God CAN…

God can do that which He has promised you, which you have written down, stored in your heart and even those you do not remember. He CAN. Because He NEVER forgets. God loves His word. The other day my husband was driving along, intimately seeking God. Seeking more. The word of God says seek and you shall find. God loves His word. He honors His word. He honors those who trust in His word. He ensures it is just as they had believed. God came with power into that car and breathed on His son, my husband. My husband was so overwhelmed by God’s love. Yes, God CAN.

God watches His promise to perform it. He cannot let His promise fail. Why? Because it is just too important to Him. Also because some will think God lied. They will think He is weak. They will think He is not able to do it. And so God cannot be called a liar. He will move heaven and earth to prove His word. He will move the sky and the ocean and the mountain and fill the valley. God will catch a cloud. He will dry an ocean. He will do all He must do to bring His word to pass.

We must never worry about His word. We should pay attention to ourselves and ask these questions. ‘Do I trust God enough? Am I faithful? Can God trust me? Can I be true? Will I choose what is right if given a choice?’ God will NEVER change from being righteous. It is ourselves we have to pay attention to. Can God trust us to be righteous? Can God trust us to honor His word like He does?

Another aspect that God has drawn my attention to is the fact that He promised because He CAN. That is just simply true. Whatever God says to you that He will do, He has said it to you because He KNOWS HE CAN. This is what I must become fixated on, rather than focus my energy on what I CANNOT do. We quickly abandon dwelling on what He CAN do, instead we dwell on what WE CANNOT DO. This is a defeatist way of being a Christian. We focus on failure before we try success. We focus on loss before we taste winning. In fact we talk ourselves out of success because we focus on our own strength. What I want is God’s strength.

In Numbers 13:1 God spoke to Moses to send spies to spy out the land of Canaan. He said that they should spy out the land He was going to give them. And when they went and came back, what did they say? They focused on what they could not do anything about. They focused on the fact that the city was walled, and that the people who lived there were very strong and descendants of Anak, and also that they themselves were as little and insignificant as grasshoppers! Hey wait a minute! Talk about defeat. That is what happens when we focus on the wrong thing, when we focus on what we CANNOT do. Let us focus rather on what God CAN do! Caleb did. He said in Numbers 13: 30 “Let us go up at once and take possession of it; for we will certainly conquer it.” What you must know is this: even though God has told you that He has given you that job, that house, that promotion, that husband, that wife, that child, that business – there are still WALLS! He knows. And yet He promised you. God is NOT STUPID. He knows the walls are there. But He does not focus on the walls. Because He knows those walls will fall and confess Him as Lord.
Why the confidence in Caleb? Because Caleb was focused on what God could and CAN do. That is the key. Focus on what God can do, and you will not be afraid of the outcome.

Linda Faith

Linda faith is the Editor in Chief of Jewels Magazine. She has authored eight books. She is a prolific writer and powerful speaker, inspiring many women to be all God has called them to be. She is the founder of Joy Women’s conference which reaches out to empower, inspire and motivate women in their faith walk. She was a software developer before she started writing.