'I have power enough'

Philippians 4:13 NKJV says, 'I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.' It's great verse. Let's look at it a bit deeper. With any Bible verse, it helps to look at different Bible translations for a fuller understanding, or even to see what the original Greek/Hebrew/whatever language says.

One example... In the Greek, the bit in 'I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me' (Philippians 4:13 NKJV) that says, 'I can do,' is way more loaded than just 'It's possible'. The full meaning goes something like 'I have power enough to get up and jump right into the heart of the action.' That's full on! It's active, it's dynamic and totally inspirational. Philippians 4:13 is not about scraping through when pressures are a-plenty or problems are piling high. It's about living in God's massive power to shake situations up. It's about getting stuck in. It's the difference between half-thinking that God can fix our problems and drag us through by the skin of our teeth, and living in complete confidence that he's already sorted our life.

So, Philippians 4:13 becomes a reminder that it's time to wholeheartedly focus on God and take on whatever is in front of us. Because through Jesus, we already have the power to do more than just 'get through'.



So what now? Is there an area of your life where you feel you're just scraping by? Set aside time to pray, plan and make a start on completely owning it again. Put it 100% back under God's power and control. You have 'power enough'.





— SCRIPTURE —

'I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.' Philippians 4:13 NKJV
— SOULFOOD —

1 Tim 4-6, Matt 27:27-32, Ps 146, Pro 18:23-24