Frustration is another form of paralysis.  Do not allow the enemy to suck you in with wiles designed to take up your time and energy or turn your good works to apathetic side-line-ism.  There are many of you who are reluctant to take up the cross daily because you have met with push back by those you believe would join you in your pursuit of victory.  Any thing worth doing is going to take the Power of Christ through the Holy Spirit in its achievement.

How clever God’s enemy.  First he whispers that we can get the job done when we cannot.  Then when we embark on the fools errand, he whispers that we are insufficient to the task or that we are labeled failures for even trying.  Then when we cannot get others to join us in our commitment to achieve great things, he whispers that we should chastise them for their lack of faith and action.  Then when we are isolated in our frustration, the enemy whispers that we should blame God for the fact that we are ineffectual.  Do you see this process as it plays out in the lives of believers everywhere?

If the works that God had designed for us to do before the beginning of time were resolvable under our own strength, power, treasure, talent and authority then we would not need to be ambassadors of Christ, we could simply ambassadors of our own good will.  Don’t allow the enemy and the flesh to convince you that you can succeed in overcoming the powers and principalities under your own abilities.  It has never been me who defeated the enemy, but Christ.  The enemy enjoys getting me into mano a mano battles that reduce me to dependence upon my own power to defeat him.

This is an effective illusion designed to send us off on a tangent path instead of relying on the Holy Spirit as our source of all wealth, whether material or spiritual.  It is easy to get frustrated at my own inabilities.  God will never let us down in that fashion.  We will overcome through our love for Christ, our testimony and the willingness to give Him the glory that He deserves by acknowledging that He has already overcome the world, AND EVERYTHING in it.

It is not under my authority, skills, will, treasure, time and blessings that anything miraculous will occur in this lifetime.  Anything that I have achieved brings the glory to me and allows unbelievers to continue disbelief by claiming that it was me that conquered this or that challenge.  God deserves all the Glory for achievements done for His Kingdom.  Therefore those achievements should reflect His power and authority.  It should be absolutely transparent and obvious that the LORD was present and that without His intervention what was achieved would never have come about.

So, don’t get lured onto the path of self-righteous frustration with your Brothers and Sisters for not joining you in your quest.  Follow God’s prompting and remember that if He has designed works for you to achieve that He will provide the words, power, authority and bodies necessary to overcoming any/all obstacles set before you.  Have the faith that if it is God’s plan that Brothers and Sisters join us in a particular campaign that it is predetermined.  We have but to set out on the journey and the others will come alongside, brought there by His prompting.  His Glory, His Power, your participation in faith.

Remember that Love overcomes.  Try using it and you will find it exponentially outperforms criticism as a tool to rouse the apathetic.  I love you my Brothers and Sisters and let me assure you that you are worthy of love, and that you are more than sufficient to any task for which the Lord designed you.

God be praised for everything that I may accidentally or intentionally achieve in this life.  Lord please never let me take one step onto a path that leads me to frustration, defeat, despair or apathy.  To You be the Glory, honor and blessings.  Jesus my King.  Thank you.