SENSE OF BEING POWERLESS

I Was Just Thinking About – THE SENSE OF BEING POWERLESS.

In theology, a term used about God is that He alone is Omnipotent – all-powerful. In practical application, it is amazing how often that reality is forgotten. It has nothing to do with God’s ability to display His power, it has everything to do with our faith to believe that “our God is able…and He will” (Daniel 3:16-18).

II Chronicles 20:5-13 contains a public prayer by King Jehoshaphat. He recognizes God’s power in terms of the past but expresses his concern about what God’s power can or will be in the present. He prays:  “Lord, the God of our ancestors, are you not the God who is in heaven? You rule over all the kingdoms of the nations. Power and might are in your hand, and no one can withstand you…But now here are men from Ammon, Moab and Mount Seir…Our God, will you not judge them? For we have no power to face this vast army that is attacking us. We do not know what to do, but our eyes are on you. All the men of Judah, with their wives and children and little ones, stood there before the Lord.”

For us, there are two verses of Scripture regarding God’s available power in and for us that should be part of the conviction of our hearts. First, are these words of relationship in II Peter 1:3, “His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.” Second is a passages that will test the measure of one’s faith and hope. Ephesians 3:20, “Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us…”

Don’t be focused on personal weakness but focus on God’s strength. Don’t look at your situations and circumstances with helplessness and hopelessness but but look to His power that is in you to do immeasurably more than you can ask of imagine.

Prayerfully – remember and consider these things with me.