God Is Able

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June 24, 2013
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Genesis 18: 14, NLT: “Is anything too hard for the LORD? I will return about this time next year, and Sarah will have a son.”

So I missed my usual day to write my weekly devotional. I was en route…TO KENYA! Which is why today I want to talk about the fact that God is able.

I never thought in a million years I would ever set foot in Africa. Part of my testimony/life story is that I’ve wanted to be a “world traveler” since I was a girl. My mother gave me an electronic globe. The light bulb in the middle would light the globe up, and the axis had a sliding magnifying glass. You moved the magnifying glass over different locations on the globe, looked through it and read about different places in the world. The dream was planted then and there that I wanted to be a world traveler. And God allowed it to be so. It HAD to have been a God given dream. For Him to allow me to see the things I’ve seen – I’m humbled beyond words. The reality is far greater than anything I could have ever imagined.

So now when I think about being a single, Christian woman in today’s world, the reality faces me. And since I’m sober, I know what I’m up against. Cultural norms. And I’ll leave it at that. But you know what? I don’t allow other or myself for that matter to speak doubt into my life and the promises God has for me. When someone asks “How is THAT going to happen?” Or when I start to think about the probability of doing things God’s way…I press hard into prayer. I refuse to doubt because I decided that if something doesn’t happen in my life it will be because God wrote it in His plan…not because I got in His way with my doubt and negativity.

So I thought about Sarah and how she laughed at the angel who told her the good news she’d been WAITING to hear! I love how the angel confronted her about it, because God has His own way of reminding me that He can do and has done what He has already written for my life. So when I wait on God, I’m getting myself ready for what He’s already done! I’m sure that we often will never be completely ready for God’s blessings for our lives. But we CAN work to bring ourselves to a point of belief and trust in God. Trust that He can do what He said He will do despite ourselves.

Whatever you’re “waiting” on God for, remember to line yourself up and get ready to move FAST to grab hold of everything He has written for your life.