Failure Is Due to Not TRUSTING The Word

Until there are corresponding actions, there will be continual failure in life. I can confess and say that God is the strength of my life. But if at the same time I continue to talk about my weaknesses and lack of faith, I will be defeated because there is no corresponding action. I am resorting to human methods instead of trusting the Lord, and this brings confusion to my spirit. It brings weakness and failure to my life. There is just one thing for us to do and that is to turn to God's Word and act upon His Word.
Our worst enemy is the flesh. The flesh and natural human reasoning would limit us to our own ability. We look to the circumstances, the problems, the tests, and storms and say that we can't. The language of doubt, the flesh, and the senses is "I can't. I haven't the ability, the opportunity, or the strength. I've been limited." But the language of faith says, "I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me" (Phil. 4:13).
Paul didn't say that he could do all things because he was an apostle and had special power or grace. He said, "I can do all things through Christ ..." and we have this same access to Christ. Paul said, "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold all things are become new" (II Corinthians 5:17). You are a new creature in Christ too. Christ doesn't belong to Paul any more than He belongs to you.
The language of faith says, "I can do all things through Christ. Our Father strengthens us. I cannot be conquered and I cannot be defeated."
If natural forces come against you, they cannot whip you because there aren't enough natural forces in all the world to conquer Him who dwells within you. "Greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world" (I John 4:4). You are fortified from within.
I have learned how to put the Greater One to work for me. Not only am I born of God, a partaker of His love, but I have dwelling in me the spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead. I have God's wisdom, strength, and ability in me. I am learning how to let that wisdom govern my intellect. I am letting him govern my mind and speak through my lips. I am daring to think God's thoughts after Him. I am daring to say in the presence of all my old enemies, "God is my ability." "Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies" (Psalm 23:5). "The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?" (Psalm 27:1). God has made me greater than mine enemies. God has made me put my heel on the neck of weakness, fear, and inability.
The strength of God is mine. I am not trusting in my own strength because the Bible doesn't say a word about my being strong. It says that God is my strength. So many people are struggling and trying to do something themselves. They get up to testify and tell everyone to pray for them that they will hold out to the end. But God doesn't want you to hold out like that. He wants you to let Him do it. Wrap yourself in the promises of God.
In 1937 a dirigible that the government had made was being moored in Akron, Ohio. Two hundred men were holding it, to moor it to a steel mast. Suddenly it shot into the air. Some men hung on and went up with it. Some of them fell and broke legs and arms, others were killed. But one man kept hanging on. People watching him on the ground were screaming, knowing that at any minute he would fall to earth and every bone in his body would be broken.
After nearly two hours had passed the dirigible was brought down, was moored to the mast, and the man was rescued. An ambulance was waiting to take him to the hospital, but he said he was all right. When asked how he had held on, he said that he had found about four feet of rope, and while he held to the dirigible with one hand, he tied the rope securely around his waist and it held him. He had been swinging free, enjoying the scenery, while people on the ground had been worrying about him. Isn't this the way many of us are? Trying to hold on and hold out until we give out. We fall, when all we need to do is wrap ourselves in the promises of God and swing free, enjoying the scenery.
I once heard the story of a man walking down the railroad track with a pack on his back. When he came to a section gang repairing the railroad, he thought the foreman was going to tell him to get off the track, so he showed him a ticket which he had. The foreman told him that this didn't give him the right to walk down the track. Many people are like this in that they are on the right track, but they ought to be riding instead of walking. Also, they should check their baggage because they don't have to carry it. The Bible says, "Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you" (I Peter 5:7). The strength of God is ours. The ability of God is ours. Claim it. Act it. Act upon God's Word. If you do, He will go to work for you.


Live Well,
Bernard



Reference: Corresponding Actions - Kenneth E. Hagin