When Faith Defies Reality

What if the route that looks impossible

is the same route where only God can make all things possible.

How can we experience God's power if we only take the routes that look possible to our human intellect?

He is the God of the impossible. (Luke 1:37)

He is the God who creates something out of nothing. (Romans 4:17)

Could you imagine if the Israelites had taken a route that looked possible?

The enemy would have overtaken them.

Instead, they walked up to a closed sea with the enemy gaining ground behind them.

But God opened the sea—impossible.

Then He destroyed the enemy with the very path that only He could open. (Exodus 14:10-31)

Supernatural faith produces supernatural victory.

What if what looks like a dead end to our human mind, is actually God leading us to the very place of encounter with His power? (Hebrews 11:1)

What if the walk of faith is to position ourselves where only God can get us through?

Where only He is the answer.

The sustenance for our souls. (Psalm 54:4)

Where only He gets the glory.

Yet so often we pray for God's power while refusing to give up our comfort.

We want victory without risk.

Promises without dependence.

Miracles without impossible circumstances.

But comfort rarely requires faith.

Faith is designed to make our human will uncomfortable.

God calls His people beyond what their intellect can explain.

Beyond what their resources can accomplish.

Beyond what feels safe.

To places that make no sense apart from Him.

Where the world looks at us and believes we have taken the path of death.

To a dead end.

To Defeat.

But we look at the dead end and declare the Word of the Lord until that dead end turns into the very path that leads to destiny and victory. (Proverbs 3:5-6)

The Old Testament is full of impossible situations where only God could get the glory for the victory.

I think of Gideon. (Judges 6-7)

To him, the battle was impossible—so impossible that he doubted what he heard from the Lord.

But the Lord reassured his heart, then asked him to step beyond what the physical realm said was possible and into the impossible.

"The LORD said to Gideon, 'You have too many men. I cannot deliver Midian into their hands, or Israel would boast against Me, "My own strength has saved me." Judges 7:2

Three hundred men against thousands.

Outnumbered.

Outmatched.

Impossible.

But God.

Where in your story have you reached a dead end where the only answer was, But God?

The Lord has always been drawn to impossible situations. Throughout Scripture, He repeatedly chooses what appears weak, outnumbered, and incapable so that His power becomes unmistakable.

"But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise;

God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are,

so that no one may boast before Him." (1 Corinthians 1:27-29, NIV)

Jonathan understood something about God, and because of it, his faith was mighty. (1 Samuel 14:1-23)

He took a route that looked impossible.

He looked into the eyes of a hostile multitude and yet believed in the Lord.

He walked straight into battle holding onto faith and the promises of God.

Jonathan walked into battle carrying something greater than a sword.

He carried a revelation of who God is.

The Philistines saw two men.

Jonathan saw the Lord of Hosts.

Yahweh Sabaoth, Commander of angel armies.

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Everyone else counted soldiers; Jonathan counted on God.

That revelation lived in the unseen realm of his soul.

Built up.

Settled.

Determined.

An unshakable trust in the Lord.

Before the victory was ever manifested in the physical realm, it was established in the hidden places of his heart.

Jonathan believed God.

He believed the impossible.

His faith was contagious.

Soon Saul's army joined him.

Then the Hebrews who had been among the enemy joined him.

Then the Israelites who had been hiding in fear among the rocks came running into battle.

All it took was one man who stood firm on the Word of the Lord.

"It may be that the Lord will work for us. For nothing restrains the Lord from saving by many or by few." (1 Samuel 14:6)

When everyone else saw through their physical eyes, Jonathan saw through the eyes of faith.

He walked in a victory that inspired others.

And how did it start?

It started in his heart.

Faith in God.

Faith in who God is.

Faith in what God is capable of.

Then it manifested in action.

Because faith without works is dead. (James 2:17)

Jonathan walked towards death without an army, declaring God's victory over Israel before he ever saw it.

He did not cower in fear.

He believed the Word.

This is the call upon every Christian in every life circumstance.

This is how revival starts.

People are watching.

The world is watching.

Those in the enemy's camp are watching.

Those hiding in caves of fear are watching.

And when they see the unmistakable hand of God moving in the lives of believers facing impossible situations, they come running.

Out of the world.

Out of fear.

Out of hiding.

Into the arms of Jesus.

Into His Kingdom.

Into His army.

Into His Church.

Faith is looking into the seen realm and seeing the unseen.

Faith is calling what is not as though it is. (Romans 4:17)

Faith is standing at a dead end and seeing God.

Faith is stepping into an abyss with the expectation of being caught by the Lord.

Faith is a life transformed by the Word of God into action for God.

Faith is believing in a Person you cannot see, yet trusting His ways above your own.

Faith is choosing the impossible because you know the One who makes all things possible.

“The Lord God is in your midst,

He is mighty to save.

He will take great delight in you,

He will rejoice over you with singing.

He will quiet you with His love.”

Zeph. 3:17

"The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear?

The Lord is the stronghold of my life;

of whom shall I be afraid?"

Psalm 27:1

"Some trust in chariots and some in horses,

but we trust in the name of the Lord our God."

Psalm 20:7