{"id":489,"date":"2021-01-18T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvarycathedral.org\/drbobnichols\/?p=489"},"modified":"2020-11-18T15:52:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T20:52:00","slug":"god-does-what-i-cannot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calvarycathedral.org\/wpbobnichols\/2021\/01\/18\/god-does-what-i-cannot\/","title":{"rendered":"God Does What I Cannot"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u201cW<\/strong>hen you come to the end of your resources, you have only begun to tap the unlimited resources of God.<strong>\u201d<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><em><sup>1<\/sup><\/em><em>And it came to pass, when David and his men were come to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had invaded the south, and Ziklag, and smitten Ziklag, and burned it with fire; <sup>2<\/sup>And had taken the women captives, that were therein: they slew not any, either great or small, but carried them away, and went on their way. <sup>8<\/sup>And David enquired at the LORD, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue: for thou shalt surely overtake them, and without fail recover all. <sup>11<\/sup>And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he did eat; and they made him drink water;&nbsp;<sup>15<\/sup>And David said to him, Canst thou bring me down to this company? And he said, Swear unto me by God, that thou wilt neither kill me, nor deliver me into the hands of my master, and I will bring thee down to this company. <sup>17<\/sup>And David smote them from the twilight even unto the evening of the next day: and there escaped not a man of them, save four hundred young men, which rode upon camels, and fled. <sup>18<\/sup>And David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away: and David rescued his two wives. <sup>19<\/sup>And there was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither spoil, nor any thing that they had taken to them: David recovered all.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>1 Samuel 30<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><sup>9<\/sup><\/em><\/strong><em>And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. <strong><sup>10<\/sup><\/strong>Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ&#8217;s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>2 Corinthians 12:9-10<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Victory Decision<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I will do my best and let God do the rest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhen you come to the end of your resources, you have only begun to tap the unlimited resources of God.\u201d 1And it came to pass, when David and his men were come to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had invaded the south, and Ziklag, and smitten Ziklag, and burned it with fire; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.calvarycathedral.org\/wpbobnichols\/2021\/01\/18\/god-does-what-i-cannot\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;God Does What I Cannot&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-one-liners"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8lc9u-7T","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":162,"url":"https:\/\/www.calvarycathedral.org\/wpbobnichols\/2021\/05\/31\/unlimited-resources\/","url_meta":{"origin":489,"position":0},"title":"Unlimited Resources","author":"Bob Nichols","date":"May 31, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"\u201cWhen you come to the end of your resources, you have only begun to tap the unlimited resources of God.\u201d 1And it came to pass, when David and his men were come to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had invaded the south, and Ziklag, and smitten Ziklag,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;One Liners&quot;","block_context":{"text":"One Liners","link":"https:\/\/www.calvarycathedral.org\/wpbobnichols\/category\/one-liners\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.calvarycathedral.org\/wpbobnichols\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/eph-3-16-blog.jpg?fit=1000%2C1014&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.calvarycathedral.org\/wpbobnichols\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/eph-3-16-blog.jpg?fit=1000%2C1014&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.calvarycathedral.org\/wpbobnichols\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/eph-3-16-blog.jpg?fit=1000%2C1014&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.calvarycathedral.org\/wpbobnichols\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/eph-3-16-blog.jpg?fit=1000%2C1014&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":422,"url":"https:\/\/www.calvarycathedral.org\/wpbobnichols\/2024\/02\/15\/386\/","url_meta":{"origin":489,"position":1},"title":"Obedience is Success","author":"Bob Nichols","date":"February 15, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"\u201cSuccess is obeying God; 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