Room for the Impossible

In Mark 11, Jesus was hungry and expected figs from a fig tree; yet it wasn’t the time nor season for figs! (verse 13) He didn’t reason that out. He instead cursed the tree that no man could eat of it again. And the curse came to fruition.

On my Sunday evening walk, 2 Kings 3:17 came to mind. It says ‘…You will not see wind, neither shall you see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water, that ye may drink, both ye and your cattle, and your beasts.’

This follows a story where the kings Joram and Jehoshaphat marched in battle to fight the king of Moab. Having travelled for seven days through a wilderness, they assumed loss for they all were thirsty: all their soldiers and beasts.

Prophet Elisha declaring availability of water, without rain falling first or without the availability of a waterbody nor source in the vicinity seemed against reason — just like Jesus expected figs in a season similar to winter. It was antagonistic to law or the general legislations of nature. It was an anomaly. An impossibility. Another ‘son of man, can these bones live?’ scenario.

Reminds me of the widow whose sons were to be taken up as ransom. That little flask of olive oil left didn’t prove to be of any importance. Reminds me of the widow at Zarephath. She only had a little morsel of bread left, but Elijah asked her to give it regardless of the little flour and oil she had left for her family.

“This is what the Lord says … There will always be flour and olive oil left in your containers until the time when the Lord sends rain and the crops grow again!” (‭‭1 Kings‬ ‭17‬:‭14‬)

She obeyed, and the scriptures say ‘There was always enough flour and olive oil left in the containers, just as the Lord had promised through Elijah.’ (Verse 16‬)

How did containers miraculously manufacture flour and oil?! (For the famine was 3 and a half years) Ah, it’s a wonder I say! A miracle! An impossible! Containers that once had bottoms for surfaces now had abysses of endless supply!

Reminds me of Peter and his lot having fished all night and given up! And yet Jesus returned with a word to cast their nets again for a draught! In the very waters they had attempted earlier! Did not their nets nearly break and boats well-nigh sink?

Ah (in a fresh sigh manner), He returns again saying ‘Allow room for the impossible!’ How can the valley be filled without rain? How can rain form without wind? How could Lazarus rise again sanely, after days of sheer hypoxia to all his body organs!

Like I always say, there are always new tricks under God’s sleeves. He can make it rain without condensation!

He is inviting us to believe for the impossible. He is saying you may not see cash. You may not have a permanent job, but you shall have houses built and filled with all beautiful things that you did not fill! You may not have bricks, you may not have drills; but you shall own wells you didn’t dig! You may not have acres, you may not have laborers; but you will have vineyards you didn’t plant! (Deut 6:10-11) That — He promised!

Of course I’m not advocating for laziness. I’m not encouraging sitting back and quitting your job. But truthfully, if the impossible word like ‘lending to many nations and not borrowing’ is to pass in your life, you are going to have some crazy testimonies of quantum leaps. I do not see how my current job can make me lend to nations, but I’ve decided to leave room for His impossible!

I’ve decided to suspend some laws of nature — like He suspended gravity when He walked on water, or when He converted density; solid to air — when He walked through that door after His resurrection as the apostles communed and asked Thomas to touch the holes which the nails that had impaled him previously pegged.

This scares me to write, but the boldness He writes with from within I can’t resist nor deny! You must be asking like Mary, ‘how shall this be seeing I know not a man?’ How can I conceive without having sex? HOW? It is but impossible!

All Angel Gabriel told her was that another impossible thing had just happened with her cousin. She too had conceived in her old age. That guaranteed some comfort and faith to her; and all these stories should guarantee comfort to you likewise; and be an answer to the how that God is asking of you. If He did the impossible for them, He will for you!

There are some miracles whose result will require us to do something — to borrow jars from neighbors and fill them; to move forward and strike the red sea; to cast the nets on this other side … and then there will be others that will choke your heart out of you, and the entire battle will be only to believe, and have you say ‘be it unto me according to thy word.’

I once prayed and declared that my songs would be streamed 3 billion times! This last weekend, my other cousin was playing a song by Shawn Mendez. O yeah he is not a gospel musician, but God can’t be limited or boxed about what He can use to teach us.

When I looked up the song on Spotify, it was among the artist’s top 6 songs; and that wasn’t all! Two of his songs had all surpassed 2.5 billion streams each; one other had surpassed 3 billion, and plus the following 3, he had a total of over 13 billion streams! That was just 6 songs! His next had passed hundreds of millions — And here had I been praying asking God for only 3 billion! Only 3! For all the hundreds of songs I’d write. Yet someone’s one already surpassed that!

“Make more room for me! Ask for the impossible!” He humbly demanded.

And so I invite you too, to ask for that that makes no sense and whose reason there’s no justification. For with Him, all things are possible! And to you as well … if you believe. If you believe! If you believe!

For starters, revisit the simple things He has done for you in the past (on top of the testimonies in the Bible, or from fellow believers) that had seemed impossible — like axeheads floating; then build on those to create momentum and faith for bigger!

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Luke‬ ‭1‬:‭37‬ For with God nothing shall be impossible.
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Mark‬ ‭9‬:‭23‬ Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.
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