Our Awesome, Living God

Last Thursday in our Sisters’ meeting, we read and shared on Luke chapter 11. Verses 1 to 13 of Luke 11 talk about Jesus’ teaching about prayer. In these verses, Jesus gave us a pattern on how to pray.

One of the sisters in the meeting shared on the verse, “Thy name be sanctified.” Other translations put it this way: “Hallowed be thy name.” The sister spoke of the different names of God: Jehovah Jireh (God my provider), Almighty God, Jehovah, Yahweh, Jehovah Rapha (God my healer), All-knowing God, God of faithfulness, God who is Love, God of everlasting compassion, All-holy God, and more. Indeed, God is indescribable. God deserves our never-ending worship and praise because of His awesome qualities and nature and because of the fact that He created us and redeemed us through His Son. We should not consider Him as a vending-machine whom we approach every time we need something.

As the song “Indescribable” by Chris Tomlin goes:

Indescribable, uncontainable,

You placed the stars in the sky and You know them by name

You are amazing God

All powerful, untameable,

Awestruck we fall to our knees as we humbly proclaim

You are amazing God

You are amazing God

God is awesome. The universe cannot contain Him as He transcends it. He hung the earth in space and keeps it rotating in its own axis and moving around the sun. It just moves and moves, day in and day out, year in and year out, causing the alternation of day and night and of the weather seasons. To think that the earth is just one of the planets in the solar system, and there may be millions, or billions of other solar systems out there in the universe, or other universes.

The best part is that this awesome, uncontainable, indescribable, all powerful God knows each of us by name and knows our pains, sorrows, situations, circumstances, and cares for each of us. In Luke 11:9-10, Jesus says: “So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.” Another sister shared that she has seen how true this is so many times in her life.

The sisters commented that we must be persistent in our prayers; we must continually bang on the doors of heaven because God wants to be entreated. A recent experience in the life of one of our sisters proved this to be true. One of her eight children got so sick with a relentless fever. The child’s fever was going on for almost a week without letting up that her neighbors and friends kept on prodding her to bring her child to the hospital. They were not saying good things about her anymore – like how can she let her very sick child suffer as such. Having no money to bring her child to the hospital – the sister being a single mother of eight children – she asked her children to pray with her for their sick sibling. The sister cannot afford to bring her child to the hospital since the money she has is only enough for their food. She talked to God about her lack of financial means and that she is resigned to His will for her child. If He wants her to live, He should heal her; but if He wants to take her life, then His will be done. The sister said she is just the caretaker of the child, not the real owner of her child. It is God who owns the life of her child.

She asked the sisters in the meeting to pray for her sick daughter, and each of the sisters prayed for the sick child. The next sisters’ meeting, we learned that her sister got well – miraculously! What a proof that God is a living God; He hears our prayers, and He truly cares for us! This healing also shows that God saw the faith of the financially hard-up sister and proves the efficacy of corporate prayer.

Our awesome, almighty, indescribable, uncontainable, all-powerful, all-holy God deserves our unending worship and praise, and He is also our faithful, loving Father who deserves our love, homage, reverence, and undying confidence.