Not by might,

not by power,

but by My Spirit,

   says the LORD of hosts.

Who are you,

          O great mountain?

Before Zerubbabel

  you shall become a plain.

And he shall bring forward

   the top stone amid shouts of

"Grace, grace to it!"

         Zechariah 4. 6-7

(And when we stand before

   an impossibly difficult

   situation or task,

we realize it is beyond us,

         but not for Him.

His strength and His might

     do not just bring us through,

     but bring us closer to Him.

God shouts His glory

          all over us.

What is at stake here are

      not our failures nor our achievement,

      but His grace.)

O LORD,

These are the moments of

      profound significance

when we realize

          our utter need for You.

We fear the mountain before us,

     the hard ascent,

     the slippery slopes,

     the how-am-I-going-to-face-this,

and You shout, "Grace, grace to it."

Even our ordinary

   is the place of Your supernatural.

Not our strength today, O LORD,

                        but Yours.

Align our hearts with Yours.

Help us to see this impossibility

               differently

     because we walk with You.