Help me Lord

My friend in Washington State turned me on to a man - Michael Wells.  He has a ministry called Abiding Life Ministries International and his web page streams daily talks by Mike which I've been listening to.   I've also been reading his latest book which is excellent, Untold Stories & Unknown Saints. 
Michael Wells is an amazing man and I have grown considerably by listening to him.  Today he said, "Don't pray like this...'help me Lord to be more kind; help me Lord to loose weight; help me Lord to .......(you fill in the blank)."  I pray like this ALL THE TIME!  "Help me, help me, help me Lord!"
  Michael asserts that in praying this way we are assuming there is something good in us.  We are still trusting in our flesh and believing that somehow WE can accomplish something.  Instead of praying, "Help me," we should pray, "I can't do it Lord....YOU do it in me." 

Here are some more nuggets from Wells:
"Silver and gold have I none" pretty much puts an end to the concept that a believer is compelled to take aid along on a missionary journey  Sundar Singh pleaded with God to take away the gift of healing, for to the extent that people were coming to him for something other than Jesus, it got in the way of presenting HIM."

The Lord's Prayer does not have us looking to others for our daily bread, but looking to Him.  We have an opportunity to trust God and not man."


"It is impossible to increase your faith in Him without decreasing the faith you have in yourselves.  You must fail.  Power is in weakness.  Weakness is a magnet to God's power."

"We are admonished to remember the poor, yet I also have a sound conviction concerning God's use of suffering in man's life.  It is, to me, His greatest evangelistic tool.  Because of pride, men do not accept Christ, and suffering breaks pride.  I am also against nearly every form of intervention.  The angels ministered to Jesus AFTER His time in the wilderness.  Many need the same type of ministry after the wilderness, not while they are in it.  God is doing something in the experience.  Generally speaking, I believe that the Church today has so little confidence and experience in what fellowship with Jesus and His expression through us can mean that we have opted to work in the realm of the social.  When the Son of man comes, will He find faith on the earth?"

His book is packed to the brim with amazing stories of unknown saints all around the world.  Michael travels to the poorest of the poor and some of his stories will break your heart but they will also expand your faith.  Do we really believe that JESUS is all sufficient?  This book is a great testimony to HIS amazing power, His mysterious ways and has made me excited about embracing JESUS and JESUS alone.

Let's shout HIS name from the roof-tops!  HE IS ALL WE NEED.  Let's dare to believe that.