GOD IS ABLE, GIVE HIM GLORY

Ephesians 3:20, 21

Now unto Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us. Unto Him, be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.

 

GOD IS ABLE 

 

The Apostle Paul  takes a "praise brake" in the middle of His letter to the Ephesians. He praises GOD for His faithfulness and His ability to answer prayer above all that he could ask or imagine. Paul is filled with the Holy Spirit as he extols the greatness of the LORD. Look with me at the statement "GOD is able"

Paul says, "GOD is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think". When we ask the LORD in prayer, we are giving to Him permission to act on our behalf. Let's look again at the widow who had a debt she couldn't pay. She asked the Man of GOD for help and he asked what she had in her house. When we give to GOD what little we have in our hand, He will take it and magnify that little bit into great abundance, because we asked Him and because He loves us. Yes, LOVE is the key. He loves us first and our love is our response to His great love. His love gives abundantly and exceedingly more than we can ask or imagine. 

I am sure that the widow and her sons thought that the request from the man of GOD to collect oil vessels, was strange. Yet, they were obedient and collected as many vessels as they could find. Then they "shut the door", so that only those who believed in the power of GOD were within the house. Then then poured out the oil and there was overflowing abundance. There was so much oil that the widow and her sons had enough to sell and pay their debt, plus live off the oil for themselves. 

Think about this also, there was a great famine and drought in the land of this "certain woman" and her sons. When the oil was filling the jars and the woman sold the jars of oil to pay her debt, she was providing oil for other families who were crying out in their need to GOD. So GOD was not only providing for this "certain woman" but for her neighbors. When GOD does wondrous things, in great abundance and far more than we could ever ask or imagine, He wants us to give in love as He has given to us. When He puts abundance in our hand, our hands become His supply for others. 

 

GOD IS ABLE, GIVE HIM THE GLORY FOR ALL THAT HE HAS DONE IN HIS ABUNDANT LOVE FOR US.