God is All-Powerful

MAIN TEXT: GENESIS 18:9-14

HIGHLIGHT VERSE: GENESIS 18:14
“Is anything too hard for the Lord? I will return to you at the appointed time next year, and Sarah will have a son.” (NIV)

TOPIC POINTS:

1. God Has Power Over What Seems Impossible – Genesis 18:9-10
2. God Has Power Over the Doubts of Humans – Genesis 18:11-12
3. God Does What He Says He Will Do – Genesis 18:13-14

INTRODUCTION:

Power is the ability to exercise influence and control over people, things and events. The president of a country or the king of a nation is considered to have the topmost power in that country or nation, but even the president/king has a power above him.

Scripture teaches that Yahweh is Almighty, the King of the Universe with ultimate power over everything in existence. His power has no limits and encompasses the physical and spiritual realms.

GOD HAS POWER OVER WHAT SEEMS IMPOSSIBLE

– GENESIS 18:9-10, MARK 10:27, LUKE 1:37

God has the ability to overpower natural processes for His own purposes. God’s promise to Abraham for a child came to him when it seemed impossible by natural process. He was 100 years old and his wife was 90 years old, way past menopause. Mary was a virgin who had not known a man. God being all-powerful, made them both able to conceive and bear the promised child.

God is too powerful to be thwarted by challenges such as age, distance, fertility. etc. He created and sustains every natural process. Human problems know how to settle themselves at the command of God. To us these are miracles, to God they are part of HIs mode of operation. What a mighty God we serve.

GOD HAS POWER OVER THE DOUBTS OF HUMANS

– GENESIS 18:11-12, LUKE 1:18, 34, ISAIAH 55:8-9

Sarah laughed after hearing the promise of her conceiving at 90 years of age. Abraham himself laughed earlier in Genesis 17:17, Mary asked, “How will this be?” Their doubts came from considering the impossibility of what was promised. But of course, as our Lord said, “With man, this is impossible, but not with God; all things are possible with God.”

When we doubt God’s promises, it exposes:

• Our limitations on God
• Our poor knowledge of what God has done and can do
• Our inability to believe God to do what He says He will do
• Our mistake in considering the natural over the supernatural

GOD DOES WHAT HE SAYS HE WILL DO

– GENESIS 18:13-14, PSALM 135:5-6

God is unlike us who make promises but fail to fulfill those promises. The integrity of the all-powerful God is par excellence. He is more than able to do all He says He will do.

God fulfilled His promise of Issac to Abraham, God fulfilled His promise of John the Baptist to Elizabeth and Zechariah. God fulfilled His promise of the Messiah to the virgin Mary. Rest assured He will fulfill all He has promised to us in His own time.

CONCLUSION:

We have all the evidence we need to recognize that God is all-powerful. God has worked against seeming impossibilities, He has confounded the doubts of people, He created and sustains all creation, His words bring forth realities.

Unfortunately, we sometimes believe the devil’s lies to think that the God who made and controls everything can be limited in His abilities by His own creation. Let us believe God in His word for He is able to accomplish all He says He will do.

Behold I am the LORD, the God of all flesh
Is there anything, is there anything too hard for me?

Is there anything, anything, anything, too hard for me?
Is there anything, is there anything too hard for me?

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

• Recite our highlight verse
• What is power?
• What does it mean that God is all-powerful?
• Is God able to overpower natural processes? How/why?
• What does our doubt say about us?
• Why should we trust God’s promises?
• Mention some of God’s promises that seemed impossible but were accomplished.
• Mention some of God’s promises that seem impossible right now.