“For it is God which WORKETH IN YOU both to will and to do of His good pleasure.” (Philippians 2:13).
We are only strong in His might, and we need Him working in us to give us victory. Jesus said: “...Without Me ye can do nothing.” (John 15:5). “Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God.” (2 Corinthians 3:5). “But by the grace of God I am what I am: and His grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was in me.” (1 Corinthians 15:10). “For He that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles.” (Galatians 2:8). “Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of His power.” (Ephesians 3:7). “I can do all things through Christ Jesus which strengtheneth me.” (Philippians 4:13). The conclusion given in all these verses is, God worketh in you, or you can do nothing.
“Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.” (James 2:17). Therefore, one must have God working in you in order ...
