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"All things are possible to him that believeth." Jesus said it. And, with our heads we believe it's true. If we're honest, however, we have to admit that for us the impossible all too often remains...the impossible.

But, dear believer, hold onto your pew because that is about to change. I know of a woman who visited heaven a few years ago. While she was there, she spoke with Jesus about the last days' move of God, the move He called "the latter rain." Later, when that lady was talking about her heavenly visitation, someone asked what the time of the latter rain will be like. She answered with a phrase I will never forget. She said, "It is the hour of no impossibilities, where all things will be possible in God."

That is the time you and I have stepped into now. It is the time all the saints from ages past have longed to see. It is the hour of no impossibility. We can catch a glimpse of what this hour will hold for us by reading the book of Acts because in the early Church, too, God did the impossible. At that Gate Beautiful He healed a man who had been lame from birth. That man had never taken a single step, yet when Peter said, "In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk," he suddenly began walking and leaping and praising God (Acts 3:6-8).

On the road to Damascus, Jesus Himself appeared in power and glory to Saul of Tarsus, a man so full of murderous hatred for the Church that he had dedicated his life to dragging believers from their homes, having them imprisoned and even put to death. Yet in a single day, God changed that man's heart and turned him into one of the greatest apostles the Church has ever known.

When a dear and godly woman named Dorcas died before her time in the early Church, her fellow church members called for Peter. And though Dorcas had been dead for some time, Peter prayed and she arose alive.

It's wonderful to read about those things. But it will be even more wonderful when we are living them! "Oh, Sister Lynne," you might say, "I can't even imagine things like that happening to me." Well, it's time you got started. It's not just time for you to imagine them, it's time for you to add faith and begin believing God for them. It's time for you to step into your hour of no impossibilities!

Your Impossible Dreams
The first thing you need to do is identify those impossibilities so you'll know what you should be believing for. Exactly what is an impossibility? God gives us a wonderful definition of it in the first chapter of Luke. There, the angel Gabriel is delivering to the virgin Mary the news that she is about to become the mother of the Messiah. Mary responded to this amazing announcement with a question. "How shall this be, since I have no husband?" (v. 34) The angel answered by saying, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you... For with God nothing is ever impossible" (vv. 35, 37).

We see here that an "impossibility" is something that causes you to say, "How on earth could that happen?" It's something that you know is the will of God, yet it cannot be brought forth by natural or human means.

In Mary's situation, God was telling her that He was about to put a seed inside her supernaturally and that seed would ultimately become the Savior of mankind. At first glance, that would seem to be a very unusual situation but when you think about it, it's really not. Spiritually speaking, God is putting seeds inside of us all the time. He causes us to conceive of things on the inside of us that are totally impossible in the natural realm, things that can only be brought forth by the power of God.

For example: when I was a little girl, God put some things in my heart that I know must have been supernatural. I wasn't even born again at the time. My family wasn't inclined to the things of God. My environment wasn't spiritual. Yet God put spiritual dreams and desires within me. They were just little seeds for years. But eventually I got born again because those seeds God dropped in my heart when I was young kept drawing me to Him. What seeds has God dropped inside of you? What seemingly impossible dreams and visions has He planted there? You may not even be aware of them right now. But they're in there.

If you'll think back, you'll probably remember the time God gave you those dreams. You may have been sitting in church or just walking along fellowshipping with God one day when suddenly a plan of God flashed before you. Suddenly, you saw yourself doing something for God. It may have exploded within you with such spiritual force that you thought that vision was going to become reality right away. But then nothing happened.

And day by day, that dream seed was buried in the dirt and soil of daily living. Maybe your life took a completely different direction. Maybe you started pursuing your own plans and purposes until that seed was so completely covered that you forgot about it.

I'm telling you, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is about to bring forth those impossible dreams. The conditions are right for those seeds to sprout up. We're getting ready to bring forth a big crop for God. Natural seeds can lie in the ground dormant for hundreds of years yet when the conditions are right, they'll grow. The same thing is true of spiritual seeds and that is about to be proven during this time of the latter rain.

Impossible dreams and visions and callings of God that have been buried for years in people's hearts are going to come to life and bring glory to God.

Impossible Healings and Miracles
Do you know what else we're going to see in this hour of no impossibilities? We're going to see miraculous healings! We're going to see people with physical impairments restored and made whole! It's difficult for most of us to imagine what it would be like for God to instantly heal the mind of a person who'd been mentally retarded all his life. Yet Jesus did it during His earthly ministry.

Commentaries tell us that the boy described in Matthew 17 who had been plagued with seizures all his life was probably mentally impaired. After healing the boy, Jesus turned to His disciples and said; "If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you" (v 20). Just think about that for a moment. Think what will happen in the area of physical healing as all things become possible to us! Blind eyes will open. Limbs will grow. The maimed will be made whole.

We need to grab hold of visions like that. We need to latch onto them by faith and begin praying for them to come to pass. We need to make a faith decision that we are going to see it and we are going to see it in this day because it's the day of no impossibilities!

Impossible Uncle Charlie
Here's something else you need to stir up your faith for in this hour. You need to believe for seemingly impossible people to be saved! You know the people I'm talking about. They're the people who have resisted God so successfully for so long you've given up on them. It's a scriptural fact that when it comes to salvation, some people are practically impossible cases.

Jesus once said about the rich, for example: "How hard is it for them that trust in riches to enter into the kingdom of God! It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. And they were astonished out of measure, saying among themselves, 'Who then can be saved? And Jesus looking upon them saith, with men it is impossible but not with God: for with God all things are possible" (Mark 10:24-27).

Material wealth offers a false fulfillment to people that almost always prevents them from coming to God. But in these last days, we are going to see wealthy people come into the kingdom of God. We're going to see other seemingly impossible people come to Jesus as well. We'll see criminals and mafia leaders. We'll see Islamics and Hindus. We'll see entire cities won to the Lord just as the city of Samaria was in the book of Acts.

We'll also see people like Uncle Charlie or Aunt Edna give their lives to Jesus. Every believer has an "Uncle Charlie" or an "Aunt Edna" who is so hardened to God that you can't come up with any way to reach them. We had a relative like that in my family. We'd all shared with him about the Lord. Even my four-year-old nephew had talked to him about Jesus. But he wouldn't budge. He was so stubbornly lost that sometimes when my sister and I would talk about him, we'd just shake our heads and say, "It's impossible for him."

Yet one Sunday, after my brother-in-law and sister started their church, my sister looked up and saw him sitting at the back of the church. He just came because he was curious. But halfway through the message (it wasn't even a salvation message) that man started to weep. He's a man who never cries so my sister thought he was in pain or sick or something. All through the service he wept and when the altar call was given, he came forward and gave his life to Jesus. Guess what my sister said when she called me about it? She said, "The most impossible thing happened today!"

Listen to me now. I want you to start praying again for those relatives and friends you've given up on. Turn in your Bible to Psalms 2:8 where God says, "Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance," and write the names of those people there. That's what I did. I put the names of my family on a sheet of paper and put it right over that verse. Then every time I turned there I'd say, "Father, these are my possessions. These are the heathen and they are mine in the name of Jesus." Then get your faith in gear and get ready.

Get ready to call someone because some day soon you'll be bursting with good news. You'll be stepping into your God-given dreams. You'll be seeing people around you healed and made whole. You'll be leading those sin-hardened aunts and uncles, cousins and friends to Jesus. Someday soon, you'll be calling somebody just like my sister did to me, "Praise God, the most impossible thing happened today!"

Source: The Hour Of No Impossibility by Lynne Hammond.
Excerpt permission granted by Harrison House Publishers

Author Biography

Lynne Hammond
Web site: Lynne Hammond Ministries
 
A teacher and an author, Lynne publishes a newsletter called Prayer Notes, has written numerous books, and currently serves as the national prayer director for Daughters for Zion. Her passion for inspiring and leading others into the life of Spirit-led prayer continues to take her around the world to minister to believers whose heart cry, like hers, is “Lord, teach me to pray!”
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