HE IS ABLE TO CHANGE US

Philippians 3:21 Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.

 

That is just the way I am.  How many times have you heard or said that, or "That's just the way he or she is."?  We learn to accept people, especially ourselves, as being less than what we ought to be.
God is still able to change lives.  He is still able to help people conform to the image of Christ.

 

So many times we will pray for someone with a serious sin problem and yet we fear that they will never change.  Maybe we are praying more that God will just take away the sin and the problems it cause them (and us) instead of praying that God will transform their lives into a beautiful vessel for His service.

 

Sometimes the process of change is not a pleasant experience.  Sometimes we have to be broken and then be remolded into a different person.  Sometimes we have to hit bottom before we look up and are willing to give all the pieces of our broken lives to the one who can mend them.  We don't want to go through it and we don't want those we pray for to go through a painful transition but we have to realize that God is able to fashion each and everyone, and to subdue all things unto Himself.

 

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HE IS ABLE TO DO MORE THAN WE ASK OR THINK

Ephesians 3:20 Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,

 

Most of us think and ask too small.  We go to our Heavenly Father in prayer asking as if we believe He rations our blessings.  When Jesus encountered a blind man and asked him what he really wanted the blind man answered that he wanted to see.  Jesus gave him is sight.

 

I have often thought that today so many would have asked for so much less.  They might have asked for a dog or a cane to help them get around.  They might have asked for someone to help them to take care of themselves.  It took a lot of boldness to ask for his sight but he learned a valuable lesson that we too should learn.  He is able to do even more than we think or ask.

 

Are you a little shy about asking God for what you really need? Sometimes even when we pray for something specific that we really need we do not really expect God to grant it.

 

Believe that God wants to bless us.  He is able to do more than we think or ask.  Increase your faith by increasing your expectations.

 

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HE IS ABLE TO SHOW US GRACE

II Corinthians 9:8 And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work.

 

Grace means unmerited (undeserved) favor.  Sometimes we feel that we will not be blessed because we don't deserve to be blessed.  We feel that we can't succeed because we don't deserve to succeed.  The truth is that God is glorified in blessing us.  He receives glory from seeing us succeed.

God did not create all the good things in the world for the devil's crowd.  He does not take pleasure in us failing. 

 

It is true that sometimes we fail because we do things for the wrong reasons and in the wrong way.  Read Hebrews 11 in the Bible.  It is the Hall of Faith that shows how God's grace was sufficient for all those He chose to do His work.

 

It is our job to believe God.  It is our job to do the good works He directs us to do.  He will provide the grace and the power to see those works through.  He is able to help us whether we deserve it or not.

 

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HE IS ABLE TO KEEP HIS PROMISES

Romans 4:21 And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.

 

It is an honorable thing for a man to keep his word.  It is especially important for him to keep his promises.  I can remember many times when my children were growing up I could not make certain promises because I knew that I might not be able to keep those promises.  What I could do was tell them I would try.  If for some reason then I could not keep our plans I still needed a very good explanation of why not but at least I did not break a promise to them.

 

The children of Israel wandered in the wilderness for 40 years and the older generation died, (without entering the promised land) simply because they did not believe God could keep His promise.  Joshua and Caleb entered in and received the promises because they trusted God to deliver.

 

Man may fail.  He may not be able to deliver on his promises.  That is not true with God.  Whatever He has promised us in His Word, He is able to deliver.

 

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Time Is Precious

Ephesians 5:15-16 See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,(16) Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

 

Luke 21:26 Men's HEARTS FAILING THEM for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

 

It seems that the older I get the faster time seems to pass.  I spent years running from the time I got up until after midnight each night and never seeming to have enough time to do everything.  Several heart attacks later I have learned some valuable lessons.  We need to concentrate on the things that are important and we need to use our time wisely.

 

I remember when almost everything was closed on Sunday and a 24 hour business was almost unheard of.  It seems like these days almost everything is geared to a 24 hour 7 day week and still people are running and rushing trying to squeeze everything into their day.

 

Simply put we seem to spend our time doing that which is urgent and we don't seem to spend time doing the things that are really important.

 

What is important?  Only the things we have done out of love for the Lord will last for eternity.
Our kids might forget some of the so called quality time we spend with them but the time we spend teaching them about Jesus will be with them forever.

 

The older I get, the more precious I realize our time really is.  We need to redeem the time and spend it to glorify God.

 

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Yes!

Ephesians 3:20 Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, 

 

Can I possibly face the challenges of being a spouse and a parent?
Can I be a Christian witness in the workplace?
Is there any way that I can gain victory over the depression I have been having?
Can I continue to resist temptation in the areas of my life where I am so weak?
Will I be able to focus more on my Bible reading and prayer life?

 

I could continue on with this line of questioning but hopefully you get the idea.  Sometimes we do need to ask ourselves the hard questions.  Sometimes we feel so inadequate that we think we just can't handle things and we certainly can't handle them on our own.

 

I find great comfort in knowing that I don't have to handle them on my own.  There is a power that works in me, the Holy Spirit, who will comfort, strengthen, and guide me in my times of weakness.
He is able to do way above all that we ask or think so the answer to all the questions is yes.

 

Philippians 4:13 I CAN DO ALL THINGS through Christ which strengtheneth me.

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Do You Really Know How Much He Loves You?

Eph 3:17-19 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, (18) May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;(19) And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.

How wide is the love of God?  It is wide enough to encompass the whole world and everyone that has ever inhabited or will inhabit it.  How long is His love?  It is an eternal never ending love, not on again and off again but continuous.  How deep is His love?  It is deep enough to reach the vilest sinner in the depths of his sins and rescue him and embrace him with love everlasting. How high is His love?  It reaches to the very Heaven from where He sent His son to pay our sin debt and give us eternal life.

 

When we dwell in Christ we should know that He dwells in us and that His love should flow forth from us to all those around us.

 

It is when we finally get to know the love of God that we getting a glimpse of the majesty of God. There is no way we can every fully comprehend how much God loves us until we receive our glorified bodies because it passes our knowledge.

 

When we begin to comprehend His love we then become filled with the fullness of God.

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