Luke 1-06.30.22
SCRIPTURE: Luke 1:37 NKJV
“For with God NOTHING will be Impossible.”
OBSERVATION:
Mary receives the Good News—that has long been waited for since Adam and Eve broke relationship with God in the garden of Eden when they brought sin into the world by disobeying God’s command.
“Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel.” (Isaiah 7:14 NIV)
UNDERSTANDING:
This first chapter of Luke unfolds for us many miracles. We have Angel visitations—and not just any everyday ordinary Angel—but Gabriel—who “stands in the presence of God” (vs.19). We have the astounding News that Jesus is Coming—The Promised Messiah—salvation of mankind! We are introduced to an elderly couple, Zechariah and Elizabeth. God has kept His watchful eye on these two whose hearts we are told has remained faithful to Him. They had longed to have a child, but in their “old age” that now seemed “Impossible”. Yet, Gabriel comes to share “With God Nothing is Impossible”. Not only will they have a child, but he will grow up to become:
John the Baptist
“…he will be great in the sight of The Lord. And he will go on BEFORE the Lord, in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the parents to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous—to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.” (Luke 1: 15a, 17 NIV)
LIFE APPLICATION:
Faith for the Impossible
For NOTHING is Impossible with God.
The SAME God who was at work in Elizabeth and Zechariah’s miracle baby is the SAME God at work in our lives TODAY. And the Greatest miracle of ALL time is that God so loved us that HE was willing to come down to earth and live among us. We can live in complete forgiveness of sins, restored relationship with God, and assurance of Heaven.
Born to a virgin, Jesus lived a perfect life because HE was wholly man and wholly God. HE showed us “how to” live a submitted life of loving God and loving others. He died on the cross so our sins could be punished and HE rose again conquering death so we could live eternally with Him in Heaven.
Now, anyone who calls on Jesus as the personal Lord of their lives and puts complete faith and trust in Jesus alone as their savior for forgiveness of sins—believing that God raised Him from the dead will be saved.
“If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.” (Romans 10:8 NIV)
Thank you Lord Jesus,
That YOU are the SAME Yesterday, Today, and Forever. For the Zechariah’s and Elizabeth’s that are holding on to dreams that seem dead—may they know with YOU-Nothing is Impossible. You are the God of resurrection who breathes life into dry bones. As we look ahead to July which will be our half way point from our January fast, I am praying for God to speak to me and our church. May we have dreams and visions that reignite us to God’s heart, May we be renewed and expanded for our mission to evangelize, and may we live in a new birthing of Faith knowing all things are possible with God.
“Ah, Lord God! It is you who have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm! Nothing is too hard for you.”
(Jeremiah 32:17 ESV)
Tina L Kudelka