2 Timothy 1:7

Last night I had a breakthrough and it was centered around 2 Timothy 1:7.  This is a verse that I am very familiar with.  It is on my monitor at work,  I have it bookmarked on my phone and I even carry it written down on a piece of paper that I carry with me when we are on the mission field.  Last night I was listening to an audio book and there was 2 Timothy 1:7 again but this time was different, this time my breakthrough was there as well.  I have been struggling with trying to overcome an influence of the enemy for a long time.  I have resisted and succeeded, only to fail the next time the enemy feels he has come upon a more opportune time.  I have prayed again and again for God to give me the strength to overcome this and wondered why I did not receive an answer.  Then last night when I heard this in my book, I knew.  God did not just take it away like I asked and I did not receive the power to overcome it for a reason, and that reason is in 2 Timothy 1:7 - ⁷ For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline. 

You see, God did not need to act, to intervene in this issue, or to give me strength or power I did not have, because long before I was born he had already given me the tools that I would need to overcome the fiery darts of the enemy.  That God would use a novel of The Dresden Files to send me a message and to shine a light on the verse that I would need (after bringing this issue, and the roadblocks that it is causing in my life, again and again) to overcome this obstacle is both awesome and awesome at the same time.