Impoverished or Almighty

I have been feeling impoverished lately. Does anyone else struggle with moments of uncertainty and angst about the way things are going? Whenever we talk to people back in the US we get off the phone feeling scared and uncertain about jobs, the economy, and the future. Several events of late have just been difficult. My mom recently shared a message her pastor friend e-mailed her about remembering "in uncertain times we have a certain God". If I focus on what I know of God and what we have experienced of Him I am reminded he is present and Almighty. It is a daily chose to think about him, yield to His will, draw up to his presence, and take in the words of encouragement and peace he gives. Jesus called himself "the bread of life" that we need to "feed on". Like physical food for our physical body we have a spiritual need for a constant daily dose of God's fresh presence in our lives. I have felt discouraged and disappointed about the way things are going but I am trying to look up, take in, and rely on something beyond myself and my circumstances. I thought this message below from Oswald was befitting.
The impoverished ministry of Jesus
Posted by Oswald Chambers under My Utmost for His Highest
From whence then hast Thou that living water? John 4:11.
“The well is deep”—and a great deal deeper than the Samaritan woman knew! Think of the depths of human nature, of human life, think of the depths of the ‘wells’ in you. Have you been impoverishing the ministry of Jesus so that He cannot do anything? Suppose there is a well of fathomless trouble inside your heart, and Jesus comes and says—“Let not your heart be troubled”; and you shrug your shoulders and say—‘But, Lord, the well is deep; You cannot draw up quietness and comfort out of it.’ No, He will bring them down from above. Jesus does not bring anything up from the wells of human nature. We limit the Holy One of Israel by remembering what we have allowed Him to do for us in the past, and by saying—‘Of course I cannot expect God to do this thing.’ The thing that taxes almightiness is the very thing which as disciples of Jesus we ought to believe He will do. We impoverish His ministry the moment we forget He is Almighty; the impoverishment is in us, not in Him. We will come to Jesus as Comforter or as Sympathizer, but we will not come to Him as Almighty.
The reason some of us are such poor specimens of Christianity is because we have no Almighty Christ. We have Christian attributes and experiences, but there is no abandonment to Jesus Christ. When we get into difficult circumstances, we impoverish His ministry by saying—‘Of course He cannot do any thing,’ and we struggle down to the deeps and try to get the water for ourselves. Beware of the satisfaction of sinking back and saying—‘It can’t be done’; you know it can be done if you look to Jesus. The well of your incompleteness is deep, but make the effort and look away to Him.