Power Moves: A 7-Day Reading Plan to Rediscover Your Inner StrengthSample

Day Three: Power Move: Lay It Down

I don’t want the kind of power that comes from closing a deal, snatching my waist, building a business, or becoming a brand. Those things can be there one day and gone another. That kind of strength only offers fleeting enjoyment but does not radically change you from the inside out. There is a power that is so potent that it radically changes your life.

In Luke 8, the woman who touched the hem of Jesus’ robe needed to understand that the power she received didn’t happen at that moment. After the woman realized she could no longer stay hidden and confessed that she touched Him, Jesus said to her, “Your faith has made you well. Go in peace” (v. 48).

This was not a standard salutation but a revelation for the woman to take with her as she discovered a new life that was not restricted by the dysfunction of her old system. Jesus wanted her to know it wasn’t the touch that made the difference; it was her faith. This fact gives us insight into defeating the systems in our lives that are causing us pain and separating us from our healing.

So often, we wonder, “What do I need to do to stop the cycle?” Maybe instead, we should ask, “What do I need to believe?” and “What belief do I need to lay on the altar?”

If you believe that you are too damaged and broken, accomplished and successful, or average and ordinary to be treasured by God—you are wrong. God doesn’t want you just to lay down the limiting belief system that no longer serves you. But like any good altar moment, God wants to give you an exchange when you lay down your limiting belief, the gift of something much better and more meaningful.

God wants to reveal to you how His power can show up for you and through you. The cracks that make you feel fragile and powerless are the places where God's power can take up residency and begin to dwell within you.

Respond:

What limiting belief systems do you need to lay down today to receive a more meaningful exchange from God?

Prayer:

Help me, God, to move from beliefs that hold me back to beliefs that release Your power in and through my life. Amen.