In this glorious doxology (an expression of consummate praise to God), the Apostle Paul expressed the simple, yet profound premise that “God is Able!”

As I tried to demonstrate in this message, every true believer must begin with this simple, powerful concept. Click here to listen to this message.

Here is the message outline with some passages for additional study:

Praise and Exalt the God . . . Who is able.

This is the potential aspect – God’s capacity.

-         to do infinitely more

o       than we ask

o       than we think

Who is at work in us.

This is the practical aspect – God’s conducting

of His Work through us.

-         According to God’s Power

-         Presently working in us

Additional Study: Note the appeals for extravagant blessings: Philippians 1:9; 4:19, Colossians 1:9-11, 1 Thessalonians 3:11-12, 2 Thessalonians 1:3, 1 Corinthians 1:4-5

God is Able!

Matthew 10:28, Acts 20:32, Romans 4:20-22, 2 Cor. 9:8, Philippians 3:21, 2 Timothy 1:12, Hebrews 2:18; 7:25

I hope that this message will mean as much to you as it has meant to me. When I think of messages  such as this one, I think about the “20/20 vision” articulated by Moses in Exodus 20:20. When the people of Israel expressed the wish that God would not speak to them because they were afraid they would die (Exodus 20:19), Moses responded, “Fear not, for God is come to prove you that His fear may be before your faces.”

This may seem confusing to some, but Moses was appealing for them to embrace the Fear of God. This is not a fear that alienates, but the fear that attracts. One who has the Fear of God has admiration and respect for God that attracts him to the Lord. Those without the Fear of the Lord will be driven away by their own fears. It honors the Lord for us to dwell “in the Fear of the Lord” with the result that His Fear is “before our faces.”

Sincerely,

Gordon Dickson, Senior Pastor, Calvary Baptist Church, Findlay, Ohio