“Ask for anything you like, and make it as difficult as you want.” Isaiah 7:11

Have you ever tried asking God for something so grand, anybody (including you) would think it to be way out of your wildest dreams? Have you ever tried to ask him for something that would blow not just your socks, but your heels off? If you haven’t, then why?

If there is one word that definitely does not describe God, it would be this: moderate. Throughout the biblical accounts of what God did, I have never come across a passage that showed him doing something less than a jaw-droppping-eye-widening-dumbfounding manifestation of his power. Fire from the sky that consumed animal sacrifice and licked overflowing water from the surrounding overflowing trench—how cool is that? Yet one man knew how to ask God for something quite unbelievable. The prophet Elijah dared to ask and man, did he get what he asked for. He saw things beyond the natural, not because he was challenging God; He saw marvelous things happen before his eyes because he knew the God that he served. God shows his incomparable power not because he is challenged by his people’s requests; he does so because that’s his nature—an all-powerful God.

Has the truth of his nature sunk deep into your consciousness? The God of the universe is never intimidated by the size of your request. In fact, he is just waiting for you to ask for the impossible, because just like the term “moderate,” the word “impossible” is not in his vocabulary either.