Yesterday, I mentioned asking for the impossible. Consider this a continuation. We simply do not ask for the things we don’t believe can be done. Yet, we serve a God who is powerful enough to do anything, even those things we believe cannot be done.
Why don’t we ask? As I mentioned yesterday, a significant reason is out of fear. Fear that God won’t grant our prayer. Fear that God can’t do it. Fear of getting our hopes up and being let down. Even fear that God may do it, and we won’t know how to handle it.
Another reason we don’t ask is we are not always sure we want it. We think we want it. We may believe we want it. But there is a small bit of doubt nagging at the back of our mind. We waffle back and forth. We want to ask, then we don’t want to ask. We think it would be a good thing, then we rethink it.
But here’s the thing. God wants to hear our requests. He wants us to bring it all to him. He wants to hear our worries. He wants to hear our joys. And he wants to hear our desires, even those we believe to be impossible.
We see Jesus heal a man who was deaf and could not speak plainly. The man’s friends brought him to Jesus. The begged Jesus to lay His hands on the man. Since the man could not ask for healing, his friends did it for him. So, we can ask God to do the impossible for our friends as well.
I pray we all ask God for our desires. I pray we ask him for the hard things. I pray each one of us will trust that God can do anything and ask him for the impossible. Stop thinking about it. Ask God for the impossible. Trust God can handle it. Ask without fear. Ask with a humble heart.
Mark 7:35 And immediately his ears were opened, his tongue was released, and he spoke plainly.
Marty Pressey 