Daily Prophetic Word

Understand this, many of your training exercises will feel like pain. They will not be easy, nor will they be enjoyable. These exercises will be working to develop your reliance on me. They are not designed to make you stronger, per se, but rather designed to help you become more aware of your weakness, and to acknowledge your need for me. These exercises are designed to remove the deception of the mindset that declares, "I am strong enough already. I can do this. I am self-sufficient." (1) Many of you have built foundations upon reliance of yourself. You have built your hope, future, identity, and security upon your own strength. However, your own strength will not be able to sustain you. So understand, this is the very issue I will be confronting in the days ahead as part of your preparation. This issue will be brought to the surface through these training exercises, and you will be confronted with you dependence upon me. (2) One of the primary objectives of these trials and exercises is not to build stre