Stand: A 5-Day Devotional for Leading & Living AuthenticallySample

Day 4: It Takes Two

I am constantly comforted by a certain trend that I’ve discovered. I hope you will find consolation in it too. God does not choose the most likely to succeed. With all the public blunders I’ve made, why on earth would God choose me to help lead other women to a place of victory and fulfillment? Because I need Him. We all need Him. And every time we accomplish something great, occupy a space we have no business being in, or win when the odds were pointing towards an epic fail, we are reminded that if it were solely dependent on raw talent, many of the world’s most successful people that we quote and read books about would still be living in obscurity.

“For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus” (Philippians 1:6).

God has placed raw, unfinished, imperfect potential in you, and every day it is being perfected, nurtured to maturity. As we encounter hard brushes with life’s rough places, they are smoothing out our own rough patches, if we let them. 

Do you know that a large percentage of people who occupy high profile jobs had no idea what they were doing when they started? I’m not implying that half of the workforce is illiterate, but what they have over you in this moment is the understanding that you don’t have to be a success to be a success. He who began a good work in you will perfect it. 

Today’s Prayer Challenge 

Dear God, I surrender to you in this moment. I am so grateful for the opportunity to walk in partnership with you. You are the source of my ingenuity, every brilliant idea, and my ultimate success. Help me over every hurdle of insecurity, so I will see myself through your eyes, daily. Amen. 

A Thought to Ponder 

God is responsible for completing what He has started. When He involves me, it is an invitation to partnership and an affirmation that I am the one for the job. 

Journal Prompt

With god’s help I will accomplish...