I just need to repeat this scripture that I put in my last blog because it is so huge…1 Corinthians 2:9—What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived–these things God has prepared for those who love him.
This morning, I was talking to Musa…I love it because this guy talks about nothing but the Lord…he doesn’t have time for anything else…he is so focused on the Lord…we talk about Jesus all the time…he is so on fire…and being so close to him is starting to warm me up and make me smoke…I feel like I am about ready to burst into flames…It is amazing…
This is what is about folks…it is all about Jesus…
So we were talking…I had to break the news to him that I fried his hair clippers last night, so I am currently sitting here with half a haircut looking like a total dork…but it is all good…I just need to get him a new one…(restitution…different blog…so important)…
So he made a comment to me…well he made a lot of comments, but one just hit me and I couldn’t get it out of my mind…He said that God told him to tell the church that they are like Mary…
He explained it a little bit…but I needed more…so I have been reading about Mary in the Gospels this morning, and God is revealing things to me…because that is what God does…he speaks to us through the bible…which is the Living Word of God…it is alive…God is trying to speak to us right now, if we say yes and open our ears to him…Oh God you are amazing!!
So God showed me this story of Mary in the Gospel of Luke…and it just started to speak to me…
Luke 1:26-38
God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. The angel went to her and said, “Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is with you.”
Mary was greatly troubled at his words and wondered what kind of greeting this might be. But the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary; you have found favor with God. You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever; his kingdom will never end.”
“How will this be,” Mary asked the angel, “since I am a virgin?”
The angel answered, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God. Even Elizabeth your relative is going to have a child in her old age, and she who was said to be unable to conceive is in her sixth month. For no word from God will ever fail.”
“I am the Lord’s servant,” Mary answered. “May it be to me according to your word.”
Holy Spirit speak to us…open our ears to what you are saying…reveal this to us…
Believe that you are Mary…
Believe…
The angel went to Mary and said, “Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is with you.”
Mary reacted like any of us would, she was shocked…the bible says, “She was greatly troubled at his words.”
But the angel saw this and said, “Do not be afraid; you have found favor with God.”
Then the angel goes on to tell Mary a plan…a huge plan that God has for her…a plan that is bigger than anything she ever dreamed of or ever thought could be possible…and God wants to use her in such a huge way…He wants Mary to give birth to His Son…the Son of God…and He will be great…
Mary asks, “How?”
She wants to know how in the world she is supposed to pull this off.
But I believe the angel started thinking, “No, no Mary…you don’t understand…it’s not about you…you can’t do this.”
And he says to her, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you.”
He tells her that God is going to do it…he is in control…he has the power…you just have to say yes…
Mary submits, “I am the Lord’s servant…may it be to me according to your word.”
She says yes…
She says yes to something that doesn’t make sense…something that she can’t see…to the mystery…
She has faith…
So what do I mean when I say, “Believe that you are Mary!”?
I mean…Believe that you are Mary…
God is saying to you…”Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is with you!”
Absolutely!
This should startle you a little bit…just like it did to Mary…
But God is saying to you, “Do not be afraid…you have found favor with God.”
Just believe…
In Mark 5:36, Jesus says, “Don’t be afraid, just believe.”
God is saying to you that He made you for a reason. He has a plan for your life!
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” Jeremiah 29:11
He is telling you that He wants to put something inside of you…and then He wants you to give birth to something amazing…something bigger than the world could ever imagine…something great…
And like Mary, I find myself saying, “But how…I am just Kyle…how am I supposed to do that?”
And God reminds me…”No, no Kyle…you don’t understand…it’s not about you…you can’t do this…but I can.”
He says, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you.”
And then something from heaven…something great will be born.
And now it is our turn…our part…to let this soak in…to really believe it…
To believe that God loves you this much…
To believe that God wants to use you…
To believe that God has the power to do something huge with you…
To not be able to see what is going to happen or to not question it…
But to simply believe…
And have faith…
And say, “Yes, I am the Lord’s servant…may it be done to me according to you word.”
God…I believe, help me overcome my unbelief…I say yes to you…I want everything you have planned…I want my inheritance…I am the Lord’s servant…God send your Holy Spirit…may he rest on me…God draw me in closer to you…Give me the desire to seek you more…God transform all of our hearts…seal this message in our hearts…God draw us all in closer to you…Help me to believe…God reveal to me your plan for my life…reveal to me how you want to use me…I say yes to you today…
1 Corinthians 2:9—What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived–these things God has prepared for those who love him.
