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 elects 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 would also lie ahead for
Abraham’s descendants. The same God who 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 four 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 our 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 arrive at the center of God’s perfect will,
the place of His power and provision. 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 (a.k.a., 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 that 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 have 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 had the opportunity to interpret their
dreams. And if you never interpreted their dreams, you would never have had
the opportunity to interpret Pharaoh’s dream. And if you never
interpreted Pharaoh’s dream, you would never have risen to power in
Egypt. And if you never had such elevated political power in Egypt, you
would never have been able to feed your starving family and nation. And
if the 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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