All Alone with My Doubt
Christmisfits Week #1
All Alone with My Doubt
Luke 1:26-38
Don’t doubt in the darkness what God has declared in the light
In the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, 27 to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. 28 The angel went to her and said, “Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is with you.” 29 Mary was greatly troubled at his words and wondered what kind of greeting this might be. 30 But the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary; you have found favor with God. 31 You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus. 32 He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, 33 and he will reign over Jacob’s descendants forever; his kingdom will never end.” 34 “How will this be,” Mary asked the angel, “since I am a virgin?” 35 The angel answered, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God. Luke 1:26-35
Anytime you get the promise of God it’s always going to take the power of God to make that promise come to fulfillment
Even Elizabeth your relative is going to have a child in her old age, and she who was said to be unable to conceive is in her sixth month. 37 For no word from God will ever fail.” 38 “I am the Lord’s servant,” Mary answered. “May your word to me be fulfilled.” Then the angel left her. Luke 1:36-38
Three Things Mary Dealt With:
1. Doubt
Self-doubt will sabotage the work that God wants to do in your life
2. Discouragement
3. Death
No word from God will ever fail and God always finishes what he starts
Being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus Philippians 1:6