{"id":3648,"date":"2015-01-09T00:01:15","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T23:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/?p=3648"},"modified":"2015-01-06T09:45:09","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T08:45:09","slug":"lord-can-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/2015\/01\/09\/lord-can-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Lord, Can I?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018And David inquired of the Lord, \u201cShall I pursue this raiding party? Will I overtake them?\u201d \u201cPursue them,\u201d he answered. \u201cYou will certainly overtake them and succeed in the rescue\u201d 1 Sam.30:8 [NIV]<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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The third thing you do when where you are contradicts where you have been, when what you are seeing is trying to reproach what you have seen in God, when the circumstances around you or your situation are speaking contrary to your experiences, is to ask Him for permission to do the impossible.<\/p>\n

Jesus told His disciples to go to the other side and He will join them afterwards. But on their way, a storm arose. \u2018<\/em><\/strong>About three o\u2019clock in the morning Jesus came toward them, walking on the water. When the disciples saw him walking on the water, they were terrified. In their fear, they cried out, \u201cIt\u2019s a ghost!\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>But Jesus spoke to them at once. \u201cDon\u2019t be afraid,\u201d he said. \u201cTake courage. I am here!\u201d <\/em>Matt. 14:25-27<\/a>.<\/em> They were already in a storm and as if that was not bad enough, now they were seeing double. Is this Jesus or is this a ghost? They were in a place that contradicted the Word of God to them. But pay close attention to what Peter did. Peter took permission from Jesus to do the impossible. When you\u2019ve re-affirmed the Word of God over and over again and you refuse to be offended, the third thing you do is take permission from Jesus to do the impossible. For many of us Jesus has given the permission already, \u201cIt is I, come\u201d. For many of us Jesus is giving the permission now, \u201cI am The One, come\u201d. Thomas- doubting Thomas, would probably have been saying, \u2018Peter! Water! Peter, you want to step on water? Why don\u2019t you just wait for Jesus to come? This walking on water business is not necessary\u2019. But Peter stepped out in faith and walked on water. You see, there are times when you need to ask Jesus to still the storms and there are times when you need to ask for permission to walk on the storms. There are times when you need to ask the Lord to kill the storm but there are times the storm will be there and the permission you ought to ask for is \u2018Lord, can I ride on this storm?\u2019 But many of us are asking-\u2018 Lord kill the storm\u2019- when He actually wants us to ride on the storm. Many of us are reminding God about how He stilled the storm with just the spoken Word. And God is saying, \u2018yes, I remember but this time you are to walk on the storm. It\u2019s not going to be still but you will do the impossible\u2019.<\/p>\n

When what you are experiencing is threatening the truth of God\u2019s Word for your life and you are saying, \u201cIs He the one or should we expect another?\u201d Just do these three things; re-affirm the truth of God\u2019s Word, refuse to be offended, and ask for permission to do the impossible. To you that has never known Him; I\u2019m here to tell you that Jesus is The One.<\/p>\n

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Prayer<\/strong>: Father, lead me by Your Spirit to do the impossible that You will be glorified, in Jesus Name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2018And David inquired of the Lord, \u201cShall I pursue this raiding party? Will I overtake them?\u201d \u201cPursue them,\u201d he answered. \u201cYou will certainly overtake them and succeed in the rescue\u201d 1 Sam.30:8 [NIV]   The third thing you do when where you are contradicts where you have been, when what you are seeing is trying […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,23,45,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breakthrough","category-faith","category-focus","category-honouring-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3649,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3648\/revisions\/3649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}