More then we ask or think? Wow, what is in that box?

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.

~ Ephesians 3:20, NLT

I don't know about you, but I have a pretty good imagination. I can think up some pretty good, or weird things. But look at what Paul is saying in the above verse: "..infinitely more then we might ask or think." We cannot even imagine the things that God wants to accomplish in US, through Him.

Remember Christmas time when you were a kid? If you were like me, you would sit in front of the tree, looking at the boxes wrapped with your name on them trying to imagine what they held. I could come up with some pretty good things. We always had the Sears or JC Penny's Christmas "Wish Book" near the tree to help us imagine what you could put in certain size boxes under the tree. Yeah this sometimes left me a little disappointed on Christmas morning as my imagination may have been a little more expensive then my Mom and Dad's budget. But it didn't last long, I mean there were new toys to play with. But think about it, the things God wants to accomplish in us, are NOT even in a book, we cannot imagine it even with as good of imagination as He gave us, we could not think of what He wants to do in our lives.

I have read books that have amazed me. I mean, how in the world did JRR Tolkien or CS Lewis create the worlds and creatures and story lines that fascinated generations? God given imagination. After reading their books and especially seeing the movies, it is easy to immerse yourself into the worlds they created. I admire the time and creativity it took for these and other great authors to create their worlds. I think I could more then likely eventually do something like that, but who has the time? :) BUT: "All glory to God, who is able, through His mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more then we might ask or think." I believe "We" means these authors as well. So, God can accomplish through us, more then the imagination of anyone who ever lived on Earth. And He tells us..."to accomplish infinitely more than............" Infinitely: to have no end, goes on for ever and ever. There is no limit to what the Lord can do through us, except us.

WE are the ones who limit God. Did you understand that? Let me say it again, just to make sure: "We are the ones who limit God." God is all powerful, he can do ANYTHING, got that, ANYTHING> Then why does He not answer my prayers? Who is limiting God? He can only NOT do one thing, actually He chooses not to do one thing, and that is to interfere in our choice to believe in Him and His power of not. The Bible tells us that we must have faith to please God, it also tells us that to put our trust Him.

Hebrews 11:6
And it is impossible to please God without faith. Anyone who wants to come to him must believe that God exists and that he rewards those who sincerely seek him.


Matthew 9:29
He touched their eyes. 'Let your prayer be
answered in proportion to your faith,' he said.

Psalm 40:3
He has given me a new song to sing, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see what he has done and be amazed. They will put their trust in the Lord.


Have you ever known God to NOT do something? I mean we pray, we trust, we put our faith to action, and God does not answer. Did God not hear us? Did He not understand what we were saying? God ALWAYS hears us, but He, being well GOD, does things the way HE sees best. We want answers like yesterday, but He knows the perfect time, and way to answer. BUT, get this now, BUT He will answer in ways that are: "infinitely more then we might ask or think."

Back to that Christmas "Wish Book" analogy: Were hoping for the bicycle on page 107 it looks like that box there under the tree with my name on it could be that bike, not put together, of course, but it could be that one. But God has put something in that box that is not even in the "Wish Book", something that we never could imagine in all our dreams! We are thinking about the 2 or 3 people we could talk to if we went to the Prison Ministry Service out at the county jail, But God is thinking of the 1000's of people we WILL talk to when we are asked to hold services at the State Jail in a few years. You never know what miracles God has in store for us. God never thinks small, He ALWAYS thinks of the future. We think of the beginning, He thinks of the Whole thing. We think of the few, He thinks of the multitudes. When we think of His blessings, we think of the 10 dollar bill we found in our jeans pocket as we were doing laundry, He thinks of the millions of dollars the He will provide, say if we follow His leading and start a prison ministry. It could be anything that He lays on our hearts, I am just using Prison Ministry as an example.

DON'T limit God, don't ask Him for one soul, ask Him for thousands, don't ask for help for paying this next months rent, ask Him for money to pay the next 12 months rent. Don't limit God, "...who is able, through His mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more the we might ask or think" How you think God feels when He is ready for us to ask Him for something grand, huge, fantastic that will grow our faith like never before, and then we ask Him for something so small, tiny meaningless, that it insults Him almost? I believe He is hurt, He is disappointing, "I was ready to give you all this...............and you can only barley believe me for that?", He Says, "Why should I give you anything?" Remember, Psalms 40:3: ...It is impossible to please God without faith." I don't believe for one minute that He was talking about enough faith to make it through the day, without having to talk to anyone about my Christian walk. I think He was talking about "FAITH" to let everyone that I came into contact with throughout the day KNOW beyond any doubt that I serve the one true living God, and I would not keep silent about it. Capital FAITH, not faith.

God does not answer our request because we don't have the FAITH to see the answer. Any miracles that God gives us are directional proportional to the size of our faith. The more faith the more miracles, and the less faith the fewer and smaller the miracles. I want MORE FAITH< thus more miracles, don't you?

Now ALL GLORY to GOD, who IS ABLE, through HIS MIGHTY POWER at WORK WITHIN US, to ACCOMPLISH INFINITELY MORE then we might ASK or THINK----Ephesians 3:20. He is able, but are we willing? Do we believe, I mean REALLY believe that He is able? What is HE able to do in your life? Ask Him, He will tell you, it will blow your mind. Start thinking BIG.