When Prayer Made the Impossible Possible
November 3, 2019 · 38:24 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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Summary
This outreach service was built to uplift, encourage, and reach people, and the heart of the evening was a personal testimony shared at the open mic. A young man named Dennis told how he landed a job at the post office and, in his first 30 days, struggled so badly to finish one of the largest delivery routes on time that supervisors warned him he would be handed resignation papers or fired.
With no human way to keep up, his parents told him the only thing left was to pray. Every morning before work he and his mother knelt and prayed together. From that point on he stopped needing help finishing his route. At the first stoplight each day he would hand the impossible workload to God, trust Him fully, and pray in the Spirit, and somehow he kept making it back to the office right on time.
Eventually he shattered his own record, returning three hours early while delivering one of the busiest routes. His supervisors were so stunned they checked his scanner to be sure he had really delivered everything, and he had. He closed by urging everyone to carry every burden to God, anchoring his words in Mark 11:24 and Philippians 4:6-7.
Key Points
- When a task is humanly impossible, prayer is not the last resort but the real solution
- Daily, persistent prayer changes outcomes that no amount of effort could fix
- Praying together as a family multiplies faith and carries one another's burdens
- Trusting God fully means handing Him the load and refusing to be paralyzed by fear
- God often works quietly, so that even you cannot explain how it got done
- Whatever you ask in prayer, believe you have received it (Mark 11:24)
- Replace anxiety with prayer and thanksgiving, and God's peace will guard your heart
Devotional
There are seasons when the demands in front of us are simply more than we can carry, and the honest answer is that we cannot do it on our own. Dennis discovered that the place to begin was not panic but the first stoplight of the day, handing God the whole impossible load. When we pray and truly believe we have received, anxiety loses its grip and a peace beyond understanding settles over the heart. Whatever weighs on you today, take it to God before you take it anywhere else, and let Him do what only He can.
It was physically impossible to finish on time, so I gave the whole load to God.
All my parents could tell me was to pray, and prayer did more than I could ever explain.
I walked in at 4:59, and I still cannot tell you how I made it back in time.
Transcript
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outreach service just want to remind everybody that these services are intended to to uplift people encourage people and also to reach out to people to people in the world you're pregnant orders you know maybe family members that don't come in order to bring them here so that they can feel uplifted thick they can feel you know inspired and touched by God so just a reminder to everyone [Music] workers whoever it may be [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] okay so let me take your seats we will be going into the next part of our service which is the testimonies and you know I really love what God's been doing through their service and through the testimonies that are shared here and I believe it is a true you know a very good way of inspiring people and encouraging people and that's why we continue to do it and we continue to encourage all of you guys you know if you went through something in your week something where God's you know gave you a baby God gave you a revelation or he did something in your life all the way as always we encourage you to come up and share because you don't know what it can do for the person another person that's sitting in this place so we will begin our testimonies and I leave Dennis you ready Dennis will be getting us started with testimonies and remember if you have something to share he's done I will be open mic so you all have your chance praise God before I share my testimony let's all stand up I'd like to say a quick prayer father God we thank you for this wonderful day we thank you for giving us all each and every one of us the opportunity that we can all come over here and listen to your word father guide so we can worship your name Lord Jesus I pray that you just come into my heart right now speak through me Holy Spirit touch each and every heart that's in this place in every heart that's watching on the livestream right now father god I pray that you just put your anointing over this service father God over what you have to say through me God in your name we pray amen so buttocks asked me a few minutes ago to quickly come up with something and share a testimony and it was kind of hard but God put on my heart to share about my job as some of you might know it's a great blessing that I worked for the post office and in the early times when I just got the job a few months ago it was really stressful really hard to keep up with the pace everything had to be done everything I had done by a certain time no mistakes no questions asked that that was that was pretty much that the supervisors always kept telling me and um I'm gonna be honest it was extremely hard the first 30 days after I worked I got called in by a supervisor and she told me listen you gotta you gotta get things done like I was almost every single day that I worked for the first 30 days of my working days they kept sending other mailman out to grab the mail that I had left over and to help me finish the route everyone had to be back by 5 o'clock and it was for me it felt like it was almost impossible to get everything done and I I was delivering on one of the biggest routes in our post office and I just didn't know how the post office was expecting me to finish everything on time and then after my 30 days the supervisor came to me she said listen I'm gonna tell it to you straight if you don't start finishing your route you're gonna be we're gonna give you a resignation papers and you can either fill it out if you don't want to you're fired that's that's pretty much it that's the punch line right there and I was just like I was driving home that day I'm like man what am I gonna do like it's like I don't know how am I supposed to finish I don't know how is how it's even possible and then I just kept praying I told my parents I'm like mom dad this year's here's what's happened my supervisors are threatening to fire me unless I start delivering faster and my parents are like okay well Dennis all you can do pretty much is just pray and that's that's pretty much it just keep praying so every single morning right before I got right before I left the house to go to work my mom and I always got underneath every single morning from that one day my mom and I always just prayed and prayed and prayed and since that meeting that I had with the supervisor I only got help one day and after that I was finishing the route never got help once praise God and honestly like I don't even know how to explain it from then on it's just like everything just got easier and I don't know how I mean every single morning right when I left the office to go deliver the mail I'm sitting inside the post office casing the mail making sure everything is in order for the first five hours of my day and then after I load up the truck and I go deliver the mail and then I Drive out I get to the first stoplight and I start praying I'm like God it's for me physically it is impossible to get back to the office by five o'clock I don't know how how I'm gonna do it it is literally impossible I mean like I talked to God I'm like God do you see how much mail I have in the back of my truck like literally I've never seen so many packages in my entire life and then once I started the case it has six rows that's the entire route so it's like all the addresses Row 1 Row 2 3 4 5 & 6 at the end of six that's when the route is done and when you when you can go back to the office I had 4 hours to deliver the mail four hours that's all I had left till it was five o'clock and I had to be back at the office the first row I'm delivering it took me a whole hour to deliver the first row and I had five more rows after that two hours and I only had four hours so I had five rows and I had two hours to deliver it and I'm like god this is impossible there is no way on earth I'm gonna finish this and I'm like God I'm gonna put all my trust in you I'm gonna keep praying in the spirit I believe that my mom wherever she is at work she's praying to and I'm gonna finish this with your help and only your help because that is literally the only way I'm ever going to finish this so I just keep going and going and going and then I finish I get back to the office at 4:59 4:50 I'm not even kidding I'm not even kidding I walk through the door at five o'clock and both of my supervisors are literally just standing there and staring I walk in they look at me they look at each other they're like okay everybody's back now we can go home so that's literally what they expect everybody be back at five o'clock then they can go home because the supervisors can't leave unless everyone is back at the office so literally for like the next month or so I was just miserably trying to get back just on time and it that wasn't just the that wasn't the first time that I got back at 4:59 I got back at 4:59 a few times after that but the thing is is that like pray or it does so much like you guys have no idea and I'd like to read a verse from the Bible a few verses actually the first one's going to be mark 11:24 and it says therefore I tell you whatever you ask in prayer believe that you have received it and it will be yours and then another one is Philippians 4:6 and 7 it says do not be anxious about anything but in everything by prayer and supplication with Thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God and the peace of God which surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus amen though I'd like to just say that anything honestly everything and anything that any problems that you have just literally just take it all to God I mean I'm speaking from experience it's I mean working for the post office is really hard and like throughout the months it was just extremely stressful and I were just kept asking myself God how exactly am I supposed to be doing this for the rest of my life and just yesterday I was delivering the mail and I beat my record I got back at two o'clock and that's three hours before evaluation and so that's praise God honestly I don't know how I did it I got back I was one of the first ones back at the post office delivering one of the biggest routes in the post office and I got back at two o'clock my supervisors I'm walking back there smoking outside I'm walking back with my scanner and everything and they look at me they're like how exactly did you get back so fast I'm like honestly I have no idea and they're like did you they asked me straight did you actually deliver all your mail or did you like take take a tray or two and throw it outside I'm like no I'm pretty sure I delivered everything they even went to the computer to check the scanner to see if I scanned all of the packages and did everything that I was supposed to and to their surprise I actually did everything right and it was just like so frustrating but praise God work got a lot easier prey or really help and yeah I just wanted you guys all to know that also to the people watching online I'd like to personally invite you guys over to the English service we have it every Sunday at 6 o'clock p.m. join us the atmosphere here is great and God loves you we love you think thank you for your support you
