INTRODUCTION

An interesting word was given to me while speaking to my Dear Sister in Christ, Mary, one night.  We were discussing our times of feeling weak and helpless and our inability to understand why the power we needed to address our circumstance was not there.   In our moments of greatest weakness we are IN THE SHADOW OF HIS POWER.  As our conversation continued this word was also given to us, HIS POWER IS AT THE EDGE OF OUR WEAKNESS; that power we so desire and need in those moments of crises.  What the Apostle Paul experienced, we were told that night, that we were in a MODE OF PREPARTION to gain that power we both needed.  In order for God to work in our lives His power, we must first come to certain levels of weakness of human efforts and strengths.  It is written that “ALL” power had been given to the Son of God, Jesus.  So, if we ever needed power in our lives, that power needed would have to come through Him.  In my book, “Warnings of the Occult,” I dealt with this matter of the latent power of the human soul, which I revealed was not to be used independent from God; the reason being because there was an Evil present desiring to tap into this power coming from humanity.  For the true Christian we are commanded to go through Christ for this power and not self effort or subconscious latent powers. 

Most are so close to the answer, yet do not understand that there is this need to come to weakness first, not knowing this, they give up on God and turn to others and other means of gaining power.  We read verses that say, “apart from Him we can do nothing:” yet do not realize the experience of that verse which at times can be devastating.  If we only knew that our request for power brought about this weaken state, thus seeing it as an act of God fulfilling our request through weakness first, then power following our weakness, that the Excellency be of God and not us; (I Cor. 2:1; II Cor. 4:7; Phil. 3:8) if we would see this we would express what Paul said in Romans Chapter 5 that he learned to rejoice in tribulations because these trial lead him, through his weakness, to strength. (I Cor. 1:27-29; I Cor. 4:10; II Cor. 11:30; II Cor. 12:10; II Cor. 13:3-4)  You can understand what Paul meant, “When I am weak, I am strong” and his saying that he boasted in his weakness, because he found that this is the only way God manifests His strength through any of us.  So it wasn’t as an old religious saying would have you to believe, “God helps those who help themselves,” but really should read, “God CAN”T help those who help themselves.”  We have it back wards; as long as we feel we can handle a matter, no matter how small or great, God can not entering into our experience.  It is only after human efforts of strength subside that God’s power is manifested. 

None of us like feeling weak and helpless, I understand.  And the fact of our being performance oriented from birth by not only the world but also in religion, does not help matters.  If we dared to show any degree of weakness we find we meet with rejection.  We see so much weakness around us and helplessness that we avoid it at all cost.  Not knowing that those we see, and we ourselves, are in those moments on the edge of God’s power.  If only one of the weak individuals would see what Mary and I saw that night, the power of God would come through that one to not only save the weakest but also the one through whom God’s power would flow.  The truth is BOTH are weak and not only one; it’s only a matter of one seeing this, that then this power would come for both.  It is never the power of an individual.

This book will be dealing with the path to real power; a path less sought, a path to weakness where God’s strength is found.  We are so close so many times not understanding we are “Walking in the Shadow of His Power.”    Paul C. Woodward… August 11, 2010

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