Look what the Bible has to say about things that look impossible in your life: With God nothing shall be impossible (Luke 1:37)...All things are possible to him that believes (Mark 9:23)...Things which are impossible with men are possible with God (Luke 18:27)...Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me? (Jer. 32:27).
Don't you love those verses? Yet, while it's easy to sit in church or read a newsletter and shout amen when you hear them, I believe each of us has "a thing" in our life that looks too hard for God.
You know what I mean about "a thing" - it's that circumstance or symptom that you've been beating your head up against for a while now. Maybe it's sickness or lack or relationships or church growth or finding your place. It's what you feel ashamed or periodically hopeless about; it sometimes stands between you and God when it comes to using your faith. It's the thing that the devil uses to beat you up over.
No matter what other great blessings God is bringing to your life, "the thing" is still looming large, looking impossible, hanging on tenaciously, mocking you and saying, "Yeah, sure, the Word works, but what about this THING?"
For me it used to be finances. For 15 or 20 years of my Christian life, I was broke and confessing provision scriptures! But one year I got hold of a tape series and after I'd listened to it for 10 months straight, something dropped into my spirit. All of a sudden I knew that God was more than enough and all my needs were met! Something changed in me.
I don't tell you that for the 15 years part. I tell you that so that you'll know that no matter how long it takes, there's an answer for you. Even your "thing" isn't the one thing too hard for God!
Now I want you to know that everyone has "a thing." Even the most successful person you know has bumped into something that looks too hard. The children of Israel ran into it when they sent a team of men to spy out the promised land. The team came back and said, "Yes, the land surely flows with milk and honey!"
But they also saw giants in the land, and they were afraid. They said, "We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we...and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight" (Numbers 13:31, 33).
That verse is so revealing. They were like grasshoppers in their own sight! And that's what happens to us. It's like standing before a door, with all the possibilities and provisions of God waiting on the other side of the doorway. But because we have a certain inner image of our problem being "hard" we shut the door on God's power and possibilities
I want you to get that. We shut the door! God is always the same, always powerful, always able to do the impossible. It's because of how we see things that we say, "it's too hard." But the good news is that if we're the ones who shut the door, we can be the ones to open it!
How do we do that? We look into God's Word, and we change (James 1:21-25). All our answers are there! We take the Word - our sword (Eph. 6:17) - and we swing it...we speak it until it looks and sounds more real than what we see and have now. Instead of saying what we have, we start calling for the things we want (Mark 11:23, Romans 4:17).
Start today digging into God's Word - speak it out loud and change your inner image of that hard thing. Nothing in your life is too hard for the Lord!
