The Only Place It is Possible
What is your impossible? Right now.
What is it that looks beyond your reach. What picture is the enemy holding in front of your face while he laughs at your desperation?
What dream, what healing, what freedom looks impossible?
Don’t be afraid to believe.
You haven’t made too many wrong choices.
There aren’t too many strikes against you.
It isn’t impossible.
There is a place where our past doesn’t undo our future, where the stars don’t have to align for the magnificent to manifest and where the word impossible ceases to exist.
That place is in view of the Promise of God.
It’s in view of the Promise of God that our focus shifts from our limitations to His limitlessness.
Ephesians 6:10 AMPC says “In conclusion, be strong in the Lord [be empowered through your union with Him]; draw your strength from Him [that strength which His boundless might provides].”
His boundless might. I love that phrase.
You know my study thrives on definitions. Merriam-Webster defines the word might as:
The power, authority or resources wielded
Bodily strength
The power, energy, or intensity of which one is capable
Take a moment and think about God’s boundless might. It is vast, without bounds; limitless power.
This is the place where impossible doesn’t exist. If you have a promise from someone with limitless power, authority and resources, you have every reason to expect what was promised.
Romans 4:18-21 (AMPC)
[For Abraham, human reason for] hope being gone, hoped in faith that he should become the father of many nations, as he had been promised, So [numberless] shall your descendants be. He did not weaken in faith when he considered the [utter] impotence of his own body, which was as good as dead because he was about a hundred years old, or [when he considered] the barrenness of Sarah’s [deadened] womb. No unbelief or distrust made him waver (doubtingly question) concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong and was empowered by faith as he gave praise and glory to God, fully satisfied and assured that God was able and mighty to keep His word and to do what He had promised.
Abraham didn’t ignore his situation. He didn’t forget that he and Sarah were incapable of conceiving. He considered their situation and still chose to believe the promise.
The Wuest translation of the New Testament is a more exact translation of the original Greek text. It’s not an easy read but it is deep and rich.
Here’s an excerpt from Romans 4 from the Wuest Translation:
Moreover, in view of the promise of God, he did not vacillate in the sphere of unbelief between two mutually exclusive expectations but was strengthened with respect to his faith.
The sphere of unbelief is a place and to vacillate is to waver. In this place Abraham would be stuck between two mutually exclusive expectations. Here, if he and Sarah were physically incapable of having children then God’s promise of innumerable descendants could not come to pass and vice versa. If one is true, the other is not.
We live in a world where bodies are broken and impossible is not uncommon. There are things we can’t make happen, no matter how desperately we try. The walk of faith doesn’t negate reality, it supersedes it. There is One who is not bound by the natural constraints of this sin wrecked world.
Jesus’ death and resurrection broke open the door of the impossible. We, who call Him Lord, have been reconciled and set back in friendly relations with the Almighty God, Whose power, strength and resources are without bounds.
So, how do we move out of the sphere of unbelief and into view of the Promise of God?
We put His Word and His Promise in front of our eyes and we do not allow our gaze to wonder. Meditate on the reality of His power, His goodness and His love for us. We must believe not only that He has the ability needed to undo the impossible but that His love for us already moved Him to do it.
Proverbs 4:20-23,25 (AMPC)
My son, attend to my words; consent and submit to my sayings. Let them not depart from your sight; keep them in the center of your heart. For they are life to those who find them, healing and health to all their flesh. Keep and guard your heart with all vigilance and above all that you guard, for out of it flow the springs of life. Let your eyes look right on [with fixed purpose] and let your gaze be straight before you.
If we lose sight of His promise then we have no real hope of seeing the impossible.
An impossible situation and a promise from God are not mutually exclusive. Take your promise and shout it in the face of the naturally impossible. Shout it all day everyday. Shout it when you see progress; shout it when you don’t see any change. Focus on the promise so much that your emotions become ruled by His Promise. You’ll soon see that when you meditate on the promise of God despair leaves, frustration bows and sadness dwindles because what was a hopeless situation has found new life in the only place it’s possible-
In View of the Promise of God.
Luke 1:37 (AMPC)
For with God nothing is ever impossible and no word from God shall be without power or impossible of fulfillment.