What have you told God you can't do?

[Rev. Dr. Kelvin E. Webb]

I posted this on another social network with a different title. Since most of the reaction focused on the title instead of the substance I decided to change the title.

 

What have you told God you could not do?
God has a plan and a purpose for each one of our lives.

Jeremiah 29:11 (New International Version)

¹¹ For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

Even before we are formed in our mother’s womb God has determined the plan and purpose for our lives.

Jeremiah 1:5 (New International Version)

 ⁵ "Before I formed you in the womb I knew ^a]'>[a] you,
       before you were born I set you apart;
       I appointed you as a prophet to the nations."

Romans 8:28-30 (New International Version)

 ²⁸And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him,^a]'>[a] who^b]'>[b] have been called according to his purpose. ²⁹For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. ³⁰And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.

 

When that decision is made we are endowed with the gifts and talents that will enable and empower us to fulfill God’s plan. In other words, we are able to carry out God’s plan as soon as we are commissioned with it.

For many of us the plan is clear from early in our lives. It is that thing God places in our hearts and burdens us with for much of our lives. For some of us it becomes our life’s work. For others it becomes what we “find” ourselves in and wonder how we got there. For others, it is that burden, that calling that we spend much of our lives running away from.

For those of us who spend so much of our lives running away from what God has called us to do or be we rationalize our running in a couple of ways. We either bury ourselves in the life’s work we have chosen and therefore have no time or space for the calling of God. Or, we constantly tell ourselves, God and anyone who will listen that we are not capable of that which we are called to do.

If God had called us God has prepared us. Furthermore, God has prepared the way for us to accomplish what it is we are called to do. Hence, the more we deny our ability to accomplish what God has called us to do, the more we example obstacles to what God has called us to do the more we are calling God a liar.

What have you called God a liar about? What is it you have told Him you can’t do after He has prepared you for it?

[KL Council]

5 "Before I formed you in the womb I knew a]'>[a] you,
before you were born I set you apart;
I appointed you as a prophet to the nations."

most powerful verse in the english bible...
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