Luke 1:37 For nothing will be impossible with God.”
His promises will never fail us. We can, and should, have complete faith and confidence that we can rely on his Word. Why? Because all things are possible for God.
Different translations of this Scripture
No word from God will ever fail (NIV).
For the word of God will never fail (NLT)
Nothing, you see, is impossible with God (MSG)
For with God nothing [is or ever] shall be impossible (Amp).
Some times, our minds tend to be riddled with doubt as to whether God really has the ability or power to accomplish what we seek of Him or what He has promised to do in our lives.
Is there anything hard for the Lord?
God asks interesting questions in order to affect our perspective of things.
Genesis 18:14 Is anything too hard for the Lord? At the appointed time I will return to you, about this time next year, and Sarah shall have a son.”
Sarah was facing an age long barrenness with over 40 years in clinical and critical menopause. Conceiving and bearing a child at 90 looked impossible at that age. But God came to ask Sarah the question, was that situation too hard or difficult for God to redress? Sarah conceived and gave birth to Isaac.
Hebrews 11:11 “Through faith also Sara herself received strength to CONCEIVE SEED, and was delivered of a child WHEN SHE WAS PAST AGE, because she judged Him Faithful who had promised”.
More than we can ask or imagine
Ephesians 3:19-21 Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.
it is impossible for God to lie or to fail his promises.
The proof of God’s love is not that we are kept from troubles, but that we can count on him to be with us through them.
Everything is possible for the one who believes.
There is nothing hard for God to do. He works miracles even the midst of extreme impossible circumstances. impossible things can happen because nothing is impossible with God.
With God, nothing is impossible; nothing is truly “inconceivable.”
Trust Him during your trials
Job 42:2: “I know that You can do all things, and that no purpose of Yours can be thwarted.
After God reminds Job of His power and might over all created things, a humbled Job acknowledges that You, Lord, can do all things. Nothing is beyond Your grasp or the scope of Your creative, working power. If You purpose something, there is nothing on earth that can thwart it. Your purposes will come to pass.
In Job’s case, it was trial upon trial to teach him, but to also teach us, that Your ways are not our ways, Your thoughts are not our thoughts, and that whatever You purpose can and will be used for good in our lives—and Your glory.
Learn to think and say, "I may have problems, but God is with me."
Joseph was a young boy sold into slavery by his very own brothers, "but God was with him," and eventually Joseph became second in command over all of Egypt.
Mark 9:23 Jesus said to him, “If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.”
Learn to “name it and claim it”! Today I want to encourage you not to limit yourself or God.
What’s impossible in your life right now? What prayers are you praying that are in line with the will of God? Believe big! God is the God of the impossible!