Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down!

 Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years. ¹⁸ Again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth produced its crops.- James 5:17-18

When you pray, do you pray in earnest?  

God wants to do something new within our midst, but His people are far too busy and distracted to pray.  For if we would, we would see the ground shake with the glory of God, mountains move, the lame healed and the lost get found.  

We might not admit it to our brothers and sisters in Christ, but part of us wants to believe that such miracles were reserved for only those in Jesus' day.  Could you and I really pray as Elijah did?  Could we pray with such faith for God to do what only He could do?  Maybe we could pray that when, at least, when others are around so that we look spiritual, but in our hearts do we truly believe that God can do the impossible. 

Would we be like Joshua, who asked God to make the sun stand still and it did, for 24 hours.  As we know, without God's divine intervention it's impossible for the sun to stand still.  What in your life seems impossible, but fear keeps you from praying with such earnestness and trust for God to do it?

We so often put more faith in doctors, medications, support groups and self help books then we do in the power of God through Jesus Christ.  For within us, if we know Christ, lives the resurrection power, yes, the very same power that raised Jesus Christ from the dead lives in you (Romans 8:11).  For this is power beyond measure and sadly, power that is often untapped due to fear and distraction. 

God wants to rend down the heavens (Isaiah 64:1).  To show the display of His glory and might through His people.  Do you want to see such a movement of God that its unexplainable through human understanding?  Then pray, pray that God would manifest Himself in our communities, in our lives, in our families so that relationships would be restored, the lost would be found and the name of Jesus Christ would be proclaimed unto the ends of the earth!  

Do not be afraid to ask God for what seems impossible.  He desire's to display His glory through human impossibilities.  Yes, that's right, through you and me. Do not let your own limitations keep you from believing that God can do more than you can ever ask imagine.