Not in My Power—But in Yours, Lord

There’s a quiet whisper that the world shouts over every day. It tells us to hustle harder, post more, sell louder, and chase after influence like it’s our only ticket to abundance. But the more I leaned into that rhythm, the more I realized it was never the song God wanted me to dance to.

In a recent moment of revelation, the Lord gently opened my eyes. I saw how social media had been feeding a desire that He never ordained. What I thought was strategy was actually striving. What I called “promotion” was often pressure, rooted in fear that if I didn’t do more, I wouldn’t receive what I believed He promised.

But here’s the truth: God doesn’t need my hustle to fulfill His promises.

He’s not watching to see how many likes or views I can gather before He blesses me. No, He’s already written my story — a good, abundant, and intentional one. My part isn’t to try to write it myself through my own strength. My part is to trust. To walk differently. To be different.

Because faith requires a different kind of posture.

“But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.”

— James 1:6 (NIV)

When we anchor our identity and purpose in what the world says we need, we become like that wave—tossed around by the winds of algorithms, trends, and opinions. But when we ask God in faith, when we believe that His way is enough—even when it looks quieter or slower—we are steady. We are secure.

“And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of his Spirit who lives in you.”

— Romans 8:11 (NIV)

The same Spirit that raised Jesus lives in us. That means the same power that broke the grave has the ability to breathe life into our dreams, our callings, our businesses, and our ministries. Not by force. Not by striving. But by surrender.

“For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.”

— Ephesians 2:10 (NIV)

He’s already prepared the good works. Already designed the path. Already made a way. My job is not to pave it with stress, anxiety, and self-effort—it’s to walk in it by faith.

So today, I release the need to perform.

I silence the pressure to be “on” all the time.

I trade striving for surrender.

Because it’s not in my power—but in Yours, Lord. That’s where true abundance lives.