Power Belongs To God

For in him we live, and move, and have our being; 

as certain also of your own poets have said, 

For we are also his offspring.

Acts 17:28

Power belongs to God!  Isn't it interesting that there is no quantifier, or qualifier, for that matter, to God’s power.  It just simply is; power originated with Him.  There is no comparison to the limited power of man based on fame, fortune, money, position and yes, even knowledge to the power of God.  That would be like comparing a lit match stick to the sun!  The true and living God revealed in the Holy Bible is the source of all power. King David wrote:

God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power belongeth unto God. Psalms 62:11

When God repeats something it is because it is very important.   Before anything else existed, there was God.   In Genesis 1-2,  it records the beginning of the world and all living beings. God made the earth by His power:

He hath made the earth by His power; He hath established the world by His wisdom and hath stretched out the heavens by His discretion.   Jeremiah 10:12

I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are upon the ground, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and have given it unto whom it seemed meet unto me. Jeremiah 27:5

For by Him were all things created, that are in Heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by Him, and for Him.   Colossians 1:16

Since God created all things, there is nothing beyond the scope of His power:

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.   Jeremiah 32:17

God is the source of power behind all things in their present state:

Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and POWER: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.  Revelation 4:11

For of Him, and through Him, and to Him are all things; to whom be glory for ever. Romans 11:36

Who being in the brightness of His glory, and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the Word of His power when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high:    Hebrews 1:3

God has the times and seasons in His power:

And He said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in His own power.   Acts 1:7 

The earth and all it contains belong to the Lord:

The earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. Psalms 24:1

God is called the possessor of Heaven and earth. To possess something is to have power over it.

And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the Lord, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth,  Genesis 14:22 

There are many kingdoms and governments in this world. But God's Kingdom is sovereign. This means He rules over all:

The Lord hath prepared His throne in the Heavens; and His kingdom ruleth over all. Psalms 103:19

Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty; for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the Kingdom, O Lord, and thou art exalted as head above all. Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all.  1 Chronicles 29:11-12

❤    Since God created man, only He has power over the spirit of man:

There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.  (Ecclesiastes 8:8)

 And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.  Luke 12:4-5

❤    God has power to preserve those appointed to die:

Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die.   Psalms 79:11

❤    God is the one who gives power to the faint:

He giveth power to the faint, and to them that have no might He increaseth strength.  Isaiah 40:29

O God, thou art terrible out of thy holy places: the God of Israel is he that giveth strength and power unto his people. Blessed be God.  Psalms 68:35

❤    God's power is not affected by the power or lack of power of man:

And Asa cried unto the Lord his God, and said, Lord, it is nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power: help us, O Lord our God; for we rest on thee, and in thy name we go against this multitude. O Lord, thou art our God; let no man prevail against thee.  2 Chronicles 14:11

God has the power to deliver. The Bible is filled with records of how God supernaturally delivered people in times of need. Two good examples are found in the book of Daniel. God delivered His servants from the furnace of fire in Daniel 3 and from the lions' den in Daniel 6.

❤    His power is unlimited:

The Lord is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the Lord hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.   Nahum 1:3

                                                                                         

❤    His power is excellent:

Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out: he is excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice: he will not afflict.   Job 37:23

❤    God's power is everlasting. Apostle Paul wrote that God...

Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen.   1 Timothy 6:16

In the final book of the Bible a future event in Heaven is recorded when . . .

And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power; and no man was able to enter into the temple, till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled.   Revelation 15:8

Saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might, be unto our God for ever and ever. Amen.    Revelation 7:12

And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in Heaven, saying, Alleluia: Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power unto the Lord our God.  Revelation 19:1

Repeatedly, from beginning to end, the Bible stresses that God is the source of power and it is His power that we should seek.  King David recognized it when he recorded:  

Power belongs to God!

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