Prayer Is The Window Through “Impossible!”
Too often we confuse magic with prayer. Magic is instant. Magic is showy, we just kind of wave a wand and it happens -but that’s not supernatural!
Prayer is for THROUGH and not around!
Prayer is the window through, but we want around! So many of us, on our journey, have been stopped by Satan because we prayed about something and God didn’t lead us around. I gotta tell you, God rarely does around!
God does through, and this is what we see in all of the life of Jesus!
Have we missed the heart of how God works? God is not an around God, He’s a through God! Go back and read Luke 22:39-46, and look how Jesus had to go through every moment of the crucifixion.
You can’t get to the resurrection without going through the cross!
You can’t get to heaven without going through the hardship of a broken world!
And the truth is, we need to come back to through and understand that Daniel had to go through being dropped into rocks in a stinking cave in Daniel verse 6:16. And I know that because in the end, it tells us they had to lift him up out of the cave!
Daniel prays: and God’s salvation and deliverance is not to have the king change his mind or to have Daniel avoid being dropped in a hole! Daniel’s prayer didn’t resolve impossible before he faced it, but as the clock ticked, moment by moment, through, through, through -Daniel prayed!
Then after all of this comes the question of the ages: “Daniel, servant of the living God, has your God, whom you serve continually, been able to rescue you from the lions?” Daniel 6:20
Guys, at some point and 100 times over, you’re going to have to decide in your life -Is God able? Is my God able? Will I trust him and will I pray “through?”
Will I believe that the impossible isn’t?
No matter how things look to my eyes?
No matter how things sound to my ears?
No matter how things feel to my senses?
No matter how huge the storm is on my emotions, I will open the window of prayer and see through it all and see my Savior, Jesus Christ, who showed that the way through impossible is to a resurrection! -Dr. Drew Shofner