The power to overcome is really yours! It's how you think you "Can't and Won't" I learned a great lesson yesterday in church. It all starts with how you believe. Do you believe you can't or do you believe you won't?? When YOU really believe in God as so many of us claim then it should be easy for us to TRUST in Him!

"I just can't get along with my wife."..."My husband and I can't communicate."..."I just can't discipline the kids as I should."..."I just can't give up the affair I'm having."..."I can't stop overeating."..."I can't seem to overcome my abusive behavior."..."I can't find time to pray."

Any person who takes the Bible seriously will have to agree the word here really should be "Won't." Why you ask? Because we have been given the power, the ability to overcome...We're really saying "I won't" because we don't choose to say "With the help of God, I will!""

Look, we are survivors, guess who granted us life after stroke? It was God Himself, not the paramedic, not the doctor in ICU nor our own will to live and beat the stroke. I bet you said "OMG, Lord have Mercy I want to live! Where was your trust in God? Where is your trust now? Do you ever say "By the grace of God I'm alive"?

So now we are recovering and still saying, "How long will it take"? "Will I have to be like this the rest of my life"? The can't and won't is still there in our minds instead of trusting in God for our recovery. SURE, we may never be like we were prior to the stroke but He gives us enough to get by and we are still among the living. Think about that for a moment. We live because God has allowed us to. He cares for us and it's not our time to go!

Whether you really believe in God or not, if you accept him in your life or not He still loves you as His child. You are a child of God! Try trusting in Him and STOP saying you can't or you won't. You, yourself have the power and ability to overcome. We shall overcome as a people in this world God made! People ask me all the time, "How are you dealing with recovery after your stroke"? I say one day at a time asking God for my recovery and well being every night and thanking Him in the morning for awakening me to see another day He has made. I rejoice and be glad in it.

Much of the suffering we do is on us because we just don't Believe in God! So we say I can't or I won't instead of saying I will! Stop giving excuses for our living as we all have a purpose in this life. Start praying to God often and trusting in Him. You will experience a big difference in how things work in your life. All the little problems fade away then we start to say I can, I will with the help of God. HE made man not the other way around. HE saved us from a stroke and made us survivors. HE gave our spouses the courage to be with us, care for us, love us no matter the circumstances.

That's so true in so many cases. We will say I can't go, I can't fly on a plane it might be the Pilot's time to go when it crash and I won't go with him! Well, at some point in our lives we must trust in God, we are His children! Think about this...As a small child your parents cared for you with the help of God. Now we are grown up and still need the help and will of the Lord! The fact of the matter is we will always need God in all our lives around the world! Please remember we have the ability and God gives us the Power To Overcome