"Is anything too hard for the LORD?"

Since arriving In Australia it hasn’t taken me long to realise that with the numerous meetings and the vast distances that need to be travelled each week just to get to some of the meetings, it is going to be difficult to find any considerable time to evangelise the areas.

Now possibly when we get more settled and I maybe become faster at preparing messages, I’ll find it a little easier, but I’m not sure.

During my time of prayer this morning this ‘predicament’ came into my mind, and I began to plead with the Lord that He would bring in people without evangelism if I couldn’t do it. For instance, I prayed that the locals would see the sign for the church in Port Lincoln and be compelled to attend the services, and that those who have attended in the past may be moved by the Spirit to return.

Being one who loves evangelism and sees the benefit of door-to-door work and open-air preaching, it’s never been in my mind to think that God may work without such means. I’ve always thought that the more we get out and preach Christ, the more likely souls will be saved, or at least come to church. Like I said though, I’m now in a position where engaging in these things is going to be difficult because of the lack of time I have. In essence, really what I was asking for was that the Holy Spirit would do the evangelising that I can’t do.

After prayer I began to read the scriptures and received great encouragement as I did so. The first chapter of my readings was in Genesis 18 where I read, “Is anything too hard for the LORD?”
How often we put God in a box. That’s what I was doing by thinking that my evangelism might have a greater impact in bringing people to the church, when the fact of the matter is that God doesn’t need me at all, it would only be a means of blessing from Him to use me in leading a soul to Christ or bringing them to church, but he doesn’t need me. How foolish we can be.

My second chapter was in Matthew 17 where I read at the end of v20, “and nothing shall be impossible unto you.”
I wonder when we go to Heaven, will we be allowed to know how pathetic our praying has been, and how little we availed ourselves of the promises of God? In this passage, our Lord tells us that if we have faith as a grain of mustard seed, nothing shall be impossible to us!

In other words, what the Lord was saying to me this morning after what I had prayed was, “There’s nothing too hard for me Armen, and if you’ll only have faith then nothing shall be impossible unto you either!”

What a combination! An omnipotent God and a believing saint make up a mighty force…now all I have to do is believe!!

 

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