Post date: Jan 14, 2012 12:47:24 PM
Genesis 18: 14 Is anything too hard for the LORD ? I will return to you at the appointed time next year and Sarah will have a son."
Here we have a question and an answer for the question.
How many of you believe that Nothing is too hard for Lord. Today's world is full of sufferings and problems. People looks at many problems that cannot be solved by themselves. There is no medicine for different kinds of diseases. Our scientists or satellite system could not detect the Tsunami disaster. Peoples are helpless in front of Natural calamity like hurricane. There are complicated problems in the lives of human being. Peoples are hopelessly and helplessly stared at many impossible things that are coming in their lives. But these things are impossible for Human being. Nothing is too hard for our Jesus.
What is impossible? Impossibles, as per my definition, things that are not possible, till someone else make it possible.
There is nothing impossible in front of Jesus.
There is no promise which cannot be fulfilled by God.
There is no disease which cannot be cured by God.
There is no Problem which cannot be Solved by God.
There is no impossible thing which cannot be make it possible by God.
There is no sin which cannot be forgiven by God.
There is no door which cannot be opened by God.
There is no desert in which God cannot open a spring.
There is no region in which God cannot send a revival.
There is no waves which cannot be calmed by Jesus.
There is noting impossible for God.
There is no Promise which cannot be fulfilled by God.
You may be received some promises from our beloved God while you were in prayer or meditation. You may have received promises through prophets or men of God. If you are sure about these promises, do not worry, it will be given to you, even if it is late. You will receive it in your life time, you will not die without receiving it. God is not a human being to tell you lies.
Remember the promises, which were given to you weeks or months or years ago. Try to remember and reinstate that promises in your hart. It may be given to you so many years before. You may be forget about it. Remember and reinstate those promises in your heart and believe with your full heart that God is going to fulfill his promises. Yes He is going to give it to you in the right time. Do not worry he can and will do it.
In Genesis Ch. 15 God said to Abraham "Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your very great reward. " But Abram said, "O Sovereign LORD, what can you give me since I remain childless and the one who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?" And Abram said, "You have given me no children; so a servant in my household will be my heir." Then the word of the LORD came to him: "This man will not be your heir, but a son coming from your own body will be your heir." He took him outside and said, "Look up at the heavens and count the stars—if indeed you can count them." Then he said to him, "So shall your offspring be."
In Genesis Ch. 13:16 God said to Abraham “I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust, then your offspring could be counted.”
25 Years passed by. Abraham thought it will not happen. Abraham and Sarah find another way to get a child. That was the plan of human being. Abraham forget about it. But God did not forget his promise. I will tell you the memory power of a man.
ILL: A man was traveling on a Bus. He had a light snap and as he opened his eyes he found that the bus is about to reach the place where he has to get down. Immediately he get up from his seat and got down from the bus. But he forget to take his umbrella, which he was carrying. As soon as he reached his house he found that he forget to take the umbrella from the bus. He immediately called up the Lost and Found section of the Bus Depot. They confirmed the receipt of the umbrella and asked him to collect the same. The next day he went to the Lost and Found dept. and recognized his umbrella. Then he signed the receipt register placed at the counter and returned to his house. After reaching his house he found that he forget to take the umbrella from the lost and found dept.
This is how men forget things.
As the time goes by we all forget so many incidents that had happened in our life. Our God is not a forgetting God. You may forget the promises made by God. But God will not. Do not take the promises of God lightly. After 25 years, God appeared to Abraham again and said, "I will surely return to you about this time next year, and Sarah your wife will have a son." Sarah laughed to herself as she thought, "After I am worn out and my master is old, will I now have this pleasure?" the the God asked this question, Is anything too hard for the LORD ?
Abraham thought that it is very difficult for them to have a child in this good old age, so Abraham said to God, "If only Ishmael might live under your blessing!" So many times we tempt to satisfy ourselves with the things which are lower than the promised one. Here Abraham trying to satisfy himself with Ishmael, the son born through Hagar. Sarah is too old to have a baby. Abraham now around 100 years old. The circumstance are not in their favour to have a child. But there is nothing too hard for our living God. He can change the impossible into possible. So do not satisfy with the one which is lower than the promised one. Till you get the promised one, do not give up. Keep it in your mind. Dreaming about it. If God told you to send you all over the world, do not satisfy with your city. If He has promised you a big house, do not satisfy with a small one. Do not satisfy yourselves with the one which is lower than the promised one, because there is nothing too hard for the Lord.
Elisha asked for a double portion of Elijah's Power. Elijah told Elisha, it is very difficult to get. Yes, if it is not so difficult, then there is no need to ask for it. It was difficult, that is why he asked for it. Therefore, if you ask something to God, you must ask for something which is impossible for you to get or accomplish. Then only you can see the work/power of God. Ask something which is very difficult for you to accomplish or get.
God did not stop at the request of Abraham that Ishmael might live under your blessing. I am not expecting anything more than this. But God did not change his promise. God stood firmly on his promise that through you and Sarah, you will have a son. The ability to have a child in th womb of Sarah has gone. The cells and veins of her womb are not working. God said you will have a Child. Immediately with the power of Holy spirit the veins and cells of her womb started to live. Abraham got the ability to have a child. The power of God was started to work on them.
Even today He can do miracle. I request you to receive that healing by faith. Praise God and receive that power of God by faith. God is ready to heal you. He is ready to fulfill his promise. Receive your promise by faith. He can strengthen the cells and veins of your body. If you are suffering from sickness or problem, place your hand in the respective part of your body and say that God is going the change the dead cells in to a living cells.
Sarah told that she is going to have a child. Those who heard were laughed at her saying she had a strange ambition in this old age, to have a child, in her own womb. Those who were in her house and relatives heard about it and started to laugh. Hagar heard about it and she laughed at her mistress. Thous who were in the surrounding area heard about it and started to laugh. Abraham told Sarah, there is noting to hope for us. At the same time there is noting for us to loose in believing God. May be through the faith in our Lord, we can have a child. Yes there are many things, that we can receive from God and there is nothing to loose in believing God. So why don't we believe.
Hebrew: 11 : 11 By faith Abraham, even though he was past age—and Sarah herself was barren—was enabled to become a father because he considered him faithful who had made the promise. And so from this one man, and he as good as dead, came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore.
Abraham believed in God. In the night while he sat with his wife Sarah, outside his tent, he show the stars at the sky and asked Sarah, Can you count those stars? Sara said, “No, it is numerous to count” Abraham replied “God will give us descendent's like these stars. While talking about the promise, they went to their bed. In the morning, while Abraham sipping his morning tea out side the tent he asked her, “Sarah, Can you count these dust on the earth? Sara said, “No, it is numerous to count” Abraham replied “God will give us descendent's like these dust. Every day, in the morning and in the night, they talked about the promise. The main subject of their conversation was the promise. Both of them had a strong desire to have a baby of their own flesh and blood. We must believe and utter the words of faith in the morning and in the evening. Believe and say the words of faith in the night and day. Every day, our words must be the words of faith. Few weeks passed by Sarah found some changes in her body. The signs of a pregnant woman. If God have given you a promise, then remember it day and night, morning and evening. Talk about it whenever you get time to do so. Dream it. It will come to you one day. That day is not far away. It is near you. About to reach you.
Here we can see the difference between Science and faith.
Science says if you can show the result we will believe.
Faith says if you believe than you will have the result.
Today, if you took the steps of faith, you are going to see the miracle. In your ministry, in your home, in your marriage, in your family life, in your secular job, in your children, in your parents, in your relatives, in your automobile, in your body, you are going to see the miracle. Everywhere you are going to see the miracle. God is going to do the miracle. Let us consider that God is faithful, who had made the promise.
Our Master is not a lier.
John 14:2b if it were not so, I would have told you.
Here Jesus making some promises and after that he told his disciples that if it were not so, I would have told you. His promises was I am going there (In my fathers house) to prepare a place for you and after preparing that place I will come back and take you to be their. And then he said, if it were not so, I would have told you. This is what the difference between Human being and God. Our God never tells lies. He would never say something which are not possible for him. After making a promise to our brother, we say sorry brother. But our God is not like this. He never wants to say sorry to whom he has made a promise.
Our part is to utter the words of faith in the day and the night. Believe and when it fill in your heart, it will come out through your mouth. The words of faith.
I will tell you the mistake Israelites had made while they were traveling in the wilderness. They left Egypt for a land where honey and milk will be flowing. But while they were traveling to their promised land, they were talking about the place they left and the things that they had enjoyed at Egypt.
The Israelites started wailing and said, "If only we had meat to eat! We remember the fish we ate in Egypt at no cost—also the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions and garlic.
Even though they were heading for the promised land, their thoughts and talks were about the land from which they left. They were not talking about the promised land. Suppose you got a job in England, will you go for a Hindi Class to learn Hindi. You will learn English. You must learn the language of the place where you will be going. If you are heading for the promised land you must learn the language of promised land speak the language of promised land. The language of faith. You are called for heaven. You must learn the language of heaven. Heavenly language is not the language of doubt. It is the language of faith. By our faith in Jesus we are going to get the heaven. There is power in your spoken words. It will happen. There is nothing impossible for God.
My God is a powerful God. Sarah delivered a baby boy exactly on the promised time. And Abraham named him Isaac which means he laughs.
In the lap of Sarah, Isaac, a little bald headed baby lying and he is laughing while showing his toothless gum. While watching his laughing face and toothless gum, Sarah laughed. While watching this new born baby's actions, Abraham laughed. Everyone those who visit to see Sarah and her new born baby laughed. Those who heard about the news laughed. Laughing, laughing laughing, everyone, everywhere people who come to know about this birth of Isac laughed. Those who heard news that an old lady, 90 years old, had given birth to a child laughed. Now everyone is laughing.
Let us look at the background. Sarah was longing for this moment for many years. How many nights she spent in prayer with tears. For many years, day after day, she was praying and crying for this moment. The situation was quiet comfortable till Hagar got pregnant. After that incident people started to look at her with a different eye. People started to laugh at her. She also found some changes in the behavior of her master. She was in agony and pain. So many nights her pillow become wet by her tears. Even the consoling words of Abraham was felt like a thrusting nail in her heart. No one was there to console or comfort her.
Outwardly she has everything she wanted, loving, caring and a rich husband, lot of money and servants were there in her disposal. There is no limit in her credit Card. She had lot of Jewelery, garments, sandals etc. etc....... there is no limit for her spending. Outwardly she was very happy. People surrounded them thought that, she is the luckiest women in the world. Still she felt emptiness in her inner heart. In her inner heart there is emptiness. She was not able to enjoy all these things and the riches. There is no lack of food items, meet, vegetable, milk, curd etc. etc. Still she found she do not have appetite for all these things. She was in agony and pain.
For many years she was crying and in pain. But our loving God will not allow you to be in pain and cry for every. He will change the situation. He will give you something in your lap for you to laugh. Yes he is going to change your situation. Tonight he is going to give you some thing in your lap. You are going to laugh. Even if you are crying for many years, do not give up. He is going to change the situation. He will not allow you to cry for ever.
Ps 30:11 You turned my wailing into dancing; you removed my sackcloth and clothed me with joy,
He is going to remove your sackcloth and going to cloth you with Joy for ever. In front of those who laughed at you. He will not allow you to be a laughing stock for ever. He is going to remove the dryness in your ministry. He is going to bless you and going to make some changes. In your family life, in your body, in your children, in your job, in every sphere of your life you are going to feel his blessing hand. You will see blessings everywhere. He will not allow you to be a rejected one forever. He is going to change the situation. He is going to bless you. Remember the promises he has made to you. The promise may be made months or years before and you may be forget about it. But let me tell you one thing, the one who made the promise is not a human being, you will not leave this earth before you receive the promises he made to you. He is going to give you something to laugh.
Today God is sowing the seed of blessings, which are going to take place in your life in the coming days. Your ministry will change. There wont be any more dryness in your ministry. Like a root out of dry ground, it is going to grow. It is very difficult to grow in a dry ground. But God is going to make it happen. Like a tender shoot coming out of the dry ground. Your blessings are going to grow. God will make it happen. He will give it in your lap. Those who insult you with strong words are going to wonder while watching the miracles God is going to do in your life.
Psalm 30:5b but his favor lasts a lifetime; weeping may remain for a night, but rejoicing comes in the morning.
Weeping may last for a night, but rejoicing come in the morning. You will laugh, you will rejoice.
Our night is not going to last for ever. Dawn is going to come. Let us say with faith that my dawn is going to come. The circumstances may be against us but while looking at the circumstances let us say with faith that there is nothing too hard for God.
There is no door which cannot be opened by God.
Mal 3:10 Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this," says the LORD Almighty, "and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it.
There are so many gates are there in Heaven. That is why a plural is used. Floodgates. If Satan have close a door, do not worry. Our god is able to open an another door for you. Not one door, but many doors.
Is anything too hard for the Lord?