The Power of God

As I begin this third devotion on prayer I would like you to understand the power that is God and how we as His children can tap into that power. I have shown first how we are to pray in the “will of God.” When we pray we are to rejoice and give thanksgiving knowing that our Father will answer our prayers. Let me take a moment to give an example of what I am saying: I know a lady who has a very hard time walking long distances. As she is driving to the grocery store she prays that God will make it possible for her to find a parking spot close to the store entrance. Almost sounds trite, doesn’t it? But, she tells me without fail when she prays for this there is always a parking place right up front. She tells me when she prays she always gives thanks and praises Him before she gets to the store.

Does God care about the little things in our life? Are there problems that are too small for Him? Are we to trust Him with all things in our life? Yes! No! Yes! God delights in giving good things to His children when they come to Him in faith.

Four thousand years ago God wrote to his people in Leviticus 26:3, 6, 8, 9, and 12 - 3If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandment, and do them. 6and I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid: and I will rid the evil beast out of the land, neither shall the sword go through the land. 8and five shall chase an hundred, and a hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword 9for I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you. 12and I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people.



Did you notice the dynamic multiplication in verse 8? If there are five who walk by faith in God’s will there is power but if there are one hundred who walk by faith there is GREAT power, an increase of a hundred fold. Just as God pared down the ten thousand man army of Gideon to three hundred to go against the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east who lay along the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand by the seaside.

Can you imagine if all true Christians united in their stand for the word of God what the outcome would be? We are called to do so; Jesus prayed that we all might be one, as the Father and He are one. When the love of Christ is in us we are drawn to each other to fulfill His desire that we be unified and of one body with the common mission to fulfill His commandment, “Go ye into all nations preaching the good news of the gospel of Jesus Christ!” Jesus understood the nature of the power that would be unleashed if all true believers would come together as one.

Acts 2:44-47 KJV 44And all that believed were together, and had all things common; and sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need. 45And they, continuing with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart, 46Praising God, and having favor with all the people. 47And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.



This power of unity may just be the greatest power there is for the unsaved to make a decision for Christ! When the lost cannot see Christ in his body because His body is not one, they cannot see that Jesus was sent by God. But when they see the body as it should be seen, the temple, it’s like a key that unlocks the doors of heaven and opens their eyes to the great love and mercy of the almighty God.

Ephesians 2:19-21 KJV 19Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and of the household of God; 20and are built upon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone. 21In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto a holy temple in the Lord.’

Jesus Himself says it best in the gospel of John:

John 17:21-23 KJV 21That they all may be one as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. 22And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them: that they may be one, even as we are one: 23I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.



Jesus talks a great deal about His oneness with the Father and the importance of unity in the body of Christ. It is perhaps one of the most difficult commands Christ gave the church due to our human nature and desire for independence. Our striving for independence along with our pride and competitive attitudes, our lack of brotherly love for one another and our failure to forgive even though we are commanded to do both.

Jesus prayed that we all might be one, as the Father and He are one. He wanted the same love God has for Him to be in each of us. When we have this love in us, we can fulfill His desire for each of us to become a part of His body and a living temple for the Father. Pride, independence and competition are broken when this happens. Satan’s accusations are overcome and set to naught. Our love for each other is made manifest to the lost and souls begin to seek this love which they have never known.



As I have been challenged and convicted, I would that you be the same so as to not hinder those whom God has chosen for His kingdom. I challenge each of you to seek to tear down the wall of competition, to forgo pride, to love the brethren, to forgive as He forgives us and bring unity back into the body of Christ so as to draw those lost souls who are searching desperately to fill that place in their hearts that only God can fill. Pray fervently for the body of Christ to be unified. Only by being unified can we keep Satan from destroying churches and dividing the saints. Prayer is the power of God; by praying in unity in His will then rejoicing knowing that our prayers will be answered we tap into that incredible power that is God.

Bob Goulding © August 2006

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