Bible Verses About God's Power

“By the word of the LORD the heavens were made, and all the stars by the breath of His mouth. He piles up the waters of the sea; He puts the depths into storehouses. Let all the earth fear the LORD; let all the people of the world revere Him. For He spoke, and it came to be; He commanded, and it stood firm.”

The psalmist says the heavens and the seas came about by God's word alone. Nothing needed to be built from effort; his command was enough.

““To whom will you liken Me, or who is My equal?” asks the Holy One. Lift up your eyes on high: Who created all these? He leads forth the starry host by number; He calls each one by name. Because of His great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing.”

Isaiah tells weary people to lift their eyes to the stars and remember who set each one in place and knows it by name. If he keeps the sky in order, he has not lost track of you.

““Oh, Lord GOD! You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too difficult for You!”

Jeremiah prays this while his city is under siege, grounding his hope in the Creator who finds nothing too hard. It is faith spoken at the worst moment, not the easiest.

“Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding. Who fixed its measurements? Surely you know! Or who stretched a measuring line across it? On what were its foundations set, or who laid its cornerstone, while the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?”

God answers Job's suffering by asking where he was when the earth's foundations were laid. The point is not to silence Job but to remind him that someone far wiser holds the world together.

“But Moses told the people, “Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the LORD’s salvation, which He will accomplish for you today; for the Egyptians you see today, you will never see again. The LORD will fight for you; you need only to be still.””

Trapped between the sea and an army, Israel is told to stand still and watch the Lord fight for them. Sometimes the first step of trust is to stop scrambling.

“And he said, “Listen, all you people of Judah and Jerusalem! Listen, King Jehoshaphat! This is what the LORD says: ‘Do not be afraid or discouraged because of this vast army, for the battle does not belong to you, but to God. Tomorrow you are to march down against them. You will see them coming up the Ascent of Ziz, and you will find them at the end of the valley facing the Wilderness of Jeruel. You need not fight this battle. Take up your positions, stand firm, and see the salvation of the LORD on your behalf, O Judah and Jerusalem. Do not be afraid or discouraged. Go out and face them tomorrow, for the LORD is with you.’””

Before a vast enemy, King Jehoshaphat hears that the battle belongs to God, not to Judah. The people respond by worshiping before anything has changed.

“Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego replied to the king, “O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter. If the God whom we serve exists, then He is able to deliver us from the blazing fiery furnace and from your hand, O king. But even if He does not, let it be known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the golden statue you have set up.””

Three young men tell the king that God is able to save them, and that they will stay faithful even if he does not. They trust his power without demanding a particular outcome.

“God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in times of trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth is transformed and the mountains are toppled into the depths of the seas, though their waters roar and foam and the mountains quake in the surge.Selah”

Even if the earth gives way and mountains fall into the sea, the psalmist says God remains a refuge and a very present help. His power is something to run to, not away from.

“For no word from God will ever fail. ””

The angel says this to a young woman facing news she cannot comprehend. Whatever God has promised, he is able to carry out.

“But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest on me. That is why, for the sake of Christ, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.”

Paul asked for a hardship to be taken away and was told that grace was enough, because strength is made complete in weakness. He learned to count his limits as places where Christ's power could rest.

“Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.”

Paul ends his prayer by praising a God who can do more than we ask or imagine through the power already at work within us. It invites bigger prayers, not careless ones.

“I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Jew, then to the Greek.”

Paul is not ashamed of the gospel because it is God's power to save everyone who believes. The strongest thing he can offer anyone is the good news itself.

“I ask that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you may know the hope of His calling, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints, and the surpassing greatness of His power to us who believe. These are in accordance with the working of His mighty strength, which He exerted in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly realms,”

Paul prays that believers will grasp the greatness of the power that raised Christ from the dead. The same power is described as working for those who trust him.