“Your mission, should you choose to accept it…” (cue music) is the beginning to the familiar “Mission: Impossible” action-packed movie. Executing one death-defying and gravity-defeating herculean task after another, Tom Cruise and his team succeed in accomplishing the impossible, defeating evil yet again. The impossibility of the situations they face and the non-stop against-all-odds risks they take connect with something deep inside each of us that longs to see the impossibilities in our own lives overturned.
The truth is, we are designed to do the impossible and we are destined to beat the odds and destroy evil. There is a cosmic war raging; the enemy is clever and powerful, heavily armed and hell-bent on our destruction; but, we are not left defenseless. In fact, we are promised that “with God all things are possible.” (Mt. 19:26) Jesus acknowledged to his Father, “all things are possible for you.” (Mk. 14:36) In the face of a ridiculously impossible announcement to Mary that she, as a virgin, would conceive and bear a child and that her beyond-child-bearing age, barren kinswoman Elizabeth was already six months pregnant, the angel declared, “For with God nothing will be impossible.” (Lk. 1:37)
Our impossibilities must bow before God’s superior abilities as we put our trust in him and believe He is who He says He is and He does what He says He will do. (Mk. 9:23) As the apostle Paul wrote, “I can do all things in him who strengthens me.” (Phil. 4:12) It is not just that there are no impossibilities for God; it is that there are no impossibilities for us as we allow God to work in us and through us.
That has been the reality Bill and I have experienced over and over again. In our marriage, in our finances, in our areas of brokenness and bondage we have seen God do the impossible. As we have lived and learned through these experiences, we have gained wisdom and authority to help others also. Now it is time to expand our ministry.
This year we are launching something new in which we will confront relational, financial and other impossibilities in a weekend seminar called “Mission: Impossible.” During the weekend we will share our testimonies that have the power to charge the atmosphere with the ability to recreate those victories for others. We will exercise the authority we have been given in these areas to break strongholds and destroy demonic powers that have held people captive. We will impart wisdom that allows others to achieve breakthrough. We will have a weekend that culminates in people exclaiming, “Mission: Accomplished!”
