When we pray for the impossible, it means we recognize that nothing will be accomplished by our natural abilities or our own mechanisms; but by God’s Spirit. Miracles, for the Christian, should not be something we just accept, but expect! Now, in saying that, it doesn’t mean that God throws his miracles around like items that can be found at the dollar store. God’s miracles are not for our personal enjoyment or luxury. Yes, he can bless us, but he’s not a cosmic genie who hands out cheap miracles for our own selfish benefit.
God works in the impossible to bring redemption and to bring glory to His name. God’s will is about accomplishing His work in our lives. That’s why some people are healed miraculously from disease and others are not. What will bring about God’s greater purpose and glory in our situation? We pray and believe Yehovah for the impossible and watch Him bring about that which the natural cannot do.
God declares through the promises of His word that He is going to take you and make you into something much greater than you are. It’s the visible testimony God gives to His called-out Assembly; that you and I are made into much more than we could ever hope to be in our own strength. We are changed by the Spirit of God as His new creations, as Paul says, from image to image and glory to glory... (see 2 Corinthians 3:18).
The changed lives of people, redeemed by the power of the sin-offering sacrifice of the lord Jesus, is the greatest witness of the truth of the good news message of the coming Kingdom of Yehovah to our fallen and needy world. The disciples got together and prayed in unison, “You are God.” And that’s where our prayer has to start — “You are God! You spoke, and the worlds were created. You spoke, and life came into being. You spoke, and animals were created. You looked at dust in the earth, and formed a man from dust and breathed into the man, and man became a living soul. You are God — nothing is impossible for you!”
By Carter Conlon edited by Bruce Lyon
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