Impossible Things

 Impossible Things

August 29, 2025

“God never asks us to do anything we can do. He asks us to live a life which we can never live and to do a work which we can never do. Yet, by His grace, we are living it and doing it. The life we live is the life of Christ lived in the power of God, and the work we do is the work of Christ carried on through us by His Spirit whom we obey. Self is the only obstruction to that life and to that work. May we each one pray from our hearts, ‘O Lord, deal with me!’ “, Watchman Nee, Sit, Walk, Stand, p. 32

John 15:4-5

 4 Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me. 5 I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing.

Ephesians 2:10

10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.

I was reading Watchman Nee this morning where he was commenting about spiritual warfare in Ephesians 6. The quote above struck me powerfully. “God never asks us to do anything we can do.” That explains a lot of things happening around us lately. We have been asked to pray for people with terminal illnesses, suicidal depression and other intractable problems. These are things that we are powerless to change, things that could overwhelm us and cause us to despair. But God! Recently I heard someone pray, “God, do what only You can do.” We are powerless but He is all powerful. It is His power that can move mountains, so we continue to pray and encourage those who suffer because we know that He is able to save, heal and deliver. It is when we come to the end of ourselves that we find God, or maybe I should say, He finds us. When we have no other hope, He is there and He is hope. So take heart. If you are facing problems too big for you to solve, know that there is One who is bigger than your problems. When He asked us to do things that we cannot do, He is there to do it through His power working through us.