REACHING FOR THE IMPOSSIBLE

I have been on the mission field for thirty-six years. I have traveled the world and have gone many places alone. People didn’t know when I come and when I go, and I treasure it when people care. The body of Christ is supposed to be caring. We are supposed to send each other out and bless each other. I believe God is going to give us a new awareness because without victory, there is no spoil and this is what God is going to do. He is going to give us new victory so that God’s people might have new spoil.

I want to read a scripture out of Philippines 3:3-14. You can follow it in your Bible, as I will refer to it.

For many years I have served God in various ways. Sometimes I have tried to serve God like one of these boxers that punch so hard and long and do all kinds of tricks, but they don’t have any results they go back to the drawing board and start looking for things that they can do better. With God, I wonder how He can use my weakness to be able to perform what He wants in my life.

God has taught me in these years as I have served Him that most of us never achieve the impossible with God. We often quote that scripture that says, “all things are possible through Christ Jesus”, and “greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world.” Yet, I have seen very few people who have really achieved the impossible. Most of us know God in our culture and in our thinking. We know God in the areas we are familiar, but we have not pressed on towards the impossible to break through what God wants to do.

I am always trying to find an answer because The Church is full of questions, and I know I have to go back to the source to find the answer. A war cannot be won without an answer. Therefore, I go back to my source, and I realize my answer comes from searching Him.

My sermons do not come out of a dictionary or from the root word of Hebrew or Greek, although that helps. My sermons come from a life of digging and finding God within and not from outside circumstances I realize one thing that we, The Church, are lacking after all our education and preaching and teaching with books and tapes, and that is confidence.

Most of us struggle with insecurities. We have great dreams and great hopes, but do little. I know that God uses the little in our lives, but there is little and there is the impossible. I always say, “God, if you do so much with little, how much are you able to do if I reach for the impossible, where I know that all things are possible through Christ Jesus.”

God showed me something very clearly. As I look back at my life serving God, there is a big difference between now and when I first started in the ministry. Many times I found myself pressing on the inside toward the high calling of God in my life. I had no one to encourage me. I always pressed toward something that seems impossible, but changes and struggles came. I have done everything there is to do. I have fasted, prayed, believed, claimed, stood on the word and tried to be positive in my thinking. I have done all these things; I have seen results in all these things because they have power. God never cared how I felt, even at times when I felt insecure in front of people. In the beginning of my ministry they always looked for the preacher, never knowing it was I. I never knew exactly what I was going to say. I never felt able to do anything. However, today it is a different story. It does not matter what any one says. The change is how I feel about who God is in me. The change is in how I know Him and the power of the resurrection, because I know who He is, alive within me.

In His Love,
      Sigi

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