(im)POSSIBLE

Last fall at a conference I was at, we were all challenged to create our own Impossible list. A list of the prayers that we knew to be impossible except for the intervention of Jesus. The speaker urged us to find and claim the promises of God. To see in the promises who God is as the Promiser. To pray, in faith, that God would do what He had promised. To pray over that list for 6 months and see what God would do

I prayed my list most of last fall, but as I transitioned out of the journal that my list was in, I lost sight of that list. And being honest, I saw no changes in the things I was praying for. It was just so hard to put those things that are closest and dearest to my heart out there, and then have it seem like nothing was happening. I put my heart out there only to get stomped on.

Earlier this week, one of my closest friends reminded me of those Impossible lists. She told me that there were 40 days left in the 6 months of challenge. I had to admit that my list buried under a stack of other notebooks and binders. She challenged me to go find it and to keep praying. To keep claiming those promises. To live as God's promises are true. To trust Him.

I found that list. I reread it. I wept.

I haven't been trusting You, Jesus

And something broke free in me. I saw that list with hope again. I saw the Truth in And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.

With the strength He renewed in me,I will pray daily over that list and see what He will make POSSIBLE.