ListenDaily - 03 April 2009; Can He do it?
God is able. I pray that you gain confidence in that truth.
"For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom his whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. 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, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen." Ephesians 3:14-21 (find this or any other passages at www.Biblegateway.org)
"Now to him who is able ..."
God promises Abraham and Sarah that they would have a child, their first child, even in their old age. DO you remember Sarah's response? She laughed.
But I just love God's response: "Is anything too hard for the LORD?" Can't you just hear the pain in His voice, even through the understanding? I can almost hear God saying; 'You believe in me. You know I created everything. Everything! What's one more baby?"
"Now to him who is able ...".
Now, you or I might not laugh at God, but it is very human to doubt things that are beyond our own capabilities. "Is anything too hard for the LORD?" Is it?
What has God promised to you? His Word is full of promises for you, and they are all true. They are true because God cannot lie, and because He is able.
I pray that you know that, and have confidence in it.
And I ask that you pray that knowledge and confidence for someone else.
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Questions:
1. How differently might we live if we had complete confidence in God's abilities and promises?
2. For whom have you prayed today?
3. Will you pick one person, out of your normal circle, and pray for them every day during this study?
INTERESTING THOUGHTS ON TRUTH:
"Where I found truth,
there found I my God,
who is the truth itself."
Augustine
"Never let us be guilty of sacrificing
any portion of truth on the altar of peace."
J.C.Ryle
"Truth is so obscure in these times,
and falsehood so established, that,
unless we love the truth, we cannot know it."
Blaise Pascal
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