Tues/Wed Apr 17/18 2012 Promises from God 2

The angel answered, "The Holy Spirit will come upon 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 barren is in her sixth month. For nothing is impossible with God.

Good Salvation Wednesday, my dear brothers and sisters. I am truly sorry about yesterday, I did some very early morning work with my friends from the Museum of Bus Transportation and when I got home at noon went to work in the food bank getting ready for folks to come for food. Last evening we received a call from a nurse for the doctor who was to work on Dolores' knee today. Her surgery was cancelled and she was advised to get in touch with a heart doctor. Something was wrong with the EKG taken in the hospital the week before last, and they waited till she was readied for surgery to mention it. We are taking this as God is just going to take the infection out of her knee, and she will not need the surgeries. Please pray warriors, pray.

Wednesday and the day we pray for Salvation for the unsaved and for God to send we who are saved into the fields of harvest to present the Good News to all the unsaved. We must also remember we need to work for the night is coming then we will work no more. Folks, the Bible does not talk about our retiring from working for Him. In fact, after you retire from your jobs then you should have more time to work for God. Amen!!

Please pray for all who have cancer, as Tuesday, the day I missed this week, was the day we pray for cures. Pray for all those who have heart problems, liver problems, kidney problems, etc.

Let's get to the message...

4/18/2012 Promises from God 2 Luke 1:35 - The angel answered, "The Holy Spirit will come upon 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. 36 Even Elizabeth your relative is going to have a child in her old age, and she who was said to be barren is in her sixth month. 37 For nothing is impossible with God. (NIV)

The scripture for today, the promise that God has me looking at today, comes from when the angel of the Lord was talking to Mary about being the mother of Jesus, and of course Mary was a virgin and did not know how she could have a baby without being with a man. The angel of the Lord explained this to her and it is recorded in the scripture above. Let's take a look.

Ladies, picture yourself as this young girl, and Mary was young, and you are told you are going to have a baby, now you know you are a virgin and you are engaged to be married. You are found to be in favor from God and you are going to become the mother of our Savior. So as we look at great promises of God we find the first promise in these verses are "The Holy Spirit will come over you." This was a promise to Mary from God sent to her by an angel of the Lord. As we look at promises in the Bible, some will be for all of us, but there are some that will be for certain folks, and this is one that surely was sent to one person, but affects all of us. We look deeper into that verse and we see the "power of the Most High will overshadow her." The Power or the Most High is God, of course.

Now as we look at Luke 1:36 we see a promise that was made to Zechariah and his wife Elizabeth that they would have a child, and as the angel of the Lord told Mary, Elizabeth was six months along and Elizabeth and Zechariah were not spring chickens. So here we see that you have two ends of the scale, a young girl, who is a virgin, and an older woman, who was at that time barren were picked by God to fulfill His plans for us. But hold on,  folks, it gets better than that in these three verses. Let's look now at Luke 1:37.

Luke 1:37 - For Nothing is impossible with God. (NIV) Look at it again, brothers and sisters, for it tells us NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE WITH GOD. To me that means if we want to get something done, and we are willing to love God and work with Him doing it, nothing is impossible with Him. Let me bring out here that it does not promise that it will be easy, God just makes the promise that with Him, we can "get it done"

So brothers and sisters, as we start each day, we need to get it started with God. I confess that I often get started on something and it is going South on me and I am thinking, I never asked God to help me. So I stop and pray and then things get moving my way. If you cannot get it done, try doing it along side of God, for He has made us this promise. NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE WITH HIM... and someone said Amen.

Dear Father the biggest thing we need done today is that You clear us from our sins and the stains of those sins and help us to repent of them. Lord, Nothing is impossible with You, but maybe your hardest job is working with me and others like me to help us repent of those sins. Lord, I really want to walk each day with You and I need to start each day with You to get it done. HELP me, Lord, help us, Lord. And Lord, on our prayer requests, please honor them according to Your will for us and those we are praying for. In Jesus name, Amen.

Now go forth sharing your blessings and living and working for The Lord. And hugging on His neck and sharing the blessings He has given you. Love ya, Pastor Dan.