If it is impossible, then we bring it to Christ

Deuteronomy 1:17 (ESV)
You shall not be partial in judgment. You shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be intimidated by anyone, for the judgment is God's. And the case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.''

And the case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it. There are problems that even the wisest and the best leaders and elders cannot solve for us. We must take these matters to Jesus Christ, our God, knowing that there is nothing difficult or Him:
Genesis 18:14 (ESV)
Is anything too hard for the LORD? At the appointed time I will return to you, about this time next year, and Sarah shall have a son."

When we think, 'My situation is impossible', then it is the time to believe that God can do this particular thing. God does not have anything that is impossible for Him. It is hard to get our minds around this. We are restricted by time, space, various laws of this life, but God is not. He can do anything He wants. That is what it means to be God. So when we come to an impossible situation, and we need deliverance, then is time to go to our God.

God will not work miracles if we do not believe that He can do the impossible. We must first glorify Him by our faith, then God will work through that faith:
Matthew 9:27-29 (ESV)
And as Jesus passed on from there, two blind men followed him, crying aloud, "Have mercy on us, Son of David." [28] When he entered the house, the blind men came to him, and Jesus said to them, "Do you believe that I am able to do this?" They said to him, "Yes, Lord." [29] Then he touched their eyes, saying, "According to your faith be it done to you."

But when we don't believe that God can do the impossible, we mock Him, and consider Him as one of us, confined by time, space and laws of the world. And so we are always a prisoner of the natural, because of our unbelief. We just naturally accept that death and sin is a normal process of life. But we don't realize that Jesus Christ came to give us hope from the resurrection from the dead and to set us free from the power of sin. All we must do is go to Jesus Christ, believing that He can deliver us from the natural, and His supernatural power will come upon us. But where is this faith in the world? Where are those who glorify God through faith?:
Luke 18:8 (ESV)
I tell you, he will give justice to them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?"

We must remember that salvation is impossible with fallen man. Just as it is impossible to expect to survive if I jump off a 100 story building, it is impossible that a man who falls off into the precipice of eternity without Christ expect to save himself from the bottomless pit. If salvation was only 'really difficult', like climbing Mount Everest, then some people would have probably made it to heaven by themselves. But it is not simply difficult, but it is IMPOSSIBLE. It is impossible because man is dead to God. Man is a corpse, not a sick person. Dead men do not even get sick. They are dead, DEAD to God and the their sinful deeds are only the putrefaction and the decay of their deadness. Dead men can't climb high mountains. They can't even climb a tiny hill in a children's playground! It is not possible. Read this and see if Christ thinks salvation is something a man can do if he just tries hard enough:
Matthew 19:24-26 (ESV)
Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God." [25] When the disciples heard this, they were greatly astonished, saying, "Who then can be saved?" [26] But Jesus looked at them and said, "With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible."

"With man this - salvation - is impossible", Christ says. Just as a camel can't fit into the eye of a needle. It is not possible. But He says with God all things are possible. Only God could have saved us. And the way He did it was by making Christ die to God for a little while, and making us to live to God forever. Christ took our place in deadness to God, being forsaken by God on that Cross. And on that moment, the veil of the temple was torn, showing that we now lived to God because of Christ's death, and that now we who believe are saved. And Christ rose again from the dead, booking resurrection unto salvation for all who trusted in Him.

This was nothing that we ever did, because corpses don't do anything, except decay. How can the dead please God? Only the living please God. Only Christ, the Living, pleased His Father and revived our dead souls. And because of Christ's death, the Holy Spirit that raised Christ from the dead came to us, raised our souls from the dead to live to God, that we may be able to serve Him with all we are. And the Holy Spirit continues to do this impossible work of service in us by causing us walk in His paths and to do those things that please Him.

Therefore we ought to bring our dead ones to Christ in prayer, that He may raise them from the dead. We must bring not only hard cases, but impossible cases to Him, for we know that He alone can do all things. We remember how a group of good friends brought a paralytic to Christ through the opening on the roof. This is a picture of persistent prayer and petition. Our prayers of faith for our loved ones also can go through the heavens to reach Christ at His throne of grace:
Mark 2:3-5 (ESV)
And they came, bringing to him a paralytic carried by four men. [4] And when they could not get near him because of the crowd, they removed the roof above him, and when they had made an opening, they let down the bed on which the paralytic lay. [5] And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, "Son, your sins are forgiven."
See what is amazing, Jesus saw THEIR, the four men's, faith, and forgave the paralytic's sins and raised him from his spiritual paralysis. These four men believed that there was nothing that Christ couldn't do. When our friends don't have the faith themselves, we must do the believing on their part. We must believe our atheist, God-hating friends can be raised from death to life by the Holy Spirit. And we don't lose heart, because since it is impossible us, then it must be possible for God. Let us have this faith, and ask God to forgive and help our unbelief:
Mark 9:21-24 (ESV)
And Jesus asked his father, "How long has this been happening to him?" And he said, "From childhood. [22] And it has often cast him into fire and into water, to destroy him. But if you can do anything, have compassion on us and help us." [23] And Jesus said to him, "''If you can''! All things are possible for one who believes." [24] Immediately the father of the child cried out and said, "I believe; help my unbelief!"