God is Able, part 5

Demonstrated in Perfection

He is a God of perfection. Whatever He started to do, He can bring it to perfection (completion).
 

He is able to bring His word and promises to fulfilment. In Genesis 17:1 God speaks to a 99-year-old Abram, promising to give him a son. In Romans 4 we are told that by this time, Abram’s body was “as good as dead,” yet he trusted that God was able to do what He had promised.
 

In the face of all of his very understandable doubts, God reassures Abram by calling Himself, El Shaddai, which means God Almighty. This was God’s way of telling Abram, “Don’t look in the mirror, Abram, look at Me! If I say you are going to have a son, it is going to happen. Age means nothing to Me. I Am Almighty God.”  Maybe, just maybe, He is saying something similar, to you, right now. 

Demonstrated in Restoration

God has power to restore what the enemy has killed, stolen, or destroyed. He can restore our lost health, our lost wealth, and our lost hope. He even promised to restore our wasted years, those years we followed the enemy or our own selfish desires; or, while we were trying to run away from what God was calling us to be or do. He achieves this by giving divine speed, to achieve exploits of many years in a few months.
 

Demonstrated in Protection

He protected Daniel in the lion’s den. King Darius spent a restless, sleepless night wondering, “if” God was able to do it. Daniel, on the other hand, enjoyed the Lord’s peace and rested throughout the night with lions, knowing full well, God is able.
 

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego were thrown in the fiery furnace, Nebuchadnezzar stood with an anger on his face as he sentenced the three Hebrews boys and defiantly bellowed, “Who can deliver them?!” Those young men, before they were thrown into the fire, and as they came out of the furnace, were shouting, “God is Able!”
 

Demonstrated in Provision

The Widow of Zarephath stood watching as the prophet ate the last of her bread and wondered if, God was Able to sustain her and her son. Three years later they were still eating, while all around them were starving, and whenever they finished a meal, she could whisper with all the assurance of her soul, God is Able.
 

Demonstrated in Destruction

God is able to destroy all the works of the enemy.  The Scriptures tell us, in 1 John 3:8 that He came for the purpose of destroying all the works of the devil. Because of this, we can believe Him for the destruction of evil works, plans, and imaginations against us in every area of our lives.
 

Demonstrated in Salvation

If anyone has any doubt about God’s power to save, look at the Apostle Paul. He was a blasphemer, a persecutor of the church, he hated Christ, and he showed it by seeking to destroy all who followed Him. He hated Christians and he hated Christianity, seeing it as a threat to his religious system. Yet God in His power came and saved and transformed and worked through such a man. The God who is so powerful that He can do the impossible did the impossible in Paul.
 

Think of the times He has delivered you, when He saved you, and the times He has moved mountains in your life. Remember His power and all that He has done! Let His past works remind you that He is Able. 

Be sure of this, no matter what you face in life today or tomorrow, God IS able, and He will come through for you every time. Let the past be your reminder and choose to trust Him no matter what!  END