On Sunday Rachel, David & Graham, helped us to respond to the God of the Impossible (Luke 1:37), we started by thanking God for what he has done already, David then encouraged us that He is the "Same God" and then Graham helped us to respond if we are facing impossible situations at the moment.

Rachel Civval
It would be easy to keep going into the next song, but I don't want to. It's so good to worship a God of the impossible! A God where it only takes one word! Or one name, it's Jesus, to see breakthrough!

I imagine that if we spent some time now, we could spend the next three hours talking about all the things that God has done in every single one of our lives. I'm sure we would have loads of testimonies just from our LifeGroup alone. We've seen God break in time and time again, we've seen healings, we've seen people come to know Jesus, we've seen God do the impossible in situations of family, of finance, of provision. What a good God we worship!

I'd really like us just to take a moment at this point to thank God for who he is! So, if you feel like you're able to can I encourage you to open your hands to God. We were talking about this at Newday and about how if someone's got a really big shiny present for you and you can see it and they've turned up on your birthday, you know it's for you, you almost can't help your hands coming out to be like hand it over, that's all we're doing this morning. We're laying our hands open to God and saying, all that you have got for me, all that you want to say to me, all that you want to do in me, I'm open to that. You can give it to me, please, thank you very much, because you are my father in heaven.

So, I'd like to encourage you if you feel able to, to open your hands and just thank God for who he. Yes, maybe you can bring to mind times when you have prayed and he answered, times where you were worried about something, and He turned up and was with you in it. So, I'm just going to leave a few moments for us to do that.

You can do that out loud, you can do that in your head. You can even do that with the person next to you with or with a parent, or someone that you came with if you want to do that, or you can just do it between you and your Father in heaven, to bring to mind all that He has done and thank Him for it from the very breath in our lungs. Every breath we take is from him, every heartbeat, the life we've been given his provision.

David Ash
I get a sense God's saying that we're fundamentally underprepared or unprepared for what he wants to do. We've just sung that God does impossible things and it's almost like in our hearts, that's a theory, rather than a practice, and whilst we thank God for things that he's done in the past and we're humbled by those things, he's done remarkable things amongst us! We look into the future and see the things that seem impossible in front of us and think well, crikey, that's scary, I don't know how God's going to do that! But he's the same God!

He wants to break into those impossible situations that we might be facing this week as we go from a season of holiday into a different season, if that's the season you've been in. (Maybe you're continuing into an impossible situation this week). But God wants to say that He is the same God and in the same way that we've just thanked Him for situations that He's broken in, let's ask Him for His breakthrough in those situations that we're looking towards in the weeks ahead.

Lord God, would you show us, remind us that you are the God of the impossible and that means impossible in the future as well as things that seemed impossible in the past that you've already done! God, we thank you for what you've done, as we just have, and we thank you as well that you're the same God in the situations ahead of us, God! Thank you that we can walk in your footsteps, thank you that you go before us, Lord. Even perhaps as a child would follow behind a parent in deep snow, that the adult would make a way in the snow, so that it's not so hard to walk through. God, would you guide us into the days ahead? Would you make a path for us? Thank you that you are the same God!

Graham Pyman
Thanks, David. Let’s not lose that moment, if you feel that really resonated with you, if you're thinking, “yeah, I right now I'm facing something which just feels totally impossible”, I’d love us to pray for you before we move on. Let’s not just lose what God's saying to us this morning, if that’s you then if you can just raise your hand where you are. I'm not going to get you to come forward, but we'll come to you. If you're facing something, you just think, actually, it's just impossible without God! I just do not know how it's going to work out. Just raise your hand where you are quickly, and we'll gather and pray. Going once. Going twice. Going three times. Can a few people go around over there just for me gather round people. That would be great!

"Thank you, God, that you love to do impossible things. Thank you, that we're not trying to somehow twist your arm, but you delight in doing the impossible. You delight in making a way where there seems like there is no way and so, Father, we want to pray this morning particularly for our brothers and sisters who responded in this moment and say, Lord, “make a way where it doesn't seem to be one, do the impossible”. Lord, let there be stories of miraculous provision and heavenly intervention, that Lord, make a way and glorify Jesus! Thank you, Lord! Thank you, Father, Thank you, Lord."

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