What
is empower ?
The Lord our God empowers us
Divine
empowerment occurs when a person becomes connected to God through Jesus
Christ by answering a divine call and participates in God's divine plan. A
person is empowered as they become members of God's family receiving
authority from the risen Christ to fulfill their individual divine mediating
role.
1
Corinthians 4;20
For
the kingdom of God is demonstrated not in idle talk but with power.
Luke
9:1-6
[ The
Sending of the Twelve Apostles ] After Jesus called the twelve together, he
gave them power and authority over all demons and to cure diseases, and he sent
them out to proclaim the kingdom of God and to heal the sick. He said to them,
“Take nothing for your journey—no staff, no bag, no bread, no money, and do not
take an extra tunic. ...
Joshua
14;13
Joshua
asked God to empower Caleb son of Jephunneh and assigned him Hebron.
Judges
3;10
The
Lord’s Spirit empowered him and he led Israel. When he went to do
battle, the Lord handed over to him King Cushan Rishathaim of Armon and he
overpowered him.
Judges
11;29
The Lord’s Spirit empowered
Jephthah. He passed through Gilead and Manasseh and went to Mizpah in Gilead.
From there he approached the Ammonites.
Judges
13;24
Manoah’s
wife gave birth to a son and named him Samson. The child grew and the Lord empowered
him.
Judges
14;6
The
Lord’s Spirit empowered him, and he tore the lion in two with his bare
hands as easily as one would tear a young goat. But he did not tell his father
or mother what he had done.
Judges
14;19
The
Lord’s Spirit empowered him. He went down to Ashkelon and killed thirty
men. He took their clothes and gave them to the men who had solved the riddle.
He was furious as he went back home.
Judges
15;14
When
he arrived in Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they approached him. But the
Lord’s Spirit empowered him. The ropes around his arms were like flax
dissolving in fire, and they melted away from his hands.
1
Kings 2;45
"But
King Solomon will be empowered, and David’s dynasty will endure
permanently before the Lord.”
1
Kings 8;66
On
the fifteenth day after the festival started, he dismissed the people. They
asked God to empower the king and then went to their homes, happy and
content because of all the good the Lord had done for his servant David and his
people Israel.
1
Chronicles 12;18
But
a spirit empowered Amasai, the leader of the group of warriors known as
the Thirty, and he said: “We are yours, O David! We support you, O son of
Jesse! May you greatly prosper. May those who help you prosper. Indeed your God
helps you!” So David accepted them and made them leaders of raiding bands.
Psalm
28;9
Deliver
your people. Empower the nation that belongs to you. Care for them like
a shepherd and carry them in your arms at all times!
Isaiah
44;24
[ The
Lord Empowers Cyrus ] This is what the Lord, your Protector, says,
the one who formed you in the womb: “I am the Lord, who made everything, who
alone stretched out the sky, who fashioned the earth all by myself."
Habakkuk
1;6
Look,
I am about to empower the Babylonians, that ruthless and greedy nation.
They sweep across the surface of the earth, seizing dwelling places that do not
belong to them.
Galatians
2;8
(for
he who empowered Peter for his apostleship to the circumcised also empowered
me for my apostleship to the Gentiles)
Revelation
13;15
The
second beast was empowered to give life to the image of the first beast
so that it could speak, and could cause all those who did not worship the image
of the beast to be killed.