How can this happen? - God will make it happen through the Holy Spirit!

Luke 1:34-35 ‘How can this be,’ Mary asked the angel, ‘since I am a virgin?’ The angel replied, ‘The Holy Spirit will come upon you……..’

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Has God been telling us things that He wants to do through us, but instead we look at ourselves and think, how can this happen? We might say to ourselves; ‘I don't have the training, the resources, the skill or the connections and I certainly don't have the strength to accomplish it alone’. Our natural human instinct tends to focus on our human limitations and shortcomings without having the strength of faith to realise that God has no limitations in what He can do through us. By doubting what God can accomplish in us we are asking exactly the same question as Mary in Luke 1:34 ‘How can this be?’

God is not asking or expecting us to do it by ourselves, but that we allow the Holy Spirit to do it through us. In doing so, no-one else will get the credit, but God alone. How will it happen?; By surrendering to the Holy Spirit and allowing Him to come upon us and letting the Power of the Most High over-shadow us. The key thing here is that we surrender. If we can truly do this then we initiate the process of letting go of doubt and submitting to God’s Will through faith. This will then allow the Holy Spirit to impregnate us with a vision, inspire us with a creative idea, introduce us to the right people and empower us to do the job. God had a unique plan for Mary and He has one for you (and I) too.

We're not privileged to see into the future and we don't know all that God has in store for us, but we can be absolutely certain that He has a plan and purpose for each of us. After the angel spoke to Mary notice what she said; Luke 1:38 ‘…..May your word to me be fulfilled…..’. God is also asking us to trust and obey Him in exactly the same way. Our social status, our job description, our finances or what we think we deserve are not factors that influence who God uses to fulfil His Purpose on this earth. But if we are willing to surrender and by faith say to God ‘May your word to me be fulfilled’ then we have a chance of turning this world upside down through faith and obedience, all to the Glory of God.

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Do you think that it would have been easy for Mary to respond in the way she did? No, she was taking an extreme risk as to be pregnant and unmarried brought dire consequences in those days. Yet she gave herself willingly to God and the results were miraculous. God can use us in mighty ways if we can follow the obedient example of Mary even in times of possible adversity, ridicule, persecution and their resulting consequences.

In faith we say ‘amen’ to God's ‘yes’ and if we can leave our lack of faith and human negativity behind we can leave God to be free to continue and complete His work in us; Philippians 1:6 ‘being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus’. The language of faith is to commit our ways to Him and to trust in Him at all times; Psalm 37:5 ‘Commit your way to the LORD; trust in him and he will do this’ and Jeremiah 17:7 ‘But blessed is the one who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in him’.

May God bless each of us to have the faith and to follow the example of Mary, to listen to what God is asking of us and by faith to be bold in the confidence that God will fulfil His Purpose in us. By the Power of the Holy Spirit let our response always be; ‘May your word to me be fulfilled’.

Be blessed.

Author: Anonymous

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