Prayer Focus-Reliance on God

JOHN SHIRK – In the Year of Focus, we take a look at Reliance on God.

This is how Paul the Apostle lived as a follower of Jesus. He recalled his experiences in ministry in Second Corinthians 1, verses 8 and 9.

We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired of life itself. Indeed, we felt we had received the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves, but on God, who raises the dead.

Sometimes, God brings us through hardships to increase our dependence on His power of grace to see us through.

Corrie Ten Boom experienced much hardship in a concentration camp during World War II. After her release, she would tell others of the lessons of obedience, forgiveness, and trust she had learned in her trials. She would say, “You can never learn that Christ is all you need, until Christ is all you have.”

Reliance on God is worth examining for a faith-focused life.

John Shirk

john@wjtl.com