When It Seems Impossible, God Is Already Working

• Let’s be honest with one another tonight. You didn’t come here because life is easy. You didn’t come because all your questions have answers and all your mountains have crumbled into dust before you. No, you came carrying something.
• You came holding in your heart a situation, a diagnosis, a brokenness, a dream that seems to have died, and you’ve labeled it with one word, impossible. It’s too late. It’s too far gone. The medical report is final. The relationship is shattered beyond repair. The door is shut, locked, and the key has been thrown away.
• And you look at it and all your human logic, all your experience, every voice of reason shouts in unison, “It is finished. But tonight, oh tonight, I want to take that word from you. I want you to give it to me and I want to place it in the hands of Almighty God.” Because you see, the very concept of impossible is a human invention. It is a boundary drawn by limited strength, by failing flesh, by clocks and calendars and bank accounts and prognosis.
• It is a wall built with the bricks of I can’t and they won’t and it never will. And I am here to tell you that our God, our God does not live inside our walls. He does not recognize our boundaries. He is not subject to our timetables. From the very foundation of the world, he has been in the business of taking the raw material of nothingness and speaking into it a glorious roaring life-filled something.
• Go back with me, if you will, to the very beginning. Before light, before form, before a single star was hung in its place, there was only God. And then his word, let there be. And there was. Out of the impossible void, light exploded. Out of formless chaos, order was sung into existence. He did not consult a blueprint. He was the blueprint. He did not gather pre-existing materials. He spoke the materials themselves into being.
• That my friends is the pattern. That is the nature of the one we worship. He starts with nothing and creates everything. So when you bring him your nothing situation, your empty womb, your empty heart, your empty future, do you not see? He is not intimidated. He is in his element.
• And this pattern is not a relic locked away in the first chapter of Genesis. It is the scarlet thread that runs through the entire tapestry of his relationship with humanity. He found an old man, Abram, whose body was as good as dead, and a woman, Sarah, whose laughter was tinged with the ache of decades of disappointment.
• He looked at their aged frames, their ceased biological function, and he said, “Through you, a nation will be born. Count the stars if you can. So shall your descendants be. From a dead womb and a failed body, he brought forth the child of promise, Isaac. He turned the laughter of doubt into the laughter of joy.
• Why? To show that the life-giving power does not reside in the strength of flesh, but in the promise of God. He stood before a teenage girl, a virgin, and announced that she would bear the son of the most high. Her question was the question of human limitation. How can this be? And the answer was the declaration of divine nature. The Holy Spirit will come upon you and the power of the most high will overshadow you.