It’s Impossible!
2 Kings 7: 1&2
1 Then Elisha
said, “Hear the word of the Lord. Thus says the Lord: ‘Tomorrow about
this time a seah of fine flour shall be sold for a shekel, and two
seahs of barley for a shekel, at the gate of Samaria.’”
2 So an
officer on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God and said,
“Look, if the Lord would make windows in heaven, could this
thing be?”
And he said, “In
fact, you shall see it with your eyes, but you shall not eat of it.”
The Northern
Kingdom of Israel, with its capitol at Samaria, was under siege by the Syrian
army of Ben-Hadad. The famine that
resulted was so bad people were paying premium prices for donkey’s heads and
dove’s poop. There was no food. Feeding the people or raising the siege were
equally impossible.
So into this
the Prophet Elisha comes to the king and declares that tomorrow food will be
sold so cheap it will be below average prices.
The king’s servant scoffs and says that even if God made windows in
Heaven how could this be? There was no
food anywhere and so this was labeled, “impossible.”
But during the
night, God made the Syrians believe another army was attacking them. They saw nothing but only heard the noise of
an attack. They fled so fast they left their tents behind, their weapons
behind, their armor behind, even their clothes behind in their panicked
flight. Oh, and they left their food
behind. They had brought enough to
sustain them for an extended siege, so there was a lot of food. So much that that day, just as Elisha had prophesied
the price of food dropped so much it was cheaper than average prices from
before the siege. And the king’s advisor
got to see the food, but was trampled to death by the hungry people rushing to
get to it and never tasted a single mouthful.
So what is
impossible with God? In a word, Nothing!
What did God need to perform this miracle? Nothing.
What hindered God from performing this miracle? Nothing.
Does God need help doing a miracle? No, none.
And here is a
revelation I recently received when praying and meditating on my illness. What is preventing God from manifesting
healing in my life? I have been saying
it’s my own unbelief. But what I now
know is this: nothing can hinder God
from manifesting this miracle in my life – NOT EVEN MY OWN UNBELIEF! Even I can’t stop God from doing a miracle in
my life. My healing is so close I’m
worried I might trip over it before it wells up in my life and consumes this
illness.
You know that
shelf way back in the back of your mind that you place those impossible things
on? That relative or friend who isn’t
saved. T That illness that is ravaging
your life. That habit or addiction that
is taking over your life. That financial
pit you can’t climb out of. Whatever
that impossible thing is, go to the shelf and take it down and bring it to
God. What, again? But it didn’t get answered before. It’s impossible. Yes, again.
Tell God it’s impossible but you’re there to ask Him again.
Stephen Cram June
22, 2014
Colossians 2:8 Beware lest any man spoil you through
philosophy and vain deceit, following the tradition of men according to the
rudiments of the world, and not in accordance with Christ.
Visit my pastor’s blog at http://pastorjonrhinehart.blogspot.com/.
Unless otherwise noted all Scripture is from the New King
James Version of the Bible.
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