If you could possess any power, what would it be? The power to heal? To control time? To never grow weary? Power, as we usually imagine it, is the ability to make things happen.
Maybe we long for it especially when we are weak, or when our bodies tire. Perhaps you crave power when your plans fail and your best efforts meet resistance. Every day we go to bed tired (or wake up tired!) we are reminded that our strength has limits.
It is not so with God. When Jesus calmed the storm in Matthew 8, His disciples were left in stunned silence: “What sort of man is this, that even winds and sea obey him?” (Matt. 8:27). That question still echoes through the ages. What sort of man? The man who is fully God — the Lord of creation, Whose power has no bounds.
The Almighty One
Scripture calls Him “the Almighty” — pantokratōr, the One who holds all things in His hand. “Hallelujah! For the Lord our God the Almighty reigns” (Rev. 19:6). From the creation to the final triumph of redemption and beyond, His power stands absolute and unchallenged.
Job confessed it simply: “I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted” (Job 42:2). Jeremiah prayed, “Nothing is too hard for you” (Jer. 32:17). Paul proclaimed that the gospel itself is “the power of God for salvation” (Rom. 1:16).
If God is infinite in being, then His power must also be without limits. His strength cannot increase or decline. He does not rest or recharge. He never runs out of energy or authority. Every moment of creation depends entirely on His will, and yet His power remains undiminished: eternal, effortless, and perfect.
Not a Force, but a Person
We often speak of “the forces of nature” as if they were impersonal mechanisms ticking along on their own. But Scripture refuses that abstraction. The laws of nature are not the explanation of creation. They are the expression of God’s power.
When lightning cracks across the sky, when a seed sprouts underground, when your lungs draw a breath; these are not mechanical accidents but divine acts. “He upholds the universe by the word of his power” (Heb. 1:3). The world is not self-sustaining. It is sustained by the omnipotent God.
To know this is to see creation rightly: not as a closed system of natural law, but as the living theater of divine activity. The researcher, the farmer, and the artist all behold the same world, but the believer knows whose fingerprints are on every inch of it.
The Illusion of Human Power
And yet, we love to pretend that we are omnipotent. Like Samson, we misuse the strength God gives — bending it toward our pleasure instead of His purpose. We forget that our gifts are not proofs of our greatness but stewardships of His grace.
Humanity’s hunger for power shows up everywhere. In physical strength, we glorify dominance and despise weakness. In wealth, we chase control, believing money will protect and provide. But both strength and wealth can easily become altars to the self. Power feels intoxicating, and we are always tempted to serve it rather than God.
The Christian response to power, however, is not rejection but redirection. Whatever measure of strength God entrusts to us — physical, intellectual, financial — is meant to serve others. The strong are called to protect the weak; the wealthy, to provide for the needy; the gifted, to glorify the Giver. “What do you have that you did not receive?” (1 Cor. 4:7). When we remember that, power becomes a way to worship the Lord rather than a way to ignore Him.
The Comfort of His Power
God’s omnipotence is not merely a doctrine to admire, it is a refuge to rest in. Because He is all-powerful, His promises are unbreakable. Because He cannot be thwarted, our hope cannot be lost.
Isaiah 40 tells us, “He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength.” Even the strongest grow weary, but “they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength.” You and I do not live by willpower. We live by God’s power at work in us.
When we pray, we pray to a God who can actually do what we ask. When we obey, we do so in the strength He supplies. When we falter, we rest in the One who never fails. His omnipotence is not distant, it’s deeply personal. It holds the galaxies in orbit and yet bends low to strengthen a trembling believer.
The Miracle Within
And perhaps the greatest display of His power is not in creation or catastrophe, but in conversion. “That our hearts could be made a dwelling place more suitable for the Spirit of the Lord than a tabernacle or a temple is miraculous on a scale we cannot fathom.” (Tozer) The God who said, “Let there be light,” speaks again into darkened hearts, bringing life where there was none.
Paul prayed that believers would know “the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe” (Eph. 1:19) — power that not only forgives sin but transforms sinners. The omnipotent God rules the world and renews the soul.
Worship, Trust, and Obedience
To know God’s omnipotence is to worship in awe, to pray with confidence, to rest without fear, and to obey with strength not our own. “Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think… to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus” (Eph. 3:20–21).
When you are weak, remember that the Almighty never is.
When your strength runs out, remember that His never will.
The God who cannot be stopped is the God who will never stop loving you.