What is spiritual strength? Over the course of the last few podcast devotionals, JB and Casie Shreve have discussed the idea of building spiritual strength. What exactly is spiritual strength though? That is the question we discuss in today’s podcast devotional. Strength is not about freedom from hardship, bad times, or even failure. Strength is about the ability to access a Source beyond ourselves in the midst of the hard times of life.

Verses Referenced In This Podcast Devotional – What Is Spiritual Strength

• All your life you will struggle to scratch a living from it. 18 It will grow thorns and thistles for you, though you will eat of its grains. 19 By the sweat of your brow will you have food to eat until you return to the ground from which you were made. For you were made from dust, and to dust you will return.” Genesis 3:17-19 (NLT)
• Blessed are those whose strength is in you,
  whose hearts are set on pilgrimage.
  As they pass through the Valley of Baka,
  they make it a place of springs;
  the autumn rains also cover it with pools.
  They go from strength to strength,
  till each appears before God in Zion.  Psalms 84:5-7 (NIV)
• But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. 2 Corinthians 4:7-9 (NIV)
•  Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. ” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. 2 Corinthians 12:7-9 (NIV

Also, check out this article regarding deaths of despair that JB referenced in the podcast.

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