All things are possible when you believe. Dream the dreams of the impossible, get a vision of the God of the impossible, who can do what no man can do. Through Christ you can do all things! There is no sickness He cannot heal; no condition too difficult that God cannot solve. He is a wonder-working God!
And when they had come to the multitude, a man came to Him, kneeling down to Him and saying, “Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is an epileptic and suffers severely; for he often falls into the fire and often into the water. So I brought him to Your disciples, but they could not cure him.”
Assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you. (Matthew 17:14-21, NKJV)
In Matthew 17, when Jesus - with Peter, James and John - came down from the Mount of Transfiguration, He found the other disciples at the bottom, unable to heal the boy possessed by an evil spirit. Jesus said two things: firstly, that this kind only comes out by prayer and fasting; then secondly, He rebuked the disciples’ lack of faith, saying that if they had faith even as small as a grain of mustard seed they could command this mountain to move. We all accept the need of faith in our lives, especially as without it we cannot be saved, but this kind of faith is different. It is a real gift (1 Corinthians 12), but also it demonstrably necessary to those who are called into service. It must be a vital part of our experience if we are to engage in spiritual warfare. The believer who has not yet moved a ‘mountain’, has not yet begun the real task of the ministry because Jesus went on to say that ‘nothing is impossible’. I challenge you to begin to act in the power and authority of your faith. So many times I have had to face the impossible and seen God move in power, and I challenge you to begin to do it yourself!
Some find it difficult to accept miracles and healings, they want the Gospel without. Let me ask you a question. Which is the bigger miracle, to see an alcoholic, drug addict or murderer instantly forgiven and delivered or to see a broken leg instantly healed, a blind person reading the Bible and a paralytic getting out of a wheelchair? How can you really believe in an instant conversion and yet not an instant healing without limiting God’s power?
While I was holding crusades in Russia, October 1998, a man came into one of the meetings, who had been badly burned. Three months before, a container of boiling tar had exploded, the tar engulfing his legs. He stood in front of me still in agony, this was Russia and it had taken too long to get to hospital, even then the lack of medical equipment and supplies meant that little had been done to help him. What a challenge, what can your God do for such an extreme case? He told us that to remove the tar, they had ‘cut the meat off his legs’. I just reached out and touched his pain-racked body, “In the Name of Jesus I command the pain and injury to go!” That’s all, but immediately the pain went! He came back the next night to say that the pain had not returned, he had slept for the first time in three months and the ‘meat was growing back on his legs’. He was so excited, he grabbed the microphone and told everyone, “It’s real, this Jesus is real, my legs are a miracle! This is not religion or psychology, Jesus is the real thing!” I could have wept for joy – with these kind of miracles the world would believe on Him! No wonder when God sent Jesus into the world it was the miracles He used to convince the unbelieving Jews! This is why I get so excited, I don’t just ‘believe’, I KNOW Jesus!
‘Songs of Victory’ used by kind permission of www.vinesong.com