Friday around noon I saw the numbers go from $2,129 to $1,110 one week before the first deadline. My heart sank and my stomach turned to knots. I turned to worst case scenario and I broke down and began getting anxious. I thought to myself “What am I going to do?” I had not realized I was putting limits to what God can do and I was doubting. The next day I was reminded by two different stories that He can do anything and HE HAS NO LIMITS! Stories of promises, hope, and deliverance from unbelief!
Saturday, I came across a post on Facebook of a pastor and it went as follows:
“Mark 9:21-23 And He asked his father, “How long has this been happening to him?” And he said, “From childhood. 22 “It has often thrown him both into the fire and into the water to destroy him. But if You can do anything, take pity on us and help us!” 23 And Jesus said to him, ” ‘If You can?’ All things are possible to him who believes.”
Obviously, the father didn’t have a clue Who he was talking to.
Sometimes I wonder if we “have a clue” Who we’re talking to when we pray.
He is the Word by Whom all things were made.”
It made me realize that I was still asking God “If you can?” even though I have seen Jesus work in miraculous ways in my life! I was still doubting Him, and I was putting limits on him by asking myself “Can He really do this?” I was being the father of the child in this chapter. In verse 24. “Immediately the father of the child cried out and said with tears, “Lord, I believe; help my unbelief” This tugged my heart in million different ways. God was showing me through this chapter two things number 1. that even though I believed, I still carried around unbelief and number two that “all things are possible to him who believes.”
God is a sovereign God! He holds the world in the palm of His mighty hands! He can do ANYTHING! He is the God who rose Lazarus from the dead, made the blind see, made the lame walk. He is the ONLY ONE who keeps His promises! Which brings me to the second story WE ALL KNOW! Sarah and Abraham!
9 “Where is your wife Sarah?” they asked him. “There, in the tent,” he said. 10 Then one of them said, “I will surely return to you about this time next year, and Sarah your wife will have a son.” Now Sarah was listening at the entrance to the tent, which was behind him. 11 Abraham and Sarah were already very old, and Sarah was past the age of childbearing. 12 So Sarah laughed to herself as she thought, “After I am worn out and my lord is old, will I now have this pleasure?” 13 Then the Lord said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Will I really have a child, now that I am old?’ 14 Is anything too hard for the Lord? I will return to you at the appointed time next year, and Sarah will have a son.” 15 Sarah was afraid, so she lied and said, “I did not laugh.” But he said, “Yes, you did laugh.” Genesis 18:9-15
“Now the Lord was gracious to Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did for Sarah what he had promised. 2 Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised him.3 Abraham gave the name Isaac[a] to the son Sarah bore him.” Genesis 21:1-3
Sometimes if not all the time, we let doubt creep in and take our joy away, we become dull. Here Sarah laughed at the thought of God’s promise because to her it was impossible for her to get pregnant at her age. I found hope in this story.
Later on in Chapter 21, we find out that God fulfilled that promise and even in the middle of her doubt He still fulfilled her promise.
Out of these two stories that deeply touched me God was speaking to my doubt and I realized how much doubt I carried around. But I was reminded ” ‘If You can?’ All things are possible to him who believes.” and “Is anything too hard for the Lord?”
Everything is possible and nothing is too hard for the Lord. I remember talking to God “all is placed at your feet, do in me your will. Let it be you to guide me and not my own feelings”
and I end with this. “whatever your doing inside of me, it feels like chaos but somehow there’s peace, and its hard to surrender to what I can’t see, but I’m giving in to something heavenly” Sanctus Real.
Though the numbers went down, I have found new hope. God will provide. He will fulfill his promises in my life at HIS TIMING and not my own.
I love you all deeply with the Love of Christ!!
