Finding power in the powerless

In chapter 40 of Job, God mocks Job by challenging him to perform several feats that no human can possibly accomplish. After several of those mocking challenges, God says that if Job could, in fact, accomplish those feats, (Job 40:14, NLT),

Then even I would praise you,

for your own strength would save you.

The point is this: Our own strength can't save us! Only faith in God can do that. In our prayers, we should humbly submit to God, and ask him to accomplish what we cannot.

To Job's credit, he responded with such humility.