AND MARY ASKED THE ANGEL: HOW CAN THIS BE?
_Text: Luke 1:34-37 | Matthew 19:26_
_Theme: WHEN GOD MAKES NONSENSE TO MAKE SENSE_
Mary asked the Angel, HOW CAN THIS BE?
Luke 1:34 – “Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?”
Mary was confused. Mary was a virgin. She had never known a man. She was not married. In the law of men, in the law of biology, in the law of science, it is IMPOSSIBLE for a woman who has not known a man to be pregnant!
It does not make sense! It is illogical! It is foolishness before men!
But God makes it happen!
Luke 1:37 – “For with God nothing shall be impossible.”
The Bible says – He makes the impossibility of men possible! Matthew 19:26 – “With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.”
Hear me, child of God:
Sometimes things that don’t make sense before men are very possible before God!
The things that men have concluded that it can never happen, that is what God uses to announce Himself!
YOU ARE ASKING YOURSELF, HOW CAN THIS BE?
How can this be possible because I am not educated?
How can I become great when my family background is poor?
How can I give birth when doctors said my womb is closed?
How can I build a house when I don’t have a job?
How can I travel abroad when I don’t even have a passport?
How can I be the one to marry that rich man when I am selling pure water?
How can my beans that were thrown away germinate again?
Mary asked the same question! HOW CAN THIS BE?
And Heaven answered her!
5 DEEP LESSONS FROM MARY’S QUESTION:
LESSON 1: GOD IS NOT AFRAID OF YOUR “HOW” QUESTION.
Many Christians are afraid to ask God “How?” They think it is lack of faith. No!
Mary was not rebuked for asking “How can this be?” Unlike Zacharias who was struck dumb for doubting, Mary was answered with revelation!
God is not intimidated by your confusion. He knows you are human. Ask Him! “How can this be?” is not doubt, it is hunger to understand the miracle!
God loves honest questions!
LESSON 2: YOUR QUALIFICATION IS NOT NEEDED FOR YOUR ANNOUNCEMENT.
Mary said – “I know not a man.”
In other words: “I am not qualified. I have no experience. I have no man. I have no connection. I have no education in childbearing!”
But God said – “Your qualification is not needed. My power is needed!”
Luke 1:35 – “The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee.”
You are saying: “How can it be? I am not educated.” God says: “I don’t need your certificate, I need My Holy Ghost!”
You don’t need to know a man to be pregnant with destiny! You need to know the Holy Ghost!
Some of us are looking for a man to help us, but God says – “Forget the man, I will overshadow you!”
The shadow of the Almighty is better than the support of a man!
*LESSON 3: GOD USES ILLOGICAL METHODS TO PRODUCE LOGICAL MIRACLES.*
It is illogical for a virgin to be pregnant. But God uses illogical, foolish, senseless methods to confuse the wise!
1 Corinthians 1:27 – “But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty.”
Your beans story does not make sense to businessmen! How can bad beans thrown away germinate? It is foolishness!
But that foolishness is what God is using to announce you to the world!
*That pure water seller beaten for 60 cedis – it doesn’t make sense that beating should lead to blessing! But God made it make sense!*
*LESSON 4: THE HOLY GHOST IS THE ANSWER TO YOUR “HOW”.*
Mary asked “How?” Angel answered “Holy Ghost!”
Your “How can it be?” has only one answer – THE HOLY GHOST SHALL COME UPON YOU!
Not your uncle, not your degree, not your beauty, not your tribe!
When the Holy Ghost comes upon a market woman, she becomes a CEO!
When the Holy Ghost comes upon a school dropout, he becomes a professor to professors!
When the Holy Ghost comes upon a barren woman, she becomes a mother of twins!
Stop looking at your ability. Look for His overshadowing!
*LESSON 5: IMPOSSIBILITY IS GOD’S SPECIALTY.*
With men, it is impossible. With God, it is possible!
Sarah laughed – How can I at 90 years give birth? But God made it possible!
The Red Sea before Moses – How can we cross? God parted it!
Five loaves to feed 5,000 – How can this be? Jesus multiplied it!
Your case is not new to God. He specializes in impossible cases! If it makes sense, man can do it. If it doesn’t make sense, God must do it!
*DEEP INSPIRATION FOR YOU:*
Listen, beloved!
The fact that you are asking “How can this be?” means you are already pregnant with a miracle! A woman who is not pregnant does not ask how she will give birth!
Your question is proof that something has been deposited in you!
The angel has already visited you! The Word has already come! That is why you are confused!
*Don’t abort your pregnancy because you don’t understand the process!*
Mary did not understand how, but she said in Luke 1:38 – “Be it unto me according to thy word.”
She accepted what she did not understand! And she became the mother of Jesus!
*Your education cannot carry what God is about to put inside you! Your womb must be enlarged by the Holy Ghost!*
*FINAL DECLARATION: SHOUT THIS WITH FAITH:*
I may not be educated, but the Holy Ghost will overshadow me and make me great!
I may not know a man, but I know the Holy Ghost!
My impossibility is God’s possibility!
How it will be, I don’t know – but it SHALL BE, according to His Word!
My beans shall germinate, my story shall change, my womb shall open!
For with God, NOTHING SHALL BE IMPOSSIBLE!
