PRÉCIS ON THE IMMEASURABLE POWER OF GOD: NOTHING SHALL BE IMPOSSIBLE!” – CODICIL II FOR CITIES OF REFUGE

SCRIPTURE. “Then came the word of the Lord to Jeremiah, saying, ‘Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh; is there anything too difficult for Me?’” – JEREMIAH 32:26-27, AMP

KEY TERM: “TOO DIFFICULT.” ‘Pala’ [יִפָּלֵ֖א]: “‘To be surpassing or extraordinary;’ from a primitive root meaning, ‘to separate or distinguish;’ great, wonderful, or marvelous – as with the miraculous; too hard; hidden things too high; to be beyond one’s power to accomplish.”

QUOTATION. “‘Nothing is impossible with God’ (Luke 1:37). High in the snow-covered Alpine valleys, God works one of His miracles year after year. In spite of the extremes of sunny days and frozen nights, a flower blooms unblemished through the crust of ice near the edge of the snow. How does this little flower, known as the ‘soldanelle plant,’ accomplish such a feat? During the past summer the little plant spread its leaves wide and flat on the ground in order to soak up the sun’s rays, and it kept that energy stored in its roots throughout the winter.

‘When Spring came, life stirred even beneath its shroud of snow.’ And as the plant sprouted, it amazingly produced enough warmth to thaw a small dome-shaped pocket of snow above its head. It grew higher and higher, and as it did, the small dome of air continued to rise just above its head until its flower bud was safely formed. At last the icy covering of the air compartment gave way, and the blossom burst into the sunshine. The crystalline texture of its mauve-colored petals sparkled like the snow itself, as if it still bore the marks of the journey it had endured. This fragile flower sounds an echo in our hearts that none of the lovely flowers nestled in the warm grass of the lower slopes could ever awaken.

‘Oh, how we love to see impossible things accomplished! And so does God. Therefore, may we continue to persevere!’  For even if we took our circumstances and cast all the darkness of human doubt upon them and then hastily piled as many difficulties together as we could find against God’s Divine Work, we could never move beyond the blessedness of His miracle-working power. May we place our faith completely in Him, for ‘He is the God of the Impossible.’” ― L.B. COWMAN, Streams in the Desert: 366 Daily Devotional Readings, 1925; edited

DK’S TAKE. Again, let’s get straight to it. As we enter upon the unprecedented trials and tribulations of the Last Days of History, we shall require all that God has for us in order to survive and succeed in our Witness of Him. The Key to possessing all of God’s wisdom, power and favor is found in a quotation by the controversial Pentecostal preacher, SMITH WIGGLESWORTH.

“Blessed is the man who will swear to his own hurt and change not; who keeps the Vow he has made to God; who is willing to lay his all at God’s feet.” – Ever Increasing Faith, 1924

CODA. The Secret to seeing God’s unmitigated power of miracles starts at least with what another classical Evangelist and teacher, OSWALD CHAMBERS, called a “Reckless Abandonment to God” (My Utmost for His Highest, 1924).  From that same work Chambers defined it in no uncertain terms – the same way the Messiah defines it.

“If you debate for a second when God has spoken, it is all up. Never begin to say, ‘Well, I wonder if he did speak?’ ‘Be reckless immediately, fling it all out on Him!’ You do not know when His Voice will come but whenever the realization of God comes in the faintest way imaginable: ‘Recklessly abandon!’”

All in, beloved, or not at all. Selah.