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The Power of a Praying Woman
of trust in God. When we are insecure about who we are and what our purpose is, it means we don’t trust God with our lives. We don’t believe that what He says about us in His word is true. Insecurity causes us to focus on ourselves and what we want, instead of focusing on Him and what He wants. We all want to accomplish something signi?cant with our lives. And we all have the potential to do something great. That’s because we are the Lord’s and His Spirit dwells in us. Because of His greatness in us, He can accomplish great things through us. We just have to remember not to confuse success in the eyes of men as being the same as success in the eyes of God. Men and women of the world glory in their accomplishments. Children of God glory in the Lord. “Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, let not the mighty man glory in his might, nor let the rich man glory in his riches; but let him who glories glory in this, that he understands and knows Me” (Jeremiah 9:23-24). When you know you are the Lord’s and you trust where He is taking you, you feel very secure.
Surrender Your Dreams
I have found that we can never move into all God has for us and become all He created us to be without surrendering our dreams to Him. Jesus said, “Whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will ?nd it” (Matthew 16:25). That means if we want to have a life that is secure in the Lord, we have to let go of our plans and say, “Not my will, but Yours be done, Lord.” This is hard to do, because letting go of our dreams is the last thing we want to do. But we have to ask Him to take away the dreams in our heart that are not of Him and bring to pass the ones that are. If you have a dream that is not of God, when you surrender it to Him He will take away your desire for it and