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Me And God
Contributed by Joshua Blackmon on Jun 23, 2021 (message contributor)
Summary: If God is for us, who can be against us!
Me and God
Introduction:
When my nephew Sam stays the weekend with my parents he gets to come to church. On those Sunday mornings, he will come into my office and we will listen to music sometimes. On a recent Sunday morning, he came into the office and shared one of his favorite songs with me.
Me and God by Josh Turner
There ain't nothing that can't be done By me and GodAin't nobody come in between me and God One day we'll live together Where the angels trod Me and God
Early in the morning talking it and GodLate at night talking it over Me and GodYou could say we're like two peas in a pod Me and God
He's my fatherHe's my friendThe beginningAnd the endHe rules the worldWith a staff and rodWe're a teamMe and God
I am weak, and he is strongMe and GodHe forgives me when I'm wrongMe and GodHe's the one I lean onWhen…
Me and God
6 And Jonathan said to the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over unto the garrison of these uncircumcised: it may be that the Lord will work for us: for there is no restraint to the Lord to save by many or by few.
7 And his armourbearer said unto him, Do all that is in thine heart: turn thee; behold, I am with thee according to thy heart.
23 So the Lord saved Israel that day: and the battle passed over unto Bethaven.
Israel was in a place
1. We Need A Sanctified Imagination
Jonathan realized that God could do more than he could imagine and God could do it using many or a few.
God does not need the greatest army, the greatest preacher, the greatest singer, the greatest anything. He is the one who gave them their greatness, their ability, and their talent. He can and does use them, and God loves the beautiful and the great, but if He so chooses he can use the weakest of things and the least of things.
Far too often we place God in a box through our lack of imagination. We think that we have God figured out. We think that we have life figured out. Jesus did not do many mighty works in His hometown because of their lack of faith (Matthew 13:58). Make no mistake, He could have healed them all. He could have delivered them all, but they knew too much. They had watched Him grow up. They knew His family. Even when they saw His mighty works and heard His wisdom all they could say was, "Isn't this the carpenter's son? Isn't Mary His mom? Don't we know all of His brothers and sisters?" (Matthew 13:53-58).
They needed a sanctified imagination--an imagination baptized with the Spirit of God, an imagination that flows out of a renewed mind.
Paul prayed for the Ephesians:
14 When I think of all this, I fall to my knees and pray to the Father, 15 the Creator of everything in heaven and on earth. 16 I pray that from his glorious, unlimited resources he will empower you with inner strength through his Spirit. 17 Then Christ will make his home in your hearts as you trust in him. Your roots will grow down into God’s love and keep you strong. 18 And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is. 19 May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. Then you will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God. 20 Now all glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think. 21 Glory to him in the church and in Christ Jesus through all generations forever and ever! Amen.
Ephesians 3:20 NIV
"Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us."
"I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done." (Henry Ford)
And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
Sanctified imagination. Jesus said that anything was possible to the person who believes.
“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.” (Henry Ford)
God chose Abraham because old Abe was childlike enough to believe that what God promised, He was able to perform. Faith is believing that God can and will do what He has promised. Faith is believing that God wants me to be involved in what He is doing.
