God sometimes puts us in a position where there is no ability within ourselves to meet the demand placed upon us. When we get to that place we have to understand that the call upon our lives is a call that God has placed and will fulfill with His own strength. 

God’s demand on your life doesn’t depend upon your ability, but on your availability to be completely surrendered to his purpose. He only needs an available vessel that he can fill and empower.

Have you been putting off something, that God keeps placing on your heart because you can’t wrap your mind around it? God is instructing you today to stop trying to figure him out and trust him instead. If you can figure it all out then God isn’t necessary, but when you can’t fathom it, you need God. We then learn to depend upon God.

1 Thessalonians 5:24 says, “Faithful is he who has called you, He will do it.” Notice that the verse didn’t say he will give you the ability to do it, it actually says, ‘He will do it’. God never placed the responsibility of fulfilling the call upon you. He holds Himself responsible. 

Many of us have spent time praying to God for His anointing to be poured out upon us, or praying for God to use us. Well, God answers prayer. He wants to use us on His terms. You see, He sees tomorrow and knows the very intent of a man’s heart. He is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent while we are not. Now, would you rather take the responsibility, or have God take it? God gives you everything you need, He empowers you to fulfill His purpose.  

God gives us clear, specific directions. This is an example of conversations I have with God sometimes. He says to write and publish a post by Sunday morning. I respond that no one wants to read my writing, or that Sunday morning is not a good time to publish a post. Usually, after a back and forth, He pauses and I remember, Oh you’re God. Anytime you say, is the best time to do anything. 

After reading the paragraph above, I realized how much like Moses I sounded. You may recall Moses’ conversation with God in Exodus 3 and 4, as God instructed him to go back to Egypt to free the Israelites. God showed up in a burning bush, turned Moses’ staff into a snake and back, made Moses’ hand leprous and healed it, then gave Moses the added option of turning water from the Nile into blood. Moses responded, “I’ve never been eloquent…” God then reminded Moses that He was the giver of mouths and breath and hearing and sight.  God promised to “help and teach him what to say”, and Moses’ response in Exodus 4:13 was, “Pardon your servant, Lord. Please send someone else.” Can you relate, or is it just me? 

God doesn’t need us to figure out how He’s going to accomplish His plan, He just wants us to step forward in faith and simple obedience. Consider David facing Goliath, or Elijah and the prophets of Baal, or the children of Israel at the Red Sea. In each of these examples, God’s child obeyed and witnessed the impossible become a possibility for them. 

God’s children are more than mere men. We have the life of Christ within us. We are filled with the Holy Spirit. We are empowered by God and enabled to do all that has been assigned to us. We lay hands on the sick and they recover. We speak to mountains and they move. We sow to the Spirit and reap eternal life.

What impossibility are you facing right now? What giant is looking you straight in the face and mocking you? What altars do you need to saturate with water to ensure that the burning of the sacrifice is really impossible? What red sea do you need to stretch out your rod toward, so that you can walk through on dry land? Is it your health, finances, family, job, or a combination? I challenge you today, to listen and obey God’s directive in simple faith and watch him do the impossible on your behalf. 

I’ll leave you with these verses. Ruminate on them and ask God to help you understand.

“By faith, we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible” Hebrews 11:3.

“But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us” 2 Corinthians 4:7.