Luke 1:37 – “For nothing will be impossible with God.”  NASU

Keeping the passages from Jeremiah we used yesterday in mind (Jeremiah 32:17;27) I want you to consider the message of Luke.  It is an answer to Mary’s question concerning her conception.  The angel said – “You are going to have a child.”  Mary’s response – “How can this be?  I am a virgin!”  Simply, “That is IMPOSSIBLE!”  Then the answer comes.  Now replace the word NOTHING with whatever you are facing.  NOTHING is IMPOSSIBLE with God!

Mary was covenant conscious otherwise she would have found it impossible to respond positively.  She had a settled confidence in God’s character as demonstrated in her words and actions.  Her response was faith in the Word of God.  She, like all Hebrews, knew that Messiah would come and He would be born of a virgin.  They knew that word (logos) but this was a specific word (rhema) to her and her response was rooted in her covenantal understanding.  She received and obeyed that word and the Christ child was born in Bethlehem.

Luke 18:27 – “Jesus said:  ‘The things that are impossible with people are possible with God.”

Now let’s try something a little different.  I want you to close your eyes and bring to mind some situation you are facing in which to you and by you is IMPOSSIBLE.  Each of the four passages we have used in Jeremiah and Luke say virtually the same thing that NOTHING is IMPOSSIBLE with God.  So, bring that situation to the forefront of your consciousness.  It is impossible for you and that is important that you see that.  Now ask, “How would the Lord handle this situation?”  Once you have answered that then roll it over onto Him and refuse to pick it up again.  Leave it in His hands!

Follow me in this please:  Do you believe that HE IS?  Do you believe that HE CAN?  Do you believe that HE CAN BE TRUSTED?  If you answered yes to all three and have seen the revelation that He is, can and can be trusted then you can confidently leave it in His hands without fretting.  I encourage you to do it right now!

John Chapter Six gives us a beautiful picture worth considering in our discussion.  It is the only miracle mentioned in all four gospels.  It is the only event in which Jesus asked the advice of someone else.  It was an unquestioned miracle.  It is not some natural thing altered on a sliding scale, it was IMPOSSIBLE.  The account begins, “after these things…”  After what things?  After the events of this chapter!  What happened in the preceding chapters?  Jesus had chosen his disciples and sent them out in ministry.  They have returned, tired and weary.  They were emotionally and physically drained and Jesus has drawn them aside to rest.

Picture the scene in John 6:1-3 – – They are on a mountainside for some R&R and in verse 5 Jesus looked up and saw the multitude.  Get the picture; these disciples are sitting around worn out from ministry and longing to rest. They wanted to be left alone!  According to verse 10 the number was at least 5,000 and Matthew 14 tells us that it was 5,000 plus women and children so it was a huge crowd.  They are in a remote area and a huge crowd is approaching. There is no HEB or Kroger nearby.  There is no McDonald’s or Burger King to grab something to eat and they are hungry.  It is an IMPOSSIBLE situation, just like Jesus liked it.  Remember the question of the disciples:  “What are we going to do?”  That was more than a question it was an exclamation of despair.

Jesus had taught them that He was God’s Son, God in the flesh, MESSIAH and now He would demonstrate that NOTHNG was IMPOSSIBLE with God.   Jesus gave them a little exam and Philip was the first and Jesus asked, “Where are we going to buy food that these may eat?”  Consider the next verse, next verse and you’ll understand better, “And this He was saying to test him; for He Himself knew what He was intending to do.”  God brings us face to face with our IMPOSSIBILITIES to demonstrated His POSSIBILITIES.   Philip did not really answer but exclaimed:  “Two hundred denarii worth of bread is not sufficient…”  Jesus asked WHERE and Philip answered HOW MUCH.  Philip focused on the IMPOSSIBLE and Jesus was demonstrating the POSSIBLE.  When Andrew came to the testing room his response was that a boy there had a lunch with five barley loaves and two fish.  The issue is not HOW MUCH but WHO?  Then we know the miracle how Jesus fed the 5,000 with five pancakes and two sardines.  Not only did He feed them but verse 11 says they ate AS MUCH AS THEY WANTED.

Impossible is not in God’s vocabulary and should not be in ours for He is, He can, and He can be trusted!   May God be with you as you go through your day!  God with God and He will assuredly go with you!  Blessings!