The past few weeks, we learned how we are fully known by God, but also fully loved and understood by God.  God is not only omniscient, all-knowing, He is also omnipresent; everywhere all of the time.  Yet, we are invited to go beyond God’s general presence and to seek personal encounters with Him.

It only seemed right this week to transition right along from God being omniscient and omnipresent to the attribute of being omnipotent; all-powerful.  This is one of the more misunderstood attributes of God.

Power is only revealed and understood when its limits are put to the test and able to be proven.  Power refers to one’s potential strength.

For example.  You can go out and spend a few million dollars to pick up a Devel Sixteen, which boasts a 5,000 horsepower engine with 3,760 pound-feet of torque.  It’s one of the most powerful commercially available cars right now.  However, if you just casually drive it around like any other car, that power is never going to be fully realized.

Christians have access to the raw power of God, yet most of us are content to be Sunday morning drivers and never step out in faith to encounter that power move in and through our lives!

We don’t realize how strong we truly are until we walk through circumstances that we previously would have thought would have broken us.  It isn’t until we are taken to our limits that we do not realize how powerful or strong we truly are.  In fact, this is only a partial truth.  We’ll take a look at the rest of this truth later in the message.

God is omnipotent; all powerful.  There are no limits to His power.  His power is limitless.  All power and all authority is His.  God reigns sovereign over all and answers to absolutely no one for His actions.  They are always right and always good as God is entirely righteous and true.

After God finally responds to Job and essentially asks, “Who are you?”, Job responds to the Lord and says:

Job 42:2-6 (NCV)

2 “I know that you can do all things

    and that no plan of yours can be ruined.

3 You asked, ‘Who is this that made my purpose unclear by saying things that are not true?’

    Surely I spoke of things I did not understand;

    I talked of things too wonderful for me to know.

4 You said, ‘Listen now, and I will speak.

    I will ask you questions,

    and you must answer me.’

5 My ears had heard of you before,

    but now my eyes have seen you.

6 So now I hate myself;

    I will change my heart and life.

God even says to the prophet Jeremiah:

Jeremiah 32:27

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

God’s power, being boundless, can never reach limits to be fully known and understood.  However, His power is revealed to us in several different ways.

God’s power is revealed through:

– Creation

Jeremiah 10:12

God made the earth by his power; he founded the world by his wisdom and stretched out the heavens by his understanding.

Romans 1:18-20;25

18 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19 since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities – his eternal power and divine nature – have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.

25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator – who is forever praised. Amen.

Going back to God’s response to Job, the Lord reminds him of His power revealed through details of the natural world.  For time’s sake, we won’t go through all of the chapters, but just the first few verses:

Job 38:1-11

1 Then the Lord spoke to Job out of the storm. He said:

2 “Who is this that obscures my plans

    with words without knowledge?

3 Brace yourself like a m