Introduction

Some of us walked in today with a tight throat and a tired heart. The week has been long. The bills stack up, the headlines hit hard, and the calendar doesn’t care that your energy is on empty. You’ve prayed for the prodigal until your words feel worn. You’ve watched the doctor’s face for good news and found only careful phrases. You’ve tried to fix what’s broken and ended up with more pieces on the floor. If that’s you, you are in good company. The God who meets us in pews and parking lots, in kitchens and cubicles, knows exactly where your heart is sitting right now.

I want you to hear this like a warm blanket on a cold night: your Father is here, your Savior is strong, and your story is seen. The Bible doesn’t shrink from impossibilities; it stares them down and sings over them. Seas split. Walls fall. Giants topple. Tombs empty. Yes, your obstacle looks huge. Yes, it feels heavy. But heaven is not wringing its hands. Have you noticed how often God smiles at the word impossible?

John Wesley once whispered hope that still hums in our hearts today: “Best of all, God is with us!” — John Wesley. With us when prayers seem unanswered. With us when plans unravel. With us when the math doesn’t add up and the door won’t open. With us when we have no idea how to take the next step. If He is with us, then we can breathe again. If He is with us, then we can expect grace to meet us where grit cannot.

Imagine Jesus’ picture: a camel and a needle. A laughable image, an exaggerated impossibility. The disciples blinked, swallowed, and asked the question we still ask: “Who then can be saved?” And Jesus, with eyes that see through fear, said, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” Do you hear the hush that follows? Do you feel the hope that rises? When we reach the end of our abilities, we find the beginning of God’s abundance.

So let’s bring our burdens to the One who can bear them. Let’s trade panic for prayer, hurry for humility, and worry for worship. What if today is the day you stop measuring mountains and start magnifying the Mountain-Mover? What if the darkest chapter becomes the very page where His power is most obvious? What if the thing you think will break you becomes the stage where Jesus shows you He will carry you?

Here is our banner for today: God makes possible what seems impossible; we can trust the Almighty beyond human limits; and in Christ we can face every obstacle with fresh strength. This is not a pep talk. This is a Person. This is Jesus—present, powerful, and personal. Let’s open His Word and let His Word open us.

Scripture Reading (NKJV)

Matthew 19:24-26 24 And again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God. 25 When His disciples heard it, they were greatly astonished, saying, “Who then can be saved?” 26 But Jesus looked at them and said to them, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

Luke 1:37 37 For with God nothing will be impossible.

Philippians 4:13 13 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

Opening Prayer Father, we come with empty hands and expectant hearts. Some of us are weary, some are worried, and all of us need You. Lift our eyes to Your power. Settle our souls in Your presence. Speak through Your Word and stir faith where fear has taken hold. Teach us to trust You beyond our limits and to lean on the strength of Christ for every step. For the mountains that won’t move, give us mustard-seed faith. For the doors that won’t open, give us patient hope. For the battles we can’t win, give us the boldness to stand in Your victory. Glorify Your name in us today. In Jesus’ name, Amen.

God makes possible what seems impossible

We say “impossible” when our plans fail and our means run out. We say it when the odds look ugly. God does not share that word in the way we do. He speaks and worlds appear. He calls and dead hearts wake up. He sends help in ways we would not think to ask. Think of bread in the desert. Think of an axe head that rose in a river. Think of a day when the sun did not move until the battle was won. Every page of Scripture tells us that His power is not fenced in by size, time, or scarcity. So when we stand in front of a wall, Scripture teaches us to look past the wall to the One who stands over it.

This truth is not theory. It lands in rooms where hopes have faded and plans have stalled. Luke says it plain. With God there is no ceiling on what He can do. That is not hype. That is history and promise. When God speaks, barren years end and new life begins. When God acts, the thing we could not lift moves. He does not strain. He does not guess. He is able, and He is near.

Strength for today is part of the same gift. Philippians gives us a window into it. Paul knew hunger and hard days. He knew calm days too. He learned to live steady in both. How? Christ gave him strength for the task at hand. Not a boost to do everything he ever wanted. A steady power to do what God set in front of him. That same grace runs to us. It meets us where our hands shake and our steps slow. It holds us when we cannot hold ourselves. It carries us when we cannot push one more inch.

Jesus used a sharp picture to teach about rescue. He spoke of a large animal and a tiny opening. It was a way to show how closed the door is when the heart trusts in riches. Wealth makes promises it cannot keep. It trains the soul to lean on what it can count and touch. That habit blinds the eyes. It numbs the will. It makes the path into God’s reign look narrow and far. Jesus was not mocking people with money. He was telling the truth about how the human heart works. When our loves cling to gold, we do not sense our need for grace. We think we have leverage. We think we can buy our way. That way will not work. The picture shocks us so we will see what is at stake.

The men who heard Him felt the weight of that image. They asked who could ever be rescued if such pillars of society could not take the first step. That question still lives. If good standing, clean record, and big gifts cannot open the door, who has a chance? Their shock was wise. It means they finally saw that the gate into life with God does not swing on human hinges. Rescue is not a ladder we climb. It is not a test we pass. It is an act of God on the human person. It is eyes opened. It is stone hearts turned soft. It is a new start that we cannot generate. When that lands, the soul stops boasting. It starts asking for mercy.

Then Jesus gave the line that changes the room. He said that on our own it cannot be done. Humans cannot break sin’s grip. We cannot clean our record. We cannot make ourselves new. That is not harsh. That is mercy, because it turns us away from dead ends. It sends us to God. And there, all the doors we could not open are under His key. He takes the hard case. He does not flinch. He reaches into places that are shut and brings light. He sets a new love in us. He frees us from the lie that wealth or status or effort can save. He does what we could not start and could never finish.

The last line is the anchor. “With God” is the difference. “With God” means His presence is in the room, not far off. It means His will is active, His wisdom guides the path, and His power supplies what the need calls for. Mary heard that promise when told of a birth that no human plan could engineer. Abraham saw that promise when age said no and God said yes. The same God speaks in Christ to the twelve. He is not setting a bar we cannot clear and leaving us to fail. He is telling us where to stand. Stand with God. Stand under His word. Stand within His reach. Stand in the grace of His Son. There, the thing that could never happen by effort becomes the gift that actually arrives. There, the change we cannot make in ourselves begins. There, the future we cannot imagine starts to form under His hand.

Trust the Almighty beyond human limits

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