The POWER of God.

In the last few weeks I have been thinking about the POWER OF GOD, to the point that it starts to bring tears to my eyes. I think God is softening my heart and making me realise how dependent I am on Him and how HIS POWER is so GREAT if I would just allow him to work.

I had a picture in church the other day of the lion Aslan being chained up in the film Narnia and I felt like
God whispered to me, "That's what happens in the Western world, believers and non believers alike chain up my affective power by apathy, by unbelief, by lack of expectancy." Don't get me wrong I think God moves anyway, despite us. But I do believe that He would be so much more effective in my life if I had a more correct view of His majesty and power to work.

I love to analyse, reason, sort, fix, but more and more I'm realising I CAN DO NOTHING effectively without Him. This week when I was unwell physically it hit me again that God wants me to put Him in His rightful place. For me to come to the end of our own ability to fix and do things myself. To pray more then He would act through me rather than me in my own might.

I also realised that fear of life and circumstances is directly linked to my understanding of His power. If I think all the responsibilities and problems in life are mine to fix then I have so much to fear. However the more I trust in God and His mighty strength and fear Him then I don't need to worry about what life throws at me so much. I realised that God can't give me greater responsibility in my relationship with Him and my service to others until I have mastered this in the little things. Have you ever looked at Christians that suffer great things or those with big leadership responsibilities and wondered "how do they do it?" Well I wonder if the answer is this: they started trusting and relying on God in the little things. They overcame fear in the everyday things by knowing His awesome power and equipping of the Holy Spirit. The verse, "The Lord encamps around those who fear Him" has been ringing in my head this week and I realised with the Lord I have nothing to fear because I know His power is enough (Ps 34v7).

May these quotes/verses on His power inspire you as they did me:


"And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit, who lives in you (Rom 8v11)


 "For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline" (2 Tim 1v7)


Jesus looked at them and said, "with man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible." (Matt 19v26).

"For the Kingdom of God is not a matter of talk but of power." (1 Cor 4v20)

"God's power is like Himself, self-existent, self-sustained. The mightiest of men cannot add so much as a shadow of increased power to the Omnipotent One. He sits on no buttressed throne and leans on no assisting arm. His court is not maintained by His courtiers, nor does it borrow its splendor from His creatures. He is Himself the great central source and Originator of all power." (C.H. Spurgeon).