Good Morning Everyone,
Our theme for this month: “Doubts”
Our Bible verse for today: “For nothing is impossible with God.” Luke 1:37 (NIV)
Our thought for today: “Your situation is not too big or too hard for God.”
Mary was just a teenage girl from a small backwater village called Nazareth. She was probably uneducated, lived a simple life, and had little more to look forward to than many quiet years of raising a family in their sleepy little village.
But then God sent the Angel Gabriel to tell her that she was about to become pregnant by the miraculous intervention of the Holy Spirit and that she would give birth to the long-awaited Messiah.
I don’t know about you but if I had received news like that I’m sure I would have had serious doubts about what I was hearing and whether or not it would actually happen. But Mary believed that anything was possible with God and that if He said it – that settled it. “For nothing is impossible with God.”
What situation do you have going on in your life that seems too big for anyone but God? Our God is the God of the impossible. He can cause a virgin to give birth; He can part the Red Sea; He can bring water from a rock; He can raise the dead; and He can deal with your situation too, whatever it is.
Sometimes God resolves impossible situations in a moment, with no delay. More often the resolution comes slowly over time. Mary had to wait nine months for her baby. Moses had to wait forty years in the wilderness before he was ready to begin the mission God had been preparing him for his entire life. You will probably have to wait too as God prepares to resolve your impossible situation. What should you do in the meantime? Here are some ideas:
- Sometimes the reason for the delay is that God wants to do something in you so you will be ready to receive the answer. That was the case with Moses. He needed forty years of preparation before he would be ready. So spend this time of waiting by asking God to show you what you should be learning and how you should be growing and changing as He prepares to do some wonderful thing in your life.
- Sometimes the reason for the delay is because God is waiting on you. Often there are things we’re supposed to be doing to help resolve our own situation and God is waiting for us to get moving. So ask Him to show you what actions you should be taking in order to be a part of the solution to your own problem.
- Sometimes the reason for the delay is that God intends to use another person (or persons) to be a part of the answer to your situation but they aren’t ready yet. So now you’re waiting while God accomplishes things in the lives of other people to get them to the point that they are ready to be part of God’s plan in your life. In that case you need to be praying for them. You might not even know who they are, but you can be praying that God will have His way in the lives of others who He intends to use in the resolution of your situation.
Those are just a few suggestions for how you can be thinking about this “impossible” situation in your life as you continue to wait patiently for resolution. Don’t doubt that God has a plan, and that it is a good plan. Also don’t doubt that His timing is perfect. And, He is the God of the impossible. He can and will deal with whatever your situation is.
God Bless,
Pastor Jim
Oak Hill Baptist Church 