I cannot really strengthen my inner being on my own. About the only thing I can do with that part of myself is work toward discovery. This place is where the Holy Spirit joins with my own personal spirit. And that kind of strength within is a gift.
Ephesians 3:16
I [Paul] pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, . . .
Because I have such a terrible tendency to start projects and peter out, I’m much more tentative about long term commitments than I used to be. I know myself that much. I have started and stopped diets, exercise programs, methodical housecleaning, vegetable gardening, interior decorating, and a score of hobbies. In most cases, I go great guns for awhile and then, eventually, the enthusiasm dwindles and I am stuck with half-done projects or worse, I am further back than I started (one step forward, two steps back).
Fortunately, my prayer life and time with God has held a certain amount of consistency that heretofore has been missing. It’s not perfect, but it’s one of the more stable uses of my time and energy. All the same, this relative success has come from a certain determination along with a greater imparting of grace from God.
I believe I will need something more now to step up to the next level, to integrate and implement the truths I have uncovered these past three years, I will need a different kind of strength and power from within. I don’t believe that more prayer or more reading (as in physical exercise) will necessarily give me the power/strength I seek or require. It would be an error on my part to think I can pull myself up to this next stage of devotion and submission to Christ.
Meditations from Zion 
The whole concept of a spiritual journey is based on the premises that there does exsist an entity of some type nonmaterial non measurable in our scientific models and even exceeds our greatest intellect, that it is with that and towards that we build a relationship thus on our own is inconcievable in attainment of that spiritual growth.
It is thru the tools before us to expand not only the intellectual mind, to seek knowledge and truth,but to open the mind to prepare the soul to listen via meditation. Prayer is the tool to ask for the guidance and to reveal this awesome power before us, in return understand the humility needed to clear our minds and souls of our egos.
After we begin to clear the way, we can than see what we could not before and there is the essence of our being, for there is experience of unity with our Higher Power, though not complete is this unity, we strive for it ever knowing that in this world it can not be, it is the seeking and striving that gives us that inner strength and closer to that unity of completeness.the greater the inner being thus the greater the strength one will have and faith is at the core of it all