"Is anything too hard for the LORD?"

Brother Doug preached Sunday on not having any safety nets.  About how when God calls you to something He usually doesn't want you to have a plan B. He usually wants it to be the only plan.  I was pondering over that and looking back over times where I stayed true to that and times where I did not.  I have been praying over situations in my life.  Some with dealing with people, some with wanting God to use my talents, some just total randomness.  My blog is one of those things.  Praying over it might be too strong of a statement.  Thinking about praying over it might be more accurate.  Some people have been saying that I am a pretty good writer.  I was thinking to myself how cool it would be if God used my writing and/or blog to do cool things for Him.  I thought about praying over it.  I might have halfway prayed over it.  But deep down I didn't know if it was even possible.  How stupid of me.  Not that I am that talented, but God is just that good.  Sure enough, last week, He sent someone along my path who needed some help with some writing for a ministry they are beginning.  And I get to use my talents!  Isn't it funny how God even hears the prayers we don't even halfway articulate.  That prayer never made it out of my soul.  He heard my desire.  He is so good.  So as I was thinking over this situation it got me to thinking of other prayers I hadn't allowed myself to pray.  Things I had been holding on to and not daring verbalize or think too hard on because they were just plain ridiculous or silly or might even be deemed miracles if they were answered.  And I opened up my bible to my reading for that night and BAM.  God spoke.  He tends to do that when we dig in to the Bible.  Genesis 18:14a says "Is anything too hard for the LORD?"  He was speaking to Abraham and declaring that he and Sarah would have a son in the next year.  They didn't believe God.  They were not willing to even say that prayer anymore.  They had given up on it.  She even laughed at God when He said it.  They didn't want to be disappointed anymore.  But Yahweh is the God of the hard things.  He is the God of the impossible.  He is the God who hears deep within our spirits the utterings we can't even fathom and answers them.  NOTHING is too hard for the Lord.  NOTHING.  I am believing God for some things I didn't dare even allow myself to dream.  I am telling Satan that he can take his doubt and uneasiness and get the heck away from me.  My God always comes through. Always.  He builds dreams and passions deep within us so that we can honor Him and glorify Him with them.  What are you scared to ask for?  What have you laid aside because you just thought it might be too hard for God to do?  I am begging you to start taking them before the Lord again.  The God who said "Is anything too hard for the Lord?" is the same God dwelling in you and I right now.  I am not saying that just because we ask things God does His things and gives us all we want.  But I am saying that if we trusted God with more, dared to ask more, and made sure we were honoring Him with those things, we might just be shocked at how God shows out.

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