Do You Prove You Can’t?

• By candidasullivan
• November 7, 2025
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I told God I couldn’t do it—and I was certain of my belief. I expected Him to say it was okay, that I didn’t have to, but instead, He gave me a verse about obedience. As I stared at it, I knew I was going to have to prove that I couldn’t.

All day, I doubted my ability and cried when I thought about it. My mind kept drifting to the how. How am I going to do this? How can I walk five miles when my leg and knee hurt so badly?

Every time I stood up from my desk, the pressure made me want to cry. I stretched, used the foam roller, prayed, and cried—but nothing helped.

Driving home, God gave me a beautiful thought: when we can’t, we’re in the perfect place to witness His power. When I can’t, God can.

I started walking, and it hurt. I changed shoes—it didn’t help. I prayed. I knew this walk was more about obedience than anything else. Would I still do what God told me to do, even if it hurt?

2 Corinthians 2:9 (KJV)
9 For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things.

My knee and ankle protested with every step. But when I reached the one-mile mark, I knew it was possible. I accepted the pain and stopped trying to walk around it. Instead, I walked like I wasn’t hurting—and I asked God to walk with me.

He gave me songs to sing, and each one encouraged me. I sang what I knew, recited Bible verses, and kept walking. By the final mile, I was thanking God for showing me once again that I can do hard things—because He is my how.

I expected to lie awake in pain all night as I did the night before, but I slept well. When I woke up the next morning, I expected to struggle to walk—but I didn’t. My leg barely even hurt. What a miracle!

After I finished my walk, I opened my Bible app, and this was the verse waiting for me:

1 Corinthians 15:58 (KJV)
58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

If God tells us to do something, He has a purpose for it. It’s not our place to decide whether it’s important or not. Sometimes He uses the simplest tasks to test our obedience. It’s easy to follow the Lord when it doesn’t hurt, but much harder when it pulls us out of our comfort zone.

Yesterday was one of the hardest walks I’ve ever taken. I begged God for help, and He reminded me of one of the most powerful prayers I can pray during hard times:

“Lord, please don’t let me mess this up.”

1 Corinthians 10:13 (KJV)
13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.