THEME:GOD IS ABLE

TEXT:Ephesians 3:20 - Now unto Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all

that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us.

If someone said to you, God is able! That would be a great statement. But it goes on,

God is able to do and not just able to do. He is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all. And not only
able to do exceedingly abundantly above all but able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask
or think.

I love the story of the two men standing on a bridge across the ocean. One said look at all that water and
the other said, yea man, and just think that is just the top.

Job 42:2 – I know that you can do anything. And that no purpose of yours can’t be stopped. What test or
trial are you facing? Do you believe God can do anything, and that nothing can stop His purposes from
being fulfilled? It’s one thing to believe in God’s ability when all is well, but quite another when, like Job,
you’ve lost everything and your world is falling apart.

Jeremiah 32:17 – There is nothing to hard for you. (Almighty God, you have made the heavens and the
earth by your almighty power.

Luke 1:37 – For with God nothing shall be impossible. (Mary was going to have a baby. Mary said how
can this be I know no man.

1.GOD IS ABLE TO SAVE US- Hebrews 7:25 – Wherefore He is able also to save them to the uttermost
that come unto God by Him… The word “uttermost” means completely and forever.” God is able to save
us completely and forever. God can save anybody. 1 Tim. 1:15 – Paul called himself Chief of Sinners GOD
CAN SAVE FROM THE GUTTERMOST TO THE UTTERMOST!

How about salvation? God doesn’t save us just enough so that we can survive life in this world, then
squeak into heaven by the skin of our teeth. No! Through what His Son Jesus our Savior has
accomplished for us, He is “able to save [us] completely.” The Amplified Bible says Jesus can save us
forever … completely … perfectly … for eternity.

At some point in our earthly lives, it is eternally important for each of us to “turn from [our] sins to
God and believe in our Lord Jesus” (Acts 20:21, GNT). At that point of repentance and faith, we are
“born again” and become for all eternity a son or daughter of God Almighty (2 Corinthians 6:18). And
from that great moment of our entrance into the family of God, because the Lord “is able” we can
experience the fullness of His great salvation — including not just the forgiveness of our sins, but divine
health and healing, deliverance, mental and emotional wholeness, and a host of other blessings as we
await our eventual resurrection at His Coming.

When a temptation first hits you, don’t dwell on it, don’t let it “conceive.” Turn to the Lord for help to
overcome. The Scripture says that our Lord who Himself was tempted — but always victorious —
“is able to help those who are being tempted.” Jesus will give you the grace to resist the temptation and
overcome it. Don’t fight temptation just with “will power.” Fight it with Jesus’ power over sin. Where we
are not always able, He is able! He will help you to victory.

Jude 24-25, KJV Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present
you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, to the only wise God our Saviour, be
glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.

Furthering the previous point, God is fully and willingly “able to keep you from falling.” You don’t have to
be a casualty to sin or, God forbid, to serious backsliding from God. He is able to keep you from falling!

Not only that, God is able to cleanse you from sin and its guilt by the blood His Son Jesus shed at the
cross. Freely and entirely by the merits of what Jesus has done for us, we can have the great hope of
meeting God face to face one day “faultless before the presence of His glory.”

2. GOD IS ABLE TO DELIVER US – Daniel 3:17 - The three Hebrew children expressed confidence in God’s
ability and said, Our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will
deliver us from your hand, O king.

He is able. Daniel 3:17-18 “If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to deliver
us from it, and he will deliver us from Your Majesty's hand. But even if he does not, we want you to
know, Your Majesty, that we will not serve your gods or worship the image of gold you have set up.

The young Hebrew captives Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego were refusing to worship the image of
Babylon’s King Nebuchadnezzar. The king was furious and threatened to throw them into a fiery furnace
unless they would worship his statue. Their faith in God speaks loudly to us even today: “the God we
serve is able to deliver us from it.” They added that even if God chose not to do so, they would not
worship the king’s image.

You’ve heard the rest of the story. The enraged king had the three of them thrown into a blazing hot
furnace. But when the king looked into the furnace, he was astonished and cried out, “Look! I
see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire; and they are not hurt, and the form of the fourth is
like the Son of God” (Daniel 3:25, NKJV).

Are you facing a fiery-furnace trial in your life? Remember the three Hebrew youths’ faith-filled
utterance: “The God we serve is able to deliver us.”
3.GOD IS ABLE TO HEAL US - Matthew 9:28 – The blind men came to Him: and Jesus said unto them,
Believe that I am able to do this? They said unto Him, Yes, Lord.

Jesus is still in the healing business. Whether we are suffering physically, emotionally, mentally. God is
able to heal us!

The key is, will we let Him? Jesus said to a lame man, Do you wish to get well? (John 5:6) Do we really
want to be made whole? That was Jesus’ condition of healing and deliverance.

Matthew 9:28-30a When he had gone indoors, the [two] blind men came to him, and he asked them,
“Do you believe that I am able to do this?” “Yes, Lord,” they replied. Then he touched their eyes and
said, “According to your faith let it be done to you”; and their sight was restored.

The two men were blind. Even today, with the amazing progress of modern medicine, there are
numerous cases of blindness that are incurable by man’s best efforts. By contrast, Jesus had no medical
training. His vocational training had been in carpentry. Nevertheless, as the Son of God, the Second
Person of the Trinity, He had divine power over the creation, including over all diseases and infirmities.
He still does!

His only question to the two blind men was, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?” “Yes, Lord,”
they replied. Jesus then healed their blindness instantly. How did this happen? Jesus explained that the
healing was “according to [their] faith.” And how had they shown Him their faith? In their “Yes, Lord”
reply to His asking if they believed that He was able to heal their blindness. Believe in Jesus' healing
abilities today, and you too can experience divine healing. Why? How? The Son of God is able
and willing to heal you (Mark 1:41).

4.GOD IS ABLE TO PROVIDE ALL OUR NEEDS – 2 Corinthians 9:8 - God is able to make all grace abound
toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work.

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

YES, GOD IS ABLE: There is no pain that God can’t heal. There's no need that God can’t supply. There's
no promise that God won’t keep.

YES, GOD IS ABLE TO DO EXCEEDINGLY ABUNDANTLY ABOVE ALL THAT WE ASK OR THINK, ACCORDING
TO THE POWER THAT WORKS IN US. These things are wonderful. Yet remember that, as awesome as
these blessings are, God “is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine." Don’t limit God.
He who created the heavens and the earth with a simple spoken word (see Genesis chapter 1) can speak
into your life divine blessings beyond your imagination. Believe Him for these things. The God we serve
is One who “delights in the well-being of His servant” (Psalm 35:27). He delights in your well-being
more than you can ask or imagine!

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5.God was able to do what he had promised.

Romans 4:19-21, ESV He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was as
good as dead (since he was about a hundred years old), or when he considered the barrenness of
Sarah's womb. No unbelief made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his
faith as he gave glory to God, fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised.

When childless Abraham was 75 and his barren wife Sarah was 65, God promised them a son. Twenty-
five years later (a quarter of a century!) the promised son Isaac was born to 100-year-old Abraham and
90-year-old Sarah. This was undeniably a miracle. Yet Abraham had not wavered into unbelief
concerning God’s promise. Rather, he grew strong in faith. How could he do that as he and Sarah passed
further into their very elderly years? Simple: Abraham remained “fully convinced that God was able to
do what He had promised.”

Do you have promises from God that He has spoken to you from His Word the Bible and confirmed to
you by the inner witness of His Spirit? If those promises seem to have been delayed, remember
Abraham and Sarah! The promise came when she was 65. She gave birth to the baby when she was 90!
God is able! Continue to believe for His faithfulness to you and His limitless ability to do
immeasurably more than all you’ve asked or imagined.

God is able to do exceedingly more than our natural skills can accomplish. He can take our limited
talents and small vision and do what He desires to do in us and through us.

My point — and more importantly, God’s point in the verse above — is that He is entirely capable of
accomplishing things far beyond our limited vision and our humble attempts to serve Him.

Your life, your career, your family, your service to Him, your spiritual walk, whatever it may be.
Surrender yourself body, soul, and spirit to God and to His will for your life. In doing so, you’ll find the
ultimate fulfillment and the greatest security. We are never more secure than being directly in and fully
surrendered to the Lord’s will and plans for us and our loved ones.
God is able to guard you, to keep you walking with Him, to give you meaningful service opportunities for
Him. No devil is strong enough to separate you from God and Christ and their perfect plan for your life.
Whatever you commit in faith to God, He is able to guard!

Hebrews 4:15; 2:18 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses,
but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet he did not sin… [2:18] Because
he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.