How to Cash in on Your Weaknesses

 I desire we learn to cash in on times we are weak,to find God’s riches in our times of incompetence. So this blog is about the blessings that are ours when we admit we are  experiencing weakness. When we admit our frailty, it opens the channel to God’s love in new ways.  That is how we cash in, or receive a pay out.  I turn over my weakness, and God pays out in special blessings.What are your areas of weakness?   All in one day I had a brain freeze in the middle of a client conversation,  a 1.5 hour fuss with a website to book a plane ticket, and faced really poor stamina doing my aerobic work out.  With each experience I felt weak and incompetent, and persisted with the bad habit of automatic negative responses, or “dissing” myself.So I had to remind myself that God’s grace was sufficient in my weaknesses.  2 Cor. 12:9:  From the Amp:  But He said to me. . . . my strength and power are made perfect (fulfilled and completed) and show themselves most effective in [your] weakness. When we admit our weaknesses, the process opens up God’s blessings. I asked Father God to teach me more about the value of my weakness, and He pointed out three facts:*Weakness draws God close to us; He is attracted to weakness. (Is. 57:15)*Weakness helps us to live in the manner God recommends. (Mat. 6:34)*Giving thanks for our weakness “sanctifies” the problem,or sets it apart for God.  (1 Tim 4:4-5). I’m claiming these scriptures to help me in times of weakness:Ps. 29:11: The LORD will give strength to his people.    Ps. 18:1:  I love you, O LORD, my strength.  I call upon the LORD and am saved from my enemies.   This reference to enemies could be your own weakness.   When you feel the frustration, the embarrassment, the anxiety related to your perceived weakness, immediately confess it, and ask God for his presence.  Father God loves to be with people who admit their weakness. 

Blessings,