"A Season For Miracles
What do you do when you know God has promised to birth something in you, but it's difficult to believe it could ever be? When all hope is gone, it's in the midst of despair that God speaks to us about believing Him for a miracle.
In Luke 1:46-47, Mary makes issue of the fact that her spirit has been believing and has been excited about what God was going to do in her life. But then she says, 'My soul (her head or mind)... is just now beginning to line up with what my spirit has been believing for a long time.' It's one thing to believe with my spirit, but quite another for my mind and emotions to begin to believe it also. My spirit seems to have little trouble believing God or conceiving the inconceivable, but my mind must face the daily exposure to reality, which breeds doubt and fear that maybe a miracle will never come.
Some of the fears that Mary would have felt are, 'What will joseph think? Will people believe me?' She may well begin to waver in her mind and say, 'Did God really speak to me or am I making this up?' Your mind will try to talk you out of the promise. It is then that we, like Mary, say, 'My soul is now, this day, beginning to believe God, and my spirit has been believing for a long time.'
Luke tells us what to do while waiting on a miracle.
REMEMBER THE PERSON OF GOD - 'For He that is mighty hath done to me great things; and holy is His name' (Luke 1:49)
Holiness has to do with wholeness. When dealing with loose ends and circumstances that seem so far apart, I get to believe that my God is holy and He'll take all the fragments of concern, like 'What will Joseph think, and what will people say?' and put them together, for holy is His name.
REMEMBER THE POWER OF GOD - 'He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree' (Luke 1:52)
It's when my miracle is being challenged and vain imaginations rise saying, 'It'll never happen,' that I rest in the power of my God who will withstand the mighty who come to steal His promise to me.
REMEMBER THE PROMISE OF GOD - 'As He spoke to our fathers, to Abraham, and to his seed forever' (Luke 1:55)
My confidence rests in the fact that I have a record of God's faithfulness. I'm not the first to receive a miracle and Abraham, Sarah, and Noah, are perfect examples of the faithfulness of our God. As He made promises in the past, He's always fulfilled them. He's still doing the dame today.
Ron Mehl"