Unexplainable Power
Excerpt From: Today God Is First by Os Hillman
-Without Pharaoh's pursuit of Israel at the Red Sea, there is no miraculous deliverance.
-Without Lazarus's death, there is no rising to life.
-Without Goliath, there is no underdog story.
-Without Peter stepping out of the boat, there is no miracle on the water.
-Without Judas' betrayal, there is no resurrection.
God wants to show Himself in ways you and I cannot imagine. Let God demonstrate His power in you today. Then, you will see "all men drawn unto Me."
Our brother, Os Hillman, has made a significant observation that can be capsulized in a few simple words, ‘We want to see miracles but we don’t want to endure the distress that precedes them.’
Nobody wants to suffer but everyone wants to see the Lord glorify Himself in the kinds of miracles He performed when He walked the earth. Can we be faulted for desiring to walk in health and wholeness and prosperity? Can we be blamed for preferring good things to bad?
No, our loving Savior does not find fault with us for claiming the blessings He has promised; but He does remind us that when the hedge around us is compromised for any reason, we are to take our needs before Him in faith.
James 4:2 explains that we will try any other method to obtain our needs, but that it boils down to the simple reality that, “…you have not because you ask not.”
Here are just a few of the myriad promises found in the unfailing Word of the Living and True God:
Matthew 7:7-11: Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asks receives; and he that seeks finds; and to him that knocks it shall be opened. Or what man is there of you, whom if his son asked bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he asked for a fish, will he give him a serpent? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask Him?
Matthew 18:19: Again I say unto you, if two of you shall agree on earth as touching anything that they ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.
Matthew 21:22: All things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.
John 14:13: And whatsoever you shall ask in My name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you shall ask any thing in My name, I will do it.
John 15:7: If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you shall ask what you will, and it shall be done unto you, for herein is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit; so shall you be my disciples.
John 15:16: You have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that you should bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever you shall ask of the Father in My name, He may give it you.
John 16:23: And in that day you shall ask Me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, whatsoever you shall ask the Father in My name, He will give it you. Hitherto have you asked nothing in My name: ask, and you shall receive, that your joy may be full.
Philippians 4:6: Be anxious for nothing; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
Philippians 4:19: And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
James 1:5: If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that gives to all men liberally, and upbraids not; and it shall be given him.
The Bible is replete with the promises of our God. How many of them have you claimed lately?
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