God is Able – by Micheal Woods

God Is Able—Right Where You Are Micheal Woods, Executive Director If I could put one sentence at the top of our hearts this month, it would be this: God is able! Not someday when everything lines up, but today. When I was a kid, I wanted to invent a time machine. I thought If I could go back in time I would right wrongs, fix problems and save lives. I also would have won the lottery every time. Most of us have a private “time-machine list.” If we could go back, we’d fix that decision, take back those words, choose a different path. But a change in one moment wouldn’t just change one thing; it would change everything that f lowed from it — people you met, lessons you learned, passions you now carry.

The enemy loves to keep us staring into that rear-view mirror (wanting to go backwards) until regret becomes a cage.

God says, Look up. I can lead you forward from here.

Scripture anchors this hope:

• “I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me.” (Galatians 2:20)

• “Whatever is born of God overcomes the world.” (1 John 5:4)

• “Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think… according to the power that works in us.” (Ephesians 3:20)

If Jesus is Lord of your life, the Greater One lives in you. He does not dwell in you empty-handed. He brings His anointing, His authority, His wisdom. That means your past may explain some things about you, but it cannot define you. In Christ, you are not the sum of failures and family patterns; you are a new creation (2 Corinthians 5:17), learning to walk in a new identity. Here’s where we get stuck: we believe God is able — in general. We believe He can do great things for others. But we quietly give Him an “out” for our own lives: God can do anything… if He wants to. That’s not faith; that’s self protection from disappointment. Faith doesn’t dictate terms to God, but it does take God at His Word and refuses to reduce His power to the limits of our understanding. So how do we move from regret to confidence?

1) Trade Sin-Consciousness for Christ-Consciousness: Many believers try to live the new life while wearing the old lenses. Everything is seen through what went wrong. But God “made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him” (2 Corinthians 5:21). Put on that righteousness. View your past, present, and future through Christ’s finished work, not your unfinished perfection.

2) Stop Negotiating With Yesterday: You do not need a do-over to obey today. The decisions you wish you could change may have brought you to a hard place; even so, God can meet you in this place and lead you where He intends. He is the Redeemer of time. He restores what the locusts have eaten—not always by erasing history, but by weaving it into redemption.

3) Confess What God Confesses: A “word-based confession” is not magic; it’s agreement. Say what God says until your heart stands where your mouth stands: I am crucified with Christ. The Greater One lives in me. I am an overcomer. You are not talking yourself into optimism; you are talking your soul into alignment with truth.

4) Fight the Right Fight: The enemy is the accuser. He will point to your past, parade old names and narratives, and insist those define you. Answer with the gospel. You are not boasting in self-improvement; you are boasting in Christ in you. When temptation pulls or shame shouts, stand on the inside with Jesus and say, Not me—Christ in me.

5) Walk by Faith, Not Sight: Think of Indiana Jones stepping onto the invisible bridge: the path didn’t appear until his foot moved. Much of obedience is like that. You won’t get every answer in advance. Take the next right step. God meets moving feet.

6) Expect God to Outwork Evil: The thief comes to steal, kill, and destroy. But again and again we’ve watched God turn the enemy’s worst into the believer’s best—returning what was stolen, and even using scars as credentials to serve others. Here at Western Carolina Rescue Ministries, we see that grace every week: yesterday’s pain becoming today’s ministry in the hands of Jesus.

7) Hold Fast to the Keeper: Jude closes with this promise: “Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy…” (Jude 24–25). Notice where the ability resides. Not in our résumé, but in our Redeemer. He is able to keep, to present, to finish what He started.

So, no more giving God an out. No more postponing obedience until you feel worthy. No more letting the enemy rehearse a highlight reel of your worst moments. Christ lives in you. He intends for you to exist today, on purpose, and He is able to do “exceedingly abundantly” above all you can ask or imagine — according to the power at work in you. Let’s agree with Heaven. Let’s step onto the unseen path. And let’s walk forward—confident that the One who calls us is faithful, and He will do it.