The Christmas season is coming up fast, and a lot of folks will be reading the account of the birth of Jesus in the early chapters of Luke. One of the verses in the details is Luke 1:37. It reads like this: "For with God nothing will be impossible."
This was to encourage Mary that God could cause her to be with child even without a husband. The virgin birth. We might enlarge upon that, looking at Jeremiah 32:17: "...there is nothing too hard for You (God)." Jeremiah prayed with that confidence.
How is it with us? Can we take God's declaration to Mary and apply it to our own life needs? Look at II Corinthians 1:20 with me. "For all the promises of God in Him are YES and in Him, Amen, to the glory of God through us."
All of God's promises to us, in Christ, are YES promises! There are no NO promises. I think God wants to see expectancy in our prayers. It's not our trying to overcome His reluctance, but connecting with His willingness--that is the essence of prayer, it seems to me.
Now, back to the Luke 1:37 verse. Something else that verse says, uniquely so. It also says, "with God, nothing will be impossible". But, you say, isn't that the same as the first time we looked at it, above? Now, though, look at the word, "nothing" in light of His "Yes" promises. It reads like this, paraphrased: "With God, it is impossible for there to be nothing."
Think of how this can impact our prayers. God fills all things, the Bible declares. In one place it says, "The glory of the Lord will cover the earth as the waters cover the sea". That meas every cubic inch. It looks like the only place that does not have access to is the human heart, where He respects our willingness, our free moral agency, its called. "...(God) is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance." II Peter 3:9
The God of possibilities! Isn't He known as the Creator?
Gene Lawley
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- Gene Lawley
- Twin Falls,, Idaho, United States
- A retired CPA, born and raised in Oklahoma, and came to Idaho in 1971 from Colorado.
6 comments:
Gene
Question - the promises are Yes but are they not conditional as well? Such as repentence and following the paths of justification and sanctification.
Andy
Of course, you're right, edgara, and I sort of left that idea at the end of the treatise, that God is held ukp in His desire to save, due to the r4equirement that man steps forward in repentance--or opens the door, as in Revelation 3:20, which amounts to the same thing, or is at the same time.
But, the promise is still "yes", "yes", come on to Me, step farther out on faith, etc. Is that too much simplified, or what?
Gene
Gene - that is fine - I like simple.
Andy
Quote from Gene: "All of God's promises to us, in Christ, are YES promises! There are no NO promises. I think God wants to see expectancy in our prayers. It's not our trying to overcome His reluctance, but connecting with His willingness--that is the essence of prayer, it seems to me."
hey Gene, I see that you and edgara are already talking about this and I like what you're saying. I've been reading a lot about prayer right now and you said something very profound in my reading "...but connecting with His willingness--that is the essence of prayer, it seems to me." Well put I think. Thanks for putting your thoughts down Gene.
Now, how and why did I get a comment in French on November 17? How can I translate that? Is there a translating software in Windows?
Gene
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