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ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE

t is exciting to know that feel hopeless and frustrated. I or restore finances. He can
with God all things are always like to believe there is feed five thousand people with
Ipossible: "But Jesus looked hope, no matter how bad a little boy's lunch, walk on
at them and said, With men this things may look. water, read men's hearts, and
is impossible, but all things are If God can take a hard, sinful, anything else He wants to do.
possible with God" (Matthew hateful, bitter heart, and make NOTHING is impossible with
19:26). it soft, holy, loving, and for- God! Do not ever look at a
In our human thinking we hit giving, then, as far as I am situation and think or say,
brick walls, so to speak, when concerned, He can do any- "This is impossible." It may be
we come up against something thing. I think that sometimes impossible with men, but with
that is impossible for us. We we do not realize what a God all things are possible.
feel frustrated and hopeless. miracle our salvation is. We If we keep praying and belie-
But with God, that never has to become completely new ving, God can keep working,
happen. When we put our trust creatures and are given a but if we give up, we close the
in Him another world opens up brand-new start in life by door on the miracle God has in
to us, a world of possibilities accepting Jesus Christ as our mind for us. You may say, "You
that we would never have Saviour: "Therefore if any just don't realize what a mess I
thought possible in the natural. person is [ingrafted] in Christ have made of my life." My
You may have practically worn (the Messiah) he is a new advice to you is to ask God to
yourself out trying to accom- creation (a new creature al- take your mess and turn it into
plish something and when you together); the old [previous your greatest miracle. He can
finally gave up and turned it moral and spiritual condition] work it out for your good and
over to God, you saw Him do has passed away. Behold, the you will have a testimony that
with ease what you had fresh and new has come!" will encourage others. WITH
struggled with for a long time. I (2 Cor. 5:17). How much more GOD, ALL THINGS ARE
know that has happened to me awesome could anything be? POSSIBLE!
over and over again. No wonder the Gospel is called [The Everyday Life Bible,
I am so glad that we serve a the "Good News"! Amplified Version, Faith
God of possiblities. Even the God can change hearts, heal a Words, 2006, Notes and Com-
word impossible makes me sick body, rekindle a marriage, mentary by Joyce Meyer].

other's father worked as a carpenter. On including my
this particular day, he was building glasses. I was
Msome crates for the clothes his church des perate! Even
was sending to some orphanage in China. On if I had had the
his way home, he reached into his shirt-pocket money, there
to find his glasses, but they were gone! was simply no
When he mentally replayed his earlier actions, way of replacing those glasses. Along with not
he realized what had happened; the glasses had being able to see well, I experienced headaches
slipped out of his pocket unnoticed and fallen every day, so my co-workers and I were much in
into one of the crates, which he had nailed shut! prayer about this predicament.
His brand new glasses were heading for China! Then your crates arrived. When my staff
The Great Depression was at its height and removed the covers, they found a pair of
Grandpa had six children. He had spent $20 for glasses lying on top!”
those glasses that very morning. He was upset The missionary paused long enough to let his
by the thought of having to buy another pair. words sink in. Then, still gripped with the
“It's not fair,” he told God as he drove home in wonder of it all, he continued: “Folks, when I
frustration. “I've been very faithful in giving my tried on the glasses, it was as though they had
time and money to Your work, and now this.” been custom-made just for me! I want to thank
Several months later, the Director of the you for being a part of that.”
orphanage was on furlough in the United States. The people listened, utterly amazed and grateful
He wanted to visit all the churches that had for the miracle that was just related by the
supported him in China, so he came to speak missionary.
one Sunday at my grandfather's small church in But the missionary surely must have confused
Chicago. their church with another, they thought. There
The missionary began by thanking the people were no glasses on their list of items to be sent
for their faithfulness in supporting the overseas. Sitting quietly in the back, however,
orphanage. “But most of all,” he said, “I must with tears streaming down his face, an ordinary
thank you for the glasses you sent last year. carpenter realized that the Master Carpenter
“You see, the Communists had just swept had used him in a most extraordinary way!
through the orphanage destroying everything, [Dunamis July/Aug. 2000].