celebrating the greatness and the exceeding greatness of god's power
One of the attributes of God is greatness. Therefore, everything written about God is great. In other words, God is not just great but dwells in greatness and everything He does carries the signature of His greatness. Nothing is mediocrity about God. Everything called God reveals His greatness. Wherever God is mentioned, greatness must be ascribed to Him. One of the reasons God is celebrated is because of who He is : GOD GREAT. Whenever God is celebrated, He must be greatly celebrated. God is great and must be greatly celebrated. God is great and is greatly to be praised.
Psalms 145:3
Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness is unsearchable.
The proof of our believe that God is great is to praise or celebrate Him greatly. Praising God the mediocre way shows that we don't believe or we are blind to His greatness. Those who believe that God is great praise Him greatly. God must be greatly praised for He is truly great. Another thing to learn from the scripture above is the fact that God's greatness is unsearchable.
Psalms 145:3
..... his greatness is unsearchable.
The dimensions (height, depth, width and length) of God's greatness are unfathomable. No one can quantifies or search out how great God is. Thus, the greatness of God is unsearchable.
In addition, the greatness of God are catalogued in His works. When we see God at work, we see His greatness in display.
Job 5:9
Which DOETH GREAT THINGS and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:
The doings of the LORD reveals God's greatness. God is great and is doing great things. God's greatness is seen in the works that He does.
God's greatness is not only unsearchable but also excellent.
Psalms 150:2
Praise him for his mighty acts: PRAISE HIM ACCORDING TO HIS EXCELLENT GREATNESS .
God's greatness surpasses any kind of greatness known and therefore, God is to be praised or celebrated according to His excellent greatness.
Moreover, God works in the affairs of His people to the end that His greatness might be known. The greatness of God are revealed by God's great works.
Exodus 14:31
And Israel saw that GREAT WORK WHICH THE LORD DID upon the Egyptians: and the people feared the LORD, and believed the LORD, and his servant Moses.
Each time God reveals His great work, God is to be feared (revered) and believed. God ought to be feared and believed and one of the ways He does that is by doing great works for His people.
Psalms 89:7
God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him.
The great works of God done in the affairs of His people is to command great reverence for God in the assemblies of His people. Those who knows the greatness of God will reverently worship Him.
GOD IS GREAT IN POWER AND EXCEEDING GREAT IN POWER.
Every great work of God is done either by God's great power or by the exceeding greatness of His power. These are the two dimensions by which God reveals or exerts His power. God's power is great and exceedingly great for great works. It is great and exceedingly great in working.
GREAT POWER.
Psalms 66:3
Say unto God, How terrible art thou in thy works! through the GREATNESS OF THY POWER shall thine enemies submit themselves unto thee.
One of the ways God works is by bringing the enemies of His great works to submission by the exercise of His great power.
Psalms 147:5
Great is our Lord, and of GREAT POWER : his understanding is infinite.
God's great power is for the display of His superiority to any known power. We must celebrate God's power as greater in influence than the power of the enemy.
Jeremiah 32:17
Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy GREAT POWER and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee:
God's great power is revealed doing the impossible. What is difficult to do in the sight of man becomes possible when God's great power is exerted upon any given difficult situation. This is another reason God must be praised. We celebrate God's great power knowing full well that no situation is too difficult to handle once it is involved.
Nahum 1:3
The LORD is slow to anger, and GREAT IN POWER, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
This verse reveals that God is not soon angry and at the same time great in power. God defer His anger to make room for the wicked to repent, despite His great power. God combines humility with His great power.
God is long suffering towards the wickedness of man by not consuming them with His great power at the slightest provocation. God ought to be celebrated for this. Slow to anger in spite of His great power to do and undo.
God's great power also makes way for the believers in the storm of life. God's great power is a calmer of the storm
Psalms 107:29
He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.
God's great power is the calmer and stiller of the storms in our lives. He makes the way for us where there is no way. Let somebody shouts "hallelujah"!
God's EXCEEDING GREAT POWER.
This is the highest realm of God's power to the believers advantage.
Ephesians 1:19
And what is the EXCEEDING GREATNESS OF HIS POWER to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,
This is the power exerted in the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. It is power for dominion over death of any kind. (Ephesians 1:20)
God's exceeding great power is a far-above-all power given to the believer to subdue and have dominion over all known power. It is power above all names known in any realm. This power is available to the believers in Christ to put all things under their feet (Ephesians 1:21-22).
The exceeding great power of God, when exerted on behalf of the believers in Christ, is for bringing to fulfilment the exceeding great and precious promises of God (2 Peter 1:3-4). It will takes the exercise of the exceeding great power of God through faith to see divine promises fulfilled.
Finally, the exceeding great power of God is for doing exceedingly abundantly and above all the believers in Christ could pray for or think (Ephesians 3:20).It is the wielding of this order of power that makes all things possible to the believer.
We must therefore bear this in mind that God is exceeding and abundant in power than any other power available to assail us. We are more than conquerors by the availability of this power in our favour. This underscores the need to praise and celebrate God for His exceeding great power.
In conclusion, God is great (Psalms 48:1) , great in power (Psalms 145:3) and much more, exceeding great in power (Ephesians 1:19). It is by the working of His power that great things are done for us and we become great in life.
1 Chronicles 29:11-12 [11]Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power......
[12]...... in thine hand it is to make great......
God is great and by His power we become great. This is why celebrating God's greatness, His great power and exceeding great power must conditions our atmospheres at all time. We receive the garments of praise for ceaseless praise to God, in the name of Jesus Christ. Hearty congratulations.
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GLORIOUS CONFESSION :
God is great and is greatly to be praised. The Almighty God has done great thing for me by His great power. The great God has brought to pass His exceeding great and precious promises by His exceeding great power. Therefore, I celebrate His greatness and His exceeding great power in my life and affairs. Hallelujah!
