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I heard on the radio, after the war in Lebanon, the rebuilding of schools was a big problem. A Priest of Maroniten (Oriental Christian) told me about his work in this area. He said one school with about 3,000 children and youths is under his care.  Fifty workers under the Christian word were teachers. There were many different beliefs, but mostly Islam. The question was, “How do you get God’s word to them?”  By the love one gives will always reward you.  With Jesus,  you can do everything. He’s the Master  and the Lord over the impossible. And He said now the children and youth in Lebanon look very forward to getting back what they lost during the years of war. That’s why  many people get the will to learn something new and forget what is past. When  I heard this report, then I knew “God is the one who can do the impossible!”  But don’t get  complacent.  Jesus told the people, “If you don’t believe, you’ll never get peaceful inside”. Sometimes we ask ourselves how can we do impossible things?   Jesus never turns away the unbelievers.  He knows He cannot get them all to listen to His word. Matthew 10:34-37 But He still tried and told them, “One day they will see who is Lord over everything”. The biggest wonder today is that there is still believers in the Lord.

The healing of a servant of a Roman soldier. (Matthew 8:5-7) And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a centurion, beseeching him, And saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented.  And Jesus saith unto him, I will come and heal him’.  The soldier was the enemy in the eyes of the Jews. But Jesus saw in him the right thing, that in Israel, nobody saw it.

The healing of the blood-flowing woman. (Luke 8:43-46) ‘And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any, Came behind him, and touched the border of his garment: and immediately her issue of blood stanched.   And Jesus said, Who touched me? When all denied, Peter and they that were with him said, Master, the multitude throng thee and press thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me?  And Jesus said, Somebody hath touched me: for I perceive that virtue is gone out of me.’  That woman made the people believe by just touching Jesus garment.

The sinful woman in the house of the Pharisees. (Luke 7:38) ‘And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment’. For a Christian, it was unbelievable what she did.  But what she did was for love, and a lot of people turned away from her. 

The good Samaritan. (Luke 10:25-37) Jesus praised one of the Jews who had been kicked out of the community.

The change of the rules. (Luke 9:49-50) ‘And John answered and said, Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name; and we forbad him, because he followeth not with us.   And Jesus said unto him, Forbid him not: for he that is not against us is for us.’

The Samaritan woman. (John 4:1-42)  The Samaritan prayed to God on the Mount Gerizim to Jews, in Jerusalem.  Jesus never argued with anyone about believing in God.  He just taught the truth to the people,  though it sounded unbelievable.  The Samaritan woman gave reverence of Jesus, and many believed in what she said.

With Saul, even one who was totally against Christianity, didn’t believe at all, and then turned about and became an Apostle of Jesus. Jesus saw that, and He knew that the love of the Lord would never be forgotten by Paul.

That’s why we have to understand the uncertainty of what Jesus overcame. (Matthew 6:24) ‘No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.’  Satan is always there to make you do no good! What was hard for people to overcome; Jesus did and He especially made those people to believe in Him. How quickly do we say “that is too hard for me”, “that is not for me”. We never even try to do it, but put it straight away on the table and say, “I can’t do it.” The more we learn about Jesus, the more we know God, but our heart has to be in one place for us to see results.