All Powerful
Power is multifaceted. Everyone knows a little something about it.
Two hundred forty volts of electricity is powerful as it can power strong motors, appliances, and other things that produce strong results. But then we see lightning and understand that the amount of power in a lightning strike supersedes 240 volts by far. We know that there is far greater electrical power out there.
A 60-mile-a-hour wind can be powerful and do some damage, but a hurricane with 140-mile-and-hour winds is far more destructive due to its much greater power. We respect a hurricane’s power far more than a 60-mile-an-hour wind.
The subject of power can be subjective based on what kind of power we are discussing and in what situation it is applied to. We witness isolated expressions of power in some way every day of our lives. The matter of powerful things or people is important to all of us. So what would all-powerful look like? How would the idea of someone being all-powerful impact us? Is there such a person?
Jeremiah 32:17 “Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm. There is nothing too hard for You.
God is not just mighty, as if He is slightly stronger than other things or His enemies. He is almighty and all-powerful. Nothing can even come close to His power. God is the only one who can truly say that nothing is too hard for Him.
You can try to put your trust in a man or someone you think has power, but only God can say nothing is too hard for Him. We define this attribute of God by using one word - Omnipotent - meaning all-powerful.
Psalm 62:11 God has spoken once, twice I have heard this: That power belongs to God.
Power belongs to God. Power is not outsourced to Him. He doesn’t pay the local power company for His supply.
There are ways God’s power can be seen. One is by laws and principles. There is a law of gravity, for instance. To overcome it, you must employ a more powerful law of lift. It is the reason birds and planes can fly in defiance of gravity.
Real encounters with God’s power can raise you above things too powerful for you in your own strength. Another way God’s power is seen is by an encounter with it, such as that which Israel experienced when God used His power to free them.
Deuteronomy 26:6 But the Egyptians mistreated us, afflicted us, and laid hard bondage on us. 7 Then we cried out to the LORD God of our fathers, and the LORD heard our voice and looked on our affliction and our labor and our oppression. 8 So the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and with an outstretched arm, with great terror and with signs and wonders. 9 He has brought us to this place and has given us this land, “a land flowing with milk and honey.”
It says they cried out to God, and He heard them. You can spend every day fighting for yourself and trying to be tougher, smarter, or know more angles to take than the next guy. Or you can run to your Father, who has all power, knowledge, and wisdom and can impart what you need in any situation. But to be inclined to run to Him, you need to believe He has the power to help you and will use His power to do so.
All-power means He has power for anything that occurs in our lives. Believe He is for you and not against you, and believe that He will use His power to bring you into the good of His will and purpose for your life. If God be for us, who can be against us? I encourage you to turn to Him, who has all power in any and every situation, regardless of how small or big it might be. Let Him lead you and help you today.
