DIVINE POWER FOR IMPACT (4)

“God has spoken once, twice I have heard this: that POWER BELONGS TO GOD – Psalm 62:11

All Power belongs to God, including DIVINE POWER for IMPACT: “God has spoken once, twice I have heard this: that POWER BELONGS TO GOD” (Psa.62:11). His Power is an intrinsic quality of His Person. Power is inherent to God. He doesn’t need anyone to supply Him. He is the Source of His own Power and doesn’t need to obtain anything outside Himself. God simply directs His Power to fulfill His purposes and pleasure: “But our God is in heaven; He does whatever He pleases” (Psa.115:3).

God’s Power is eternal and infinite, but consistently expressed in creation: “He has made the earth by HIS POWER, He has established the world by His wisdom, and has stretched out the heavens by His discretion” (Jer. 10:12). Yet, God’s creative works only give a glimpse of His limitless power. The vast power that is seen in creation is not all the power that He possesses. He who made the world far surpasses the world: “He stirs up the sea with HIS POWER, and by His understanding He breaks up the storm. By His Spirit He adorned the heavens; His hand pierced the fleeing serpent. Indeed these are the mere edges of His ways, and how small a whisper we hear of Him! But the thunder of HIS POWER who can understand?” (Job 26:12-14)

Power is practically inseparable from God. When Jesus was asked if He was the Christ, He said: “I am, and you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the POWER, and coming with the clouds of heaven” (Mk.14:62). The right hand of the Father is the right hand of Power, that ability by which God brings to pass whatever He pleases, or His infinite wisdom directs. God’s Power is infinite. It can neither be restrained nor frustrated. Yet, these touch only the fringes of His Glorious Power.

God possesses both absolute and ordinate Power. Absolute power is what God can do. His ordinate power is what He does, what He ordains to do. God can do whatever He wants to do, but in His perfect Wisdom, He decides how to use His Power. God often chooses not to do everything He can do. He could have kept Adam from eating the fruit on the Tree or could have not created the tree in the first place. He could have sent twelve legions of angels to rescue Jesus from the cross, but His ordinate power restrained Him. If we ask God to do something and He doesn’t do it, it might be because He has a better plan.