It's about your response not His intentions
Luke 1:37-38
"For with God nothing will be impossible." Then Mary said, "Behold the maidservant of the Lord! Let it be to me according to your word." And the angel departed from her.
Yesterday we shared on the importance of responding to God's Word and how that, when we give response to it rather than just read it, we can release its potential and power into our lives and situations. So much about walking in our God-given destiny is about us responding correctly with due or correct response to God and His word. You walking in God's plan for your life is more about your response than His intentions. Understand that God's intentions for you are settled. He is not confused (Jeremiah 29:11), but the fact is that His intentions for us are activated in our lives when we respond to Him correctly. The Bible is a big old catalogue of people's responses that allows us to see the fruit of the lives of people who responded to God both correctly and incorrectly. Their responses should inspire us with ours. Let's look at one.
Mary
She is a young teenage girl when God appears in her life and makes His intentions known: "I want to bring the Saviour of the world through your life". This was a big shock for her, but notice that she did not become pregnant with "the God plan" till the moment she responded with that great statement: "Let it be to me according to Your word." It was after she made that response that she became pregnant with "the God plan". God did not violate her and He won't violate you. He let's you know His intentions and waits for your response to activate them. Just like with Mary, God has a whole bunch of stuff He wants to "get to the earth" and He is looking for someone like you to bring them here through - will that be you today? Will you allow your life to be the womb that God can use to birth something great?
All the great christian heroes we read of are just people like you and me that heard the heart of God and, like Mary, realised that nothing is impossible for God, and then had the courage to say, "Let it be to me according to your word (intentions)".
Mother Theresa's great response saved thousands of children from poverty and death – that was a God plan.
Reinhard Bonnke's great response saw millions of Africans saved and set free – that was a God plan.
How about you? What is God saying about His intentions for your life and how are you going to respond to what He wants to do through you? I pray that you will respond as Mary did. Let your response be, "Let it be, use me!". When you pray that kind of prayer anything can happen and it probably will because, as the verse said, when we like Mary ask, "How can this be?", He responds, "Nothing is impossible for Me!".
God bless you and have a great day.
Andy
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