God Is Able

Copyright 2010 by Joan Saunders

To be able means to have sufficient power or resources.

God doesn’t owe us anything.

Job 41 (New International Version)

10 …
Who then is able to stand against me?
11 Who has a claim against me that I must pay?
Everything under heaven belongs to me.

But, God alone has sufficient resources for all our needs.

2 Corinthians 3 (New American Standard Bible)

5Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves,
but our adequacy is from God,

And God is able to provide for us sufficiently and more than sufficiently

2 Corinthians 9 (New American Standard Bible)

8And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that always having all sufficiency
in everything, you may have an abundance for every good deed;

Why? So that we may have abundance to do good deeds. Read it again – that we many
have sufficiency, enough, for ourselves and abundance for good deeds.

Ephesians 3 (New American Standard Bible)

20Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think,
according to the power that works within us,

God is able to give us all that we need and more – when His power is working in us.

What is God able to do? Anything that we need Him to do.

Daniel 3 (New American Standard Bible)

15"Now if you are ready, at the moment you hear the sound of the horn, flute, lyre,
trigon, psaltery and bagpipe and all kinds of music, to fall down and worship the image
that I have made, very well But if you do not worship, you will immediately be cast into
the midst of a furnace of blazing fire; and what god is there who can deliver you out of
my hands?"
16Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego replied to the king, "O Nebuchadnezzar, we do
not need to give you an answer concerning this matter.
17"If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the furnace of blazing
fire; and He will deliver us out of your hand, O king.
 18"But even if He does not, let it be known to you, O king, that we are not going to serve
your gods or worship the golden image that you have set up."

Sometimes, it seems that people in general feel like God is at risk if events don't appear
to be happening in accordance with their conception of God. God is not at risk. Our
perspective may be at risk, but God never is.

Shadrach, Mechach and Abednego were facing death by fire. And still they stuck to their
faith, summing up faith principles beautiful.

1. God is able.

2. God will fulfill his promises.

3. But, even if the promises are not fulfilled according to my own understanding of them,
I will still continue to serve God according to my understanding - unto death if necessary.

Acts 20 (English Standard Version)

32And now I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build
you up and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

Our Lord is able to build us up. Sometimes that seems more impossible than anything
else. Little old pitiful us. Powerless though we may feel someday, God is still able to use
us for His purpose.

And He will keep us:

2 Timothy 1 (New American Standard Bible)

12For this reason I also suffer these things, but I am not ashamed; for I know whom I
have believed and I am convinced that He is able to guard what I have entrusted to Him
until that day.

Jude 1 (English Standard Version)

24 Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless
before the presence of his glory with great joy,

God is able. We don't have the resources to be able of ourselves. We need to let go and
let God.