God’s Possibilities Are Endless ... by Cindy Oriol

Ever since I was a young girl, I have known that I was meant to do something special for God, my Father. I did not know what that was until He revealed it in my dreams at a later age.

I can recall that as a child, my heart would leap for joy at every chance I could get to take care of the elderly and the sick. It was like I could not see or do enough for them.

One particular incident was the day my aunt fell and broke her arm. We were walking down the street from our home on a cold and blustery day. It had snowed a little the night before, but the sidewalks were passable, or so we thought.

As we were strolling arm in arm on the somewhat slippery pavement, my aunt’s feet slid from beneath her, and down she went. She landed on her left arm and broke it. I tried to break her fall, but I was not strong enough to handle the both of us.

At the age of eight, I became her nurse. I bathed and clothed her, made her meals, and we reminisced about the good old days. The closer I became to her, the closer I felt to God.

As the years rolled by, I would have these dreams of faraway places in different areas of Africa. I felt strongly in my heart that it was a special place for me, especially in Nairobi, Kenya.

When I moved from Indiana to Kentucky, I became a member of a Baptist church. I joined a women’s group that was working with the missionaries who were serving foreign countries.

At our first meeting, they taught me to make and roll up bandages that were headed to the sick in Nairobi, Kenya. Instantly my mind wandered back to my younger years when I dreamt of Africa and the possibilities that God wanted for me to accomplish there.

A few years later, at a Christian concert where the band “MercyMe” was playing, their staff were passing out pamphlets to sponsor a child through Compassion International. I chose a little girl who lived in Nairobi, Kenya. Think it a coincidence? No! That was only possible through God.

God has made it possible for me to go on seven mission trips. Even when it looked as if I would not have the funds to attend, He made the way. I have come to realize that by becoming a missionary, you do not have to go to other regions of the world. You can do the work of the LORD in your own territory. Every time I took care of one of my patients in my career of thirty-five years, I was doing His work. This was the mission that He had planted in my heart as a child.

Healings and taking away our pain in our trials and replacing it with joy are only possible with God. He takes our darkest days and uses them to teach us and others how to further His kingdom and to be more like Jesus.

I would like to share with you some of the times when God made things possible in my life. When I was taking the chemo for my breast cancer, there were so many days I could not even get out of bed. It completely drained me from lack of energy and, yet, at the same time, He gave me strength not only to get out of bed but take a short walk with my husband, John.

March 19, 2019, was my last chemo treatment. Throughout the entire process, I knew I was never alone. I could feel His presence through every blood transfusion, all the sickness, and the pain. Without God, I would never have made it. He made all things possible for John and me to survive that horrible ordeal.

While I was praying to Him, I felt such peace and tranquility surge through my body, and once again I was reassured of just how much He loves me, not for just a day but forever. I heard Him say, “If I bring you to something, I will bring you through it. You are my child. Let me take care of you.”

When we go through our trials in life and things look impossible, these are just mind tricks that Satan is playing on God’s children because with God All Things Are Possible.

Matthew 19:26 (NIV) tells us that Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

In Christian Love, Cindy

Cindy Oriol

Cindy Oriol is the author of “IF ONLY” and “ HAVING JOY IN THE MIDST OF THE STORM.” They were written by the Holy Spirit and me to encourage anyone that is going through a storm in their life. No matter how many storms we have to endure as long as we hold tight to Jesus we can make it through anything.