Your Impossibility is God’s Possibility!

“Is anything too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed, I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.” Genesis 18:14
“Ah, Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for you.” Jeremiah 32:17.
“But Jesus looked at them and said, “With man, this is impossible, but with God, all things are possible.” Matthew 19:26.
“For nothing will be impossible with God.” Luke 1:37.

You may be facing a situation that seems impossible. However, do you know that all things are possible for God? The Bible repeatedly says this truth to convince you of His power in your life.

Jeremiah says, “Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for you.

The three unexpected visitors asked Abraham, is anything too hard for the LORD? It is a rhetorical question demanding an answer – no, nothing is impossible for the LORD. Abraham was faced with a problem for a long time, as long as 25 years. God promised him a son when he was 75 years old. Even at the age of 99, the promise didn’t happen. He and Sarah remained without a child for a long time. He had to wait and wait to see the promise fulfilled. Abraham is called the father of faith. How did he achieve that credibility? Because God tested Abraham’s faith in Him and allowed it to develop and grow.

You see, this is how God develops and matures your faith. When you face challenges that say you won’t be able to handle, then pray, wait or move per God’s counsel He gives you—sometimes waiting is required, and other times action is needed by leaning on the promises of the Lord. If you are a child of God who trusted Jesus as your savior and Lord, you have the Holy Spirit inside you who helps, counsels, and guides. Moreover, you have the word of God, the Bible, and sincere and faithful believers to help you. In one of my severe challenges, a Godly pastor in Dallas, TX, who was a DTS graduate, helped to sort out the confusion and figure out the future steps by leaning on the promises of the Lord. We do not underestimate the power of Godly counsel.

God, develop your faith and grow it by throwing a problematic situation that is humanly complex. You will ask how I handle it and say I can’t.

Recently such an incident happened in my life that developed my faith and trust in Him and deepened my relationship with Him. God specifically asked me to make a bold move after years of prayer. However, from day one, I was challenged and faced with a situation of impossibility with a group that needed to grasp the basics of grace and forgiveness outlined in the Scripture. Humanly impossible, but God, who moves the mountain, stepped in to remove the humanly unsolvable problem with His great power and outstretched arm.

Remember that nothing is impossible to God if you surrender to the Lord and move with the Lord in prayer when He asks you to do certain impossibilities. He will remove the mountain and deepen your faith in him in his appointed time.

You may be faced with an impossible and challenging situation. Alternatively, God may ask you to step in and do something that looks too hard. He doesn’t want you to know the result in the beginning. If God is in it, He will make the impossible possible. He typically does not give the details in the front. If He does, your faith will not develop and grow.

Faith is trusting God and following what He says without knowing the details or outcome. However, you will look back and see that God was in it because he does impossible for you. Your faith in God grows, and you become more like Jesus Christ, which is spiritual maturity and growth.

Hebrews 11:8-10 sums up Abraham’s faith life in these statements. It says, ” By faith Abraham when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going. By faith, he made his home in the promised land like a stranger in a foreign country; he lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise. He was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God.”

Abraham began moving baby steps in faith and obedience when God called him from the idolatry background of Mesopotamia. God stretched his faith by giving impossible situations and proving God’s power to make them possible. Consequently, he became our father of faith. He looked forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God. We also look forward to the heavenly city, the ultimate focus of our faith, through the vicissitudes of life.