MONDAY - 15TH JUNE, 2026
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola & Oreoluwa ADEJUMO
STRENGTH MADE PERFECT IN WEAKNESS
II Corinthians 12:9, KJV
"And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me."
Do you believe that God's strength is made perfect in weakness? Are you really sure of that? When the Lord reply Paul that His strength is made perfect in weakness, God isn't joking or playing. As a matter of fact, God was also creating a spiritual principle. "He who will be helped must be weak and full of surrender." Helplessness always draws the attention of God. If you're strong, you don't need strength again. If you're full, you don't need to be poured into again. However, if you're needy, God will draw near to quickly refill you. Such like you will command what God has to give.
God tells Paul as a way of comforting him on the thorn in his flesh that He allowed, "my strength is made perfect in weakness."
Do you know what the word, "perfect" means there? It means my strength finds full expression in the lives of men who cannot do it themselves. Those are the people I seek to express myself through. Those are the people I seek to manifest through. Those are the people who cannot hinder what I want to do because they have their own ideas or preplanned activities. Weak vessels always take initiatives from God. Weak vessels don't depend on themselves or anything they have that seems to qualify them. Weak vessels don't trust in the arm of flesh. Rather, they take everything to God in prayer. Weak vessels understand their needs for God and what only He can do. They know their dependency is very much stated, leaning on Him. They know their state, status and estate.
How I wished you'll understand that verse. Despite the revelations that Paul had attained, God had to allow a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet him and make him look ordinary before people when they see him in his weakness. God allowed suffering in his life to keep him humble but more importantly so that he may come to rest and trust in God's power, help and only what He can do. That's why Paul himself says, "most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me."
Did you see? Even in that weakness or infirmities, he acknowledges that the passport to God's power resting on him is first of all having a dependency on God - in this case, an infirmity that would make him need God and be tied to God.
But isn't it amazing that God's power is perfected or fully expressed in weakness and submitted vessels? The question now is what sort of vessel you are. Are you needy or full? Are you poor, disguising as rich? If you take the position of a vessel God can flow through, you'll see power that'll confound you and those who know you flow through you.
PRAYER: I see the purpose for the infirmities, weaknesses and vulnerabilities in my life. In my sickness, need and dependency, let your strength be fully expressed and experienced in all.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: 1 Kings 14:1–15:24, Acts 10:1–23, Psalm 133:1–3, Proverbs 17:7–8
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