Thursday, July 3, 2025

Thursday's Thoughts: Not By Might...Nor By Power

 

 

 

 

"Not by might, nor by power, but by My spirit, saith the Lord of hosts."
(Zechariah 4:6)

 

 

Spirit of Might
Ilse Kleyn
Image courtesy/Art of Kleyn

 

 

At this hour a mountain of difficulty, distress, or necessity may be in our way,
and the natural reason sees no path over it, or through it, or round it. 

Let faith come in, and straightway the mountain disappears and becomes a plain.

But faith must first hear the Word of the Lord:

 "Not by might, nor by power, but by My spirit," saith the Lord of hosts.

This grand truth is a prime necessity for meeting the insurmountable trials of life.

I see that I can do nothing, and that all reliance on man is vanity. "Not by might."
I see that no visible means can be relied on, but the force is the invisible Spirit.
God alone must work, and men and means must be nothing accounted of.
If it be so, that the Almighty God takes up the concerns of His people,
then the great mountains are nothing.

He can remove worlds as boys toss balls about, or drive them with their foot.
The power He can lend to me if the Lord bids me move an Alp I can do it
through His name. It may be a great mountain, but even before my feebleness
it shall become a plain, for the Lord hath said it.

What can I be afraid of with God on my side?

-Charles Spurgeon

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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