My "God Box" Crushed

I think I always thought not putting God in a box meant dreaming bigger and believing for the "impossible" (which really just meant dreaming huge). I've finally realized I think it means not putting God in a box at all. It means dreaming supernatural and believing for the truly "impossible."  "Impossible" like physical healing, diseases gone, prophecy, crazy provision. That's not putting God in a box.  It's not putting limits on what we allow, believe, or think God can do.  He has no limits. 

My "God box" got some major dents these past two years and in the last couple months started crumbling completely down. It started with glimpses outside that safety box. Things here and there like infertility being healed in friends, a friend receiving a prophetic word which was beyond what they imagined and 100% what ended up happening.  But the walls were still very much there and standing firm. 

My heart was eager for more, but the box was safe, and it was all I had ever known. 

Then last October we started at 5 Rock. One vehicle would break down, we'd pray for another one and almost instantly have our need met by someone who just happened to get a new car and wanted to donate their old one. Or we'd have a major financial need and bills due. The mail would come and checks would be written for the exact needed amount. I'm telling you, I don't think a God who works this crazy big fits in a box. 

Then one single weekend this past August. Prophecy spoken over us like a direct call from Jesus himself.  How could these strangers have ever known the depths of our hearts, the giftings we held, or the situations we were in?  Only God. (Isn't He so good like that?!) And that same weekend, a woman healed in Jesus'name, physically, right before our very eyes. Then we hear a woman speak. Once paralyzed, now walking, jumping, moving.  She stood right up out of her wheelchair in Jesus' name.  I'm telling you, my box was obliterated. Jesus still works in very real ways. 

I think of the arm that literally couldn't be lifted because the shoulder was stuck frozen. It moves and rotates freely and painless.

I'm learning very clearly, God doesn't fit in a box. We might try to keep Him in a box. I did. It was safe. It was comfortable. It was common, and "normal." It was all I knew. 

But God, he doesn't belong in a box.  He doesn't fit in a box. 

When we see God in His fullness is when that box gets smashed.  That box gives way when we dig in the gospels and see Jesus literally heal hundreds from physical sickness, disease and pain.  The walls crumble when we see Him work miraculous right before our very eyes.  Believing in a God who does the impossible means our actions show it.  Truly believing and acting for the "impossible" is not normal or comfortable, but it is absolutely amazing and completely worth it to see God work in His fullness! 

When you see with fresh eyes who He says He is, and you believe it (even if it seems crazy and uncomfortable) God will crack that box and He will wreck your life in the most amazing way possible!  He will crumble those walls and do things we could have never dreamed of or believed possible.