When the impossible becomes possible. Luke 18:27

This Friday a friend (Doug) sent me an email about a teenage gal (Elizabeth) who has brain cancer that is inoperative. Her situation is serious in the fact that Chemo or Radiation will not work either – we are looking at an impossible situation. And then on the same evening, I read about a young girl who passed away 1/5/12 who after battling cancer in the brain for 10 months (due to the same kind of cancer that Elizabeth has).

The Lord is calling us to have faith. Faith in which He commands as found in Luke 17 when He says all we need is the faith of a mustard seed. Faith that will persist like that which Jesus spoke of in Luke 17. And when we exercise the faith that He so generously gives to us we begin to see what faith is really used for – salvation of others. In Chapter 18 the disciples look at something that is more impossible than for a camel to go through an eye of a needle (which is impossible). The salvation of man is impossible with man. The best man can produce, his own righteousness, is filthy rags to God. So we need the Lord to do the impossible in our lives. We need the Lord to do the impossible in those we love and in those He lays on our hearts to pray for.

Daily we have opportunity to run to the Lord Jesus and watch Him do what is beyond our dreams. There are a number of you who did that when you prayed for me in my cancer situation. In the same way you ran to the Lord concerning my condition, I am asking you and others to run to the Lord for those who maybe at this moment seem like they are beyond any hope. You, mom – who has a son who has forsaken the Lord Jesus Christ. You, dad – who has a daughter living in total rebellion to all authority. You, brother or sister – who has a sibling who you looked up to, but now has gone astray and has no desire to return. You, doctor or nurse – who after looking at the test results, say there is nothing more we can do. You, son or daughter – who has Mom and Dad divorcing and throwing all hope for keeping their promise made before you were born, overboard into the waves of despair. You, who has sinned – totally unable to see any hope of forgiveness or mercy from our Lord and God. To all who are looking at the impossible – it is possible with God and He is certain to do something about your condition or loved one’s condition as you and I cry out to Him. Do not delay, right now as He is laying on your heart that someone – cry out to Him now.

2 Cor. 6:1-2 Working together with him, then, we appeal to you not to receive the grace of God in vain. For he says, “In a favorable time I listened to you, and in a day of salvation I have helped you.” Behold, now is the favorable time; behold, now is the day of salvation.