God Of Impossibilities

God of Impossibilities

I am the LORD, the God of all the peoples of the world. Is anything too hard for me? Jeremiah 32:27

SOMETIMES WE THINK OUR PRAYERS are a stretch—that they assume too much or reach too far. We know God is good, but we also know good fathers don’t spoil their children. And we’re certain we need the Father’s moderating hand in our lives. We don’t want our requests to be too bold or unrealistic.

It’s true that God wants us to be able to handle the weight of his gifts, and sometimes he measures them accordingly. But if you’ve ever heard that God will give you what you need but not what you want, don’t believe it. He may not give you everything you ask for, but he is the Giver of good gifts. And some of those good gifts are extravagant. They stretch boundaries. They are not limited by human expectations or by our own sense of what we don’t deserve. They aren’t confined to some realm of the semi-miraculous-but-not-too-impossible. Sometimes they are exactly what we think couldn’t be done.

God makes ways where there seems to have been no way. He makes pathways through the wilderness and creates rivers in wastelands (Isaiah 43:19). He can grow a garden on a garbage dump, turn ashes into beauty, and bring life out of a sealed tomb. He calls things that are not as though they are. The question is never whether God can do the impossible; it’s which impossibilities does he want to do?

We can be grateful that some of those impossibilities are spelled out for us in Scripture. Being filled with God’s wisdom, power, and love to the point that we overflow with his fullness is one of them. Being resurrected from death is another. Healing, deliverance, and restoration are common in the Bible. So are unexpected twists, reversals, and breakthroughs. Don’t limit your prayers to spiritual normalcies—or normalcies of any kind, for that matter. Expect the new way, the river in the desert, and the impossible possibilities. Pray with unlimited vision.

Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible.