Dear Brothers and sisters

I thank God for the opportunity to send out weekly encouragement and for the replies from people whose lives are being touched by the Lord.

Today, may we see our Father God,   by Holy Spirit, in His faithful and faith filled character as El-Shaddai, the All-sufficient One...ours in Christ Jesus.  May this bless and encourage each of us as we  take off the limits  in our expectation.

El-Shaddai, the All-sufficient One.
 
THE GOD OF THE SUPERNATURAL
This name stands for the Almightiness of God. We might translate it to mean the God of the supernatural. Men are trying to get the supernatural out of the Bible and explain it all on rationalistic principles. The devil is engaged on a parallel line to get the supernatural out of Christian life and to bring religion down to a mere matter of ethics, morals and humanitarian improvement. The very essence or Christianity is that it is the revelation, worship and fellowship of a supernatural Being and it is all Divine from the first to the last century. God’s great object is to make Himself known to us and then to work out His almightiness in us. Every situation into which He brings us is just a frame in which to set His promises and a mold in which to cast some new manifestation of His all-sufficiency. The very difficulties that surround our lives today are but opportunities for God to show Himself to us as El·Shaddai.

WHAT THIS MEANS
This   means  He is almighty today and available to us.
He is MORE than enough. But many of us hedge Him around with such limitations, laws and modes of operation as to practically tie His hands and make it impracticable for Him to do any real supernatural thing in our lives. To really believe in the all-sufficiency of God means that He is actually at liberty to do for us all that we need a God for and that we have a right to take Him for everything for which we are unequal and insufficient. It means that He has promised all things necessary for life and godliness, that He has provided all things and that we have a right to come to Him for all things, presenting without question the mighty check on the bank of heaven, “My God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.”

ABLE TO SAVE
It means, in the first place, that we have a God that is equal to our salvation and the salvation of any sinner, however lost and however long resisting the mercy and grace of God. It means that He is equal to the salvation of your boy, your friend, your soul, whoever you are and whatever you may be. It means that He is equal to your sanctification and the sanctification of any temperament, no matter how impracticable; the counteracting of any habit, no matter how confirmed; the overcoming of any defect, infirmity and sin, no matter how deeply rooted and aggravated; victory over any and every temptation that may come, and a life sanctified through and through and preserved blameless unto the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. It means that He “is able to keep you from stumbling and present you faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy.”

ABLE TO HEAL
It means that He is equal to your physical need and has made provision for your sickness as well as your sins, your infirmities of body as well as your infirmities of temper and the supply of all needed strength, health and help until your life work is done. It means that He is equal to your circumstances, that He can sustain you, comfort you and keep you under all possible unfavorable conditions, making you happy when everything around you is uncongenial, using and blessing you when everything seems to conflict and hinder, and then transforming circumstances, turning the curse into a blessing and bringing up the fir tree and the myrtle instead of the thistle and the thorn.
It means that He is equal to your work, no matter what the difficulties and obstructions may be.  Can carry on and complete His glorious work in spite of the selfishness of man, the hate of Satan and the faithlessness even of His own followers.   ------A. B. Simpson

Today, it is a privilege to stand together on the Word of Him who is more than enough  for you,  for me, and for all forever.

In His amazing Love,
Dr. Pat Rush