Is Anything Impossible for the Lord?

Ricky Ketchum

Oct 14, 2025

A question I don’t ask often enough

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Is anything impossible for the Lord? I will return to you when the season comes round again and Sarah will have a son.

Genesis 18:14 (NET)

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Abraham and Sarah were well past the age of pregnancy.

She shouldn’t have been able to even have a child.

Yet God set up this miracle to fulfill a promise He had made to Abraham that would give them a son to carry their name.

It sounded so ridiculous to Sarah that she laughed.

I need reminders like this of the awesome power of God.

I tend to forget what He can do when I’m trying to live my day to day life. When that happens, I stop asking for big things from Him, instead preferring to try and solve problems myself.

I understand that God gave us a brain & body to do work on our own.

I’m not looking for miracles in order to fuel laziness.

But it’s a tragedy to ignore a loving, heavenly Father who loves to give good gifts to those who ask Him.

What blessings have I bypassed because I was too stubborn — trying to do things my way?

I don’t want to know the answer.

But what I can do is set reminders for myself to slow down, ask God for help first, and then set out to work on the solution. This is a much better plan than working on a solution, then failing, then failing again, then reaching my last straw and realizing that I should ask God for help.

Yeah … asking Him first is the smart plan.

— Ricky Ketchum

Scripture quotations marked (ESV) are from the ESV®Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright© 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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