“If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small.”

Proverbs 24 vs 10 (English Standard Version)

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Dear First name / Friend, 

Good afternoon. How are you?

I really tried to put off writing today's letter because I didn't know what to say. It's like that sometimes, but by God's grace, I've been inspired to share something, even if it meant drafting this Good Letter at 3:30am.

So, if you find this letter encouraging, please share it with your friends and family because I'd love to get to know them too. 😀

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My Strength Failed Me

The verse above has been floating in my mind for a few days now, and in all the years of reading “A Proverb A Day,” I've never really understood what this verse means. Ok, so if I fail under pressure and then…??

And then it hit me this week.

When we read God's word in context, that is - the Word of God is about Jesus from beginning to end - we ask questions like:

1. What does this teach me about Christ?
2. How can I apply this truth to my life?

When I asked myself the first question, I concluded that Christ is my strength, and He can never fail.

A fact of life is that we have and we will fail under pressure - our human strength is actually frail, but when we decide to rely on Christ as our strength, we have no reason to be overcome by the pressures of this life because He never fails.

First name / Friend, let me tell you for free, our strength is comical when we depend on ourselves.

I'm Weak, and I Hope You Are Too Boo

First name / Friend, you've probably read the sub-title thinking, “What's Olayide on about?” 

Here's what I'm on about…

I had been on the phone with a friend recounting some of my experiences these past few months, analysing my feelings, realising that I'm not over incidents that I thought I was over, and asking God for respite from it all. We spoke for a while, and the word “weak” came up. My friend said [paraphrase], “Where you are is the best place to be in, even though you're weak right now.”

We continued talking, and then I came back to her point.

“Yes, I am weak, and I agree, this is the best place for me to be in because, in my weakness, God's power is made strong. Therefore, God has more room to move in my life.”

These words are valid and easy to recite, but remembering and believing them when you're going through it can be hard!

And this is why we’re told to encourage each other with God’s word and in prayer so that we’re reminded that Christ is the One who helps us in our trying times.

In my weakness, a weakness I didn't ask for, a weakness I never imagined, God's power is proving to be strong every single day! God's power strengthens me when I want to give up, and on the days I do give up, His power strengthens and comforts me still.

First name / Friend, do not despise your weak moments because God is going to show up, and He'll use your experience for His Glory and your good because you've chosen to love and rely on Him. There's joy in knowing that we can depend on God to see us through our hardships because He is capable and reliable. So be encouraged by what The Bible says:

"Three times I pleaded with the LORD about this, that it should leave me. But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I [Paul] will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong."

 2 Corinthians 12 vs 8-10, English Standard Version

A Prayer for Strength

Dear LORD,

Thank You for today, and thank You for Your word.

LORD, life has me weak right now, I know You know.

I'm experiencing things I can't put into words, except to sigh for relief.

LORD, I still ask for relief from the situations that make me weak and cause me pain,

But I also choose to look to You as my strength.

My human strength fails me, but You will never fail me.

LORD, use my weaknesses for Your glory and my good.

Throughout this journey, please show Yourself strong in my life, and at the end of it, I pray I look more like You.

And, LORD, when another life situation arises, making me weak again and causing me pain,

I pray that I will look to You as my never-failing and never-ending Strength.

In Your Beautiful Name, I've Prayed,

Amen.

Signed, The Weak-Strong,

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