It was early in the year 2003 and I remember this overwhelming desire to pray for my city. You need to understand something, I’m not just talking about… Oh Lord bless my city kind of prayer. I’m talking about something that I could never imagine doing. Have you ever been asked to do something that you knew was impossible? Something that you knew was just too big to tackle.
You see when I accepted Jesus as my savior, I told him that I would do anything he asked me to do. I told him to send me to do the work that the others refused to do. I told him that I was one of “the few” that he had referred to in the book of Luke .
He told them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field. Go! I am sending you out like lambs among wolves. Luke 10:2-3
You see, “like lambs among wolves”, this was serious stuff. Let me give you a little history about me and my wife. In 2001 we founded a ministry and we felt that God wanted us to trust in him for everything. Now I know that sounds simple, but it was harder than we thought. In September of 2001 I lost my job and we felt that I was supposed to work the ministry full-time without pay and just watch God provide. That’s another blog in its self.
So here we are feeling like God wanted us to pray for our city, but what we heard was pray through the entire city, down every street. What!! Every street? That could take days , even weeks! How could we do that? The answer is, we can’t, but…”Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” Matthew 19:26
You see sometimes God asks us to do the impossible so he can show himself to us. My wife and I prayed and prayed and God was faithful to give us the plan. We assembled a team and we fasted and prayed together. We chopped up the city into sections and on a Saturday morning we met at the park and all 14 of us took our section and off we went.
I remember my wife and I and 3 of our sons driving down each street praying. It brings a smile to my face as I write this because it took us 10 hours to complete all the sections that we had, but God’s grace was so good, our boys never cried or complained. That in it self was a miracle!
Next time you feel a passion or a stirring for something to big to be you, or to big to do. It might just be God calling you to do his work, calling you to do the impossible. Are you willing to be the answer to prayer?
Think about it.