Everyone has power. Nobody can avoid using it, destructively or constructively. So let us cautiously and lovingly use our power.

Personal power consists of various kinds and nuances that include "recuperative power" which is power to return to health or strength and recover from losses, both tangible and intangible. It aids in recuperation, i.e., restoration, the process of restoring stability or balance. The result is like glue that is stronger than the wood it holds together. Recuperative power ranks at or near the top of the personal power hierarchy.

While on life's journey a person is confronted with and sometimes plagued by problems and difficulties, which give credence to the assertions of Job, "Man that is born of a woman is of a few days and full of trouble,"1  and Apostle Paul, "The last enemy to be destroyed is death."2.

Not least among the needs of a person is his need for recuperative power - power to restore his health, phyiscal, mental, emotional and spiritual. During sickness and when joy has ceased to be are some of the times when recuperative power is most essential. Without it only deterioration or worsening of a sordid condition is possible. At such times, a person's hope of gaining equilibrium rests solely with his recuperative power.

There are times when external aid is required, such as medical treatment, giving credence to the axiom, "The physician can treat you but only God can heal you." Ultimately, it is internal efficacy - soul-power - that affects recovery. Jesus said, "...the kingdom of God is within you."3

Recuperative power can be enhanced and propelled with prayer, meditation, contemplation, silence/listening to God and above all else, faith. Never underestimate the power of faith. What wealth, popularity, knowledge, truth and love cannot do, faith can do it. Faith is the supreme essence of recuperative power. With recuperative power "the weak can say, 'I am strong,'"4 and when it seems that there is no way out an escape passasge appears.

Recuperative power is ackowledgment that a person is not alone, even when he is without family or friend. Regaining or restoring stability or balance may even mean receiveing not just what was lost but "thirty, sixty and a hundred-fold" proportionately to what existed before the sickness or loss occurred. It can mean that "curses become blessings" and what was meant for evil becomes good.

It is importrant for a person to not allow his recuperative power to be reality-prescribed but to make sure that his recuperative power is Spirit-directed and that he possesses an "all things are possible" conviction and awarness that beyond death, after "the last enemy is destroyed," he will receive health, happiness, abundance and more as expressed in the promise:
               No eye has seen,
               No ear has heard,
               No mind has conceived,
                     what God has prepared for those 
                           who love him."5

1. Job 14:1
2. 1 Cor. 15:26
3. Luke 17:21
4. Joel 3:10
5. 1 Cor 2:9

Copyright 2011 by Uriah J. Fields

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