The argument of these verses goes: Do you remember how, when God promised to bless Abraham, God swore an oath to confirm His promise? But did you notice who God swore by? He swore by Himself! Since God swore by Himself, it shows that there is no-one is greater than Him.
Because God is very different from us, we sometimes find this hard to understand. We are all created beings; we all rely on someone else in order to exist. God exists entirely from Himself.
Isaiah Jesus also does other things that only God can do: He accepts worship John ; cf. I am the only Christian amongst us and they know what I believe. I pray God will bring the opportunity of chosing salvation to all of them. I never thought that I would see all this caring and kindness from my sister and brother. God is great!!!
God created such an astoundingly lovely sunset a few nights ago! The colors were absolutely amazing! The way He put it all together against the silhouetted trees was fabulously wonderful. Indescribable…and yet, I felt like He did it just for me, to show His greatness, His nearness. The Bright Morning Star. Our Light in a dark world. Our Bread and Living Water.
Our Provider and our Healer. The Lover of my soul. I am nothing apart from Him and I have nothing apart from Him. Bless His Holy Name! God is so Good I got to see my first grand daughter yesterday at the doctors office they did an ultrasound she is due the first week of February.. A heart stopper, when you realize the God of the universe is listening and answering your prayers. The swiftness and manner of His answer in two situations actually frightened me!
I am also seeing answers regarding my need to slow down, be still and know that He is God. I want to be in awe of Him. I have become too complacent. I believe this study, Liz, will help me regain the awe factor. Thank you for leading us in learning more about our wonderful God! I agree that That His greatness is too much for us to comprehend.
I have a hard time putting into words my feelings about the greatness of God. I think this study will help me tremendously. Thank you Liz, for your insights. I enjoy them so much. The fear and worry that overcomes me at times is so overwhelming. Everyday is a miracle and a blessing.
I know longer take this for granted. The drs. Today she is alive and healthy. I had thanked the dr. He pulled her through. He is worthy and so easy to love, because he forgives, provides, and blesses us when we are not even aware of it. Now that is How Great God is!!! God provided all our needs this week; and then some. Praise Jesus for his loving kindness and mercy that is renewed to us each day. Praises, Glory to God, our Heavenly Father for watching, protecting our loved ones and allowing us extra time to love them!
She spent 3 days in the ICU and 2 days in the medical unit. She was admitted in critical condition and the doctors told us if we had not brought her in when we did, she would not have lived much longer.
Through this whole time, the Lord faithfully brought people, verses, and devotions that spoke exactly to the situation. She is now home resting and recuperating, and, once again, the Lord in His greatness is meeting our every need.
What is so great about God? Our God is a God of reconciliation. It is not in our timing it is in His. I received a positive letter from my step-daughter. She is currently serving a five year sentence in a correctional institution in a nearby state. God is whispering to her as only He can, in that still small voice. God is great because in His timing…. His grace becomes evident.
The Lord has saved my marriage and my husband. Today i can say that the mercies of today are that of a peaceful and rested mind. We have a long road ahead but one that will be taken each step with Jesus leading the way. Thanks so much Liz for your ministry, the writings today are ointment to a Frustrated me!
I am giving all of the problems to Him and with His help I can leave them there. Thank you again. Dear Liz, I was first introduced to you through your wonderful Bad Girls of the Bible books, I loved them and recommended them to everyone. So glad to have found you here through Idisiple. Looking forward to more of your wonderful words. I come to visit the library to check my e-mail. How very sweet. Almost reminding myself, again,when he asked me how I was doing. As he approached my counter in the work- place to pay for his account that he has in our place of business.
God keeps amazing me with His Greatness. He woke me up this morning at the crack of dawn just to tell me to get in my presence with Me my child and He lead me to Liz blog. God really knows our hearts ladies. When we are obedient to His will Our Lord will show up and show out!!!! Next Post ». Julie January 7, at pm. Roxanna E. Dunn January 7, at pm. Donna January 7, at pm.
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Love the new design and the new Bible Study. God is great! Sheri January 8, at am. God is so great that we can spend our lives getting to know him and still there is more. The unlimited, infinite God has chosen to reveal himself to us. God is uncreated. Though He created everything on this earth, the galaxies, the oxygen for our lungs, you, me, the angels and demons and Satan, God himself is uncreated.
He has always been. God answered with a declaration of who he is. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: I AM has sent me to you. God has no beginning and nothing came before him.
God is complete in himself and has no needs. He experienced complete fellowship in the trinity eons before earth was created. Our failure to pray? It only hurts us. Our sin? Our lack of trust? We live in a world of change — job moves, opinion shifts, relationship changes. But God is a rock and never changes. God has always loved us and proved it on the cross. God is eternal which means that he exists outside of our time limitations.
He governs time. Why is it our priority to find out something God says we cannot discover? The need in our generation is not to find out who we are. The question is not: Who am I? The question is: Who is God?
Once we find out who God is, then we can understand who we are. And there is a sense in which all of us are going to pale in significance in some way.
Initially that might seem hurtful because today people want to know who they are, and find self-esteem and worth. And that is important only from God's point of view. What we are going to teach in this series is that when you focus on God and who He is, all of a sudden self-esteem has a new foundation, a new root system.
It is entirely different. It changes your life, your perspective. I do not know what your relationship with God is like. But no matter how long you have been a Christian, you and I both know that the most fundamental thing to Christianity is a living and vital relationship with the God we say we believe. It is a personal relationship. It is not a group of facts and dogmas that we preach from the pulpit. Even though we must teach truth, we also need to apply that truth. We need to have a living, vital, personal relationship with the God who made us.
There is nothing as important as that. Psalm 8. Much of our focus throughout this series will be on the Psalms. Let us begin with Psalm Psalm , 4 , 9 NKJV. Turn to Psalm please. The Bible is replete with statements about God's greatness. Psalm NKJV. There is no one higher than God. You talk about the greatness of God. He is described as the Most High over all the earth.
Look at Psalm 96 please. The opening verses exhort us to praise Him in our worship and proclamation. Oh, sing to the LORD a new song! Sing to the LORD, all the earth. Declare His glory among the nations, His wonders among all peoples. Honor and majesty are before Him; Strength and beauty are in His sanctuary. Psalm , the opening three verses. You could almost make this the key text of the day.
They are good verses to memorize. One last verse. Psalm In the last culminating psalm of this beautiful worship and praise book of the nation of Israel and of all of God's people, there is a symphony of praise to the Lord. Praise the LORD! Father, I pray in these few moments together You will help all of us to focus on the greatness of our God in a fresh and wonderful way that will cause us to stop doubting, to stop being confused about what the answer is to our problems.
It is so frequent in all of our lives that we seek every possible solution except You. May You become a living, personal, vital friend and relationship to every single believer here. May those who are not believers long to know a God who is great like the Bible expresses. May we see that we need to trust Him, to worship Him, to honor Him, to consider Him in all of our ways.
Thank You, Lord, for all You are going to do. In Jesus' name, Amen. There are three things, basically, that comprise the greatness of God.
One, which is rather surprising in that our whole series is dedicated to knowing about God, is the fact that He is incomprehensible.
I want to focus on that a little bit. God is incomprehensible. That is, it is impossible to know Him. And yet we are going to try. All we have at our disposal is the written revelation of God, facts that God has chosen, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, to allow us to see about Himself and His greatness.
But within those facts, God reveals that we will never discover all that He is. He is the incomprehensible God. He is beyond knowing. Please turn to the book of Judges After the opening five books of the Law, you have Joshua, Judges and Ruth. The book of Judges is a terrible period in Israel's history. Every man did that which was right in his own eyes, but there were some notable exceptions of people who really called on the Lord and saw great and mighty things.
No matter how rotten society can become, there is always that power of the living God, the greatness of God that can change any person's life, any person's situation.
The parents of Samson, the judge, who was mightily used of God, were such people. What a wonderful story it is: Samson's parents, a man named Manoah and his wife, lived through many childless years.
They had no child so they prayed and asked God to give them a child. And the angel of the Lord paid Manoah a visit. It was not just an ordinary angel, but a particular messenger of the Lord, with a title that usually refers to the Messiah.
In English the word wonderful , means fantastic, terrific, and really great. That is not the meaning of the Hebrew word. The best English word I know for the meaning of the Hebrew word is incomprehensible. It is too difficult to understand. When Manoah wanted to know what the name of the Angel of the Lord was, he said, "It is too wonderful for you. You remember the verses that we often see at Christmastime on plaques and posters. We use the verses a lot at that particular time.
And His name will be called wonderful. We read in Psalm that His greatness is unsearchable, that no one can fathom it. We are talking of the greatness of God. And what do we mean? He is incomprehensible. It refers to three things: what He knows, what He does, and who He is.
Let us start with what He knows. Why is God so great that it is impossible to know what He knows? And the answer is that not one single person who has been created by God has ever been given the capacity of God Himself. We are all limited in our knowledge, but He is not. He knows all things. From beginning to end, anything that has ever happened in your life or in mine, the Bible says that God knows it all. He knows our weaknesses better than we do. He knows what sins have been in our lives or will be.
He knows what tragedies will come. He knows what sorrows we bear and what pains and hurts are ours. And because we do not understand that doctrine, we quickly move to the belief that somehow God does not care. And yet over and over again He says He cares. He knows and He cares.
He will not do it like you think, but He will do what is right. And He will do it for His glory and His honor. And He asks us to trust Him, but we want to be in charge. We want to be the captain of our own fate, the master of our own destiny. We want to grab hold of it and make the decision. And God says, "You will never know what I know-ever. Let me give you an example. Turn to Psalm , a wonderful, beautiful psalm, whose opening six verses deal with the omniscience of God, that He knows everything and the fact that we cannot know it.
So He is indeed incomprehensible to the human mind. He knows what no one else knows. You know after this Job tried to find out why he was suffering so much. Have you ever tried to find that out? I think if we had a testimony time right now and asked people to share what they are going through, we could spend hours here just hearing incredible stories.
It would almost be like one-upmanship. It is like the guy who said, "I complained that I had no shoes until I saw a man who had no feet. And it would get worse and worse and worse. Every one of us has an incredible set of problems in our lives, from past, present, and I am sure in the future. And we could continue to pour out those problems and those difficulties and those hurts. Job went through a lot. Everyone who reads the Job passage while going through suffering, gets a measure of comfort.
Because they can see in their life the same things that Job went through. Job tried to understand, Why, Lord, is all this happening to me? God never gave him any answers. God made him suffer through the wisdom of friends who really tried to give him correct Bible doctrine.
They pointed out that maybe one of the reasons was his sin. They pointed out that maybe God was just showing him how fragile human nature is. Well, actually it was the worm syndrome they gave him. God gave Job a lot of friends who did not give him correct information.
And you might ask, "Since God knows all things, why did He do that? Why does God even allow that? The whole book of Job has that message, in addition to the message of encouragement in suffering. Perhaps it is the fundamental message. Job finally, after hearing all of his friends, said, "Miserable comforters are you all. He was not getting any satisfaction as to why he was suffering. He lost his family, his possessions and his personal health deteriorated.
He was in sackcloth and ashes and nobody was helping him. But when he finally ran out of conversation, God talked to Job. I do not know how God said it, but He sure got his attention. And He brought two gigantic animals, which I believe were dinosaurs, to his attention. He said, "Nobody can conquer these Job, I made those.
The meaning of wonderful , is incomprehensible. God, I do not know what You are doing. I have been a motor-mouth on this. I have uttered things constantly that I did not understand. I tried to act like I could possibly understand.
Lord, I am now going to rest in the fact that I do not know why You have done this. But I know that You have a purpose in it. So I am going to be quiet. God says, "Good, now I can bless you. Boy, is that ever something for us to take home today and put in our hearts.
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