ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE - PT1

Jesus never exaggerated. He never sought to impress, never used words carelessly, and never made promises He did not mean. So when He declared that nothing shall be impossible to those who believe, He was stating an absolute truth — a governing principle of the Kingdom of God that every born-again believer has the right and the responsibility to take hold of and live by.

The message of faith in God and His unfailing Word has the power to transform lives completely, and the Scripture is our anchor. If you are honest with the Word of God, you cannot be deceived. If you have ever been deceived, open your heart honestly to the Scriptures, and you will not remain deceived for long.

The Apostle Paul, writing to the church at Ephesus, described the purpose of God's gifts to the Church:

Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men. (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth? He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.) And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ.

Ephesians 4:8-15

This is the purpose of every genuine ministry of the Gospel — to bring God's people into the full measure of Christ, grounded in truth, built up in faith, unshakeable. And the truth that anchors everything we receive from God is this: when you believe, nothing shall be impossible unto you.

The Disciples' Question — and Jesus' Answer

There is a moment in the Gospels that speaks to every believer who has ever prayed earnestly, done everything they knew to do, and still seen no result. Jesus had come down from the mount of transfiguration to find His disciples struggling. A man had brought his epileptic, demonised son to them, and despite everything they had attempted, the devil would not come out. Then Jesus came, rebuked the foul spirit, and the boy was instantly healed. The disciples were stunned — they had done everything they had seen Jesus do, said what they had heard Him say. Why had it not worked for them? Matthew's Gospel records their private question, and the Lord's response:

Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out? And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.

Matthew 17:19-20

He was not complicated. He was not mysterious. He said exactly what He meant: the reason it did not work was their unbelief. Not the enemy's strength, not an unfavourable season, not God withholding His power. Their unbelief.

And notice the scope of His promise: nothing shall be impossible unto you. Not some things. Not most things in favourable circumstances. Nothing. That word allows no exceptions. Jesus — who never lied to anyone, who never exaggerated, who told absolute truth — said if you have faith, even faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to a mountain, 'Remove,' and it will obey you, and nothing shall be impossible. We must decide: do we believe it? Because if we believe it, we must also live it — and we must ask ourselves honestly why we have not done so.

The fuller account in Mark's Gospel reveals more of the exchange between Jesus and the father of the boy:

And one of the multitude answered and said, Master, I have brought unto thee my son, which hath a dumb spirit; And wheresoever he taketh him, he teareth him: and he foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth, and pineth away: and I spake to thy disciples that they should cast him out; and they could not. He answereth him, and saith, O faithless generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him unto me. And they brought him unto him: and when he saw him, straightway the spirit tare him; and he fell on the ground, and wallowed foaming. And he asked his father, How long is it ago since this came unto him? And he said, Of a child. And ofttimes it hath cast him into the fire, and into the waters, to destroy him: but if thou canst do any thing, have compassion on us, and help us. Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth. And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief. When Jesus saw that the people came running together, he rebuked the foul spirit, saying unto him, Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee, come out of him, and enter no more into him.

Mark 9:17-25

The father came with a conditional, hesitant appeal: 'If thou canst do any thing.' Jesus redirected the condition immediately — the issue was never what Jesus could do; the issue was always what the petitioner could believe. 'If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.' That remains the issue today. It is not a question of what God can do. He can do anything. The question is always: can you believe?

Faith Never Fails

There are people who will insist, even passionately, that they had faith — and yet their situation did not change. They prayed, they stood on the Word, they confessed, they did everything. And still it did not work. Jesus' answer to the disciples confronts that claim directly: if it did not work, it was not faith. Settle this in your mind, because this is important. Faith always works.

The Apostle Paul confirms this in 1 Corinthians 13:13: 'And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three.' These three abide — they are stable, unshakeable, unfailing. They never fail. Faith does not work sometimes and fail other times. Hope does not work for some people and not others. Love does not succeed occasionally. They abide — they endure, they produce, they do not fade. If it failed, it was not faith that was in operation. That may be a difficult word to receive, but it is an honest one — and an honest diagnosis is the beginning of genuine change.

Furthermore, the writer of Hebrews makes faith non-negotiable:

But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

Hebrews 11:6

It is impossible to please God without faith. You may be a diligent prayer warrior; without faith, you cannot please Him. You may be a devoted servant; without faith, you cannot please Him. Nothing you do — however sincere, however well-intentioned — can substitute for faith. And faith, the Bible declares in 1 John 5:4, is the victory that overcometh the world. Not one of the victories. The victory. It is the only force that overcomes the systems and negative powers of this world. That is why the message of faith must be preached, received, practised, and lived.

The Power of the Spoken Word

Now here is where the teaching becomes intensely practical — and life-changing. In the book of Proverbs, God reveals one of the most transformative truths in all of Scripture:

A man's belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth; and with the increase of his lips shall he be filled. Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

Proverbs 18:20-21

Death and life — the two most absolute realities in human existence — are not in the hands of circumstances, not in the hands of governments, not in the hands of chance. They are in the power of the tongue. Your tongue can give you death or it can give you life. And those who love it — those who understand this principle and work it consistently — shall eat the fruit thereof. What you choose to say is what you choose to produce in your life. The life you are living today is the exact picture of what you believed and declared before today.

In the Garden of Eden, there were two significant trees. There was the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and there was the tree of life. God told Adam he could eat of any tree in the garden — including the tree of life. Whoever ate of that tree would live forever, because the tree itself would produce life in everything about them. Adam chose to eat of the other tree instead. But notice this: Proverbs 15:4 tells us that you have your own tree of life right now, and it is in your mouth:

A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.

Proverbs 15:4

A wholesome tongue is a tree of life. That means there is no wound in your body that cannot be healed, no situation in your life that cannot be changed, when your tongue becomes a tree of life. You can walk out of poverty, walk out of sickness, walk out of any demeans circumstance — not through striving and struggle, but through the consistent, faith-filled operation of your own tongue. This is the most exciting part of the entire teaching: you can change your life. The wealth, the health, the success — it is in you. Riches are not in things. Riches and wealth are in you. The day you understand this, you will rise like a giant, and nothing will intimidate you.

Proverbs 4 builds on this with an urgent exhortation:

My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh. Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life. Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.

Proverbs 4:20-24

God's words are life to those who find them — and health, medicine, to all their flesh. Not to some of their flesh. All of it. But the condition is finding them: receiving them, keeping them in the midst of the heart, not letting them depart. And then: guard your heart with all diligence, because out of it are the forces of life. Your heart is the source from which everything in your life springs. Guard what goes in — accept only what God says — because what is inside will come out, and what comes out will shape your world.

Have the Faith of God: Speaking to Mountains

Jesus gives us the operating principle of the Kingdom's power with particular clarity in Mark 11. Notice the rendering of verse 22 in the margin of most study Bibles: it does not merely say 'have faith in God.' The literal Greek reads, 'Have the faith of God' — the God-kind of faith, the same faith with which God created the heavens and the earth. This is the faith that believers have been given. And Jesus explains precisely how it operates:

For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.

Mark 11:23-24

Here Jesus gives us two distinct instruments of faith. Verse 23 describes the spoken word of faith: you speak directly to the mountain — the problem, the sickness, the circumstance, the obstacle. You do not address God about the mountain; you address the mountain itself. 'Be thou removed.' 'Be thou cast into the sea.' That is a command, not a petition. And verse 24 describes the prayer of faith: here you pray to God, and while you are praying, you believe that you have already received what you are asking for. These are two different operations, and every believer must know both.

Matthew 21 makes this distinction equally clear. Jesus cursed the fig tree and it withered; then He said to His disciples:

Verily I say unto you, If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do this which is done to the fig tree, but also if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; it shall be done. And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.

Matthew 21:21-22

Verse 21 is the spoken word of faith — you say to the mountain, and it shall be done. Verse 22 is the prayer of faith — whatsoever you ask in prayer, believing, you shall receive. The tragedy is that most believers have only ever been taught to pray, when they should also be speaking. Many Christians are frustrated because they are praying to God about problems they have been given authority to address directly. You do not pray to God about the mountain; you talk to the mountain. You talk to the problem — not about it.

The believer's spoken word of faith is not wishful thinking and it is not mere positive confession. It is the exercise of divine authority. He shall have whatsoever he saith — that is a precise, unqualified promise from the lips of Jesus. Your words are not merely sounds; they are carriers of creative power. When your heart is aligned with the Word of God and you speak in faith, the words you release do exactly what God said they would do.

Your Words Are Building Your World

This is not an abstract theological principle — it is the most practical truth you will ever encounter. The life you are living today is the picture of what you said and believed in the past. Not what your parents said about you, not what society predicted for you — what you yourself have believed and consistently confessed. Words spoken in faith — or in fear — are always working. They are seeds, and every seed produces after its kind.

Consider the contrast. Three different people in the Gospels demonstrate three different postures of faith before Jesus. The woman with the issue of blood pressed through the crowd and said within herself: 'If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole.' She spoke positive, expectant faith before she received anything — and she received exactly what she said. The father of the demonised boy came with conditional, hesitant words: 'If thou canst do any thing.' His faith was weak and wavering. And the Roman centurion — a Gentile, with no prior covenant standing — came with commanding faith: 'Speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed.' Jesus marvelled at him. Each of them received according to the posture of their faith. Each posture was expressed through their words.

Psalm 15 asks: 'Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? Who shall dwell in thy holy hill?' And the answer given includes this remarkable quality: 'He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not' — and specifically, he that speaketh the truth in his heart. The truth spoken in the heart is meditation — speaking God's word to yourself, inside yourself. When your head is heavy and symptoms press upon you, that is the moment to speak the truth in your heart: 'He was wounded for my transgressions, He was bruised for my iniquities... by His stripes I am healed. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.' That is the one who dwells in God's presence and remains unshakeable. Not the one who speaks what they feel, but the one who speaks what God has said.

Do not measure yourself by what you see around you. Measure yourself by how much truth is inside you — because that is the true wealth. When you are rich on the inside, you will make others rich. Get the Word of God and load it in, meditate on it, be transported in the Holy Ghost through it, and then go out and begin to declare what you have. The glory is in you. What many have a problem with is how to bring it up and let it out — but once it is released, it cannot be stopped.

Who You Are in Christ: The New Creation

To fully understand why anything is possible to you, you must understand who you are. Not who you were before you came to Christ — who you are now, in Christ. The Apostle Paul states it without qualification:

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

2 Corinthians 5:17

Note the tense carefully. He does not say old things shall pass away. He does not say all things shall become new. He says are passed away. Are become new. This is a present reality, not a future promise. The day you were born again, you received the life and nature of God into your spirit. You became a new creation. You may not yet feel like all things are new — but God cannot lie. And if there is ever a conflict between what you feel and what God has said, let God be true and every man a liar. Your feelings are not the truth; God's Word is the truth.

There is a crucial difference between the Old Testament and the New. Under the Old Covenant, God gave laws and commanded obedience — but the people did not have the nature of God in them, so obedience was a constant struggle. You cannot live a nature you do not have. The Law could demand righteousness but could not produce it. But under the New Covenant, you begin by receiving the very life and nature of God into your spirit. Once you have that nature, righteousness becomes natural to you — it is not an effort, it is an expression. And the Apostle Paul declares:

For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

2 Corinthians 5:21

You are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. That is not a title you are working toward; it is the reality you have already been made. You are the demonstration of God's righteousness. When someone looks at you — the genuine, Word-governed you — they should be able to see the perfection of God. And Romans 5:17 tells us what this righteousness produces:

For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.

Romans 5:17

Righteousness is a gift — not a reward, not an achievement, not something earned through sufficient prayer or sacrifice. It is a gift. And those who receive the abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness shall reign in life. As kings. That is your position: reigning in life by Jesus Christ. Righteousness also gives you the ability to stand in the presence of God without a sense of guilt, inferiority, or condemnation — and by the same principle, to stand in the presence of any devil, disease, or adversity without any fear. You are not the victim; you are the master.

In His high-priestly prayer, Jesus spoke something of extraordinary consequence about those who believe in Him:

And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.

John 17:22-23

The glory which the Father gave Jesus — Jesus has given to us. Not will give — has given. Past tense, already done, already yours. And the Father loves you as He loves Jesus. This is not an aspiration or a condition to be met; it is the declared reality of the New Covenant. You carry the glory of God. You are the light of the world. Let that sink into your spirit, because once it does, it changes how you walk, how you speak, how you face every situation.

Romans 8 anchors this with one of the most liberating declarations in all the New Testament:

There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

Romans 8:1-2

No condemnation. No judgement. No guilty verdict hanging over your head. You are in Christ Jesus and the law of the Spirit of life has set you free. And 2 Corinthians 5:7 tells us how this new-creation life is to be lived: 'For we walk by faith, not by sight' — not by sensory perception, not by symptoms, not by feelings, not by what circumstances appear to say. By faith.

Nothing Is Ever Too Late

One of the most powerful truths in this series is this: with God, nothing is ever too late. This truth is demonstrated with breathtaking force in the account of Lazarus in John 11. When word reached Jesus that His friend Lazarus was sick, He declared: 'This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God.' And yet, by the time Jesus arrived, Lazarus had been dead and buried for four days. In the natural reckoning, it was too late. Even Martha — a woman of faith — said: 'Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been there four days.' But Jesus said to her:

I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?

John 11:25-26

He did not offer Martha a theological discussion. He presented Himself as the answer — the resurrection and the life, not merely as a doctrine but as a living reality standing before her. And then He walked to the tomb and called out: 'Lazarus, come forth.' And he that was dead came out, still bound in grave clothes, walking into the light at the command of Jesus. Four days in the grave. The worst possible scenario. And still, it was not too late.

Whatever situation you have counted as finished, whatever loss you have accepted as permanent, whatever dream you have given up as gone — nothing is ever too late when the God of the resurrection is involved. Do not give up. The very One who raised Lazarus from the dead is the same One who lives in you and works through your faith today.

The Lesson of Job: Fear Is Faith in Reverse

There is a truth embedded in the book of Job that is critical to understand, because many believers have suffered unnecessarily under the impression that God was testing them by bringing calamity upon their lives. A careful reading of the text reveals a different picture. The opening chapters of Job describe a man who was upright, who feared God, who had built a spiritual hedge around himself and his household through righteous living — a hedge that the enemy himself acknowledged in his complaint to God:

And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought? Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.

Job 1:8-10

God had hedged Job. His righteousness and godly living had constructed a wall of divine protection around everything he had. But then we come to Job chapter 3, and we find the key that unlocks the entire narrative. After the calamities had come, Job opened his mouth and revealed what he had been carrying in his heart all along:

For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me. I was not in safety, neither had I quiet, neither had I rest; but trouble came.

Job 3:25-26

The thing which he greatly feared came upon him. Job himself broke his own hedge — not through sin, but through sustained, fear-filled confession. Ecclesiastes 10:8 tells us: 'Whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.' God did not break Job's hedge; Job broke it himself with his fear. It was not God testing Job; it was Job's own words, driven by fear, opening the door to the very catastrophe he dreaded.

This is a sobering truth. Fear is not simply an emotion; it is faith in reverse — faith in the ability of the adversary. It operates by the same mechanism as faith: what is consistently believed and spoken will ultimately manifest. Just as positive, Word-based faith produces blessing, fear-saturated words produce the very evil feared. Proverbs 18:21 applies in both directions: death and life are in the power of the tongue.

This is why the Apostle Paul writes in 2 Timothy 2:24-25 of those who 'oppose themselves' — the Greek carrying the force of people who overthrow or undermine themselves. They are not being defeated by the enemy; they are defeating themselves through unbelief and negative, fear-driven confession. The believer who consistently says 'I'll never get well,' 'things will never change,' 'I don't think I can do this' — is building a negative structure over their own life with their own words. But the reverse is equally true: begin to speak God's Word consistently, and over time, the old structure comes down and the new one rises.

The Word as a Mirror: Doers, Not Merely Hearers

The Apostle James brings the practical dimension of all this into sharp focus in the first chapter of his epistle. Receiving the Word of God is not the end of the process — it is the beginning. You must be a doer of the Word, not merely a hearer:

But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

James 1:22-25

When you hear the Word of God, you are looking into a mirror — but it is not showing you your natural face. It is showing you your true face: the face of the new creation, the righteousness of God in Christ, the one crowned with glory and honour. The danger is looking into that mirror, seeing who you truly are in Christ, and then walking away and forgetting — returning to old patterns of thinking and speaking, living as though none of it is true. The one who is blessed is the one who keeps looking into that perfect law of liberty — God's law for free men — and does not forget. They remember who they are, they speak accordingly, and they live accordingly.

That man shall be blessed in his deed.

James continues with a word that is especially relevant for those in any form of leadership or ministry:

If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.

James 1:26

An unbridled tongue does not merely cause external harm — it deceives the speaker's own heart. When a believer consistently speaks words that contradict the Word of God — words of fear, defeat, sickness, lack — their own spirit begins to accept that false reality as true. And once the spirit is deceived, it begins to produce accordingly. This is a danger even for ministers. The anointing of the Holy Spirit does not automatically fix an undisciplined tongue. The tongue must be consciously, deliberately brought into alignment with God's Word.

Your True Worth and the God Who Backs You

One final truth must be settled in your spirit before you can walk in the full confidence of faith: you must know what you are worth. Because the price paid for something is the measure of its value. And the price paid for you was not silver or gold. As Peter writes:

Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.

1 Peter 1:18-19

You were purchased with the precious blood of Jesus Christ — the Son of God, the Lamb without blemish. And 1 Corinthians 6:20 is categorical: 'Ye are bought with a price.' That price defines your value. God did not send a lesser payment for a lesser people. He gave His best for you. Which means you are not a second-class citizen of the Kingdom; you are not a barely-making-it believer struggling to get God's attention. You are someone God considered worth the highest possible cost. That truth alone should reshape how you see yourself, how you carry yourself, and how boldly you approach God and His promises.

And the enemy who would oppose your faith? The Apostle Paul declares in Colossians 2:15 that at the cross and in His resurrection, Jesus 'spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.' The devil is a defeated foe. He has no home address; he is a vagabond, a trespasser operating only where he has been given access — and you do not have to give him access. Greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world. You do not have to give the enemy the credit of a formidable adversary. He was publicly defeated. Stand on that.

Conclusion: Nothing Shall Be Impossible Unto You

All of this — your identity in Christ, your righteousness, your God-given authority over language and circumstance, the God-kind of faith deposited in your spirit, the resurrection power that lives in you — all of it converges in one magnificent declaration from the lips of Jesus: nothing shall be impossible unto you.

Not some things. Not most things. Nothing. No sickness is beyond your reach. No mountain is too large for your word. No situation is too far gone for the God who raised Lazarus. No history is too broken to be rewritten. No dream is too large for the One who fills all things. Nothing shall be impossible.

But the condition holds: faith. Faith that is grounded in the Word of God. Faith that speaks — to the problem, not just about it. Faith that guards the heart and disciplines the tongue. Faith that does not shrink back from its confession simply because time has passed or symptoms remain. Faith that remembers who it is in Christ and acts accordingly. Faith that is not fearful but bold, not passive but active, not hearing only but doing.

The disciples asked Jesus, 'Why could we not cast him out?' and He answered them plainly. The answer remains the same today for every believer who has wondered why a promise has not yet been realised. But unlike the disciples, we now have the fuller revelation — the completed Word of God, the Holy Spirit dwelling within us, the righteousness of God as our nature, the law of the Spirit of life setting us free from the law of sin and death. We have every advantage they had, and more. There is no excuse for smallness. There is no justification for unbelief.

Say it and mean it: anything is possible. All things are possible to him that believeth. Nothing shall be impossible unto me. I have the faith of God. Death and life are in the power of my tongue — and I choose life. I choose words of faith. I choose to say what God has said. I am the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. I reign in life by Jesus Christ. Nothing — nothing at all — shall be impossible unto me.