“I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.”  Philippians 4:13

This is how the Apostle Paul could be content in whatever circumstance he was in, read again verses Philippians 4:11-13,
“…For I have learned in whatever circumstance I am, to be content:
I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound.  Everywhere and in all things I have learned both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.”

Our verses today speak of the power of Christ, His strength in weakness and  grace that enables those who believe.  Let’s look at what Scripture says of these things.

*Of the power of Christ (these are but a few verses, there are so many others):
Just before Jesus was about to leave His disciples,
“Then Jesus came and spoke to them saying ‘ALL authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.”  Mathew 28:18   (My emphasis)
And He gave the commission to go and make disciples of all nations.

In Luke 8 we see Christ’s power over the winds and the sea. (Vs. 22-25)  
“But He said to them, ‘Where is your faith?’  And they were afraid, and marveled, saying to one another, ‘Who can this be?  For He commands even the wind and water, and they obey Him!’”  Vs. 25

He has power over His own life He says,
“No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself.  I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it up again.  This command I have received from My Father.”  John 10:18

John 17, is referred to as  Christ’s High Priestly Prayer (Read it and be blessed)
Verse 2 tells us,
“As You (Father) have given Him (Jesus Christ) authority over all flesh, that He should give eternal life to as many as You have given Him.”

*Of strength in weakness:
“But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things that are mighty”  1  Corinthians 1:27

One of our verses from last time: 
And as the Apostle Paul said in 2 Corinthians 12:9,
“…Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ rest upon me.”  (Some translations say, ‘dwell in me’.)
Verse 10, 
“…for when I am weak then I am strong.”  (Weak in Paul, strong in Christ)

*Of the grace that enables believers:
“For the LORD is a sun and a shield;
For the LORD will give grace and glory;
No good thing will He withhold
From those who walk uprightly.”  Psalm 84:11

Paul tells us in 1 Corinthians 15:10,
“But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me did not prove vain; but I labored even more than all of them, yet not I, but the grace of God with me.”  

In 1 Peter 4:10, he tells us,
“As each one has received a special gift, employ it in serving one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.”

Paul to Timothy in 2 Timothy 2:1,
“You, therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.”

I close with this reassuring verse,
“And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that always having all sufficiency in everything, you may have an abundance for every good deed.”  2 Corinthians 9:8

May we always keep our eyes on our gracious Christ Jesus, He is our all sufficient Lord and King,  Amen