Nothing Will Be Impossible

We have been talking in this series about the God who heals us, the God who wants us to live healthy lives, the God who wants to restore us and lift us up from our fallen positions, from the distortions of life.

And during these last three weeks, I believe we have taken a parenthesis within the larger topic to talk about prayer. We have been talking about the role prayer plays. And I want to give a summary, and that is going to be my prayer. What I mean is that we have talked about so many different general principles of health.

So we have talked about principles, right?—very good biblical principles that we can use to maintain our health—but not everything in the Christian life is about principles, about theoretical knowledge. Not everything in the Christian life is only about knowledge that we can extract from the Bible. Sometimes more than just principles is needed; the naked power of God is needed, the weapons of faith, the weapons of warfare, as the Bible says. Weapons are needed; direct interventions of the Spirit in our lives are needed.

Prayer is the conduit; it is the channel that allows the Power of God to come down from heaven and enter the Earth. If we do not pray, we cannot receive the Power of God. The Word says that whatever we declare on Earth, God will declare in heaven and uphold in heaven. We are like magnets that draw the Power of God from heaven to Earth; we have so much power and do not realize it. Sometimes we do not understand all the power that we and our words possess.

The apostle Paul says in Ephesians that he prays for the Christians in Ephesus to understand how great the power is that God has caused to dwell in them. He says it is the same power that raised Christ from the dead.

There is a great deal of power in the world. There is power to heal diseases; there is power to set many things free. Physicists and scientists have discovered tremendous capacities for channeling the force of nature, but all of that remains within nature. Prayer allows us to go beyond nature and enter a dimension that affects nature in inconceivable ways. No one can heal a dead person or raise a dead person, but the power that dwells in us, which raised Christ from the dead, dwells in us, and we can use that power. So the power of prayer is so great; sometimes we simply need a power that breaks the darkness and the bonds within us.

There are situations in our lives, there are bonds that are like the walls of Jericho: tightly, tightly shut, and no force that we could muster has the power to break down the walls of Jericho except the Power of God, and many times that is what is needed. Sometimes the bonds you have in your life, sometimes the wounds of the past, the thoughts that overwhelm you, the depression you have had for twenty years, the anxiety you do not know how to control, the marriage that is completely closed off and that you no longer know how to deal with, require you to get on your knees and believe that the Power of God can destroy those bonds and take you to another level.

Many times there is no better place to be than with an immense wall in front of us and surrounded by gigantic situations, because at that moment God alone can manifest His power, and all the glory and all the honor will be for Him alone. Do not despair; when you are in absolutely closed and difficult situations, that may be the best moment of your life.

Prayer mobilizes those resources of heaven on our behalf, intervenes directly in a threatening situation, and changes it. Prayer often brings discernment and wisdom about how to act in a situation of pain or crisis. There will be times in your life when you will not have the words, the strategy, or the way out of a situation, and when you pray, the Lord bathes your brain, bathes your understanding with understanding and wisdom. That is why the Word of the Lord says: “If anyone lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives abundantly and without reproach, and it will be given to him.”

How does one construct a building like this, which would cost about thirteen million dollars in the best-case scenario, for five million and change? Because God gives wisdom; God gives intelligence. How can a church that is poor, humanly speaking in one sense, with few resources, have three wonderful buildings like these in the middle of the city?

The Lord who gave wisdom to Daniel, gave wisdom to Moses, and gave wisdom to Joseph in times of need—pray to the Lord to give you understanding, knowledge, and wisdom. I believe that wisdom is almost like a substance; it is like an essence that, if you ask the Lord to give it to you as a resource for your entire life, and you dedicate your life to pursuing and seeking wisdom—Scripture says that if you value wisdom like gold and silver, God will give it to you. Read the first chapters of the Book of Proverbs when you get home.

When you remain in prayer throughout your life and ask the Lord to give you wisdom and knowledge, wisdom and knowledge become an atmosphere that you are continually breathing in. That oxygen-rich atmosphere of the Kingdom of God fills your brain, energizes it, and gives you the ability to make wise decisions in your life.

Sometimes God needs to change our perspective, because if you declare yourself defeated and you believe you are defeated, you will be defeated. If you believe you are surrounded by an army of giants who will not let you reach the other side, you will be prevented from moving. If you see yourself as tiny and powerless, you will be tiny and powerless. And sometimes we have to ask the Lord, “Lord, change my perspective, change the way I see things,” and then God can do something in your life.

I am going to conclude with this illustration: you remember—and I do not know if, I do not think I have shared it with you, because, as I tell you, the Lord has been speaking to me so much through this ordeal, and I know He has been speaking to Meche and the whole family, through the ordeal of our beloved Daniela, our little granddaughter—and I have learned so much; I have gained so much from it, because that is what happens. When problems come into our lives, I believe God can always teach me a great deal through them. Everything that comes into our lives must be turned into gold.

Daniela could almost fit on this page when she was born. She was 11 inches long; this paper is eleven and a little more inches long. She could almost fit right here. She weighed one pound, three ounces. And I remember that Meche left Boston before I did to be there for the delivery of our daughter Abigail, and I left a few hours later, and you can imagine what one feels like in a situation like that. Abigail was in a tremendous physical crisis, and that little baby was going to be born at 25 weeks—15 weeks, almost four months, premature. But of course, we immediately immersed ourselves in prayer, as did many people. Thank you to all of you who also prayed on Sunday.

As I was going to Nashville, filled with fears and questions, uncertain about what was going to happen to our daughter and our little granddaughter, as I walked through the terminal in prayer, asking the Lord to intervene, the entire trip was prayer in the Spirit.

When I came out, I had to turn a corner to go to where the luggage was, and when I turned, there it was, confronting me. I could do nothing but look at that poster, that large advertisement for a Christian hospital that had launched an advertising campaign about its facilities and resources and all of that. And that poster, that advertisement, showed a person’s hand—it was a man—and in it was a baby who was, in fact, at 25 weeks, because I researched it on the internet: 25 weeks, like our Daniela. In that hand, there was another hand covering the baby, and it said, “Nothing will be impossible.”

God can make a thousand interventions. That campaign may have served many purposes, but at that moment, that campaign had been made so that I would see it, receive peace, and change my perspective.

God was telling me, “Look, your perspective right now, from a human standpoint, is indeed difficult, full of negative possibilities, clouded—but I see it differently. She is in My Hands, and nothing will be impossible. There is no obstacle, no difficulty, that I cannot change.” And I had to remain there for a while, looking and thanking the Lord because He changed my perspective in response to my cry and my prayer.

I want you to understand that you have to renew your perspective through prayer, because if you fight your battles using only your own resources, and you are viewing and analyzing your situation, your future, and your hope through human resources and human conditions, you are lost. You have to fill your spirit and your eyes so that they can see through the Lord’s eyes—seeing life as God sees it: He is seated on His Throne, with a sea of glass that does not move beneath His feet, and He controls everything.

Never allow your vision to be filled with negativity. Never believe that you are powerless. Never believe that the walls cannot fall, because the walls can indeed fall with one Word in the Spirit.

Prayer changes your perspective; prayer changes your outlook. Prayer takes the captives and breaks their chains. Right here, you can affect the universe; you can affect a family situation a thousand miles, two thousand miles away.

We give thanks to the Lord for that power He has given us to change circumstances wherever they may be, no matter how difficult—the best place. The Lord knows no distances, space, or time. He sees everything in total simultaneity, and that dimension is the dimension of prayer and crying out. And if you make your life a life of prayer and crying out, I promise you that nothing will be impossible.

Father: Nothing will be impossible for us, Lord, because Your Power changes situations; Your Power changes perspectives. Father, Your Power turns us into giants of the Spirit, and we soar through the air, Lord, in the Power of the Holy Spirit. Thank You for everything You have allowed us to do this day. We thank You for this morning, Lord, which has been good, has been special, has been glorious, and we believe that we have labored well for Your glory and Your honor, and we thank You. We declare that nothing will be impossible in the Power of God, and the people of God say: Amen, hallelujah. Stand up, brothers and sisters, and let us worship the Lord once more, and then we are dismissed. Glory to the Name of the Lord.