Daily Thought for Friday, March 4th

March 4, 2011

“I Can’t”

Today’s Thought:

“We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.” – Rudyard Kipling

Today’s Question

Have you ever been told “Can’t didn’t do anything?”

Today’s Spiritual Thought:

 To say I can’t is almost oxymoronic.

For the very nature of implying I cannot, indicates an ability to do something.  You can not not do something if you’re in the act of doing it.  Now the degree or measure of successfulness may be a point of contention but in reality I can’t can because to can’t one must at least be attempting to can.

If this hadn’t confused you yet, then I’m not doing a good job of doing what it is I am doing.  (Only just kidding)

Spiritually speaking can’t isn’t an option.  It shouldn’t even be words in our vocabulary.  We, like the little train that could, should chug along saying, instead of “I think I can:” we should proclaim, “I know I can.”

Not to be political but borrowing a recently used slogan might not hurt us as Christians, if we would learn to live by the axiom of “Yes We Can,” rather than dragging our hand to the ground and drooping our head between our knees saying “No We Can’t,” we would be much more effective for the cause of Christ.

God shouldn’t have “Can’t-ers” in His family; but rather His house should be filled with “Can –ners.” 

So which are you?

Jesus died and if you have accepted Him, you have been saved from the can’t do gloom and doom of impossibilities, fatalistic endings and defeats.

If you are in Christ, you are a new creation, you’ve got the power of God in You and with His presence there is nothing you can not do.

May we do away with the nay and become alive with the strength, fortitude and willingness to say “Yes I Can, with God.”

Today’s Verses:

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

Philippians 4:13

And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.

          Matthew 17:20

For with God nothing shall be impossible.

                    Luke 1:37

Today’s Prayer:

Father, you have promised to turn my nights into day; my sorrow into joy and my weakness’ into strengths.  So today I say in you, with you and for you, “Yes I Can.”