"Is there anything too hard for God?" This question reveals much about God. How so? God is Sovereign. He controls all things. He is the Ultimate source of all power and authority. So when the Almighty God ask a mere mortal human a question, only God knows the answer. Whatever the question is, it is beyond the scope of any human's ability.
Take the question that the Lord asked Sarah in Genesis 18:14, "Is anything too hard for God?" The Lord appeared to Abraham while he was living in Mamre. One hot summer afternoon Abraham was sitting in his tent, when he noticed three men coming toward him. He ran to them and asked them to stay, while he refresh them with food and water. While eating, they asked Abraham, "where is Sarah, your wife?" Abraham replied, "In the tent." The Bible says, "Then the Lord said, 'Next year I will give you and Sarah a son!'" Sarah was listening and she silently laugh and said to herself, "A woman my age have a baby?" The reply was, "Is anything too hard for God?" God did as He had promised, and Sarah became pregnant and gave Abraham a baby boy in his old age, and Abraham named him, Isaac, meaning "Laughter."
When God told Moses to tell the Israelites to purify themselves because the next day He would be providing them meat to eat. This was the time that they were in the wilderness en route to the Promised Land. Moses said in Numbers 11:21-22, "There are 600,000 men alone (besides all the women and children), and yet you promise them meat for a whole month! If we butcher all our flocks and herds it won't be enough! We would have to catch every fish in the ocean to fulfill your promise!" The Lord said to Moses, "When did I become weak? Now you shall see whether my word comes true or not!" God fed the Israelites, He sent a wind that brought quail from the sea, and let them fall into the camp, all around them. God provided them with meat, bread, and water for forty years, while in the wilderness.
In Jeremiah 32, God told Jeremiah to buy a field outside of Jerusalem. The city had been under siege for a year and Jeremiah bought the land that the soldiers occupied. God promised to return His people and rebuild Jerusalem. In Jeremiah 32:17-26, Jeremiah prays to God, "O Lord God! You have made the heavens and earth by your great power; nothing is too hard for you!...And yet you say to buy the field - paying good money for it before these witnesses - even though the city will belong to our enemies." Then this message came to Jeremiah, "I am the Lord, the God of all mankind; is there anything too hard for me?"
The power of the Lord fell upon Ezekiel and carried him away to a valley full of old, dry bones that were scattered everywhere across the ground. God asked Ezekiel, "Son of dust, can these bones become people again?" Ezekiel replied, "Lord, you alone know the answer to that." The dry bones are a picture of the Jews in captivity, scattered and dead. They would be released from captivity and one day regathered in their homeland, with the Messiah. Ezekiel spoke to the dry bones and the bones responded, and just as God brought life to those dead bones, He would bring life again to the spiritually dead.
Matthew 19:16 starts with a young rich leader asking Jesus a question, "Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?" Jesus provides him with a list of things and the rich man said that he had done all those things since his youth. Then Jesus told him to sell everything he had and give it to the poor. The young man was sad, because it was his money that was keeping him from the Lord Jesus. Then Jesus made the statement, "...It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God" (v.24). What Jesus meant, many people think that they are going to be saved by who they are or what they have. You can't buy salvation. Salvation is free, through Jesus Christ. Jesus gave a response to the disciples' question, "Who then can be saved?" Jesus' response in Matthew 19:26 says, "But JESUS beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible."
When Jesus healed the demon possessed boy, the one that the disciples could not heal, in Mark 9:23, "Jesus said unto them, If thou can believe, all things are possible to him that believe." It was not a question of If Thou could do anything," because the Lord Jesus can do everything. The question was, "If thou can believe." Jesus told them that "all things are possible to him that believe."
The Word of God declares that when you believe in God, and when you put the WORD into your situation, all things become possible to him that believes. In real life, things are hard and very difficult, but not with God. Jesus is the same today as He was yesterday, and He will be the same tomorrow. God does NOT change. The things that God has said in Scripture cannot be changed, deleted, or modified, in any way. If God said not to do it, then we are NOT to do it. If God says to do it, then we ARE to do it.
John 11:40 states, "Then Jesus said, 'Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?'" Jesus is still saying this to us today. Give ALL of your impossibilities to God. Place ALL of your faith in God, and watch, you will be rewarded. You will see the manifested Glory of El Shaddai, the God Almighty.
WITH JESUS ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE!
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