Quotes about Power

Satan still takes advantage of women and men, seizing their powers of influence for his own purposes.

Do you think I cannot call on My Father, and He will provide me at once with more than 12 legions of angels? Matthew 26:53

God can do what He says He can do precisely

For we also are weak in Him, yet toward you we will live with Him by God's power. 2 Corinthians 13:4

And He did not do many miracles there because of their unbelief. Matthew 13:58

God can do what He says He can do precisely because He is who He says He is.

Prayer matters. It's not just words in the air. The Spirit of God released through our prayers and the prayers of others is enough to turn cowards into conquerors, chaos into calm, cries into comfort.

You who occupy the mountain summit, though you elevate your nest like the eagle, even from there I will bring you down. Jeremiah 49:16

Why are you amazed at this? Or why do you stare at us, as though by our own power or godliness we had made him walk? Acts 3:12

The Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins. Luke 5:24

None of us possesses enough power or godliness to enact a miracle in someone else's life on our best day. "Faith expressing itself through love" is a miracle in itself.

All this time, I'd accepted the rampant sexism because I thought it was about Scripture. What I was watching in the wake of the report, however, did not appear to be a whit about Scripture, nor did it evidence fruit of the Holy Spirit, as far as I could discern. In my estimation, this thing playing out in front of the world was about power. This was about control. This was about the boys' club.