# God’s Strength is Attracted to Weakness

March 2, 2026

Turn your Bibles, if you would, to 1 Corinthians chapter number one. First Corinthians chapter number one in God’s Word. We’re going to look at two different places to get us started this morning. We’ll start First Corinthians one, and I’ll tell you where to turn to in just a moment here, but…

First Corinthians chapter number one in God’s word this morning. Once you find that, would you say amen? Amen. Good, good, good. You’re there or getting there. Amen. Amen. Would you please stand if you’re able to show the Word of God respect? They did that in the book of Nehemiah, and we like to do it in our services here at the beginning.

And we won’t make you stand the whole time like they did in the book of Nehemiah. That’s a long time they stood there, you know. So we’re lazy nowadays then, but I’ll take it, you know. But First Corinthians chapter number one. And it looked like y’all are ready to go. That’s good. Y’all are waiting on me. All right, let’s see here. Verse number 25, verse number 25.

First Corinthians 1. The Bible says, “Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.”

By the way, our theme this year on our banners here is “Be strong in the Lord.” Our theme verse this year is Ephesians 6:10: “Finally, my brother, be strong in the Lord, in the power of His might.”

And notice here, He says, the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men. He goes on, “For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are called. But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise. And God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty. And base things of the world and things which are despised has God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to naught the things that are.”

Here’s the reason for all this. Verse number 29: “That no flesh should glory in His presence.”

Now, how does this go? He’s chosen that phrase there in verse number 27: “He has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things that are mighty.” How does that go with our theme?

Well, look over, if you will, in 2 Corinthians chapter number 12. The first Sunday of the month, we’re preaching on this subject of being strong in the Lord. Last month, we preached on…

“The road to strength travels through the city of weakness.” A little bit the same thought. We’re going to take another different channel to get there. But back over here in 2 Corinthians 12, same man that penned it, Paul. He says this: Remember, he’s the one that asked the Lord to take away the thorn in the flesh three times.

In verse number 9, 2 Corinthians 12, verse number 9, and he said it to me, “My grace is sufficient for thee: for My strength”—that’s God’s strength—“for My strength is made perfect in weakness.”

“Most gladly, therefore, will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore, I take pleasure in infirmities”—that infirmity has to do with sickness or weakness—“in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.”

Now for just a bit, I want to address it this way: God’s strength is attracted to weakness.

You get those magnets, and you get them beside each other, and if they’re the north and the south polarization, whatever, they’re attracted to each other. And that’s the way God’s strength is to weakness. But then you flip one of them over, and it’s the saying, and they repel. You know, the Bible said God resists the proud. But I think, man, in my own strength, I’ve got it together. God says the proud, He knows them afar off. Wow.

But just for a bit this morning, just this truth: God’s strength is attracted. It’s drawn to weakness.

For just a bit, would you pray that God would speak to your heart? Pray with me that God would speak to our heart, your heart about that subject this morning.

Father, I believe You have led this way. And Lord, I do ask that all the things You would like to accomplish would be accomplished this morning. I yield to You, Father. Lord, I ask, would You send Your Spirit working through me to Your people this morning? Lord, let us leave having been spoken to by You. And Lord, well, thank You for what You do. It’s in the name of Jesus we ask. Amen.

Thank you so much for standing. You may be seated.

Years and years and years and years—okay, not that far back—but when I was younger, I’ll put it that way, when I was younger, I used to play a lot of basketball in the area here with my son. And, you know, you go to Smyrna Rec or Hilltop, all these parks around here, and you just play pickup ball. And typically there’s 10, you know, 12, 15 guys out there, whatnot, you’re shooting.

And you got to form a team somehow. Just pick-up ball. And so somebody says, “Well, let’s get, you know, first two to hit.” And that doesn’t mean you hit each other. First two to hit, you get behind the three-point line. And by shooting, it’s always scary when it takes a while for two guys to hit, you know. “This is not going to be a good game,” you know.

But every once in a while, I would just throw the ball up in the air and the angel Gabriel would grab the ball, say, “That boy needs help,” and he would go over here and he would grab the ball and he’d put it through the rim. And so you’re one of the guys that hit, you know. So the two guys that hit first, you back up, you’re the captains, and you start picking four guys.

Well, I’m short, I’m missing fingers. I wasn’t good when I had ten fingers anyway, so I know I need help.

And so, man, when they’re out there, you know, you’ve been eyeing each other up when you’re just kind of dribbling around, shooting around. You know, he’s been eyeing who’s good, who’s not. And you’re looking around, you know, whatnot. And you’re like, “That guy, he missed a shot. Yeah, hey, I want you on my team,” you know. And if my son’s out there, of course, you’ve got to pick your son up, you know, because you’re living with him when he’s, you know, until he grows up, you know. So anyway, that way, he’s more apt to hit it. He got picked me up, you know, so we’re good there, you know.

But anyway, you’re looking for the best guy. That guy’s tall, he can jump, you know, he’d been grabbing rim all day, you know. “Hey, you’re on my team.” That—and that’s the way you pick. But God’s not like that.

God is the best, the best of the best. He could take Jordan, you know, and I’m going to talk about you, and LeBron—no problem there, you know. Come on now, somebody can say amen. You know, I had to go there. But God, when He picks, He’s not attracted because, you know, God really doesn’t need help. He’s God. Are you all out there?

So God, when He’s choosing people, that’s what He said with the First Corinthians 1. God says, “I don’t choose.” Typically, my choosing is not like you choose. God says, “I choose the base thing.”

Now, it says, when I’m picking my team, I choose the foolishness. Those to the world, they’re foolish. That’s the ones I pick. And God says, “I don’t pick those that look like they’re all that and they’re all strong, and man, they just act and think like they got it all together.” In fact, the sixth thing to the Lord—hey, it’s seven—our abomination to Him is the first thing: a proud look. And I said, “No, I’m not after those.” None says, “When I pick, my typical choosing is I look out and I find the weak things of the world. I choose different than the captains down there.”

God says, “My choosing, typically I don’t pick the things that already are that everybody’s admiring. I choose the things that are not, and I use the things that are not to bring to naught the things that are.”

It’s amazing to me. You see people, and they’re always jockeying for positions, and maybe there’s ministries and whatnot, and they’re trying to get a part of that ministry that’s well established. And God said, “You know, typically I don’t use those things that are already established. The things that are not, I use those things to bring things to pass.” That’s what He’s saying.

God—His strength is attracted to weakness.

Now, we’re made in the image and likeness of God, so let’s just talk about bringing it down to our level here for a minute. Let’s say we’re driving down Ammaville Road over there, all right? And we see someone broke down on the side of the road. Hopefully, it’s not running around those curves, or there’s no shoulder at all, you know. But you know there’s a shoulder there. They’re building that new subdivision right there in the lane they’re building there.

And you look, and you’re in a hurry, by the way, but you see him broke down over there, and you know, “Well, I probably should help out.” But they look like they’re about 30 years old, and they look like a healthy young man. He looks like a mechanic kind of a guy. He’s on his cell phone. He’s got—it looks like he’s got it all together.

And so you know what we do? We’re in a hurry. Come on now. We drive right by. Don’t look at me like that. You do the same thing now.

But if you’re riding down Ammaville Road and you see that car over there in that side lane that broke down, and it looks—it’s a little bitty lady. It’s just a little bitty lady. And she looks like she’s, you know, she came off the ark. I mean, she’s like, “I just lost some people there,” you know. And she—you know, come on, I’m getting in this category too. You know, if you can’t figure out your cell phone, find a young person, right? Even if she has a cell phone, you’re not sure she knows how to operate the thing. And she’s broke down over there, and you’re going to pull over. Yeah.

God’s a little bit the same, if you will. His strength is attracted to weakness.

That’s what He’s telling Paul over there. And in verse number 9, He said, “Hey, My strength is made perfect in weakness.” That’s what it means in verse 27 of chapter 1, 1 Corinthians: “But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise. God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things that are mighty.”

What we’re made in His image like—let me just say this. I’m getting off a little bit here. I’m getting in meddling, but let me just say something here. Men, you can disagree or agree, whatever you want to do. Probably you’re not going to say anything. That’s the safe bet there, all right? But ladies, can I just say this? You’d be surprised how attractive you are when you’re weak to your husband. Man, you didn’t say a word, did you? You big wimps.

On that day when there was big old Goliath, there was a whole lot of military men out there. I mean, the Rangers were there, the Special Ops, the Navy SEALs—all of them were there—but God chose a little teenage boy. Weakness. I’m simply saying God’s strength is attracted to weakness.

When Samuel came to anoint one of those boys, you know, three of those boys, David’s brothers, were military men—maybe more, probably later on more—but at least three of them at that time were military men. And God said, “No, I don’t want them.” I don’t want that big old boy. And God chose the weak one. It’s your shepherd boy. I’m simply saying, you study out the history of Christianity, you study out the Bible, and God chooses the weak things.

Verse number 29 tells us why: “That no flesh should glory in His presence.”

Take Gideon. Gideon wants you to deliver the children of Israel from the Midianites. I want to bring a great victory to you. But Gideon gathered up—he had 32,000 men, right? The Lord said, “Too many.”

Gideon said, “Let me turn my hearing aid up. I didn’t hear you real good today.” They’re like hundreds of thousands, millions, you know what I mean? Goodness gracious. And tell them, if they’re scared, you know, they’re just scared a little bit, you know, however we say it in Tennessee. But if they’re fearful, send them home.

Well, Gideon thought, okay, five guys going to leave. 22,000 walked out on him. He’s left with 10,000. Now, they had 100,000—hundreds of thousands over there—and now it’s only got 10,000. You know what God said? “Hey, Gideon, got too many.”

“Lord, that’s my messed up here. Lord, can you say that again?” You take him down the river, let him drink, and those that drink with character and they’re ready and alert, hey, you keep them. The others, send them home. He ends up with 300 men. You know the story why God tells him—He tells—let me just read it for you, Judges 7:2: “Lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me.”

God, more often than not, chooses the weak things. His strength is made perfect in weakness.

Now, here’s the amazing thing about it. Y’all out there, y’all out there. Here’s the amazing thing about it: God sometimes makes us weak.

Paul, you’ve got this revelation. You’ve been up to the third heaven. You’ve heard things that are unspeakable. Paul, you’re too strong. “No, no, that’s not my plan. You’re an educated man. I need to bring you down. I need to weaken you a little bit.” God allowed the messenger of Satan to buffet—to beat the snot out of Paul. That’s what buffeting means.

And he said, “Lord, it’s killing me. It’s a thorn in my flesh.” And God said, “No, no, no, no. My plan is, you’re a little bit too strong. I’m going to make you where you’re weak because of My strength.”

And he finishes that—we read it just a minute ago. In the end, he said, “I go through this weakness, but when I’m weak, then am I strong,” because God’s strength is attracted to weakness.

Here’s what I’m saying: If you say, “Preacher, I’m just weak. I don’t have anything left. I’m just kind of give out”—hey, you’re a good candidate for God’s strength for Him.

“Preacher, I’m not talented like so-and-so. I don’t have the ability. I don’t have the background. I don’t have the knowledge. I don’t have the charisma. I don’t have all that.” God said, “Hey, you’re a real good candidate for God’s strength to work through.”

Can I just say something here? Can I kind of go to meddling a little bit more? If we’re not careful, us Christians in America, we can become raggedy-a** no-it-alls. God said, “No, I repel of that. I’m not attracted to that.” Most people that know they’re weak—God says those are the ones My strength is made perfect in weakness.

God sometimes has to weaken us.

Job, he had it all together, if you will. I mean, he was just a right—the best Christian around, old Job was, wasn’t he? Come on, y’all know Job 1. I mean, he eschewed evil. I mean, just an upright man, a good, godly man. And yet Job was just a little bit too—he had it all together just too much. He had some self-righteousness in him. And God said, “Hey, Job, before I use you twice as much, I’m going to make you weak.” Boy, didn’t He?

God’s strength is—you say, “Preacher, there’s no hope for me.” Oh, if you know how weak you are, there’s a whole lot of hope for you. God’s strength is attracted to that. That’s the ones God typically uses.

Teenager David, he wasn’t even big enough to fill out the armor of Saul. We got Brother Troy Cooper, he’s got his 3D printer, and he’s making all kind of neat stuff. He made this—where’s there he is over there—and it’s the armor. He’s got the breastplate of righteousness, the helmet of salvation. He’s got it all: the shield and the sword and all that. And that’s awesome. Old David wasn’t even big enough to really carry and move around with Saul’s armor on him. Yet that’s the one God used out of all the—their military was there on that day. That’s the one God used.

Friend, you say, “I just feel inadequate.” Hey, congratulations. You’re a good candidate for God’s strength.

Just a housewife? Well, that’s all Hannah was. And she kind of looked down upon them because she couldn’t have a child. And yet, that’s the one that God wanted to use to bring about the great Samuel, the prophet. God uses weakness. That’s God’s plan, friend. That’s typically the way He works.

And Joseph was just a carpenter. I mean, some just a carpenter. God said, “That’s the man that I want to be the stepfather to my only begotten Son, Jesus Christ.”

You say, “I’m a single person. God can’t use me.” Friend, the Naaman’s little servant girl—she was a single little girl. We don’t know how old she was, maybe 20, 30. We don’t know how old she was. But that’s the one God used to get Naaman over to Israel and get him healed and saved, and go back as a missionary to Syria. God works through weakness.

About half the apostles were fishermen. That’s the ones that Jesus chose to be—man. I like this. Acts 4:13: “Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men…” Man, “I’m not educated like so-and-so.” Neither was Peter. I mean, when he went to Cracker Barrel before they got all that other stuff, and he did that little—you know, he was the ignoramus. You don’t know what I’m talking about there. Unlearned, ignorant men, you know. Come on now. God used him.

Paul was educated, he was—said at the feet of Gamaliel. But you know Paul means “small”? God weakened him. First Corinthians 1:17: “For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.” He said, “Not the wisdom of words.” The Corinthian church thought his bodily presence was weak.

I’m just saying God uses weakness.

Now, here’s an interesting thing about it. Look back over there in 2 Corinthians 12. I want you to see something about Paul. We keep referencing Paul. He’s one of the penmen. But I want you to see this, and we’ll give a couple of illustrations. About 2 p.m. we’ll head home, amen. I had a couple people before they realized what I said, say amen, you know. I say, “I take that back,” you know.

Look what he says, Second Corinthians 12. He just finished that. His strength is made perfect in weakness. Notice what he says: He says, verse number 10, “Therefore I take pleasure…” Wow. Paul said, “I take pleasure in infirmities”—that infirmity is sickness or weakness—“in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.”

By the way, you know that thing in your life? But kind of just a couple things here: Paul wasn’t born this way. God brought something into his life to weaken him. That storm that came in your life, you think is just killing you, may be the thing God wants to use greatly. I forgot what I was going to say before I said that.

Oh, here’s the amazing thing about it: Paul learned to enjoy his weakness. Pretty amazing. This is the best illustration I can think of for this. But years ago, I was out at the Bill Rice Ranch, Fourth of July. They always have a big Fourth of July day and have a good meal and good fireworks and all these things. And so we would take a group from the church over there.

We were over there one day of Fourth of July, and it was when I was younger, and I was out there trying to play basketball, and I rolled my ankle. Anyone ever roll your ankle? Wow. You talk about pain, you know. Man, I rolled that ankle pretty good, and it’s swelling, whatnot, and basketball, for me on that day, was over.

And we’re walking to the tabernacle, to the auditorium there, you know, and, man, that thing’s hurting, and I’m kind of walking along, limping along, kind of making it, you know. Then I see some of our church members. It’s almost, you know, I’ve straightened up like I’m fine and try to walk like nothing’s hurting, I’m good, you know, and all those good things. And, you know, you don’t lead out of weakness and all those things. And I’m trying to act tough and make it to the auditorium and all that, make it through the day. And, man, that thing’s still swelling, you know.

And I get home, and I pull my truck up a little bit closer to the door than typical. My wife said, “Hey, what’s going on?” “Oh, man, my ankle was killing me.” And, man, she heard—she cleared the couch out. I get on the couch, you know, and she’s like pulling the shoe off and checking it all out, and it’s swollen and all that. She’s going to get me something to drink. Man, she’s taking care of me. And I thought, “This weakness thing is a pretty good deal.”

Paul said, “I take pleasure in infirmities,” because I’ve learned God’s strength is attracted to weakness. And that’s when God begins to work in great ways. “When I am weak, then am I strong.” So I don’t sweat all that. I don’t get bent out of shape. It’s all right to be weak before the Lord because His strength is attracted to weakness.

Now, three recommendations, three recommendations on how to be weak before the Lord. Number one: in prayer. If you truly know you’re weak, you’re going to be praying for Him.

David might have looked strong to everybody else, but before the Lord, he knew how to be weak. Let me read it for you, Psalm 6, verse number two: “Have mercy upon me, O Lord; for I am weak.” So David, when he goes before the Lord, it says, “Hey, Lord, I realize Your strength is attracted to weakness, and Lord, they might think I’m strong, but the honest, simple truth is, Lord, I am so weak.”

Those are the ones God says, “Hey, by the way, the honest, simple truth is, we’re all weak. But those that admit it and see it, and they’re smart enough to know it, that’s honest—that’s the honest truth—smart enough to know it. And they go before the Lord in prayer, ‘Lord, I’ve got to have You, I’m weak.’” God says, “Hey, that’s a person right there I think I could work through.”

You know, friend, can I just say a couple things here? Do you know, honest with this? You know your heart beats about 70 times a minute? That’s about 4,200 every hour. That’s about 100,000 every day. And here’s why I say that, friend: The Lord could just stop your heart, just boom like that. Your heart would stop pumping. So why in the world do we act like we got it all together before Almighty God when we go to the prayer closet and we say, “Lord, I’ve got to have Your help. I’m weak. If the real job’s going to get done, it’s not going to get done by my little puny power. It’s going to get done by Your strength.” His strength is made perfect in weakness.

Years ago, all these stores from years ago, but we had some young teenagers in our church, some guys going over here to this Planet Fitness, and they taught me—and I went on with them—and they wanted to show me how strong their legs were. And they had, I don’t know what it’s called, but you kind of sit down in this chair, and it’s inverted a little bit, and you’re pushing these weights up. Well, man, with your legs, you can push a whole lot. That’s the strongest part of a man, for the most part.

And look at all these weights they’re pushing up. And you know the Bible says, God—God’s not impressed by the strength of man’s legs. The strongest part of us to God is like Jacob wrestled with the angel of the Lord all night long, and he just touched the hollow of the sinew of his thigh, and it pulled it out of joint. They say that’s the strongest part of a person’s body. And God said, “I’ll let you wrestle with me. But the honest and for truth is, I just a little bit of touch—boom—you’re out of joint for the rest of your life, the strongest part of your body.”

I’m saying all that to say, friend, hey, take the facade off and go for the Lord and let Him know how weak you are. His strength is made perfect in weakness. And God said, “I think I can work in their life. They’re smart enough to realize the truth of it all.”

Three recommendations: how to look weak to God so His strength can be made perfect: Number one, in prayer. Number two, in obeying Him. If I really think I’m weak and He’s got the strength, He’s got the answer, I’m going to follow Him.

“Lord, You say be faithful to Your house. All right. Don’t forsake the assembling.” All right. “Lord, You say Your word is like food over there in Matthew 4:4, and every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God—that’s where I get my daily nourishment.” All right, I’m going to be in the Book.

“I’m to forgive.” And it’s hard to forgive sometimes. They don’t deserve forgiveness. Well, if they did deserve it, I wouldn’t need forgiveness. But they don’t deserve it. But the Lord forgave me out of all my sinfulness and my wretchedness. And He’s forgiven me of my sin. He’s made me righteous before God because of His shed blood. I’ll forgive because You told me to forgive.

I’m just saying, if He really is the strength of my life and the source of it, I’m going to obey Him. All right, I’m going to clean my language up the best I can by Your grace. I’m going to dress to honor You. I’m going to listen to the right kind of music to honor You. I’m not going to watch that—He said, “I’ll set no wicked thing before my eyes.” You said, “I’m going to try my best to obey what He says to do,” because I want to know I’m relying on Him, not on me and my resources.

You’re getting a little quiet on me this morning. You said, “Preacher, you are going to meddle.” That’s right. Fifty years ago, a lot of preachers preached like that. Amen. It’s so true. You know, the Titanic was warned so much about the icebergs, but they said, “Oh, man, we got it all together. Best ship can’t be sunk.” Headlines. Not different headlines since that one, you know.

“Lord, I go the path You tell me which way to turn, I’ll turn.” Three ways. Just show God how weak you are in your prayer life and your obedience. And then in this: praising Him, praising Him.

Brother Richard did a good job this morning. He taught in our Sunday school class. Man, he hit out of the park. They had a wonderful job. I loved it. I loved the lesson. He did a great job. He really did very, very good. And I was sitting over kind of on this side, me and my wife, and Brother Richard’s teaching. Then Ms. Carey, his wife, is over here. I liked his teaching. It was wonderful, but I also liked it when he did really good. I could see Ms. Carey just smiling so proud of her husband. I loved it all. It was great.

And it’s in church here, you know, I think you’re shaking hands. Man, Brother Richard did a great job. He hit it out of the park. And Brother Richard said, “Praise the Lord.” We don’t hear that enough in our day and time.

“Praise the Lord.” I was talking to Brother Mark Hardy yesterday on the phone, and I said, “Brother, I’ve been over this park a little bit here lately, and I’ve seen your name on this plaque.” Man, Brother Mark Hardy is somebody. His name’s on plaques around here in the city, you know. And we were talking a little bit about it all, and he’s on the parks committee and all these things. And he’s going to be the mayor after this one. No, I’m joking about that. Tyler gave him grief before, but anyway, you know.

But he said, he said, “Praise the Lord, God’s been good to me.” Man, it’s good to hear that. “Praise the Lord.” I like to just be out in a restaurant somewhere and just hear someone say, “Praise the Lord.”

I’ve already said it, but if we’re not careful, we’re just going to get so like, you know, just fat cats that got it all together and know-it-alls and all the rest of that. And God’s going to say, “You know what? Let me find a church in some other nation, some others that are a little bit weak. I’ll use them.” What do you say the church in Philadelphia over there? He said, “Hey, you have little strength. That’s why I’m going to open the door, and when I open the door, nobody shuts it.”

“Praise the Lord.” Let it be said in your home often: “Praise the Lord.” Let it be said in your fellowship with other people: “Praise the Lord.” You say, “They go look at me funny.” Well, let them look. Just say, “Praise the Lord.”

I like it. There was one lady, Aunt Betty, they called her at church, and she just couldn’t help when the preacher got going. She’d say, “Well, praise the Lord.” And as a new preacher, it messed him all up. I mean, he just couldn’t handle it, you know. By the way, I like it. Amen. That’s like saying, “Sic 'em to a dog.” Come on, I’ll take that.

But he didn’t like it, you know. And so he went to Aunt Betty back in the day, and she was a poor widow lady, and he said, “I tell you what, I’ve got some blankets, and I’m going to give you these blankets, I’ll give them to you as long as you promise not to say ‘Praise the Lord.’” And he said, “Now, if you say ‘Praise the Lord,’ I’m going to take my blankets back.” And she—boy, she—you know, it was wintertime, she needed blankets. She said, “All right, I’ll do what I can,” you know.

And so he gave the blankets to her, whatnot. And the guest preacher came in. Man, the guest preacher was just getting with it, you know. And God was speaking to her heart. I mean, he was just going at it. And all of a sudden she said, “Blankets are no blankets? Praise the Lord!”

Hey, let it be said everywhere: “Praise the Lord.”

By the way, if it’s out in the world, it’s good for the world to hear it. I told my basketball buddies back in the day, if we were going to the court and they were starting to curse a lot, I was waiting. The Lord happened to make a shot here. If I made a shot or something, I would say, “Praise the Lord,” really loud. And boy, everybody’s like, “Whoa, who said that?” It’s amazing how the cursing would go down.

Friend, I’m just saying, hey, you want God to recognize you understand your weakness. God says they’re praising Me for all the good things in their life. Maybe they realize the truth of the matter: they’re weak, but My strength is made perfect in weakness.

You know, it’s a wise person that admits they’re a sinner. They’re so weak, they’ll never earn their way to heaven. And they’ll turn to Jesus and say, “Jesus, You’re my only way to heaven. You’re my strength.” They put their full faith in Jesus to save them. They’re a wise individual. Never forget it. On your weak days, when you feel inadequate, your bad hair days, your depressed days, your discouraged days, you feel weak—hey, friend, that’s a great opportunity because His strength is attracted to weakness.

Would you bow your heads and close your eyes?

Heads bowed, eyes closed.

If you hear this morning, you say, “Preacher, somehow, maybe just encouragement because I feel weak right now, or maybe I need to pray, I need to obey, I need to praise Him, or whatever, but somewhere along the line, God spoke to your heart.” “Preacher, God spoke to my heart this morning.” If that is you, just lift your hand up. Just slip it up. Just lift your hand up. Just lift your hand up.

Many, many, many hands. God bless you. God bless you. My hand’s up too. God bless you. Thank you so very, very much. Thank you so very much. You can put your hands down.

Maybe you’re here this morning, you say, “Preacher, as far as that last part, asking Jesus to save me”—by that I mean to save you from eternal hell and take you home to heaven, to pay for all your sins, for Him to be a personal Savior. I’ve never done that, but I do realize I’m a sinner, and I understand because of my sin, there’s a debt that is death and a lake of fire.

And I believe Jesus died on the cross to pay for that debt. And I want to admit I’m weak. I can’t save myself. And I want to go to Jesus and ask Jesus to be my Savior. If that’s you, right there where you are, whether you be here in the auditorium or online, wherever you’re at, would you go to Jesus? Something along this line: Would you tell Him, “Dear Jesus, I’m weak. I’m a sinner. I can’t save myself. But I believe You died for me. Right now, Jesus, I’m looking to You. Would You pay for all of my sins? Would You come into my heart? Would You save me? Thank You, Jesus”?

Our heads are bowed, eyes are closed. “Preacher, I’ve never done that, but I just asked Jesus to be my Savior. I just called on Him.” If that is you, would you just lift your hand up? “Preacher, just call on Jesus to be my Savior.” Just lift your hand. I see one hand. Anybody else? Just anybody else.

It’s the greatest day of your life. You call on Jesus Christ to be your Savior. We’d like to be a help in your new journey with the Lord Jesus Christ. If you raised your hand or not, you prayed now and asked Jesus to be your Savior. In just a moment, would you come forward? We’ll give you some literature. Try to be a help to you. We want to be a help to you.

Hey, the rest of us, the Lord spoke to our hearts. Let’s come and spend some time with the Lord. Let’s draw nigh unto Him. He’s got all the strength. Don’t let the devil lie to you and say, “Oh, you’re too weak. He can’t use you.” No, His strength is attracted to weakness.

Would you please stand? We’re going to have a word of prayer. Would you spend just a special few minutes with Him? Whether we had an old-fashioned altar, it would be great. I’d suggest that if the Lord’s guiding you to that, or wherever God calls, you’ll be obedient to Him. Would you do that? Let’s pray. Let’s be obedient to the Lord.

Thank You, Father. I feel, in honest truth, I don’t just feel weak; I am weak. Thank You, Lord. You’re an amazing God. You choose the weak things of the world to confound the mighty. Thank You. Your strength is made perfect in weakness. Lord, help us to come before You just be open, vulnerable with You, Lord. In our weakness, I pray that Your strength would just envelope our weakness, we could say, like Paul, “When I am weak, then am I strong.”

Lord, meet with us in a special way in the next few minutes. In Jesus’ name we pray, amen.

Would you be obedient as our pianist plays? Let’s be obedient. Let’s draw nigh unto Him. He’s got everything you need for Him. Everything you need. He’s got it. You weak? Hey, join the crowd for Him, but His strength is made perfect in weakness. You’re a good candidate for Him to work in and through.

Amen. He’d come before the Lord and just kind of sit on the couch. Let Him bring you a drink, if you will. You know, He’s the best shepherd in all the world. He restores my soul. Oh, He’s—don’t run away from Him. Don’t grind and bear it on your own. No, run to Him. Run to Him. I’m sometimes disappointed myself. I’m trying to make it through my strength. God says, “Paul, I’ve got so much more available, but you’re off on your own doing your own thing.” He’s a wonderful shepherd. Let’s get to Him. You weak? That’s all right. He specializes in that.

Original File: 2026-03-02 - Pastor Paul Chisgar ＂God’s Strength is Attracted to Weakness＂ Sunday AM 3⧸1⧸2026