A woman of faith has "3" types of strength

Strength - where does it come from? 
We try to get enough rest, stay healthy, take supplements; but we all too often find ourselves drained and worn. 

Did you know that the strength I just mentioned is just "physical strength?"   What else is there? 
There are "2" other kinds of strength that we possess and those are also so important for any woman, but especially for the woman of faith. 
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I call them ESP.  Yes, you must have ESP. 

Physical strength is our day to day ability to complete the tasks set before us as wife, mother, grandmother, sister, daughter, aunt, friend and in our employment.  Getting enough rest, avoiding stress, both of which seem impossible to attain, are essential to staying healthy. 
As we age, we seem to lose steam and must work harder at health. 

Let's move on to the second strength - emotional strength.  
Emotions have an enormous impact on our health as well, and this is often one strength that as women we seem to fall short on.  The weight of the world often seems to be upon us, and family issue's hit us hard in our hearts.  We are emotional and sensitive, and desire to make all things "right."  It is just our God-given nature to "mother." 

Thirdly, we need the most important strength of all...that is spiritual strength. 
As a woman of faith this is our driving strength. Without spiritual strength we would not be able to walk as a faithful women, and handle all that this world will bombard us with.  It may be a physical issue, marital issues, financial or emotional issues.  Spiritual strength is the ultimate strength because it is not come "from" us it is coming from Jesus, our inner strength.  Only Christ living within gives us this unexplainable strength to continue on. 

In August of 2005,  my family and I were involved in a head-on collision.
I had ongoing daily pain which caused me to only be able to sleep about one hour at a time, had to continue working with pain, care for a husband who was in a wheelchair from his injuries, had a close sister in Christ call to say she had ovarian cancer and had a few months to live,  found an orange-size cyst on my own ovary, had surgery, and had a daughter get engaged.  How did I get through all this? 
Not through my own physical and emotional strength!  

It was only through Christ, that I was able to cope and take one day at a time.  Prayer and tears were daily.  His Word gave me comfort and I often found myself sleeping with my Bible under my pillow.  

I knew He was there, saying "fear not you can do this." He also blessed me with a close sister in Christ who encouraged and prayed with me almost daily. 

So dear friend in Christ, if you feel physically and emotionally drained, begin with the spiritual strength.  Strengthen the spiritual strength through prayer and His Word.  He will work within. 

He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak.  Isaiah 40:29
I can do all things through Christ, which strengthens me.   Philippians 4:13
My soul is weary with sorrow; strengthen me according to your word.  Psalm 119:28
But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength;  Isaiah 40:31

Yes, dear friend, you must have ESP.