When your back’s against the wall and you feel alone, God’s strength will help you out. When you feel like everything has been lost, God’s strength will provide. When you’re in a heavy season, God’s strength will help you endure. But how? How to you identify and trust in God’s strength instead of your own? How do you look for it in times of weakness? Is there something you can do to learn this now in order to be prepared later?

This is why living in community is so important. We all suffer, but we endure together. We ourselves are comforted, thus we can be a comfort to others. God gives us strength, and therefore, we can hold others up in His strength as well. We are weak in ourselves, but we have the Holy Spirit’s power residing in us to empower us to do beyond what we are able.