06/03/2026
This morning I was in Proverbs 24 and I could not move past verse 10.
Proverbs 24:10 says if you fail under pressure, your STRENGTH is too small.
The Passion Translation puts it this way: if you faint when you are under pressure, you have need of COURAGE and your strength is limited.
Maybe you’re in a difficult season of life right now where everything feels like a struggle.
And reading scripture that says you need more strength encourage doesn’t feel encouraging at first, right?
I want to reframe this for you because I believe this could change everything for you today.
What I can see in this scripture is that God is not condemning your struggle.
What if he is simply revealing your capacity?
Adversity does not CREATE weakness. It REVEALS it. Sit with that.
And that is actually good news because what has been revealed can then be developed.
If hard seasons have caused you to give in to old habits, to abandon what you know is true, or to lose your emotional & spiritual footing, the problem is not the ADVERSITY.
It is that strength has not been built in that area yet.
And that is exactly where God wants to meet you, today.
In Jeremiah 12:5, Jeremiah was tired. He was overwhelmed and he brought his complaint straight to God.
And when you read this scripture, you can see that God didn’t immediately comfort him.
He stretched him!
God essentially asked Jeremiah:
if running with footmen has worn you out, how do you expect to run with HORSES?
🐎
Footmen represent where you are right now.
Horses represent where God is taking you. 🐎 🐎
God was not being hard on Jeremiah. He was developing him.
Expanding his capacity.
Because there was MORE ahead that required a stronger version of Jeremiah than the one standing there in that moment.
I believe somebody needs to hear this today. 🙏
The difficulty you are in right now is not the cue to quit. It may FEEL like it.
👉🏼But it’s not your cue to quit.🛑
It is the cue to pull God closer. 🙏
You can FEEL like you’re falling apart and that the struggle & the difficulties are so hard.
But what if this is the VERY thing the Lord is using to make you stronger? 💪
The trouble you are facing today is training you to become the STRONGER version of yourself that you already know is inside of you, because there are harder things ahead that you are going to need to be strong enough to walk through with the Lord.
This is why I love the passion translation because it brings courage into this.
It will take COURAGE to stay the course into allow the Lord to make you stronger in this!
What if God has not answered your prayer yet because he is still developing YOU into the version of yourself who can actually live in the fullness of that answer?
What if the stretching you are feeling right now is not punishment but PREPARATION for your promotion?
If this word is for you, let me ask you a few questions the way a Christian life coach would.
•Where have you been struggling and telling yourself it is just too hard?
•What have you been avoiding because the pressure feels like too much?
•What could change if instead of pulling back, you brought God directly into that place & asked him to build you there?
You are not too weak for what God has called you to.
You are just not finished yet! Keep going! 🐎
Be Blessed!
-Sherrie Kapala of Lake Erie Church in Madison Ohio.
