There is a lot of fear and uncertainty in the world today, and I feel that many are losing their focus by spending too much time listening to the news and too little time listening to the Lord. We must remember that what we feed into our minds will grow, and what we starve will die. Things we focus on become larger and larger. I believe that this is a good time to bring God Almighty back to our remembrance, center stage, to remember the things He has done.

God the Almighty, the God of the Holy Bible, is unrivaled—there is no one like Him, no one as powerful or as wise. Yet, too often, we let our circumstances diminish our hope that He will help us, and the enemy whispers that God doesn't care. We also tend to limit what God will do based on our past experiences and what we have seen. We act as if He cannot do anything new and as if He will not help us today.

Yet the Bible should be our handbook about God, our anchor, and we should not limit Him to our experience. For example, no one walked on water until someone did. If the Bible states that He has already done it before, then let no one convince you that He would never do it again, unless God said otherwise. He multiplied food back then, and He can multiply food today.

I want to emphasize that God is able to take care of you in any situation you face, from the start of your life to the end. If you trust Him, and I mean through your actions, not just words, He will care for you. We don't have to understand everything that happens; we just need to trust Him to make it work out in the end. Proverbs 3:5 is one of my main anchor verses in the Bible:

(Proverbs 3:5-6 NKJV) Trust in the LORD with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths.

That is a powerful promise. When we seek the Lord, think about His Word during the day, pray, and trust Him to take care of us, He will guide us. If we acknowledge Him in all our ways—whether working, at school, driving, cooking, cleaning, or cutting the grass—He will automatically step in and start to direct our paths behind the scenes. We may not even realize that it's happening. This idea is consistent throughout scripture:

(Psalm 37:4-5 NKJV) Delight yourself also in the LORD, And He shall give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the LORD, Trust also in Him, And He shall bring it to pass.

(Matthew 6:31-34 NKJV) "Therefore do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble."

We may feel inspired to do something, then the Holy Spirit opens a door for us, and suddenly it becomes possible. We are to take it one day at a time, and we don't get to understand His entire plan from the beginning. He gives us enough inspiration for today, and tomorrow there will be more. Faith is a decision followed by your obedience, not by your understanding or your ability to accomplish it.

Today, I hope to broaden our understanding of what God can do by casually flipping through the Bible and reviewing some simple, fundamental truths that we all know but may have forgotten. Maybe it will inspire us or help us see more clearly just how powerful God truly is.

We're talking about the God who created the universe, who said "Let there be light"; and there was light. "He also made the stars," which I believe is one of the coolest verses in the Bible. God enabled Abraham to have a son when he was 100 years old, and his wife Sarah was 99 (Genesis 21:5).

The Lord parted the Red Sea and the Jordan River for His people to pass through. He fed the Israelite people in the wilderness with manna from heaven every day except on the Sabbath. Their clothes did not wear out, nor were there any diseases among them during the forty years they spent there. He provided water when they were thirsty, sometimes from strange sources like out of rocks. He led them as a pillar of fire by night to keep them warm and give them light, and as a cloud by day to provide shade.

Sometimes when people whined and complained, they were consumed by fire. At other times, the earth opened up and swallowed them. Walled cities like Jericho collapsed when they followed His advice. Time stopped for a full day at Joshua's words, and it went backwards for Hezekiah.

God caused a donkey to speak to Balaam, and he immediately began to argue with it. He anointed Samson with incredible strength, so much so that when a lion attacked him, he tore it apart. When the Philistines tried to trap him in a city by locking a huge gate, Samson pulled the posts out of the ground and took the gate with him. Samson was just an ordinary man until the Spirit of God came upon him.

God once allowed the Ark of the Covenant to be captured by the Philistines after the backslidden Israelites tried to use it as a tool. The Philistines then placed the Ark in the temple of their god Dagon, who was made of stone, but the next morning, Dagon was lying face down before the Ark. So they stood their statue back up, but the following morning, Dagon was lying on his face again, this time with his head and hands broken off. Then God struck the Philistines with hemorrhoids. After that, they decided they didn't actually want the Ark, and they sent it back to Israel quickly.

The prophet Elijah prayed that it would stop raining on Israel because they had turned away from God, and it didn't rain for the next 3 1/2 years. During that drought, God had ravens bring Elijah meat and bread in the morning and again in the evening while he stayed beside the brook Cherith. After the brook dried up, he went and stayed with a widow in Zarephath for "many days," who only had a handful of flour in a bowl and a tiny amount of oil in a jar, but they ate as much as they wanted every day, and it never ran out. Later, when that widow's son died, Elijah prayed for him, and he came back to life. Then Elijah prayed for rain, and it started raining a few minutes later, ending the long drought.

The young man Elisha became Elijah's servant and asked for a double portion of his anointing. He received it and performed twice as many miracles as Elijah had. They both called down fire from heaven, multiplied food, and raised people from the dead. Elisha was so anointed that years after his death and burial, his bones resurrected a man who was thrown into the tomb with him.

Over the years, enemy armies were struck blind, captured, and then made to see again (Elisha). Others became confused and attacked each other (Gideon). 185,000 Assyrians apparently did not wake up the next morning after an angel of the Lord visited their camp (Isaiah 37:36).

When Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego were thrown into Nebuchadnezzar's fiery furnace in Babylon, God protected them. When Daniel was thrown into the lion's den, God protected Him.

Jesus performed many miracles: He healed the sick, raised the dead, walked on water, multiplied food, calmed storms, and cast out demons. But He is "Emmanuel, God with us." So let's continue to look at ordinary people like you and me.

Peter the fisherman walked on water, healed the sick, and a man named Ananias and his wife Sapphira fell dead at his words after they lied to the Holy Spirit. His prayer raised a disciple named Tabitha from the dead. The power of life and death was literally in Peter's tongue.

Paul was a leather worker, but God performed special miracles so that even handkerchiefs or aprons taken from him and laid on the sick would bring healing and deliverance. Demons would flee at the touch of the cloth. Paul spoke, and sorcerers were blinded. He healed the sick, and he raised the dead.

There is much more I could say, but my point is that God can control your food supply. God can multiply your resources. He can control the weather, heal, and protect us. He has brought the dead back to life, and He has also made some naughty ones dead.

God is able to protect those who trust in Him, for He has always been a delivering God. He has always been a miracle-working God. He works through His people, and He has not changed, stopped, or ceased His work; He will work through you. The examples we've covered were all ordinary people of flesh and blood who simply put God first in their lives. The writer of Hebrews said it best with this:

(Hebrews 11:32-35 NKJV) And what more shall I say? For the time would fail me to tell of Gideon and Barak and Samson and Jephthah, also of David and Samuel and the prophets: who through faith subdued kingdoms, worked righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, became valiant in battle, turned to flight the armies of the aliens. Women received their dead raised to life again.

If God is for us, who can stand against us? Who has a resume that can compare with His? No matter what happens on Earth, He is able to take care of His people.

You can pray this with me if you like:

Prayer: Heavenly Father, please help me see my life through Your eyes. Stir my faith and awaken my heart to understand Your word. Today I choose to trust in You. In the name of Jesus Christ, I pray. Amen!