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Tuesday, September 25, 2018

Believing {Luke 1}

September 25, 2018

What if we really believed?  I know, I started my last post with this same question, but I’ll be very honest with you all, God has been working at cleaning out my heart this summer, and I have recently realized that my empty heart could only be filled by believing Him.

So let me ask you, what if we truly believed God is uniquely present and active in the circumstance of each of our lives?  What if we truly believed there would be fulfillment of the word spoken?  What if instead of allowing our circumstances to determine what we believe, we allowed our believing to reinterpret the circumstances?

That would be “blessed believing.”  The Elizabeth and Mary type of believing – the kind of believing that gives birth to new life.

We see here in Luke 1, two pregnant women, neither of whom, according to their circumstances, should be or could be pregnant.  One is too old.  One is too young.  One is barren.  One is a virgin.  Yet BOTH are pregnant!

Neither allowed the circumstances of their lives to define who they were or limit who they might become.  Believing for them is not so much what they see, but HOW they see.  Each one believed more than the circumstances of her life.

Elizabeth believed she was more than just a barren, childless old woman.  Mary refused to accept that she was a no-one, another scandalous woman, but believed that she was the mother of the Holy One. (v. 35)


Both women saw, hidden within their particular situation, a deeper meaning to a new life.  They believed through the circumstances of their lives.  Each one trusted the God of the impossible was somehow in the circumstances, reshaping, transforming and fulfilling her very existence.  God was at work within these two women changing them – not their circumstances.



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God doesn’t bless people according to their age, sex, or station in life.  He blesses them according to His own good purposes.  Grace is free and God has chosen to pour it out abundantly across all of humanity.


Faith is the right and pleasing response to believing God’s promises.  And as with grace, it isn’t reserved for the spiritual elite.


I recently received Lauren Daigle's new CD, and this song resonates with me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIaT8Jl2zpI


And if you have time, listen to this: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sufQX7NSX2k