Everyone who lives on earth is nothing compared to Him. He does whatever He wishes with the army of heaven and with those who live on earth. There is no one who can hold back His hand or say to Him, What are you doing? Daniel 4:35
God is all-powerful.
He can do whatever He wills.
He can perform all His pleasure.
He has the ability and strength to bring to pass whatsoever He pleases
Whatsoever His infinite wisdom may direct
Whatsoever the infinite purity of His will may resolve.
God's power is infinite, eternal, incomprehensible.
Once God has spoken; Twice I have heard this: That power belongs to God. Psalm 62:11
God has spoken once: how befitting His Divine majesty!
We poor mortals may speak often and yet fail to be heard. He speaks but once and the thunder of His power is heard on a thousand hills.
The Lord thundered from heaven; the voice of the Most High resounded. He shot His arrows and scattered them; great bolts of lightning and routed them.
The valleys of the sea were exposed and the foundations of the earth laid bare at Your rebuke, O Lord, at the blast of breath from Your nostrils. Psalm 18:13-15
His power was displayed when God became incarnate and dwelt among men.
To the leper He said, "I Will, be clean," and immediately his leprosy was cleansed.
To one who laid in the grave four days He cried, "Lazarus, come forth," and the dead came forth.
The stormy wind and the angry wave were hushed at a single word from Him.
A legion of demons could not resist His authoritative command.
Power belongs to God and to Him alone.
Not a creature in the entire universe has an atom of power except what God delegates.
But God’s power is not acquired.
It belongs to Him inherently.
God's power is self-existent, self-sustained.
Power is used as a name of God: the Son of man sitting at the right hand of power (Mark 14:62), that is, at the right hand of God.
God and power are so inseparable that they are reciprocated.
As God is immense, not to be confined in place, as He is eternal, not to be measured in time, so He is almighty, not to be limited in regard of action.
Lo, these are only parts of his ways: and how little a whisper is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand? Job 26:14
Even that which is displayed of His might in the visible creation is utterly beyond our powers of comprehension, still less are we able to conceive of omnipotence itself.
There is infinitely more power lodged in the nature of God than is expressed in all His works.
This is brought out remarkably in Habakkuk 3:4: "and there was the hiding of His power." It is scarcely possible to imagine anything more grandiloquent than the imagery of this whole chapter. The prophet in vision beheld the mighty God scattering the hills and overturning the mountains, which one would think afforded an amazing demonstration of His power. No, says our verse, that is rather the "hiding" than the displaying of His power. What is meant? This: so inconceivable, so immense, so uncontrollable is the power of Deity, that the fearful convulsions which He works in nature conceal more than they reveal of His infinite might!
"He walks upon the waves of the sea" (Job 9:8)
"He walks in the circuit of Heaven" (Job 22:14)
"He walks upon the wings of the wind" (Psalm 104:3)
This last expression is very remarkable. It is not that "He flies" or "runs" but that He "walks" and that, on the very "wings of the wind"—on the most impetuous of the elements, tossed into utmost rage, and sweeping along with almost inconceivable rapidity, yet they are under His feet, beneath His perfect control!
Let us now consider God’s power in creation.
The heavens are Yours; the earth also is Yours;
The world and all that is in it, You have founded them.
The north and the south, You have created them.
Psalm 89:11-12.
Before man can work he must have both tools and materials, but God began with nothing, and by His word alone out of nothing made all things. The intellect cannot grasp it.
When he spoke, the world began! It appeared at his command. Psalm 33:9
Well may we exclaim, Powerful is your arm! Strong is your hand! Your right hand is lifted high in glorious strength. Psalm 89:13
Who, that looks upward to the midnight sky; and, with an eye of reason, beholds its rolling wonders; who can forbear inquiring, Of what were their mighty orbs formed? Amazing to relate, they were produced without materials. They sprung from emptiness itself. The stately fabric of universal nature emerged out of nothing. What instruments were used by the Supreme Architect to fashion the parts with such exquisite niceness, and give so beautiful a polish to the whole? How was it all connected into one finely-proportioned and nobly finished structure? Let them be, said God. He added no more; and at once the marvelous edifice arose, adorned with every beauty, displaying innumerable perfections. "By the word of the Lord were the heavens made, and all the host of them by the breath of His mouth." Psalm 33:6
Consider God’s power in preservation. What a standing monument of the power of God is the preservation of the world!
Consider God's power in judgment. God is going to display His mighty power upon the reprobate not merely by incarcerating them in Gehenna, but by supernaturally preserving their bodies as well as souls amid the eternal burnings of the Lake of Fire.
Well may all tremble before such a God! To openly defy Him who is clothed with omnipotence, who can rend us in pieces or cast into Hell any moment He pleases, is the very height of insanity.
Well may the enlightened soul adore such a God! The wondrous and infinite perfections of such a Being call for fervent worship. If men of might and renown claim the admiration of the world, how much more should the power of the Almighty fill us with wonderment and homage.
Who is like you, O Lord, majestic in holiness, awesome in glorious deeds, doing wonders? Exodus 15:11
Well may the saint trust such a God! Seeing that He is clothed with omnipotence,
no prayer is too hard for Him to answer
no need too great for Him to supply
no passion too strong for Him to subdue
no temptation too powerful for Him to deliver from
no misery too deep for Him to relieve.
The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? Psalm 27:1
Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen. Ephesians 3:20-21