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Beware in your prayers, above everything else, of limiting God not only by unbelief but by fancying that you know what HE can do. ~ Andrew Murray

I used to be a coupon queen. I would be snipping out bargains from the Sunday paper before anyone had time to find out whether Garfield had eaten an entire pan of lasagna or a whole chocolate cake.

But I despised the ones that said Limit 1. What is the point of a coupon if you can only get one? This is back before my Sam’s Club membership where I can now purchase unbelievable quantities that I cannot possibly consume in a household of two. I digress.

Finding coupons with no limits were the bomb. Fifty cents off of anything was (and still is) a big deal, even though I don’t take the time any longer to benefit as much from coupon-ing.

What if we didn’t decipher everything He wanted to do in our lives with a “If I can fit it in” or “Let me get this done first” or even “I’m not sure God would ever do THAT so let me do THIS.”

What if there were truly no limits?

The 78^th Psalm speaks of the children of Israel limiting their God. The first half of the Psalm recounts all of the wondrous things God did for them in the wilderness. Coming upon verse 32 we find this:  ^“For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.”

Even with miraculous things happening around them they continued in sin and unbelief. The Bible goes on to say, “Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel. They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy.”

Maybe a key to taking the limits off of God would be to remember what He has done for us in the past and realize that He can do it again!

There is nothing too hard for Him, He never changes and is ready and willing to come to our rescue and answer our prayer according to His will.

How are you limiting God today? Do you pray, as I do sometimes, knowing He is more than able but not really sure that He would do it for YOU? The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is the same God we serve today. He hasn’t changed, He has not used up His power, He isn’t about to run out of miracles, look at what Paul says to the Ephesians:

“I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people, and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is the same as the mighty strength he exerted when he raised Christ from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms, far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every name that is invoked, not only in the present age but also in the one to come. And God placed all things under his feet and appointed him to be head over everything for the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills everything in every way.” Ephesians 1:18-23 NIV

Did you see that? That power is the same power that raised Christ from the dead.

It is UNLIMITED.

Trust in the Word today, knowing that what He has done for others He can also do for you. Take the limits off of God and believe Him according to His mighty power. “I know that you can do anything, and no one can stop you.” Job 42:2 NLT.

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