The One Who Can Do More Abundantly
Contents
1. Words that begin
Human beings who were born empty-handed must constantly work hard to obtain, fill, and equip themselves in order to survive.
To some extent, this can be met through parents, neighbors, teachers, and friends. However, the very important or decisive things in life cannot be satisfied by one's own efforts and labor alone, nor can others be satisfied.
This fact also disproves the creation and religious nature of human beings themselves.
The apostle Paul was well versed in Hebrew and Greek and Roman ideas at the time, and was a religious leader with all kinds of gifts and abilities, but he knew the limits of all of them better than anyone. So, he lived a life that glorified God, who not only made more possible but also gave us eternal life, and also lived a life of mission to spread the gospel so that others can live like that.
2. The powerful man who works among us
The God whom the Apostle Paul believed and preached with all his life is a powerful man who works among us.
Philosophers and theologians who were once influenced by philosophers argued that they could encounter God through reflection and meditation. As a result, the gods that each of them were said to have met were different.
The theologians also claimed that they could discover the true image of Jesus who lived on earth through rational work, but the results produced different Jesus.
After all, the gods they claimed to have discovered or encountered were not Gods, but merely the product of their respective reflections and meditations.
In other words, they mistook the creation created by their heads for God.
God is not a being that we can find or meet by groping for, but He is already a powerful person working among us. Therefore, we can meet the same God and experience the amazing power by living according to the words of the Bible written by those who met God who works in the midst of life and experienced amazing power.
Also, when we pray according to the Word, we can receive the same grace. According to Deuteronomy 4:7,
“What nation has found his god as close to him as the Lord our God is to us whenever we pray to him?” he said.
Some people scoff at us believers for believing and relying on God who doesn't know whether they are weak, lacking, or not. They are arrogant, claiming that “I have to live on my own.”
But that's it. I don't know why I pull a small nail without pulling the nail with my own strength, and trust and rely on the hammer head, which is just a small piece of iron. And what's even funnier is that it's stupid to see people who don't believe in tools and don't rely on them, and who struggle to do it on their own.
Where's the funny thing? Are you constantly making things you can trust and rely on in your life? Don't you even know the Creator who gave you brain cells that are so great that they can make things like cloned sheep, cloned pigs, cloned monkeys? With that great brain, we have to understand God the Creator, and according to His love, we must glorify God and benefit mankind. … Not knowing God and the Word is a really big problem.
Everyone, I hope you will more thoroughly believe and rely on God who works with His power.
The more you live like that, the wiser you become. There is no greater strength, no greater help, no greater grace than trusting and relying on God who works with power. the psalmist
“I lift up my eyes to the mountains; where will my help come from? My help is from the LORD, who made the heavens and the earth” (Psalm 121:1-2).
God, who is the owner of heaven and earth, works through our potential, works through people and even our enemies, works through nature, and works through work for us who believe and depend on us.
Please believe that there is nothing that God, who even gave his only begotten Son, cannot do to love us.
Apostle Paul, who accomplished the great gospel work by receiving unusually many gifts and powers,
“He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things” (Romans 8:32).
3. A way to experience God's power
What is the way to experience the power of God working beyond all human perception?
God did not create humans as robots, but created them as autonomous beings capable of spiritual communication with God. Therefore, there is nothing more urgent and important in human life than to continue to accept the power of God the Creator.
what's that way?
The Apostle Paul asserts that “to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think” based on his continual experience after meeting the Lord.
First, the way to obtain the power of God working in us is through prayer.
In fact, prayer is not just a sound or cry from the head or mouth, but a sound or cry from the soul. It is said that prayer is a spiritual conversation with God, and since God is a Spirit, a person who prays must bow his soul.
Everyone, please pray. Pray until you know that God is able to supply more abundantly than we ask.
I would like to introduce you to the writings of Kenyan missionary Lim.
I overcame my burning thirst and wandered around the village of Masai for 4 days, but no one has yet to believe in Jesus.
I desperately want to give up and go back, but the image of my brother who is limping to save souls keeps me walking.
I went to a certain Boma (Massai's house is called Boma), and a brother, without knowing the cause, had a swollen shoulder and was unable to use his arm for a year. He asked us to pray. He was exhausted because there was not a single believer, so he did not have the heart to pray. However, as I laid hands on my hands and prayed with the brothers, a miracle occurred.
This guy is moving his arms. It's screaming cheers as you swing your arms back and forth that haven't moved for a year.
Besides, another bigger and more amazing miracle happened. Because of this, ten people in the house accepted Jesus.
Do you know the reason why God doesn't ask for God's power while confessing that he is a child of God?
It's because they don't really believe in God that much. Do you not see the image of people everywhere believing in those who use their head, possessions, and strength more than in the power of God?
Dear all! Please believe and pray in God who pours out abundantly on us according to the power that is at work in the midst of our lives.
Second, the way to obtain the power of God working in us is to think about God and think about God's will.
Thoughts lead to actions, and actions shape life. Therefore, to think about God and His will means to have the Spirit of God in the center and to engrave the Word of God in the heart.
According to Psalm 1:1-2,
“Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand in the way of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scorners, but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night.”
Everyone, how often do you remember and obey the Lord and His Word during the day?
One day, British thinker Collins met a poor worker on his way to church.
“Where are you going?” "I'm going to church," answered the worker. Collins inside
“Let’s see how this ignorant man knows God,” he asked, thinking.
“Is your God great? Or are you a little one?” the worker smiles
“God is so great that He embraces the whole universe. But you are also small enough to stay in my heart.”
Later, Collins recounted, "No collection of ideas lived up to the impression this poor worker made."
4. Conclusion
We are not all self-sufficient or perfect.
You must continue to obtain, fill, equip, and love until you enter the eternal kingdom of heaven.
This work is our privilege and duty, given to us by God the Creator.
God works with his power so that we can have everything we need and live a loving life.
May all of us glorify God by trusting and relying on God, who pours out His power more abundantly than we think and through our prayers.
(Poongseong Methodist Church. Book: Complete Commentary on 27 New Testament Books/ Interpretation of Difficult Scriptures I, II/ Salvation Before Jesus Came/Paul’s Understanding of Man/ Prosperity Prayer/ Seasonal Sermonbooks/ Sermonbook 18. -3051)