AT CREATION GOD HAS MADE EVERYTHING THAT WE CAN EVER NEED OR DESIRE TO BE AVAILABLE AND POSSIBLE FOR US TO GET. THERE IS NOTHING A MAN DESIRES THAT HAS NOT BEEN CREATED. WHAT MAKES IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR MAN TO GET HIS NEED OR DESIRE IS THE IMPOSSIBILITIES OR LIMITATIONS THAT HE SEES BEFORE HIM. THESE LIMITATIONS WERE NOT GOD MADE BUT MAN MADE .

IN THE BEGINNING IT WAS NOT SO.

THE DEATH OF MAN CAUSED BY DISOBEDIENCE BROUGHT THIS ABOUT.

FIRST, SIN CAME IN WHEN MAN DISOBEYED GOD BY EATING THE FRUIT GOD TOLD HIM NOT TO EAT.

GOD TOLD MAN IN GENESIS2 :16 THAT HE CAN EATTHE FRUIT OF EVERY TREE IN THE GARDEN BUT GAVE AN EXCEPTION AND THE CONSEQUENCE OF DISOBEYING IT IN

GENESIS 2:17 SAYING:

[17] … EXCEPT THE TREE OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL. IF YOU EAT IT’S FRUIT, YOU ARE SURE TO DIE . “

THE EATING OF THE FRUIT OF THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL BROUGHT ABOUT LIMITATIONS AND IMPOSSIBILITIES IN THE LIFE OF MAN . WITHOUT THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL,THE ABILITIES OF MAN WOULD HAVE KNOWN NO BOUNDARIES.

THE BOUNDARIES IN LIFE CAME BECAUSE OF THE SIN OF DISOBEDIENCE. DISOBEDIENCE OPENED THE EYES OF MAN TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF LIMITATION … AND LIMITATION BROUGHT ABOUT THE AWARENESS OF IMPOSSIBILITIES …

SEE WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT THIS IN GENESIS 3 :6-7 :

[6] THE WOMAN WAS CONVINCED. SHE SAW THAT THE TREE WAS BEAUTIFUL AND IT’S FRUIT LOOKED DELICIOUS, AND SHE WANTED THE WISDOM IT WOULD GIVE HER. SO SHE TOOK SOME OF THE FRUIT AND ATE IT. THEN SHE GAVE SOME TO HER HUSBAND, WHO WAS WITH HER, AND HE ATE IT, TOO.

[7] AT THAT MOMENT THEIR EYES WERE OPENED, AND THEY SUDDENLY FELT SHAME AT THEIR NAKEDNESS. SO THEY SEWED FIG LEAVES TOGETHER TO COVER THEMSELVES . “

MAN BEGAN TO SEE WHAT GOD DIDN’T WANT HIM TO SEE AND DO WHAT GOD DID NOT WANT HIM TO DO. THE KNOWLEDGE MAN ACQUIRED FROM HIS DISOBEDIENCE, WAS INIMICAL TO HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD .

THEY BEGAN TO FIND SOLUTIONS TO THEIR SHORTFALLS WITHOUT GOD, WHICH GOD DID NOT DESIRE …. E.G GENESIS 3:7B … MAN FOUND SOLUTION TO HIS NAKEDNESS BY IMPROVISING A COVER FOR IT … THEY SEWED LEAVES TOGETHER FOR A COVER BUT GOD IN VERSE 21 OF GENESIS 3, REMOVED THE LEAVES AND MADE CLOTHING FOR THEM FROM ANIMAL SKIN.

– THEIR SIN HID THEM FROM THE PRESENCE OF GOD. THEY COULD NO LONGER SEE GOD OR COMMUNE WITH GOD. WHICH MEANS THEIR EYES, WHICH WERE OPENED TO GOD ONLY BECAME CLOSED (THEY BECAME DEAD SPIRITUALLY) AND THEIR PHYSICAL EYES THAT WERE CLOSED TO THE WORLD OF FLESH AND EVIL, BECAME OPENED. THEY LOST THEIR CITIZENSHIP IN HEAVEN TO RECEIVE THE EARTHLY REALMS’ CITIZENSHIP. MAN BEGAN TO LIVE THE LIFE OF SIN CONTRARY TO THE WILL OF GOD .

THE MORE MAN TRIES TO GET THE GOD GIVEN DOMINION (GENESIS 1:28), THEY LOST IN THEIR NATURAL SELF, THE MORE SIN THEY COMMITTED AND THE FURTHER AWAY FROM GOD THEY BECAME. THEY GOT DEEPER AND DEEPER IN THE ABOMINATION OF SIN AND FORGOT THE WAYS OF GOD .

SIN TOOK AWAY FROM MAN 4 VITAL ESSENCE OF THE LIFE OF GOD NAMELY – THE PRESENCE OF

GOD. MICAH 3:4, ISAIAH 59:2, HEBREW 12:14 . MSN COULD NO LONGER SEE NOR STAND BEFORE GOD.

– ABILITIES TO DO ALL THINGS. PHILIPPIANS 4:13,TO BECOME DEPENDENT JOHN 15:5-6

– HIS GOD’S GIVEN DOMINION OVER THE EARTH… GENESIS1:28, WAS LOST IN GENESIS 3:16-19,22-23 .

– HIS FAITH IN GOD AND HIMSELF DIED . MAN NO LONGER TRUST GOD AND SEEK NOT BECAUSE HIS FAITH IN GOD DIED … HEBREW 11:6, 3:12 .

– MAN BY HIS DISOBEDIENCE TO THE COMMAND OF GOD LOST ALL THE POWERS GOD BESTOWED UPON HIM TO TAKE DOMINION OVER THE EARTH. GENESIS 3:16-23, AND HE WAS DRIVEN OUT OF THE PRESENCE OF GOD WHERE ALL POWERS ARE ….. GENESIS 3:23-24 .

GOD MAKING THE IMPOSSIBLE FOR MAN POSSIBLE AGAIN

LIKE WE READ ABOVE, MAN LOST THE POWER TO MAKE ALL THINGS POSSIBLE TO HIM, WHEN HE DISOBEYED GOD’S COMMAND TO HIM. GOD DID NOT STOP AT THE FALL OF MAN. BUT HE MADE PLANS, OF RESTORATION AND GAVE IT TO MAN IMMEDIATELY WHEN HE WAS PASSING HIS JUDGEMENT UPON SATAN, THE SOURCE OF THE FALL OF MAN GENESIS 3:14-15.

IT IS GOING TO BE WAR BETWEEN SATAN’S OFFSPRINGS AND THE WOMAN’S OFFSPRINGS. GOD’S POSSIBILITIES ARE DIFFERENT FROM MAN’S POSSIBILITIES. GOD’S POSSIBILITIES ARE BEYOND INFINITE , MEANING THEY ARE LIMITLESS AND SUPERNATURAL. WHILE MAN’S POSSIBILITIES ARE TERRESTRIAL AND LIMITED IN SCOPE.. WHILE GOD’S POSSIBILITIES ARE LIMITLESS, ENDLESS, IMPOSSIBLE TO MEASURE OR CALCULATE. WHEN WE THEREFORE SAY GOD’S POSSIBILITIES ARE BEYOND THE INFINITE, WE ARE SAYING GOD’S AVAILABLE POSSIBILITIES ARE LIMITLESS NO MATTER THE POPULATION OF CREATION REQUIRING IT. GOD IN JEREMIAH 32:27 SAID HE IS THE GOD OF ALL FLESH AND NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR HIM . GOD ASKED MAN THE QUESTION : “IS THERE ANYTHING TOO HARD FOR ME ?” THE WORLD CAN NEVER EXHAUST THE PROVISION OF GOD, NO MATTER THE POPULATION OUT BURST ! SAME JEREMIAH SAID IN JEREMIAH 32:17 THAT:

[17]“O SOVEREIGN LORD ! YOU MADE THE HEAVENS AND EARTH BY YOUR STRONG HAND AND POWERFUL ARM. NOTHING IS TOO HARD FOR YOU ! “

THERE IS NO SITUATION THAT GOD CANNOT HANDLE. THERE IS NOTHING WE DESIRE OR NEED TO DO, THAT GOD CANNOT PROVIDE . JESUS SAID IN MATTHEW 19:26 THAT :

[26] JESUS LOOKED AT THEM INTENTLY AND SAID, “HUMANLY SPEAKING, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE. BUT WITH GOD EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE.”

GOD HAS CREATED MAN TO HAVE DOMINION OVER THE EARTH REALM LIKE HE HAS OVER HIS CREATIONS IN HEAVEN AND ON EARTH, SINCE HE MADE US IN HIS IMAGE … GENESIS 1:26-27

[26] THEN GOD SAID, “LET US MAKE HUMAN BEINGS IN OUR IMAGE, TO BE LIKE US. THEY WILL REIGN OVER THE FISH IN THE SEA, THE BIRDS IN THE SKY, THE LIVESTOCK, ALL THE WILD ANIMALS ON THE EARTH, AND THE SMALL ANIMALS THAT SCURRY ALONG THE GROUND.”

[27] SO GOD CREATED HUMAN BEINGS IN HIS OWN IMAGE.

IN THE IMAGE OF GOD HE CREATED THEM;

THIS LIMITLESS POWER MAN HAS OVER THE EARTH REALM WAS LOST WHEN MAN DISOBEYED GOD TO SIN AGAINST GOD. HE BECAME LIMITED IN HIS ABILITY, HE COULD NO LONGER SEE BEYOND HIS ENVIRONMENT AND SO ANYTHING BEYOND HIS VISION BECAME IMPOSSIBLE FOR HIM TO ACCESS . GENERATION TO GENERATION CAME AND LIVED UNDER THIS SITUATION .

FOR 4,000 YEARS BEFORE THE BIRTH OF JESUS, MAN LIVED UNDER THIS DELUSION THAT HE IS LIMITED IN POWER AND THINGS THAT ARE ABSTRACT TO HIM, ARE BEYOND HIS REACH .

TO A VERY LARGE EXTENT GOD NEVER ALLOWED MAN’S SUPERNATURAL ABILITY TO BE COMPLETELY WIPED OUT. GOD MADE IT POSSIBLE FOR MAN TO STILL BE ABLE TO REACH OUT TO THE SUPER NATURAL REALM FOR WHAT HE DESIRES IF ONLY HE CAN CONNECT TO GOD IN HOLINESS … HEBREW 12 :14

HOW TO CONNECT TO GOD’S INFINITE POSSIBILITIES ….

GOD MADE AVAILABLE TO US MANY WAYS WE CAN RECONNECT TO THIS SOURCE OF POWER AGAIN BUT ALL EFFORTS FAILED BECAUSE OF MAN’S FALLEN NATURE . GOD HAD TO COME HIMSELF IN JESUS CHRIST, TO SHOW US THE WAY. 1TIMOTHY 3:16 , KING JAMES VERSION OF THE BIBLE SAYS THAT:-

1 TIMOTHY 3:16 (KJV) AND WITHOUT CONTROVERSY GREAT IS THE MYSTERY OF GODLINESS: GOD WAS MANIFEST IN THE FLESH, JUSTIFIED IN THE SPIRIT, SEEN OF ANGELS, PREACHED UNTO THE GENTILES, BELIEVED ON IN THE WORLD, RECEIVED UP INTO GLORY.

THIS MANIFESTATION OF GOD WAS THROUGH CHRIST WHO CAME IN HUMAN FORM TO SAVE US FROM THE DEATH PENALTY HANGING OVER US WHICH HAS HANDICAPPED US FROM THE SPIRIT OF EXCELLENCE .

HE SAVED US FROM BOTH PHYSICAL AND ETERNAL DAMNATION SO WE CAN BE RESTORED TO LIFE AND LIVE IN THE POWER OF GOD. BECAUSE MAN HAD LIVED TOO LONG IN DARKNESS, HE NO LONGER KNEW WHAT IT WAS TO LIVE IN THE LIGHT OF GOD. GOD GAVE MAN EVERYTHING HE LOST FREE OF CHARGE BECAUSE OUR SALVATION WAS PAID FOR IN FULL WITH THE BLOOD OF JESUS.

MAN WAS FULLY RESTORED

MAN COULD NOT LIVE WITH THIS TRUTH OF GOD, BECAUSE OF HIS UNBELIEVE.

JOHN 3:16 SAYS THIS FREE GIFT SALVATION CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED BY FAITH.

THE WORD OF GOD SAYS ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE WITH GOD (MATTHEW 19:26B) AND WITH WHOSOEVER EXERCISES FAITH (MARK9:23) BUT MAN WANTS TO EQUATE GOD WITH HIMSELF BY THINKING THE OPPOSITE . THIS IS BECAUSE WHEN MAN PRAYED, NOT ALL HE ASKED FOR WERE GIVEN TO HIM. HE THEREFORE CONCLUDES THAT GOD DOES NOT ANSWER ALL PRAYERS. NOT REALIZING THAT HIS INABILITY TO BELIEVE AND ACT ON THE WORD OF GOD THAT, ALL THINGS AS STATED IN THE WORD OF GOD ARE POSSIBLE TO HIM (MARK 9:23) IS RESPONSIBLE FOR HIS UNANSWERED PRAYERS .

WHY ARE SOME PRAYERS ANSWERED AND SOME NOT ANSWERED ?

THERE ARE MANY REASONS FOR THIS IN ACCESSIBILITY OF THE POWER OF GOD. WE WILL TAKE A LOOK AT SOME OF THEM:

– PRAYERLESSNESS: A CHRISTIAN THAT DOES NOT PRAY, IS NOT CONNECTED TO GOD. AND WHEN YOU ARE DISCONNECTED, YOU CANNOT DRAW POWER FROM GOD. THE PRESENCE OF GOD IN US, EMPOWERS US FROM WITHIN. THINGS CHANGE IN OUR LIVES WHEN WE PRAY(JAMES 5:16). WE RECEIVE STRENGTH FROM GOD IN THE PLACE OF PRAYER …. PHILIPPIANS 4:13.

– WE ARE POWERLESS WHEN WE DOUBT OUR PRAYERS OR THE WORD OF GOD, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE. WE LIMIT THE POWER OF GOD TO MOVE IN OUR LIVES. A DOUBLE MINDED FELLOW THE BIBLE SAYS CANNOT RECEIVE ANYTHING FROM GOD. (JAMES 1:8) .GOD LOVES IT, WHEN WE BELIEVE ABSOLUTELY IN HIM JAMES 1:6-8. THE BIBLE SAYS IN HEBREW 11:6 THAT WITHOUT FAITH, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO PLEASE GOD. IF WE DON’T BELIEVE THAT HE IS, WHOM HE SAYS HE IS AND CANNOT REWARD US AS HE PROMISED, THEN HE WILL NOT ANSWER US. IT IS WHAT WE SAY TO HIM ( NUMBERS 14:28) AND WHAT WE THINK IN OUR HEART ( PROVERBS 23:7), THAT WILL WE RECEIVE.

– OUR FAITHLESSNESS KILLS THE POWER OF GOD IN US. WE MUST HAVE UNSHAKEABLE FAITH IN GOD. OUR FAITH IN GOD MUST BE ABSOLUTE. (2CORINTHIANS 5:7, MARK11:22-24)

– WITHOUT THE TOTAL KNOWLEDGE OF THE WORD OF GOD, WE CANNOT KNOW WHAT THE WORD OF GOD SAYS ABOUT US. THE ABSENCE OF THE WORD OF GOD IN OUR LIVES MAKES US UNSURE OF GOD’S PROMISES TO US . HE ASKED THAT WHEN WE COME TO HIM WE SHOULD PUT HIM IN REMEMBRANCE OF HIS WORD AND THAT HIS WORD IS HIS BOND. ISAIAH 43:26. THERE IS SO MUCH POWER IN THE WORD OF GOD IN OUR MOUTH … (MATTHEW12: 36-37) .

IF WE CAN DO THESE FOUR THINGS DAILY IN OUR CHRISTIAN WALK AND TEACH OTHERS TO DO SAME, WE WILL BEGIN TO SEE MORE OF GOD’S POWER MANIFESTING IN OUR LIVES. HIS WORD WILL WASH US CLEAN OF EVERY RUDIMENT OF DARKNESS, CAUSING UNBELIEF THAT HINDERS US FROM GROWING IN THE LIGHT OF GOD. WOG .