With God All Things Are Possible

Yesterday morning I was due to catch a flight at 6am, and I ended up wide awake at 4.30am, knowing I wasn’t going to be able to get back to sleep. I was really anxious as the thought of spending an entire day travelling while sleep-deprived. I began praying to God that it would go okay, and I used the extra time to read my Bible. Then I began to get ideas, which turned into my last post. I wrote the whole thing on the train without caffeine, or any breakfast, (something I’ve never done before!).

I don’t say this to brag, because it’s not me. I need food to think, and some caffeine (which I’d like to give up at some point.) The ideas and the clarity pops into my head, and I write it down, and the reason it’s easy is because the Holy Spirit is giving me the ideas. I do other writing, paid work, that takes me a lot longer, and a lot more pausing and thinking, because then it’s me having to come up with the words.

I still have quite a few questions surrounding creativity and where does it come from. When is it from us? When is it Holy Spirit led? When is it a mixture of the two, and when is it from the devil?

One of my favourite testimonies that woke me up to Jesus being real is the story of Joe Schimmel. In his teens he wrote songs about selling his soul to the devil. When he came to Jesus and looked back he realised that the expertise he had and the words he was choosing were beyond what is 16 year old self was capable of creating. The devil’s counterfeit is eloquent, and sophisticated, but it is a mere shadow of what God can do.

As Jesus said, about a rich man entering heaven, ‘with men it is impossible, but with God, all things are possible.’

The rest of my day went smoothly, and I actually enjoyed the travel, just reading and chilling out on a half-empty plane. I didn’t get any of the unbearable tiredness I had been dreading. It felt like God was with me.

So whatever struggles that you are going through that seems insurmountable, it is possible with the presence of God in your life, ‘ask and it is given.’