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How big is your God?
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Rosaline Offline
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How big is your God?
How big is your God? Do you recognize Him as the “Creator of heaven and earth” (Genesis 14:19)— the One who with His “own hands stretched out the heavens” (Isaiah 45:12), “marshaled their starry hosts” (Isaiah 45:12), “established the sun and the moon” (Psalm 74:16)?

Do you recognize that God is so big and so great that He “laid the earth’s foundation” (Job 38:4), “set all the boundaries of the earth” (Psalm 74:17) making “both summer and winter” (Psalm 74:17), “every living creature” (Genesis 9:10) and “created mankind upon it” (Isaiah 45:12)? How big is your God? And yet, even in all of this, does He know and see you?

Pastor/Evangelist Louie Giglio answers that question this way:

“He’s big enough to breathe out stars, yet intricate enough to fashion together the trillions of cells that make up every facet of who you are. The God who spoke the universe into existence made you, too, and knows everything about you.”

“From the smallest molecule to the situation you find yourself in right now. He’s aware of your circumstances and is intimately acquainted with everything you do. He cares about you and promises to carry you through.”

He goes on to say,

“He will hold onto you and hold you together, giving strength to those who hope in His unfailing love. He is the everlasting God.”

Do you believe that? How big… how great is the God you perceive Him to be when it comes to personally helping you?

It’s a question I can confess that I personally struggled with for many years. I wondered whether God really did create the Heavens, the Earth and every living creature including human beings, instead of it all originally bursting forth and evolving somehow as many scientists propose.

I struggled to believe that Jesus is who He says He is and that He is “the only way” to having a personal relationship with God and I questioned whether the truth of the Bible (because of so many arguments I’ve heard to the contrary).

But time and again, God has revealed Himself to me in so many personal ways, that even though all of this still tries to eat away at my faith, I know that I know that I know, Who He is, and that my faith in Him is not misplaced.

Yet even though I eventually believed God to be the Creator of the Universe and every living creature, including me — I still struggled with knowing Him as my Heavenly Father — One who truly saw and cared about my life and marriage.

I saw God answering the prayers of others but didn’t see Him answering mine to the same degree. I would find myself feeling that He is a great God and one that answers prayer —but not mine.

What has made it especially difficult has been having adult prodigal sons who left their faith in the exclusivity of Christ being the only way to relationship with God— with one son now claiming to be an atheist. It has been years and years of praying, struggling to keep believing, and continually longing for their Christian fellowship that especially chinks away at my faith.

Other circumstances I’ve prayed for have also shaken their fist at my faith as I’ve received either “no” answers or silence. But as I’ve sought Truth, eventually I remember that God’s ways are not my ways. He is God and I am not. I cannot begin to know all He does. I keep forgetting that.

Yet through it all, God is patient and reminds me that I am not responsible for the choices of others, including my sons, to accept or reject Him. I am solely responsible for the choices I make. I find I can and must trust His heart and love for me and everyone else. It’s difficult at times, but it’s also sweet when God has comforts in ways that He knows I understand.
12-07-2009 06:00 PM
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RE: How big is your God?
My God is beyond comparision. I cannot imagine my God. All I know is that He is teh Alpha and the Omega. He is all I need.

Psalm 37:4-6

4. Delight yourself in the LORD
and he will give you the desires of your heart.

5. Commit your way to the LORD;
trust in him and he will do this:

6. He will make your righteousness shine like the dawn,
the justice of your cause like the noonday sun.
12-08-2009 06:39 PM
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My God is UN beatable. My God is great from every one in this universe. God lives in hart. My God can never compare with any one. Thanks
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There is only one GOD who is greatest of all.he is most powerfull ever.

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