All Things Are Possible!

by Alexandra Copeland

Why don't you have the life you want right now? Why don’t you have the things you want most? Do you even know what you really want? Have you asked God about it? Do you think you’re deserving of His blessings, or do you believe that you’re just not meant to have a fulfilling and satisfying life? Could it be that you don’t believe you have what it takes on the inside to get what you really want? These are questions that require all of us to be brutally honest with ourselves. We can’t fake the funk, and we can’t pretend as if we have no idea how to answer them. The reason these questions are important to our journey forward and upward is because they get us to point the finger in the right direction. 

Many people have been led to believe that the reason they are failing in life is because God doesn’t want them to succeed. They think that He has some reason to hold them back from enjoying all that life has to offer. Nothing can be further from the truth. Jesus Christ tells us in John 10:10 that the whole reason that he came to earth was to give us a rich and satisfying life. He came to make a more than abundant life available to us. So, we can’t point the finger at God. The finger must be pointed in our direction. For many of us this is a hard pill to swallow, because it is easier to blame God or someone else than to be accountable and responsible for living up to our full potential. 

God doesn’t hold our blessings hostage. Psalm 84:11(NIV) says, “For the LORD God is a sun and shield; the LORD bestows favor and honor; no good thing does he withhold from those whose walk is blameless.” God wants us to know that He’s in the blessing business. He withholds no good thing from the person that places all their trust in Him. He will never disappoint us when our trust is firmly planted in Him, and His promises will never fail.   

In Matthew 19:16 NLT, Jesus Christ said "...but with God all things are possible." Jesus is letting us know beyond any uncertainty that whatever you desire in the Will of God, you can have it! We can have the desires of our hearts and then some. We can have abundance and all the trimmings that come with it, but there's one condition...it has to be "WITH God". When we accept the Lord Jesus Christ as our personal Lord and Savior, we make a commitment to follow him. He becomes the head, this means HE is the one who leads! And make no mistake, Jesus will always lead us on a path of pleasing God. This is the number one priority of life, to please and honor God. 

Through Jesus Christ, we can have the kind of relationship with God that He desires. He’s our Heavenly Father, and we’re His children. If we want to know how to behave in our relationship with God, and if we want to know what He expects from us, we must look at the life of our Master Jesus as he walked upon the earth. He tells us in John 14:6 that he is the way, the truth, and the life, and no one can get to the Father’s heart unless they come through Christ. He shows us the way to live a life that is pleasing to God and fulfilling to us as well, and we do it by following the example he set for us.  

Jesus Christ was full of God’s grace and favor, and he never did anything without consulting with God. The Word tells us that he got up early in the mornings and prayed to our Heavenly Father. Because of this, his course was set daily. He knew exactly how to move throughout his days because he had received a divine blueprint through prayer. There was a beautiful spiritual partnership between he and Heavenly Father, and this is what God desires with each of us.  

All things are possible when we work together with God to achieve HIS purpose. He tells us in Romans 8:28 that HE causes everything to work together for those of us who love Him and are according to HIS purpose. He’s the Leader; we’re followers. We don’t dictate to God what we should do and how we should do it, HE’s the One with the Plan, and if we will allow Christ to be in the driver’s seat of our lives, he will steer us on the path of infinite possibilities. As we continually seek the Will of God, who is all-powerful, all-knowing, and magnificent in every way; we will see that all things are possible, because we’re in partnership with God through the Lord Jesus Christ!■ 

Scripture quotations marked (NLT) are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved.

“All Things Are Possible!”, by Alexandra Copeland. Springfield Fellowship © 2020. All rights reserved. All praise and honor to God through Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior.