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God Helps Those Who Can’t
Pride and arrogance can get in the way.
Read this for free @ God Helps Those Who Can’t — by James M. Dakis.
God’s Word is in conflict with the world
We are taught in life to take care of ourselves. We hear things like “Pull yourself up by your bootstraps” and “God helps those who help themselves.”
Interestingly, the last statement is found nowhere in the Bible. Some credit Benjamin Franklin with coining this phrase. In fact, that is the focus of this article.
God wants us to labor, but only in His strength!
The Bible is teeming with examples of how men and women of God went about doing things, often claiming that it was for God, without first praying or considering whether or not the Lord was with them.
From Joshua deciding to attack Ai without first getting God’s blessing to the countless errors of the Judges who strayed from God, even the Lord’s people can be caught up in doing what they think is the right thing with the wrong motive.
“God will not go forth with that man who marches in his own strength.” — Charles Spurgeon.
It goes without saying that most of us have found ourselves fighting an uphill battle…
