Do you feel inadequate to do God’s work ? Problems can occur when we feel inadequate about doing God’s work.
We feel inadequate because of fear, the fear of failure and fear of not meeting expectations. But, the Holy Spirit is adequate, we do not have to possess perfect qualifications or skill, we need only to be willing.
2 Timothy 1 : 7 tells us that God has given us a spirit of power, not one of timidity. We just have to step out in faith, and the Holy Spirit’s strength and courage will be there to guide us.
Ephesians 3:14-21
A Prayer for the Ephesians
For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom his whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge— that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.
(0496 18 II 2008)