When All My Strength Has Failed PDF Download

In this life we are taught to fight and fight harder, to pray and pray harder, work and work harder. Life becomes exhausting drudgery in our feeble attempt to control, manipulate and fix everything we don't like or that which is simply going haywire. The harder we try, the worse things often become because we needlessly wear out. We are enslaved by the heaviness of life.If only we knew all that is required of those who are in Christ is to rest. Rest is the place of peace amid any storm, faith in the face of the impossible, quietude during chaos, joy in the midst of the unbearable, and to bask in the love of Christ when all other love has failed.After all, how is working harder going to get God to usher into your life what He's already finished? What is praying harder going to do to move Him? Why do we think more of us is required when less is actually the key? Praying once in confident faith God has already moved on your behalf is far more powerful than praying relentlessly expecting little to nothing to happen. Honestly, I don't understand how one can productively "pray harder" as I hear so many folks say they do in crisis. I haven't read anywhere in the Bible of that being a tool of God's most faithful.Praying without ceasing is not the same as praying harder which usually includes begging and pleading. We need to understand we are sons of God, heirs of His Kingdom, not paupers who beg for God's leftovers and table scraps. He has ushered rest through Christ Jesus, not a call to more grueling laborious prayer and labor. Christ never instructed us to work in the sense that we are to strive continuously to get from God that which we want and/or need. We are called to be at ease through unwavering faith in the Creator who is the lover of our souls. Stress, striving, and working with futility to please Him or get what we need are not the ways of God. Yes, we know that for those who "don't work, don't eat" but that's the physical. Faith pleases God. Rest and peace are spiritual; they include knowing without doubting that God has already resolved whatever issue is at hand.Yeshua need not "get to work" on your behalf as so many pray. All His work was completed before the foundation of the Earth, including Christ's death and resurrection and our death and resurrection. There is nothing unresolved where God is concerned. We see this defined in Hebrews 4:3 which states with clarity, "For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said, 'As I swore in my anger, "They will never enter my rest!"' And yet God's works were accomplished from the foundation of the world."It is simply our position in Christ to rest during our prayers and fasting expecting the greatness and the fullness of God's love to surface. The idea of "praying harder" is not something to which God has called His people. Rather, we are incited to pray in faith because His yoke is easy and the burden of following Him is light. Addressing life's issues should be from the stance of, "Christ, You have completed this situation. Father, reveal to me how to pray so as to usher Your completed work. It's already resolved, in Jesus' name." We pray from victory, not for it.