Capable Through Him

I've been thinking a lot lately about how we are not capable on our own but through our gracious God, who lives in us, we are capable of doing amazing things and need to live knowing that.

I went through a time of trying to do thing on my own and thinking I was capable of being something and touching lives apart from God. I didn't intentionally not give credit to God or move away from Him, I just was so caught up in pleasing the world and living for the worlds approval that I lost sight of who I really am and that just led me to a place of thinking I was useless, worthless, had no value, and was incapable of doing anything.

Thank God that he brought me out of that and showed me my value and who I am in Christ. The reality is, that the only way we are capable of doing anything and living a life of fulfillment, is being in Christ, and Christ in us.

I hear people saying all the time that they aren't doing things they know God has called them to do because they don't feel like they can remember things well enough to share with others, or they don't think they speak well enough to share with others, and many other things that have to do with whether ot not they feel qualified within themselves to do what God called them to do.

We have the Holy Spirit living on the inside of us y'all. And if we're truly doing it because we feel God called us to and we're willing to say God use me and work through me, then He will give us the words and the ability to do what we've been called to do. We aren't capable of doing things ourselves, we aren't the smartest people, we don't speak the most fluently, we're not perfect people that can do it all perfectly. So we have to have grace and know that God will give us what we need to succeed and we can trust Him to use our words and our actions for Him and do things we couldn't otherwise do without Him.

Paul stated this perfectly in 1 Corinthians 2:1-6 which states

"When I came to you, brothers and sisters, announcing the mystery of God to you, I did not come with brilliance of speech or wisdom. 2 I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. 3 I came to you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling. 4 My speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of wisdom[b] but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, 5 so that your faith might not be based on human wisdom but on God’s power. 6 We do, however, speak a wisdom among the mature, but not a wisdom of this age, or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing."

He chose to let God show through Him and even though he was scared and "nervous", He spoke with wisdom because He was letting God speak through Him. He is literally saying in this scripture, that he chose to only let God show and speak and therefore spoke in wisdom beyond this age.

Paul is a hero of the faith that spoke to so people in so many places and made a huge difference and yet he says, it's not my power, but God working through me that makes me capable.

So stop limiting God because you think since you're not the best at doing specific things He has called you to do and surrender to Him and know that He will speak and move through you in unthinkable and astonishing ways.