GOD IS BIGGER THAN YOU THINK! (Part
II)
There can be no doubt. No matter how
long you have known God, or how
well you have known God, or how
great you perceive Him to be, GOD IS MUCH BIGGER THAN YOU THINK! In fact, OUR GOD “is able to do EXCEEDINGLY
ABUNDANTLY ABOVE ALL that we ask or think, according to the power that works in
us.” (Ephesians 3:20, NKJV)
Positionally speaking, we are IN
CHRIST and in full command of THE KEYS OF THE KINGDOM. (John 14:6 and Matthew
16:19) Our spiritual authority in Christ
is a clear demonstration of the largeness and largess of GOD. God’s supreme love motivates Him to always be
‘up to something’ behind the scenes to enlarge and empower us. Here is the grace part: Unquestionably, we
are undeserving of His “manifold mercies,” His “manifold wisdom,” and His “manifold
works.” (Nehemiah 9:19; Ephesians 3:10; Psalm 104:24) Nevertheless, GOD continually invests love
and trust in us.
Although we revere Abraham as ‘the father of faith,’ just like
our own lives, Abraham’s life is a portrait of the grace and goodness of a
great God who mercifully chooses undeserving human vessels to enact His sovereign
will in the earth. After God summoned
Abraham from Ur of the Chaldees and dispatched him to walk westward (by blind
faith) toward the Promised Land, He changed his name and destiny via a series of
divine promises. (Genesis, chapter 12)
God declared to Abraham…
-I will make you a great nation.
-I will bless you, make your name
great, and cause you to be a blessing.
-I will bless them that bless you,
and curse them that curse you.
-I will bless all families of the
earth through your seed.
-I will multiply you and make your
seed like the stars of the sky and the sands of the sea.
-I will be your shield and exceeding
great reward.
However, after the endowment of such
precious promises, it is fascinating to note that (due solely to sin) a much darker
and more troubled future was (also) in store for Abraham’s descendants. The same God who had promised a grand and
glorious future declared that a time would come when Abraham’s seed would
become servants and strangers in a strange land for 4 centuries. Nevertheless, in the midst of a divine decree
of judgment, God always reserves a ‘footnote’ of future blessing for those who
are His own. According to the Word, “and
also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and AFTERWARD SHALL THEY
COME OUT WITH GREAT SUBSTANCE.” (Genesis 15:12-14)
The sovereign will of God must and
shall be accomplished, one way or another.
One proof that God is bigger than
we think is His ability to carve out favor, blessings and miracles in
the middle of mess!
Here’s another example. Without knowing it, Joseph would be instrumental in fulfilling God’s promises to
Abraham. But he had to go through
extraordinary challenges to get there.
Father Jacob endowed him with a coat of many colors after perceiving a
special grace and anointing on young Joseph’s life.
Would you permit me to
hypothetically ‘speak’ to Joseph for a few moments?
Joseph, you probably felt that you
were headed nowhere – fast. Your Technicolor
coat of destiny (that is, your early ability and anointing) did not seem to be
taking you where you thought it would.
But I beg to differ. If God had
never given you a dream, Joseph, and if you had never shared your dream, your
brothers would never have despised you and planted you in a pit. And if your brothers had never despised you
and placed you in the pit, you would never have been discovered by a caravan of
Midianites. And if the Midianites had never
kidnapped you and carried you away from your homeland, you never have landed in
Egypt.
And if you had never arrived in
Egypt, you would never have been employed in Potiphar’s house. And if you had never gotten a gig in Potiphar’s
house, you would never have met Mrs. Potiphar, who tried to make a move on
you. And if Mrs. Potiphar had not tried
to make her move, you would never had wound up in prison. And if you never were an inmate in prison,
you would never have met Pharaoh’s chief baker and butler. And if you had never met the baker and butler,
you would never have the opportunity to interpret their dreams. And if you never interpreted their dreams,
you would never have the opportunity to interpret Pharaoh’s dream. And if you had never interpreted Pharaoh’s
dream, you would never have risen to power in Egypt. And if you never had such political power in
Egypt, you would never have been able to feed your starving family and nation. And if Israelites had never been fed in famine
and had perished, then the lineage that brought JESUS CHRIST into this world
would have been cut off BEFORE the whole world had the opportunity to be
saved! I’m talking about THE SOVEREIGNTY
OF GOD! From PIT to PRISON to PALACE to
PROVISION to PARADISE – for all of us who would believe!
GOD IS BIGGER THAN YOU THINK! Stay tuned…more to come tomorrow.
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