For the past 4 years I have been going through and through my Guide To Prayer Book. Something I picked up for a class I had. Every week there is a theme which follows the church calendar.

This week, Our Weakness and God’s Strength.

Invocation:            

Almighty God, through the power of your Holy Spirit you enable us to do more than we can think or imagine. Come now, dwell within us, and make us strong to do your work and will. Through Christ the Lord. Amen.

I would like to just sit with this a while.  To think about what it means to be blessed by God’s strength. When one more step seems to be impossible, when forgiving someone for the unforgivable, when your world seems to have collapesed upon you. I think it can be easy to say or even sing, “God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble…”(Psalms 46).  But to believe it, to live it out loud without worrying when or how God will work.  What would that look like?

Read Philippians 4:10-20.

Something to think think about!

> It is assumed that if God is omnipotent he can do anything; but this is not strictly true. What God’s omnipotence does mean is that nothing can obstruct him, nothing can prevent his being fully and eternally himeslf.

But this means that it is actually a part of htis omniportence that God  does not contradict himself. He is free to determine the manner of his own working; and in fact, as we know from revelation, he has chosen to work in such a way that we can interfere, and interfere drastically, with his creation. God made man such that man could rebel against him, and set up his own “world” in opposition to God. Of course, God is not without allies even in “our” world; he knows that we can never really be satisfied with any world of our own devising, so that it will always be vulnerable to his influence in one way or another; and GOd exploits this to be full. Be he always respects the freedom and indendence that he has given us. (Prayer by Simon Tugwell)