persecutions but He encouraged us in John 16:33.
John 16:33, “…Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows. But take heart, because I have overcome the world (NLT).” May this promise be your source of strength.
Closing Prayer; Heavenly Father, give us the strength to stick it out over the long haul—not the grim strength of gritting our teeth but the glory-strength God gives. It is strength that endures the unendurable and spills over into joy, thanking the Father who makes us strong enough to take part in everything bright and beautiful that he has for us. Jesus, give us strength in us weakness. We pray this in Jesus’s name Amen.
those who wish to become a child of our Heavenly Father or wish to be stronger in his eyes, please say the following prayer below.
Heavenly Father: I recognize that I have not lived my life for You up until now. I have been living for myself and that is wrong. I need You in my life; I want You in my life. I acknowledge the completed work of Your Son Jesus Christ in giving His life for me on the cross at Calvary, and I long to receive the forgiveness you have made freely available to me through this sacrifice. Come into my life now, Lord. Take up residence in my heart and be my king, my Lord, and my Savior. From this day forward, I will no longer be controlled by sin, or the desire to please myself, but I will follow You all the days of my life. Those days are in Your hands. I ask this in Jesus’ precious and holy name. Amen.”
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