GOD’S RESOURCES NEVER RUN SHORT
“God is able to make all
grace abound toward you.” (2 Corinthians 9:8)
When we face the daily challenges
involved in a life committed to serving the Lord, they can be
overwhelming. Too often we can’t see the
Lord because our “problem” gets between us and Him, distorting the view.
We need to get our eyes back on the
One we are serving and on what He is able to do. Ask yourself some questions:
What does Jesus actually mean to me?
Is He someone special or just some
“figure” from history?
Is He really my Almighty God?
If He should ask me to suffer for
His sake, is He able to take me through that experience?
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Many Scriptures assure us that OUR
GOD IS ABLE. I’ll quote parts of just a
few, but you should read the complete verses.
He is “ABLE TO SAVE completely all who come to God through Him” (Hebrews
7;25); “ABLE TO KEEP us from falling away” (June 24); “wonderfully ABLE TO HELP
us when we suffer and are tempted”
(Hebrews 2:18); “ABLE TO SAFELY GUARD all that I have given Him until
the day of His return” (2 Timothy 1:12).
Now, even though GOD is able,
sometimes we don’t receive what we request because WE hinder God. Our expectations are too low. We ask for small things. We don’t really expect Him to do great
things, ignoring the fact that it is “HIS almighty power working in us.” So, too often we live in spiritual poverty
because we are the ones who have limited God.
When God says “abundant,” what does
He mean? How much is abundant? PLENTY, ENOUGH! ALL that is needed and ALL that He has
promised and more to spare. His
resources are unlimited.
Let’s begin to appropriate in a
greater way that ever before that which the One to Whom we belong offers
us. “Him who is ABLE to do exceedingly,
abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in
us” (Ephesians 3:20). “God is ABLE to
make all grace abound toward you,
that you, always having all
sufficiency in all things, may have
an abundance for every good work” (2
Corinthians 9:8). Ruth D. Raws (some thoughts taken from Streams in the
Desert, April 20)
Ruth D. Raws was a missionary nurse who served in Latin America. Her father Addison Raws was the son of the found of America’s Keswick
Ruth D. Raws was a missionary nurse who served in Latin America. Her father Addison Raws was the son of the found of America’s Keswick
Team YOU: 2 Kings 19-21; Proverbs 14; John 1:1-30
Motivations: Holiness is as indispensable for a
spiritual warrior as is eyesight for a military fighter pilot.C. Peter Wagner
Practice to Remember:
Level 1:Ephesians 6:13
; Level 2: Ephesians
6:14-21
Powered Up: It is quite useless knocking at the door of
heaven for earthly comfort; it’s not the sort of comfort they supply there. C.
S. Lewis
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