## Knowing God Plugging Into God's Power For Our Life

## Jeremiah 32:17

Jeremiah 32:17 "Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee:."

Luke 18:27 "What is impossible with men is impossible with God."

Omnipresence-God is everywhere

Omniscience-God knows everything

Omnipotence-God is all-Powerful

1. The Affirmation Of God's Power

"The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge." Ps. 19:1-2

Jesus displayed God's power ...

Over Nature (Mk. 4:36-41)

Over Illness (Lk. 5:27)

Over Death (Lk. 7:11-15)

Over Satan (Lk. 8: 27-39)

2. The Application Of God's Power

"Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places " Eph. 1:20 [2]

Power Shortage #1: The Ability To Initiate

"For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not." Rom. 7:18

God Can Give Me The Power To Perform

"For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure." Phil. 2:13

Power Shortage #2: The Power To Motivate

"Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun." Eccl. 2:11

God Can Give Me The Power Of Passion

"Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart" Psalm 37:4

Delight = make pliable, soften

Power Shortage #3: The Power To Tolerate

"Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed. My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O LORD, how long?" Ps. 6:2? 3

God Can Give Me The Power To Persist

"But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint." Isa. 40:31

Power Shortage #4: The Power To Captivate

"But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we…And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight." Num.13: 31,33

God Can Give Me The Power To Possess

"And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it…Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not." Num. 13:30,14:9

Power Shortage #5: The Power To Appropriate

"And she said, As the LORD thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die." - I Kings 17:12

God Can Give Me The Power To Prosper

"But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus" Phil. 4:19

3. The Appropriation Of God's Power or How Do I Plug Into His Power?

Accept By Faith

"Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong." 2Co 12:10

Confess My Faith

We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak; 2Co 4:13

"I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD: I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only. … Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come." Psalm 71:16,18

Declare My Faith

"Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth." Mk. 9:23

"Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it unto you." Matt. 9:29

Contribute By Faith (Get your feet wet!)

(Joshua 3:13-17) And it shall come to pass, as soon as the soles of the feet of the priests that bear the ark of the LORD, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of Jordan, that the waters of Jordan shall be cut off from the waters that come down from above; and they shall stand upon an heap. And it came to pass, when the people removed from their tents, to pass over Jordan, and the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people; And as they that bare the ark were come unto Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water, (for Jordan overfloweth all his banks all the time of harvest,) That the waters which came down from above stood and rose up upon an heap very far from the city Adam, that is beside Zaretan: and those that came down toward the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, failed, and were cut off: and the people passed over right against Jericho. And the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the midst of Jordan, and all the Israelites passed over on dry ground, until all the people were passed clean over Jordan.

"I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me" Ph 4:13.