December 22, 2010

What an incredible story if one stops yet again to think about it: an angel appears to a girl to tell her that she will be pregnant with no help from a man and a woman past menopausal age gets the news that she will give birth to a child in nine months!
How can these things be?! Gabriel declares to Mary in Luke 1: 37 that “nothing is impossible for God.” The message of the Advent is that even thought our finite minds cannot fully understand the ways of God nor His Sacred Word, we can decide to trust His goodness and wisdom.

Yasmin encouraged the group tonight through her testimony. As a professional young woman who has the care of her parents,family members and other responsibilities she has felt overwhelmed! Yet she cried out to God for help and for peace. She reached out to friends during the week. Her story tonight was that she experienced freedom from anxieties. Five or six of her friends who had been praying with her were there tonight and came up while she was being anointed. The biggest lesson she has learned is that our mind does need rest. Yasmin took the opportunity to express her thankfulness that there is such a thing as a “Sabbath Day” where she is reminded to STOP and rest her body and mind, enjoy close relationships and trust God.

Nothing is impossible for God.

In what areas of your life do you need to know for sure that ‘nothing is impossible’ when if comes to God’s power? How about giving up whatever these things are that crowd your mind and worry you so much? And then entrusting them to God?

May your day be full of joy… as a reminder that “God with us” has happened and gives us reason for hope!
-Pastor Sabine:)