The Power of the Lord

Numbers 11:23 (Isaiah 50:2, 59:1)

The Lord answered, "Is the Lord's arm too short? You will now see whether or not what I say will come true for you."

Numbers 14:17 (NASB)

But now, I pray, let the power of the Lord be great, just as You have declared.

Isaiah 26:4b (KJV)

In the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength.

Isaiah 40:28-31

Do you not know?

Have you not heard?

The Lord is everlasting God,

the Creator of the ends of the earth.

He will not grow tired or weary,

and his understanding no one can fathom.

He gives strength to the weary

and increases the power of the weak.

Those who hope in the LORD

will renew their strength.

They will soar on wings like eagles...

Jeremiah 10:13 (NASB)

When He utters His voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and He causes the clouds to ascend from the end of the earth; He makes lightning for the rain, and brings out the wind from His storehouses.

Jeremiah 32:27 (NLT)

I am the Lord, the God of all the peoples of the world. Is anything too hard for me?

St. Augustine

Thy Omnipotence is not remote from us even when we are remote from Thee.

C.H. Spurgeon The Treasury of David on Psalm 18:32, 35 "It is God who arms me with strength and makes my way perfect. You give me your shield of victory, and your right hand sustains me..."

It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect. Girt about the loins with power from heaven, the warrior was filled with vigour, far above all created might; and, whereas, without this wondrous belt he would have been feeble and effeminate, with relaxed energies and scattered forces, he felt himself, when braced with the girdle of truth, to be compact in purpose, courageous in daring, and concentrated in power; so that his course was a complete success, so undisturbed by disastrous defeat as to be called "perfect."

Have we been made more than conquerors over sin, and has our life hitherto been such as becometh the gospel? Then let us ascribe all the glory to him who girt us with his own inexhaustible strength, that we might be unconquered in battle and unwearied in pilgrimage.

Let this one great, gracious, glorious fact lie in your spirit until it permeates all your thoughts and makes you rejoice even though you are without strength. Rejoice that the Lord Jesus has become your strength and your song (Psalm 118:14). He has become your light and salvation (Psalm 27:1).

Thomas Watson The One Thing Necessary on Philippians 4:13

How is a Christian able to do duty, to resist temptation—but through Christ's strengthening? How is it that a spark of grace lives in a sea of corruption, the storms of persecution blowing—but that Christ holds this spark in the hollow of His hand? How is it that the roaring lion of hell has not devoured the saints? Because the Lion of the tribe of Judah has defended them! Christ not only gives us our crown—but our shield. He not only gives us our garland when we overcome—but our strength whereby we overcome. "They overcame him—that is, the accuser of the brethren—by the blood of the Lamb." Revelation 12:11

Christ keeps the royal fort of grace—so that it is not blown up. Peter's shield was bruised—but Christ ensured that it was not broken. "I have prayed for you—that your faith fail not," Luke 22:32 that it be not a total falling away. The crown of all the saints' victories must he set upon the head of Christ!

Richard Sibbes The Bruised Reed, "Why The Enemy Seems Victorious"

Weakness, with acknowledgment of it, is the fittest seat and subject for God to perfect His strength in; for consciousness of our infirmities drives us out of ourselves to Him in whom our strength lies.

William Gurnall The Christian in Complete Armour

God often suffers a contrary power many times to arise, in that very juncture of time, when he intends to show his mercy to his people, that he may rear up the more magnificent pillar of remembrance to his own power.

Alexander Maclaren

Only he who can say, 'The Lord is the strength of my life' can say, 'Of whom shall I be afraid?' (Psalm 27:1)

A.B. Simpson

When God is enthroned in a human soul, the devil and the world soon find it out. We do not need to advertise our power. Jesus' could not be hid, and a soul filled with divine power and purity should become the center of attraction to hungry hearts and suffering lives.

A.W. Tozer

The Divine Conquest

“In Word, or in Power”

The Christian message rightly understood means this: The God who by the word of the gospel proclaims men free, by the power of the gospel actually makes them free.

"The Spirit as Power"

Christianity takes for granted the absence of any self-help and offers a power that is nothing less than the power of God. This power is to come upon powerless men as a gentle but resistless invasion from another world bringing a moral potency infinitely beyond anything that might be stirred up from within. This power is sufficient; no additional help is needed, no auxiliary source of spiritual energy, for it is the Holy Spirit of God come where the weakness lay to supply power and grace to meet the moral need.

This power from God operates on another level; it is spiritual power. It is the kind of power that God is. It is the ability to achieve spiritual and moral ends. Its long-range result is to produce God-like character in men and women who were once wholly evil by nature and by choice.

That Incredible Christian

F.B. Meyer Our Daily Walk on Psalm 91:2 - I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.”

Lord, be Thou within me, to strengthen me; without me, to keep me; above me, to protect me; beneath me, to uphold me; before me, to direct me; behind me, to keep me from straying; round about me, to defend me.

Joshua 4:24 (Exodus 14:31)

He did this so that all the peoples of the earth might know that the hand of the Lord is powerful and so that you might always fear the Lord your God.