Tuesday, November 12, 2013

God is Omnipotent...

Omnipotent .....God possesses all power.  God's power is unlimited.  He can do anything that is not inconsistent with His nature, character, and purpose.  He is able to bring into being anything that He has decided to do....with or without the use of any means.

I love that definition of God’s omnipotence.  I love it because of this statement, "He can do anything that is not inconsistent with His nature, character, and purpose."  Let me put that to you in human terms.....GOD WILL NOT AND CANNOT ABUSE HIS POWER!

Realizing this truth about God was very comforting to me as a young believer.  Why?  Because God represents authority; and authority and power are 'kissing cousins' as we say in the south. Many of you reading this blog today have had the experience at some point in your life of sitting under authority that used their power for personal gain, abuse, status, etc.  But God cannot do that because He does not act inconsistently with His nature, character, and purpose.  And remember the first attribute of God, He is a Good God!  Can you see the comfort in this now? 

Our God that created and made us with the purpose of being molded into His image, to bring glory to His name, to reach the nations, has the authority and power to complete the good work which He begin in us!  He can and will do it!  God is on your side and He has the power to work on your behalf and accomplish it!  So if you are in a tough place and you want out, ask God to move you but if He doesn't move you ask Him to sustain you! He has the power to do either one or both!  But He only acts in our best interest because He is a Good God whether we understand it in the physical or not.  Remember, vertical vision not horizontal!

Jeremiah 32:17 (ESV) 
Ah, Lord GOD! It is you who have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm! Nothing is too hard for you.

Genesis 18:14 (ESV)
“Is anything too hard for the LORD? At the appointed time I will return to you, about this time next year, and Sarah shall have a son.”  

Job 42:1-2 (ESV)
Then Job answered the LORD and said:
“I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.”

Mark 10:27 (ESV)
Jesus looked at them and said, “With man it is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God.”

Matthew 28:18 (ESV)
And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.”

Revelation 19:1 (ESV)
After this I heard what seemed to be the loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, crying out, “Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God,

Psalm 68:34 (ESV)
Ascribe power to God, whose majesty is over Israel, and whose power is in the skies.

And finally, Numbers 23:19 (ESV)
God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?

Know this truth....God has the power to act on anything He has said.  Anything He has said, He will do!  Claim the truths of God’s power at work in your life!!!!

Love you all,

His,
Vickie
  
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
                                                                                                           --- Abraham Lincoln

“The measure of a man is what he does with power.” 

                                                             ---Plato                

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