It’s incredible what a single verse in the Bible can do. The past few days joy, excitement, expectation, and anticipation has burned on the inside of me whenever I’ve thought of this verse.
It started Saturday afternoon, when I asked God what to share for the Sunday service the following day, when I was leading the meeting. He gave me this verse:
‘For nothing will be impossible with God.’ Luk. 1:37. (NASB)
I’ve heard it many times before and the verse itself made me excited, but I couldn’t actually remember the context in the Bible, so I looked it up. It is from Luke 1 where the angel Gabriel is sent to Mary to tell her, she is about to be the mother of the Messiah. To show her that it is in fact possible, even though she’s a virgin, he tells her that her relative Elizabeth, who is advanced in years and who was said to be infertile, is in her sixth month! And then Gabriel adds ‘for nothing is impossible with God!’
I read the verse like this, ‘For NOTHING is impossible with God’ and that’s what stirred a fire on the inside.
Placed in a box
So many things in this world can place us in a box. We are seen and spoken off a certain way. Circumstances might even confirm this and maybe we start to agree with it ourselves, and somehow end up settling for less than God’s best.
People had spoken words over Elizabeth. Her age might have spoken barrenness over her life, and she might also have agreed herself. But nothing is impossible for God!
I absolutely love how God breaks through and completely shatters the boxes we or others have placed us in. His ways are so much higher and deeper and wider. We have natural limitations, but when God steps in nothing is impossible. Not our own limitations or other’s opinions. Not the natural order of things, or the places where we have settled for less. Be it in our finances, our health, our relationships, our dreams or anywhere else.
Some translations of this verse even say: “For every promise from God shall sure come true.” (TLB) and “No word from God will ever fail.” (NIV).
Be expectant
I hope you can catch the fire on the other end of these words, because God is up to something! Speak it out as I have done this week, and as we did on Sunday at church. See that situation or place where you feel stuck and declare over it that ‘nothing is impossible with God’ and let’s see what He does! Our faith grows. The lenses we see life through become clearer, and expectation rises along with joy.
God did something that no man or resource or money or power could have done for Mary and Elizabeth, and even for Sarah, Hannah, and others in the Old Testament. And this was just in one area of life. He will do it for you and for me too! In whatever area of life, we need it. We have reason to rejoice. Breakthrough is coming!
