2020 Daily Devotion - Day 143
From time to time, throughout my life, I have had people tell me something was impossible. When starting something new or changing something old, there would always be someone who would tell me it will never happen. There are just always certain people around who can only see the negative, and refuse to see any hope. Perhaps it came about for them because of how they were brought up in their home of origin. Or maybe it was because of a bad experience which simply shaped them to focus on the bad, and rarely the good. As a leader, it is sometimes challenging getting their push back when trying to work on something. I am not saying that we should neglect considering all the facts, because we shouldn’t. What I am saying is it is better to try something new or fix an old problem from the position of hope, rather than from the outlook of finding fault with everything.
One afternoon, I had someone in my office sitting across from me as we talked about a problem and what the solutions could be. With every solution I offered, the other person would respond by saying that it was impossible. So finally, I handed them my dictionary and asked them to look up the word impossible and tell me what it meant. This person started paging through my dictionary and stopped, looked up at me, and said, “Well, the word impossible has been cut out of this dictionary.” This was exactly correct. Several years before when I became so tired of hearing the word impossible, I took a knife and cut the word out of my dictionary.
Whatever you are going through right now, I want you to remove the word impossible from your lips – just don’t use the word. Never respond with this idea or thought. Replace it with the words the angel gave to Mary when told she would carry and give birth to the Savior; and her relative, Elizabeth, in her old age, would give birth to John the Baptist.
Luke 1:37 ESV
“For nothing will be impossible with God.”
Pray with me:
Heavenly Father, too often we use the word impossible, because we think the solution is up to us. And since You can do the impossible, we can actually remove this word from our lexicon. Help us to do exactly this, and to trust You who can do the impossible. In Jesus’ name. Amen.
Yours because of Him,
Pastor John R. Steward
Senior Pastor
Mount of Olives Church
One afternoon, I had someone in my office sitting across from me as we talked about a problem and what the solutions could be. With every solution I offered, the other person would respond by saying that it was impossible. So finally, I handed them my dictionary and asked them to look up the word impossible and tell me what it meant. This person started paging through my dictionary and stopped, looked up at me, and said, “Well, the word impossible has been cut out of this dictionary.” This was exactly correct. Several years before when I became so tired of hearing the word impossible, I took a knife and cut the word out of my dictionary.
Whatever you are going through right now, I want you to remove the word impossible from your lips – just don’t use the word. Never respond with this idea or thought. Replace it with the words the angel gave to Mary when told she would carry and give birth to the Savior; and her relative, Elizabeth, in her old age, would give birth to John the Baptist.
Luke 1:37 ESV
“For nothing will be impossible with God.”
Pray with me:
Heavenly Father, too often we use the word impossible, because we think the solution is up to us. And since You can do the impossible, we can actually remove this word from our lexicon. Help us to do exactly this, and to trust You who can do the impossible. In Jesus’ name. Amen.
Yours because of Him,
Pastor John R. Steward
Senior Pastor
Mount of Olives Church
Comments
Post a Comment