Find Empowering Strength

What Steps Do I Need to Take to Receive God’s Strength and Power? Find Empowering Strength Psalms 29:3-9, 11 1. Affirm God’s ____________ and His __________________ 1 Chronicles 16:11-12 – 11 Look to the Lord and his strength; seek his face always. 12 Remember the wonders he has done, his miracles, and the judgments he pronounced, . . . (New International Version) 2. Psalm 29:3-9 – 3 The voice of the L ORD echoes above the sea. The God of glory thunders. The LORD thunders over the mighty sea. 4 The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is majestic. 5 The voice of the LORD splits the mighty cedars; the LORD shatters the cedars of Lebanon. 6 He makes Lebanon’s mountains skip like a calf; he makes Mount Hermon leap like a young wild ox. 7 The voice of the LORD strikes with bolts of lightning. 8 The voice of the LORD makes the barren wilderness quake; the LORD shakes the wilderness of Kadesh. 9 The voice of the L ORD twists mighty oaks and strips the forests bare. In his Temple everyone shouts, “Glory!” (New Living Translation) Admit my _______________ 2 Corinthians 12:9 – But he said to me, “My grace is enough for you. When you are weak, my power is made perfect in you.” So I am very happy to brag about my weaknesses. Then Christ’s power can live in me. (New Century Version) 3. Align myself with _______ _______ John 15:5 – [Jesus said,] “Yes, I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will produce much fruit. For apart from me you can do nothing.” (New Living Translation) 2 Timothy 1:7 – For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline. (New Living Translation) 4. Where Do I Need God’s Strength and Power the Most? Ask God for the _______________ that I need James 4:2 – . . . And yet the reason you don’t have what you want is that you don’t ask God for it. (New Living Translation) I need God’s strength to . . . . . . Get me through what I __________ get through on my own 5. Act right now out of __________________ to God God will give __________________ as strength is needed . . . Avoid doing what I know I __________________ do . . . Do what I know I _______________ do Psalm 37:5 – Commit everything you do to the Lord. Trust him to help you do it, and he will. (The Living Bible)