3) God is able!
Most people believe that God is able to do anything He wants. Many struggle
more with God's willingness to heal them then His ability to heal them. It is a
false idea to think God can do whatever He chooses to do. When we leave our
lives up to the "sovereignty of God" we are actually denying our
responsibility to do what God requires of us. If we are afflicted with a deadly
form of cancer and we do not confess the truth and war in the spirit, God is
incapable of helping us. We are failing to exercise our God given authority over
the situation. What we are actually saying is, "let's leave our life up to
fate." This is not to say that God's sovereignty is
something that we
should ignore but if we are living our lives without exercising our dominion
over the world , the devil and the flesh then we are living foolishly. God's
sovereignty relates to things that are beyond what we can effect (beyond our
spiritual authority).
We falsely think that God is responsible for everything that happens in our
life, but this is not so. God limited His ability when He created man with free
will. He gave man the right to decide whether he was going to do what was in his
best interests. Man's free will is a line in which God chooses not to trespass.
When we acknowledge God, we give Him access into our lives to defend and protect
but there are still limits to His ability. If we do not believe in the
supernatural abilities that God has given us then those things are ineffective
in our life. Why? Because we are choosing not to accept those things. That is
free will and God will not force us to do what 
is best. God may bring someone to
our aid who believes in God's supernatural abilities but God can not make us
accept the person. If we reject what the man or woman of God is offering then we
alone are responsible for the outcome, not God.
For those of us that are struggling with this concept we need to look at
several scriptures.
1TI 2:3 This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, 2:4
who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Paul clearly states that God's desire is for all men to be saved but we know
they will not be, why? Because they chose not to accept the free gift of God. ROM
6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in
Christ Jesus our Lord. We see God desiring to have something a certain way
but refusing to overstep the will of man. God never forces any man into
believing in Him. God is willing to save all men but He is subject to what men
want. God can only save those who are willing to be saved..
Jesus was subject to the will of man also. MAT 13:54 And coming to His
home town He began teaching them in their synagogue, so that they became
astonished, and said, "Where did this man get this wisdom, and these
miraculous powers? 13:55 "Is not this the carpenter's son? Is not His
mother called Mary, and His brothers, James and Joseph and Simon and Judas?
13:56 "And His sisters, are they not all with us? Where then did this man
get all these things?" 13:57 And they took offense at Him. But Jesus said
to them, "A prophet is not without honor except in his home town, and in
his own household." 13:58 And He did not do many miracles there because of
their unbelief. The people from his home town chose not to believe that he
was someone special and the result was that he could not heal or deliver many
people. Who suffered from their unbelief? If they had believed, Jesus would have
healed, delivered, and perform great signs in their behalf. It is the same with
God, if we choose to believe His word and His anointed people we will see the
ability of God. If we decide to not believe, then we will suffer for it. The
outcome of our life will no more be God's fault, as it was Jesus' fault when the
people rejected Him. By this point we should be seeing that God does not have
the ability to do anything against our free will.
The last illustration that we are going to look at concerning this point is
when Moses and all of Israel stood on the bank of the Jordan and Moses sent the
twelve men to spy out the land of Canaan (Num 13:15-14:45). God's desire was for
the people to go into the land of Canaan and possess it. All of the people but
two, Caleb and Joshua, chose not to believe that God was able to drive out the
nations that possessed the land. All but the two died
because of their unbelief.
God's desire was that the people would believe Him and drive out the inhabitants
of Canaan. The people chose not to believe and were prevented from taking the
land. God could not override their freewill but was subject to it. God therefore
sends Israel back into the dessert to kill off all the people who refused to
believe.
So what is the point that is being made? Once we find out what the will of
God is, we have a responsibility to believe it. If we find it to hard to believe
or chose to rationalize God's truth away, then we have no chance of receiving
God's blessing. We, like the children of Israel will die in our unbelief.
