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The Omnipotence The Omnipotence of Godof God
God’s CharacterGod’s Characterpart 6part 6
Omnipotent:Omnipotent:
God is God is All-PowerfulAll-Powerful
Jeremiah 32:17 Ah, Lord God, it is you who have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and your
outstretched arm. Nothing is too hard for you.
2 Corinthians 4:7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, to show that the transcendent power belongs
to God, and not to us.
2 Corinthians 12:9 But he said, “My power is sufficient for you for my power is displayed in weakness.”
2 Cor. 12:10 Therefore, I will gladly boast about my weakness so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
God’s Power is Seen In…1. In Creating the World.
Isaiah 40:29 Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary.
God’s Power is Seen In…
2. In Sustaining Life. Acts 17:25 He is not served by human
hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life
and breath and everything else.
God’s Power is Seen In…
2. In Sustaining Life.
Acts 17:28 In him we live and move and have our being.
God’s Power is Seen In…
3. In Changing People. 1 Corinthians 1:18 For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who
are perishing, but to those who are being saved it is the power of God.
God’s Power In Your Life
God’s Power In Your Life1. Put Your Hope in God, Not
Yourself
Isaiah 40:31 But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not grow
faint.
God’s Power In Your Life
1. Put Your Hope in God, Not Yourself
John 15:5 “… apart from me you can do nothing.”
God’s Power In Your Life
2. Admit Your Weaknesses .
2 Cor. 12:9-10 “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” I will all the more gladly boast about my weaknesses, for when
I am weak then I am strong.”
God’s Power In Your Life
2. Admit Your Weaknesses .
James 4:6 God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.
God’s Power In Your Life
2. Admit Your Weaknesses .
Isaiah 66:2 this is the man to whom I will look, he that has a broken spirit
and a contrite heart.
God’s Power In Your Life
2. Admit Your Weaknesses .
Isaiah 57:15 “I dwell in the high and holy place, and with him who is of a humble and contrite spirit; to revive the spirit of the humble and to revive
the heart of the contrite.”
God’s Power In Your Life
2. Admit Your Weaknesses .
Psalm 139:23-24 Search me, O God, and know my heart. Try me and know my thoughts, and lead me in the way
everlasting.
God’s Power In Your Life
3. Witness to Your Friends.
2 Cor. 3:4-6 such is the confidence that we have through Christ toward God, not that we are competent in
ourselves to claim anything as coming from us...
God’s Power In Your Life
3. Witness to Your Friends.
2 Cor. 3:4-6 Our competence comes from God who has made us
competent to be ministers of the new covenant…
God’s Power In Your Life
3. Witness to Your Friends.
Acts 1:8 But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you;
and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and
Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.
God’s Power In Your Life4. Claim God’s Promises.
2 Peter 1:3 His divine power has given us everything we need for life and
godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory
and goodness...
God’s Power In Your Life4. Claim God’s Promises.
2 Peter 1:4 Through these he has given us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may escape the corruption that is in
the world caused by evil desires.
God’s Power In Your Life4. Claim God’s Promises.
• 1 Corinthians 10:13• Galatians 6:9-10• Proverbs 15:22• James 5:16• Philippians 4:13• Philippians 4:19
God’s Power In Your Life5. Surrender Your Will to God.
2 Chronicles 16:9 For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the
whole earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to
him.
God’s Power In Your Life6. Step Out in Faith.
Mark 9:23 Everything is possible to him who believes.
God’s Power In Your Life6. Step Out in Faith.
Matthew 9:29 According to your faith will it be done to you.