1 Chronicles 29--God Is Able
"Riches and honor come from You, and You are the ruler of everything. Power and might are in Your hand, and it is in Your hand to make great and to give strength to all." 1 Chronicles 29:12
From 1 Chronicles 29 and the Biblical Illustrator---Truths to Meditate Upon:
"Use 3. For encouragement.
I. This truth affords encouragement in those special cases which are most apt to trouble and deject you. He can supply all your need.
(1) Want you wealth, or what you judge to be a competency? (1Ch 29:12).All the riches of the world are in His hands, and He can dispose thereof to whom and in what proportion He sees good (2Co 9:8; Php4:19).
"And God is able to make every grace overflow to you, so that in every way, always having everything you need, you may excel in every good work." 2 Corinthians 9:8
I. “God is able”—a very simple proposition. A self-evident one to those who really believe in God. Is not the opinion of many something like this?—“God is not able to do much specifically. Granting His personal existence, He can only act along the line of the laws, and in conformity with the great forces of the universe.” “God is able” is our answer to this. Whatever He has done, He can do again. Is He not the Creator still, every day? Every morning He says, “Let there be light.” Every year He says, “Let the earth bring forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind.” BI
"4. Do you say, “My nature seems strengthless. I can wish, but I can do nothing”? I answer, “God is able” to make you all that He designs man to be.
5. Or do you say, “I hope I am forgiven, and yet I am in fear. The heart is deceitful, temptation is strong. What if after all I should make shipwreck of faith”? My answer is, “God is able” to guide you safely through." (A. Raleigh, D. D.)
(3) Want you victory over enemies, those that afflict and oppress your souls? The Lord can give it you; it is His own.
(4) Want you strength, outward or inward, to do, or to suffer, or to resist? This He can also give you, for it is all His own (1Ch_29:12).
(5) Want you wisdom? (Jas_1:5).
(6) Want you gifts or other graces, or a greater measure of them? (Jas_1:17).
(7) Want you comfort? (2Co_1:3).
(8) Want you friends? All the friends in the world are but cyphers to Him.
2. There is encouragement to undergo or undertake anything for God which He calls you to. He is the owner of all things, and so has enough to requite you, to reward you, if all that is in heaven and in earth be enough to do it. (D. Clarkson.)
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