I cannot control the future…
I cannot transform the lives of those hurting…
I cannot heal broken hearts or broken bones…
I cannot eradicate unemployment so families have enough to eat…
I cannot end poverty…
I cannot build enough homes to move the millions of people living in shacks…
I cannot feed every hungry person I meet…
I cannot plant churches in all of the unreached people groups…
I cannot keep an addict from relapsing…
I cannot provide medication for all the sick people I know…
I cannot always find the strength to continue fighting the Prince of this World…
…BUT God can!
God can take a few loaves of bread and a few fish and feed thousands. God multiplies our efforts; it is the economy of His Kingdom. God can heal the blind, the lame, those with broken hearts and bones. God can raise from the dead. God, the Sovereign, has already gone ahead of us and claimed victory in our efforts.
Alone we can do nothing but with God we can do anything.
So pray big! Expect big! Put yourself in situations where you must call on God so all who hear know the only way you could have done what you did was because of your God. Call on Him in impossible situations because that is His specialty. Boldly tell what you have seen your God do because He is alive, moving, and still performing miracles.
You cannot..but God can!
Do you have a ‘…but God’ story?
I’d love to hear it!
Fill in the blank: ‘I cannot ______…but I am now standing in faith that God can!’
Not a long enough blank for my words. I can’t be who God should and wants to be in other peoples lives. I can’t comfort the deep pain and bliss he can only heal. I cant do it all. Life is not totally up to self sufficient me. I can’t be enough without him being enough-past, present, future.
I cannot be the person He wants me to be and fulfill the purpose He has for me. I cannot be strong enough to do it all and be everything everyone else expects me to be.
I should have added….I cannot fulfill the purpose He has for me without Him doing it through me. And I don’t have to be strong enough to do it all nor do I have to be everything everyone expects me to be.
i have so many “but God” stories that it makes me always go um why do i doubt!? my fave always though is lindo. love him.
my blanks…
know the future
work all things out for good
bring along mr. right
set the right timing
see the whole picture
save myself
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