As we were growing up, we might have sung this song in Sunday school:
He is able,
He is able,
I know He is able,
I know my Lord is able to carry me through.
(words by Dr. Paul E. Paino)
What is God able to do? What does the Bible say? There are a number of verses that tell us what God is able to do. Here are a few of them.
God is able to –
-Restore money even if it was spent unwisely.
If money was spent in the wrong place, but a person has a real need, and that person (or people) seek to the Lord for help and follow His way instead of what they thought was good, God will still hear their cry and restore to them what they need if it is truly a real need.
“7) But there came a man of God to him, saying, O king, let not the army of Israel go with thee; for the LORD is not with Israel, to wit, with all the children of Ephraim. 8) But if thou wilt go, do it, be strong for the battle: God shall make thee fall before the enemy: for God hath power to help, and to cast down. 9) And Amaziah said to the man of God, But what shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel? And the man of God answered, The LORD is able to give thee much more than this.” (II Chronicles 25:7-9)
-Anything, there is nothing that is too hard for God.
“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… Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me?” (Jeremiah 32:17 & 27)
-Deliver God’s People from the Wicked
“If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king.” (Daniel 3:17)
-Deliver from Hungry Beasts
“20) And when he came to the den, he cried with a lamentable voice unto Daniel: and the king spake and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, is thy God, whom thou servest continually, able to deliver thee from the lions? 21) Then said Daniel unto the king, O king, live for ever. 22) My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions’ mouths, that they have not hurt me…” (Daniel 6:20-22)
-God Can Raise Up Descendants, Even Out of the Stones
“And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.” (Matthew 3:9)
-God is Able to Establish Us in Spiritual Things
“Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began.” (Romans 16:25)
-God is Able to Build His People Up and Give Them an Inheritance
“And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.” (Acts 20:32)
-He is Able to Save to the Uttermost
“Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.” (Hebrews 7:25)
-Keep His Own unto the End
“24) Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, 25) To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.” (Jude 1:24,25)