I have to share this, because THIS is the God I serve. This is How He works wonders and speaks life to His children. This is an example of the things God will show you when you seek Him. And if you pay attention, He will show you things more than once as a confirmation- there is no such thing as coincidence. There will be some details in here that are very personal to me, but I feel led to share anyway. So here’s my Luke 1:37 story!
Luke 1:37, “for nothing shall be impossible with God.”
Context- Mary is talking to the angel after she is told she will give birth to a son as a virgin. She is surrendering her life to God’s will and God’s plan, even when by human standards, they are impossible. Luke 1:37 is her response to a seemingly impossible scenario.
Around Christmas time, we were studying the gospels and as I read Luke 1 one day, verse 37 JUMPED out of the page in a way it never has in my life before even after the many times I’ve read it or heard that chapter. I remember highlighting it, taking note of it, and even sharing this with my mom that it just stood out to me in a beautiful way! The next week, our messsage in church was heavily focused on Luke 1:37! I looked at my mom and she knew exactly what I was thinking- God is so so good when He shows us over and over what it is He wants to teach us! I call it a confirmation from the Lord.
During our time off in January, I started journaling my “impossibles” for this year- desires of mine that seemed, or felt impossible in the moment, but also situations that I surrendered to the Lord to see what He would do with in 2022 and future years to come! When I was done and closed my journal (which was a new journal I was given at our womens retreat), I realized the front of it was LUKE 1:37 😱😱
Fast forward to February, I woke up from napping after night shift, and my husband had put out a few gifts for Valentines Day, including a very familiar looking charm necklace. (Background to the necklace- we had given each other a very similar version of these for Valentines Day in 2014- but we didn’t know we got the same thing for each other so we just wore them together as a charm necklace. But when we moved to our house in 2020, I lost my necklace and to this day haven’t found it.) I was ecstatic when I saw the necklace because we now had our charm necklaces back!!! But when I took a closer look at the dumbbell, I realized it had Luke 1:37 written on it!!!!!! How amazing right?! Jacob had no idea how much this verse had come to mean to me but I got to tell him that day!!!
A few weeks later, I was pondering my “Hope 2022” and asking God to give me a scripture to go along with my word for this year . There are so many verses about Hope but I wanted the verse specifically for me, then God gently nudged me in my heart and brought Luke 1:37 to mind. Even though it doesn’t have the word Hope, it is a statement of Hope- Mary had hope that what God said was true. She would give birth, even as virgin, to someone who would save the world and bring everlasting hope to a hopeless world. Everlasting life collided with never ending death through Jesus’ life and death on earth. For me, God gave me hope in that moment that He would do some amazing things in my life in the next year but also all my years on this earth and in people around me too.
Fast forward to March, we just experienced a miscarriage- and this was our first baby. And with the devastation and grief, there was a loss of dreams and what we thought this year would look like. Along with that, came some fear (from the devil) of our future. For a few days, I struggled and fought with that fear (fought it with God’s word, prayer, and talking to others ). I started to fear the ability to get pregnant again. I feared having another miscarriage if we did get pregnant: or multiple miscarriages. I asked God if we are even meant to be parents at all, and feared that maybe we aren’t. I feared not being good enough to be a mom. Or all the things we will encounter as parents: losing our kids once they are on earth, or watching them go through heartbreak of their own. But the thing about God is that He is not a God of fear. And as I acknowledged this, I reminded myself that these fears were lies and anxiety from the devil.
As I processed this fear and grief, I clung to God’s word and worship music. And one of the biggest helps was remembering Luke 1:37.
I still don’t know the future or what it holds, but I do know God has a plan for us. For me. And that plan is good. And something else I know and can cling to, is that nothing is impossible with God. And if His plan is for us to be parents, there ain’t nothing in heaven, hell, or earth that will stop Him. And I trust that plan, whether we get to parent children on earth or not. No matter how many babies we have on earth or in heaven that we will meet one day. I will cling to His promise and declare His glory: come what may.
But another yet amazing confirmation from the Lord happened after our follow up OB appointment yesterday. We were sitting in the car with the radio on in the background. But these lyrics basically jumped out of the radio and grabbed my attention:
“I pray for your healing
That circumstances would change
I pray that the fear inside would flee in Jesus name
I pray that a breakthrough would happen today
I pray miracles over your life in Jesus name
In Jesus name”
And I looked up the song and it’s called “God of Possible” 😳😳😳😳
I’m sure this isn’t the last time God will use this verse in my life, but I sure am grateful to reflect on how God has used it so far in just these few, short months of 2022! To think He had prepared my heart and paved the way for this season of life before we were even pregnant or knew what this year would hold. He made a way to prepare us for this but also to use it to show us His goodness and everlasting faithfulness!
Y’all, God is SO good. He has brought this full circle in my life and I pray this blesses you and gives you hope for anything you are going through right now.
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