the God i worship

You know how sometimes in your conversations and prayers and devotional time there is a recurring theme that comes up over and over again (hence the recurring part)? Well right now one of those themes in my life is God is able. 

He is able to provide for our every need. He is able to heal all our brokenness whether that be relational, spiritual, mental, physical, or emotional. He is able to bring rain when there is none in the forecast. He is able to do far more abundantly than all we could ever ask or imagine. I am amazed at all the times in the Bible where I read about someone's faith in God and it says that they believed that God was able.

I feel like we have lost a lot of that,that we no longer believe that God is able to meet us right where our hearts are, right in the deep longings and desires, right where the hurt lies. We don't ask God to do impossible things because we don't believe that He can do impossible things.

God is able to break decades of generational sin. God is able to make a way for an impossible dream to come true. God is able to give children where there is barrenness. God is able to heal a disease that the doctors don't know how to. God is able to meet the cry of the lonely heart. God is able.

Does that mean God always does these things? No. Does that mean God does these things when we think He should? No. God does not do what we want when we want Him to because that would make us God and not Him. Just because He doesn't do these things doesn't mean that He isn't able to. It just means that He has a better plan and a greater purpose. 

I believe that God has something better for me than I could ever dream up. I believe that His purposed for me will be fulfilled in His perfect time and His perfect way. I believe that God is able.  

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