Sovereignty of God

This secret has fueled the lives of God's workers on every generation. Thomas a Kempis, the medieval German monk, wrote, "O Lord, let that which seems naturally impossible to me become possible through Your grace."

Commentator Matthew Henry said, "In all conflicts, let us remember that with God nothing is impossible; and as we read and hear His promises, let us turn them into prayers."

Missionary Amy Carmichael told her workers, "When you are facing the impossible, you can count on the God of the impossible."

Missionary statesman J. Oswald Sanders, wrote, "(God) encourages us to ask as freely for the impossible as for the possible since to Him all difficulties are the same size - less than himself."

Oswald Chambers wrote in My Utmost for His Highest, "When once we see Jesus, He does the impossible thing as naturally as breathing."

The dean of American prayer writers, E.M. Bounds, wrote, "Faith does the impossible because it brings God to undertake for us, and nothing is impossible with God."

Chuck Swindoll said, "The One who directed that stone in between Goliath's eyes and split the Red Sea down the middle and leveled that wall around Jericho and brought His Son back from beyond takes delight in mixing up the odds as He alters the inevitable and bypasses the impossible."

Evangelist Michael Guido preached, "You cannot bring a burden too heavy for God to lift or a problem too hard for Him to solve or a request too big for Him to answer, God does things no one else can do."

Charles Spurgeon, the Victorian Prince of Preachers, once thundered from his pulpit, "When you are dealing with Him who is omnipotent, faithful, and true, the things that seem utterly impossible will be those most likely to happen."

Charles Wesley, studying Abraham's faith as described in Romans 4:13, wrote a hymn of eleven verses about it, the most popular stanza of which says:

Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees,

And looks to (God) alone;

Laughs at life's impossibilities,

And cries, "It shall be done!"

And listen to this quote by Warren Wiersbe: "Our faith is not really tested until God asks us to bear what seems unbearable, do what seems unreasonable, and expect what seems impossible."

Turning Points

January 2006

Pages 10-11

Sovereignty; Power; Faith; Testing