WORD: POSSIBILITY
DEFINED: LIKELY TO HAPPEN.
SCRIPTURE: " ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE WITH GOD. "Mark 9:23).
Just
then, Jesus arrived on the scene with Peter, James and John. The father
approached Jesus and said, “I brought him, and they couldn’t help him.
If You can do anything…”
The father, having already been disappointed, doubted Jesus’ ability to heal his son.
Jesus
responded by saying, “If you can believe, all things are possible to
him who believes.” Jesus shifts the responsibility right back to the
father, letting him know that he had a part to play in the healing of
his son. His part was to believe.
What
most Christians fail to realize is that there are two sides to the coin
of “all things are possible with God” (Matt. 19:26). One side of the
coin says, “All things are possible with God.” But when you turn the
coin over it says, “All things are possible to him who believes” (Mark
9:23).
All
things are possible with God. All things are possible to the one who
believes. God wants us to understand that we have a part to play.
You
are probably familiar with the verse in Ephesians 3:20 which tells us
that God is able to do exceedingly, abundantly, above all that we can
ask or think. But the rest of the verse says, “…according to the power
at work in us.” In other words, God has a part to play, and we have a
part to play.
This truth is reinforced in 1 Corinthians 3:9 where the apostle Paul tells us that we’re fellow workers together with God.
If
you and I want to see things change in our lives and circumstances… and
in the lives and circumstances of those around us…we must do our part
by believing and praying. Don’t just think that God is going to
sovereignly intervene.
Now,
certainly, God does sovereignly intervene at times in our
circumstances. And it’s wonderful when He does. But you will find that
most often God’s work is not just a matter of uninvited divine
intervention. Instead, God moves in response to people praying and
seeking His face.
That kind of prayer is what I call “possibility praying.”
Our
part is to believe and to pray, and when we do, God responds to that.
Both are parts of the equation. And when it comes to possibility
praying, your thinking and your believing will either hinder you and
hinder God, or they will set the stage for great things to happen.
Psalm
78:41 reminds us we can hinder God. In talking about the Israelites,
it says, “Yes, again and again they tempted God, and limited the Holy
One of Israel.”
The Hebrew word limited
literally means “to mark something, to scratch it deep… to scratch a
line.” The idea is that the Israelites created a border for God’s
blessing. It’s like they took a magic marker to the vessel of God’s
blessing, marked a line all the way around it, and said, “Okay, God,
bless us, but only this far. We’re setting a mark as to how far You can
go in our lives.”
Again
and again they limited the Holy One of Israel. And we have to ask, are
we doing that, too? Are we limiting God by not doing our part in
believing and praying?
You
have a part to play in God’s work in your life. You must believe… and
you must pray… trusting God to then do His part. When you do, you will
release the power of possibility praying in your life!
TRUST GOD TO DO EXACTLY WHAT HE SAYS HE WILL DO IN ALL SITUATIONS. Trust Him to come through for you!!!!
God bless you.
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