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How? Now? Wow!
Contributed by Howard Strickland on Dec 28, 2022 (message contributor)
Summary: I believe that the angel Gabriel left Mary thinking at least three different thoughts: How? Now? Wow!
* What about Mary’s friends and neighbors?
* How about Joseph, Mary’s fiancé?
Would you say aloud, “Wow!”
On this Christmas day we ought to be testifying, “Wow!”
Think for a moment, Up until John the Baptist- 400 years of spiritual silence.
400 years of nothingness.
400 years of blank.
And Mary shouts, “Wow!”
How do I know? God’s word tells me so. Just listen.
Isaiah 55:10-11NKJV “For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, And do not return there, But water the earth, And make it bring forth and bud, That it may give seed to the sower And bread to the eater, So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void, But it shall accomplish what I please, And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.”
Wow! The spiritual seed that God placed within you isn’t much different than Mary’s spiritual seed of Holy Ghost conception! P.H
Q&A: Did Mary have much to do with this conception?
Did you?
Jesus said in, John 15:16KJV Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
Just like Mary, you believed, so like Mary you bear fruit. P.H
Look with me once more, Luke 1:26 Now in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth.
Remember John chapter 1, Philip runs to find Nathanael and he tells Nathanael, “We have found the one Moses and the prophets wrote about, He’s here in Nazareth.”
Nathanael replies, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?”
You might think, “Can anything good come from my life?”
You/me, are a whosoever, the Bible calls you/me, a ‘whosoever.’
Romans 10:13KJV For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
And when that ‘whosoever’ believes, that ‘whosoever’ receives spiritual conception, a seed, and that seed produces spiritual fruit of its kind, John 12:24.
Again hear, Luke 1:35AMP Then the angel replied to her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you [like a cloud]; for that reason the holy (pure, sinless) Child shall be called the Son of God.
“Sounds a lot like the Holy Ghost to me!”
Listen, “Stop worrying about what it’s going to look like, let Jesus take full control.” P.H
This I know- If you sow worship, favor and blessings will come.
If you sow service, and do justice, favor and blessings will come.
If you sow good seed, good seed will be multiplied.
Paul writes in, Galatians 6:7-9TPT God will never be mocked! For what you plant will always be the very thing you harvest. 8The harvest you reap reveals the seed that you planted. If you plant the corrupt seeds of self-life into this natural realm, you can expect a harvest of corruption. If you plant the good seeds of Spirit-life you will reap beautiful fruits that grow from the everlasting life of the Spirit. 9And don’t allow yourselves to be weary in planting good seeds, for the season of reaping the wonderful harvest you’ve planted is coming!