Imagine A Limitless God!

Now I know we know this in our mind that we serve a limitless God, but can we even imagine the amount of limitless power God has? We talk about but do we really believe it? Do we act as though He is limitless or do we focus on the enormity of our problems? For months we have said that God is greater than the pandemic, He is able to provide for us when things fall apart, He can heal families and relationships, God can do it. And yet, I think in the back of our minds, it’s what we’re suppose to believe as Christians but it seems more like a, I hope so, instead of I know He will. Well my prayer is that today we can know our God is limitless.

Ephesians 3:14–21 NLT

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.

Look at verses 14-17 again. Paul is teaching us something important right here.

Ephesians 3:14–17 NLT

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.

A Limited Human Cannot House a Limitless Jesus!

Paul is praying that God, the Father, with all of His glorious, unlimited power will empower us with inner strength that comes from the Holy Spirit. Only when we have the Holy Spirit will we be able to house the limitless Jesus in our hearts. What? You see our finite, limited, weak human bodies could not house the limitless, King of kings Jesus, unless we have the power of the Holy Spirit dwelling in us. That’s why Jesus told His disciples to wait in Jerusalem until they were endued with power from the Holy Spirit. Only after that would they be able to effectively witness in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and the utter most parts of the world.

Think about this, in the Old Testament, the prophets were powerful. Elijah called down fire, Elisha did great miracles, Samuel, Nathan, all did mighty things. But everyone knew who they were. The difference today is that the Holy Spirit was poured out on all flesh to begin the church on the day of Pentecost and He is needed for the Church to be powerful with God’s limitless power.

The only thing that is different in the New Testament outpouring is the initial evidence of speaking in tongues. That’s so we can pray effectively and also to get the heart of God. But the main reason is to be able to “house” Jesus in all His power.

Ephesians 3:18–19 NLT

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.

We Then Know Just How Great Jesus’ Love Is!

We experience the love of Christ even though it is too great to understand fully. You see we need the Holy Spirit because our finite minds cannot even come close to understanding God’s love. Have you ever thought about this, it’s humanly impossible to do 1 Corinthians chapter 13 on our own strength! Let’s at this chapter in the Living Bible

1 Corinthians 13:1–13 The Living Bible

1 If I had the gift of being able to speak in other languages without learning them and could speak in every language there is in all of heaven and earth, but didn’t love others, I would only be making noise. 2 If I had the gift of prophecy and knew all about what is going to happen in the future, knew everything about everything, but didn’t love others, what good would it do? Even if I had the gift of faith so that I could speak to a mountain and make it move, I would still be worth nothing at all without love. 3 If I gave everything I have to poor people, and if I were burned alive for preaching the Gospel but didn’t love others, it would be of no value whatever. 4 Love is very patient and kind, never jealous or envious, never boastful or proud, 5 never haughty or selfish or rude. Love does not demand its own way. It is not irritable or touchy. It does not hold grudges and will hardly even notice when others do it wrong. 6 It is never glad about injustice, but rejoices whenever truth wins out. 7 If you love someone, you will be loyal to him no matter what the cost. You will always believe in him, always expect the best of him, and always stand your ground in defending him. 8 All the special gifts and powers from God will someday come to an end, but love goes on forever. Someday prophecy and speaking in unknown languages and special knowledge—these gifts will disappear. 9 Now we know so little, even with our special gifts, and the preaching of those most gifted is still so poor. 10 But when we have been made perfect and complete, then the need for these inadequate special gifts will come to an end, and they will disappear. 11 It’s like this: when I was a child I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child does. But when I became a man my thoughts grew far beyond those of my childhood, and now I have put away the childish things. 12 In the same way, we can see and understand only a little about God now, as if we were peering at his reflection in a poor mirror; but someday we are going to see him in his completeness, face-to-face. Now all that I know is hazy and blurred, but then I will see everything clearly, just as clearly as God sees into my heart right now. 13 There are three things that remain—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love.

When we don’t have the power of the Holy Spirit making us able to be the Temple of God, we cannot do these things in this chapter because they are humanly impossible. We do the exact opposite. We get impatient, we envy or we are boastful or proud even if we never say anything, we think we’re the best. We hold grudges and we do notice when someone does something wrong.

Why? Because this is the love of God not the love of man and it can only work by the power of the Godhead, Father, Son and Spirit.

Ephesians 3:20–21 NIV

20 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, 21 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.

God’s Limitless Power Blows Our Minds!

He is able to do immeasurably more that anything we can ask or imagine. Can you imagine that? I’ll be honest that on my own I can’t. When I first received Jesus I couldn’t imagine being used by Him in ministry. I couldn’t see myself being able to do it. But when I recieved the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, it was like night and day. I could imagine God doing things and what I imagined wasn’t even close to what He could do. If you are putting limits on God it could be that we don’t have the Holy Spirit or we are looking too much at what our own limited abilities are. Or we could limit the limitless God because of something that has happened in our past. It’s time to imagine life with a limitless God! Imagine the possibilities!!