Dare we ask Him THAT?

How brave are you in the things you ask of Him? Do you ever ask Him to do something, anything that ONLY He can do? Are you afraid to? GO AHEAD! I DARE you! :)

I confess, I don't do it THAT often, but I do ask Him to do one thing in particular that ONLY He can do. I ask Him on behalf of my brethren who are suffering persecution to not let the beatings and torture weaken them, but that instead, they'd actually be STRENGTHENED in their faith. I believe with all my heart that ONLY HE can do that. And He can. And, I believe He is willing.

Think about it. Have you ever asked Him to do something that no human can/could do? Think about Joshua, when he 'spoke to the Lord,' then told (in the sight of Israel) the sun and the moon to stand still...and they did...for about a whole day, while Israel avenged themselves of their enemies. WOW! THAT man had faith! You and I have the comfort of asking something like that in the privacy of only His company. Therefore, if He doesn't answer the way we think He should, we won't be embarrassed. But Joshua did this 'in the sight of Israel.' And God honored him by granting his request. "There was no day like that before it or after it" according to Joshua 10:14. Now, of course, Joshua was in His will. He wasn't asking for something just for his own pleasure. God Himself was fighting the enemies of Israel alongside them before Joshua made this request. And guess what? God is no respecter of persons. (Now, I'm not encouraging you to ask Him to stop the sun for a few hours so you can finish an outdoor project or the like...) But, has it ever occurred to you that He'd LOVE for you to ask Him to do something that no human can do? In Malachi 3;10, He told Israel to quit withholding their tithes from Him and He'd open the windows of heaven and pour out a blessing UNTIL IT OVERFLOWED! He actually told them to test Him in this! And this is in the middle of a rebuke! Sometimes I think we're like a person who has a Lexus sitting in the garage and takes the bus everywhere they go. Let's allow Him to show us His glory by asking Him to do something only He can do. (Let me know how it turns out!)