Co-Creating with God: Finding Strength in Struggle

• By candidasullivan
• January 8, 2025
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I don’t know how to do it. Those are words I often speak when I don’t want to do what God has placed on my heart to do. It’s easier to deny my ability than to recognize God’s capability. 

If I believe wholeheartedly that God is all-wise and all-powerful, then I have absolutely no excuse to deny Him. God doesn’t put things on my heart and tell me to do the best I can but rather to remember that He is the great I AM. 

God already knew my abilities, faults, and failures when He gave me the gift. He knew I wouldn’t be able to do it without Him. That’s the beauty of it. We are supposed to co-create with God. 

In all reality, I am not the author. I work with the greatest author of all time. Most of the time, I have no idea what I’m doing or writing. If I know what I’m doing, I’m writing it, not the Lord.  

Right now, my book feels like a jumbled mess. I don’t know how to fix it. My flesh wants to throw it away, but my heart desires to continue and give God time to fix it. For me, the greatest step of writing is praying. 

My flesh wants to rush through the process, to focus on how hard it all is. If the enemy can rush me, he can crush me. But if I wait with faith, trust, and hope, God will show up and amaze me.

Before God shows us miracles and awes us with His goodness, He takes us through the fire and challenges us. If we can do it, it’s not from God. We usually have to exhaust every possibility within our ability to see God’s ultimate capability. 

Therefore, I pray when I want to quit and throw everything in the trash, especially when it feels overwhelming. I pray when God is silent, and it all feels hopeless.   

God is my hope amid the struggle. He is the God who answers with fire. When the enemy tries to discourage me, my God encourages me. The One who spoke the world into existence is my God. And NOTHING is too hard for Him.

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