How Big Is God?

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Thursday morning, the 10th of April, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We start in the Book of Genesis 18:14:

”Is anything too hard for the Lord?” 

Wow, that’s a good question. I hope you can answer that one, and then we go straight to the Gospel of John 14:14:

”If you ask anything in My name, I will do it.”

That is a promise from God, folks, not to be argued. I want to ask you a question this morning. How big is God? Well, the answer is simple. He is as big as you allow Him to be. Some people keep Him in a matchbox. That’s true. I preached in Scandinavia many, many years ago. What a beautiful part of the world. Everything works there. They build the biggest trucks in the world. Their water is so clean and clear you can almost drink it out of the lakes. As I was preaching, a lady came up and she was weeping. I said, ”What is the problem?” She said, ”Please pray for us. You see, we keep Jesus in a matchbox and every now and again we just let Him out just a little bit.”

Folks, we must depend on God, not on the works of our hands. You see, some people think they don’t need God but I want to tell you, He is a miracle-working God and He’s asking you today, what is it that you need? Remember the story of Sarah? Sarah was in her nineties, and God said He would give her a baby boy, but she laughed. She didn’t believe it because she was in her nineties. How can a ninety-year-old woman conceive and bear a child? How can a man of a hundred years old be the father of many nations? I’m talking about Abraham and yet that’s exactly what happened. 

You and I today need to think outside of the box. We hired the biggest tent in the whole world in 2008. We had five hundred rand which is about thirty US dollars in our pocket, and we booked it. A thirty thousand-seater tent, and we were expecting about twenty thousand men. Sixty thousand men arrived on this farm - many are listening to this message this morning! We fed them. Do you know we had to kill forty oxen to feed these men for one meal? We fed them for a whole weekend. How big is God? He’s as big as you allow Him to be in your life.

William Carey, the man that took the Gospel to India said, ”We must attempt great things for God and we must expect great things from God.” 

Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day, 
Goodbye.