AGAINST ALL ODDS

Christian Times Magazine issue 63 | Monthly Magazine

AGAINST ALL ODDS!

LET’S START BELIEVING GOD FOR THE IMPOSSIBLE

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“ ….with God all things are possible. ” Jesus in Matthew 19:26

By Pastor Robert Summers

August 2022, Texas had endured the hottest five-month period on record from April till August. But God had the last say. He worked an amazing miracle. Beginning last winter, a severe, exceptional drought was burning up Texas. The Dust Bowl was returning to West Texas. By the first of August, Dallas-Fort Worth began to look like they were built in the Arizona desert. All creeks dried up. Stock tanks, water holes for cattle dried up. Major city reservoirs shrank.

Back on April 9th an urgent statewide prayer meeting was called to meet in the small town of Brady which is known as the geographical “Heart of Texas. ” Thousands came to fill up the city park and pray. The creek which wound through the park had almost no water. But we prayed for rain and statewide spiritual revival. On Prayer Mountain we ended every prayer meeting by praying for rain. The weather mocked us. After our Tuesday night prayer meeting, the next Wednesday would set a new record for the hottest Wednesday on record. We kept praying. But our enthusiastic confidence waned. August is historically the hottest, driest month of the year for our region. In fact, we have a saying,

“It’s right as rain in August!” to say something is amazingly, surprisingly, a blessing. Our weather service never predicted this “rain of the century. ” No advance notice at all. People were saying it would require a Gulf hurricane to knock out this drought. I would never pray for that. I grew up on the Texas Gulf Coast. All hurricanes ever do is destroy. They devastate the fishing villages, Gulf shipping ports, marinas, seaside resorts. They bring down bridges. Then they turn eastward and flood Louisiana. They are never an answer for drought. But suddenly in Texas everything changed. There was no television news prediction of this massive low-pressure system that

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quickly formed over North Texas. It sucked in-land great amounts of Gulf moisture and then in one day dumped between 10 and 15 inches of rain all over northern and central Texas. We were swamped! The Dallas police lost 21 patrol cars in the floods. Friends of mine helped water rescue stranded motorists. In all, only one life was lost when a young Uber driver tried to drive through deep flowing water.

There’s a lesson here. If you have been praying for a long time for something, even something that now seems impossible, keep praying! God still specializes in things thought impossible. He will still send you something “suddenly from heaven. ” Keep on praying. Never give up. He can do the impossible.

If He can send a flood in August over Dallas/Fort Worth, He can do anything.