Is Anything Too Hard for the Lord?

Have you ever found yourself after praying and asking God for something trying to figure out how He is going to answer you? You know like - asking Him for money to pay a bill or make a purchase। Then right after praying you start to think of ways God can bring the answer: get an increase in pay – a long lost relative could die and leave you an inheritance – you might find a bad of money - buy a lottery ticket and win millions, your imagination just really starts to go wild.

You might even go so far as to come up with ways to help God out and you might go even further and tell God your ideas and ways He can answer your prayer. That’s funny isn’t it – humans trying to tell God what to do! But as humans who are limited in what we can do it easy to think that God too is limited to what we are capable of and think that He can only do things that seem possible to us.



God asked the prophet Jeremiah in Jeremiah 32:27, “Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me?”

God is saying I AM IT - the God of all flesh, the first and the last; besides me there is no god.” – I AM THE ALMIGHTY GOD!!

In Genesis 18 when the Lord visited Abraham and Sarah He told them that they would have a baby. But because they were both very old, and Sarah was long past the age of having children Sarah in here limited human thinking laughed silently to herself and said, “How could a worn-out woman like me enjoy such pleasure, especially when my husband is also so old?” Then the Lord said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh? Why did she say, ‘Can an old woman like me have a baby?’ Is anything too hard for the Lord?

Jesus said in Matthew 19:26 “Humanly speaking, it is impossible. But with God everything is possible.” Thinking of God in human terms is a sign of a lack of faith and limits what God is willing and able to do in our lives. The disbelief of the Israelites caused God to withhold his blessing from them. Even AFTER GOD did what was humanly impossible and sent the plaques upon Egypt to deliver Israel and parted the red sea Psalms 78:41 says they turned back on God and tempted Him, and limited the Holy One of Israel and still did not see that with God all things are possible.

I think it is important to actually read what the scripture says because many times believers today talk about Israel but really don’t see many times we are much like them when we bring God down to our human level, we too limit God. Let’s read:

Psalm 78:38-55 (Amplified Bible)
But He (GOD), full of [merciful] compassion, forgave their iniquity and destroyed them not; yes, many a time He turned His anger away and did not stir up all His wrath and indignation.

For He earnestly remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that goes and does not return. How often they defied and rebelled against Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert! And time and again they turned back and tempted God, provoking and incensing the Holy One of Israel. They remembered not seriously the miracles of the working of His hand, nor the day when He delivered them from the enemy, how He wrought His miracles in Egypt and His wonders in the field of Zoan where Pharaoh resided and turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, so that they could not drink from them.

He sent swarms of venomous flies among them which devoured them, and frogs which destroyed them. He gave also their crops to the caterpillar and the fruit of their labor to the locust. He destroyed their vines with hail and their sycamore trees with frost and great chunks of ice. He caused them to shut up their cattle or gave them up also to the hail and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.

He let loose upon them the fierceness of His anger, His wrath and indignation and distress, by sending a mission of angels of calamity and woe among them. He leveled and made a straight path for His anger to give it free course; He did not spare the Egyptian families from death but gave their beasts over to the pestilence and the life of their eldest] over to the plague. He smote all the firstborn in Egypt, the chief of their strength in the tents [of the land of the sons] of Ham. But God led His own people forth like sheep and guided them with a shepherd's care like a flock in the wilderness. And He led them on safely and in confident trust, so that they feared not; but the sea overwhelmed their enemies. And He brought them to His holy border, the border of Canaan, His sanctuary, even to this mountain Zion which His right hand had acquired.

He drove out the nations also before Israel and allotted their land as a heritage, measured out and partitioned; and He made the tribes of Israel to dwell in the tents of those dispossessed. (Psalm 78:38-55 - Amplified Bible).

Even after all this Israel still did not believe, still did not recognize God as sovereign, the God who can do the impossible. And Israel went even further in limiting God and tried to help Him protect them from their surrounding enemies by demanding a king. Look at God’s response to this request in 1 Samuel 8:6-9)

1 Samuel 8:7-8 (New Living Translation)
7 “Do everything they say to you,” the Lord replied, “FOR IT IS ME THEY ARE REJECTING, not you. They don’t want me to be their king any longer. 8 Ever since I brought them from Egypt they have continually abandoned me and followed other gods. And now they are giving you the same treatment.

How did Israel reject God? Israel limited God when they rejected him or did not believe He was capable of protecting them from the surrounding enemies even after being delivered from slavery in Egypt. God had a promised land for them in Canaan, BUT THEY CHOSE NOT to go there. God had good things for them, but THEY LIMITED THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL. God has good things for His children today, but we can make the same mistake. Don't limit God in your life ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE WITH GOD.Israel went around in circles, with no clear direction for their lives. Worse than that, they lived in fear, rather than walking by faith.

Psalm 78:32-37 (The Message)
And—can you believe it?—they kept right on sinning; all those wonders and they still wouldn't believe! So their lives dribbled off to nothing— nothing to show for their lives but a ghost town. When he cut them down, they came running for help; they turned and pled for mercy. They gave witness that God was their rock, that High God was their redeemer, but they didn't mean a word of it; they lied through their teeth the whole time. They could not have cared less about him, wanted nothing to do with his Covenant.

When we limit God in our lives, it's because our hearts are not right with God. The people of Israel said the right words, but they lied to God. WE MAY HAVE THE RIGHT "GOD-TALK" AND NOT TRULY BELIEVE GOD IN OUR HEARTS.

Saying the right words in prayer, and singing the right songs, does not fool God, if we have doubt and unbelief in our hearts. Hebrews 11:6 tells us that it’s impossible to please God apart from faith. And why? Because anyone who wants to approach God must believe both that he exists and that he cares enough to respond to those who seek him. Most have the believing God exist part down, but faith goes beyond believing God exists we must also believe God rewards us and intervenes in our lives.

When Jesus declared in Mark 11:22-23: "Have faith in God…I tell you the truth, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him". And when He said in Luke 17:6, "If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it will obey you" He was not implying that moving real mountains or trees would be a regular occurrence. The point Jesus was making is that God who said I AM - the God of all flesh, the first and the last; besides me there is no god.” – I AM THE ALMIGHTY GOD would literally transport a mountain or a tree if there were ever a valid need to do so just as He parted the red sea. Jesus was pointing out the power and the possibilities of faith.

From time to time we all come up against obstacles that can seem just as tall and wide as a mountain. In the Old Testament Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, supervised the rebuilding of the ruined temple in Jerusalem and faced many great obstacles while COMPLETING the project. But look what the angel of the Lord said to Zerubbabel:

Zechariah 4:6-7 (New Living Translation)
6 Then he said to me, “This is what the Lord says to Zerubbabel: It is not by force nor by strength, but by my Spirit, says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. 7 Nothing, not even a mighty mountain, will stand in Zerubbabel’s way; it will become a level plain before him!

The Bible clearly demonstrates what God can do for those who do believe. Time after time we see that physical circumstances don’t limit God, for "nothing can hinder the Lord from saving, whether by many or by few" (1 Samuel 14:6).

What is important to keep in mind is that He does not have to work things out in the way that seems most logical us. The Israelites, leaving Egypt were trapped at the edge of the Red Sea. They were about to be captured by Pharaoh’s army. There was no way they could see to get out of this predicament, and they were scared. Though he did not know how God was going to do it, in faith Moses reassured the people: "Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the deliverance the Lord will bring you today.... The Lord will fight for you" (Exodus 14:13-14).

Then the Almighty God, who is not limited by human imagination, directed Moses to do what no one expected: Tell the people to start walking toward the water! Moses, following God’s instructions, stretched his hand out over the sea and watched the sea parted give the Israel a dry pathway to freedom. Beloved, this is the same God we serve today!

This is what the Lord is saying to you today! Have faith - believe in Me for just as no obstacle was too great and no barrier too imposing to be leveled before Zerubbabel and neither was the Red Sea too great an obstacle for Israel so it is with you who believe. I am God; nothing is too hard or is impossible for Me. I am God I have not and will not change. There is no limit to what I can do for you if you trust Me!

Beloved what is your need today? What do you desire of the Lord? It is important that you realize that nothing is too hard for Him. Even if like the desperate man who with tears cried out to Jesus: "I do believe," and then quickly added, "help me overcome my unbelief!" (Mark 9:24). You too can cry out to Father to help your unbelief.

Let us pray
Heavenly Father, I come to You through the Precious Blood of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I ask You to destroy and remove any deception in my mind.

In Jesus Name I pray, Amen