Be still, and know that I am God

SUMMARY: Sometimes the most powerful and effective act we can do is to do nothing and focus on God's faithfulness and the trustworthiness of His promises. We need discernment to know when to act and when to wait, when to fight and when to lower our guard, when to speak and when to be silent. Many ministers burn out because they don't learn to be still in the Lord, which is a posture of power. When we focus on God, it keeps us still and in harmony. This posture of faith unleashes divine power and glorifies Him through our trust. When anxiety and fear threaten to overwhelm and weaken us, we have to look away from the storm and focus on God's promises. That inner posture has incredible power! We have to stand on the word that God has declared, finding the spiritual axis from which to undertake the battle that lies ahead, and entering that state of powerful stillness, then we will have a chance to see the salvation of the Lord.

Sometimes doing nothing and focusing your whole being on God's faithfulness and the trustworthiness of his promises is the most powerful and effective act that we could ever do. Isaiah 30:15 declares: “In rest and repose you will be saved; in quietness and trust it will be your strength ”. That is why we have to ask the Lord: "Father, give me discernment, to know when to act and when to wait, when to fight and when to lower our guard, when to speak and when to be silent." In the divine economy, there is time for everything, and each situation has its strategy.

Many times, the most powerful posture of a man or woman of God is stillness, rest. How many times agony and anguish drain us physically and emotionally. Many times I have said to the Lord, “Father, I do not want to live my ministerial life in agony and anguish. I want to work at rest, anchored in you, always renewing myself like the eagle, gaining new strength even in flight, renewing my vision while I live with confidence, to be able to continue the battle ”.