WHY YOU CAN ASK FOR THE IMPOSSIBLE

Christianity is Unique.  Our God is Real.  He is as alive and active as on the day of creation.  
As Job 38:7 “when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?”


As such, Christianity presents real opportunities 

God IS real

So….what that means is… When we pray, we connect.  He hears us.  

In studying the Bible, one will find there are two recurring principles…..

We are more selfish than we realize.  
God answers prayer more than we realize.

In fact it was Augustine who said:  

“So even when our wills resist, he persuades us and brings us to faith.”

Today we’re going to look at Matthew. Matthew had seen the risen Christ and in His writing under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit demonstrated throughout the book that Jesus had fulfilled prophecy. Consider Matthew 1:1-18

Since Matthew knew for a fact that Jesus had risen from the dead, he wrote to help us understand that God’s power is available right now for us.

 For example, and by way of introduction….Jesus did not halfway, or half-heartedly talk about praying and believing….he ASSERTED THE POWER OF PRAYING AND BELIEVING.

Matt 8:10
When Jesus heard this, he marveled and said to those who followed him, “Truly, I tell you, with no one in Israel have I found such faith.
Matt 9:2
 And behold, some people brought to him a paralytic, lying on a bed. And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Take heart, my son;  your sins are forgiven.”
Matt 9:22
Jesus turned, and seeing her he said, “Take heart, daughter; your faith has made you well.”  And instantly the woman was made well. 
Matt 9:29
 Then he touched their eyes, saying, “According to your faith be it done to you.”
Matt 15:28
Then Jesus answered her, “O woman,  great is your faith!  Be it done for you as you desire.”  And her daughter was healed instantly. 

The Teaching  Matthew 7:7-11
“7   “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. 9 Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? 11 If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!”  Matt 7:7–11 The Holy Bible, English Standard Version

The Demons   Matthew 17:14-20
“14   And when they came to the crowd, a man came up to him and, kneeling before him, 15 said, “Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is an epileptic and he suffers terribly. For often he falls into the fire, and often into the water. 16 And I brought him to your disciples, and they could not heal him.” 17 And Jesus answered, “O faithless and twisted generation, how long am I to be with you? How long am I to bear with you? Bring him here to me.” 18 And Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of him, and the boy was healed instantly. 19 Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, “Why could we not cast it out?” 20 He said to them, “Because of your little faith. For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.””

The Tree  Matthew 21:18-21
“18   In the morning, as he was returning to the city, he became hungry. 19 And seeing a fig tree by the wayside, he went to it and found nothing on it but only leaves. And he said to it, “May no fruit ever come from you again!” And the fig tree withered at once.
20 When the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, “How did the fig tree wither at once?” 21 And Jesus answered them, “Truly, I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what has been done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ it will happen.”
Matt 21:18–21 The Holy Bible, English Standard Version

Whatever you need, God is able to provide.  Look up and ask!  Call on His name! 

PRAISE GOD! 

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