Humanly Impossible Does Not Mean Impossible for God
Dearly beloved of God, from the record in Luke 1 we know that God was instrumental in the birth of John the Baptist, and in the birth of Jesus, His only begotten Son.
Zachariah was an old man, and his wife Elizabeth was barren and was well stricken in years, but God heard their prayer, and He enabled her to bring forth a son, John.
Mary was a young virgin, a woman of marriageable age, and she conceived by divine conception.
These were not the only two women to have children because of God’s involvement. Sarah, Abraham’s wife was another one.
Abram’s wife Sara was barren, but God promised him that “he that shall come forth of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.”
God brought Abram forth abroad, and said, “Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and He said unto him, “So shall thy seed be.”
Sara was barren, but Abram believed what God said to him. This record is in Genesis 15:1-6.
Genesis 16:16 informs us that Abram was eighty six when Sara’s handmaid bare Ishmael, and in 17:1, when Abram was 99, God appeared to Abram, and He told him that He would make an everlasting covenant with him, and that he would be the father of many nations.
God said, “And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt Me and you.”
God changed Abram’s and Sara’s names to Abraham and to Sarah. God told Abraham that He would “bless Sarah, and give thee a son of her.”
In Genesis 17:19, God said that “Sarah shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish My covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him.”
He said, “Sarah shall bear unto you at this set time in the next year.”
Genesis 21:1, 2 informs us that “the LORD [God] visited Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as He had spoken. For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.”
Even though Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in years, and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women, God said, “Is anything too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.”
Hebrews 11:11 and 12 The Working Translation
11 By [his] believing, {+barren} Sarah herself also received the ability to conceive seed, even beyond [child-bearing] age, because he [Abraham] considered Him faithful Who had promised.
12 Wherefore, from one, and him as good as dead, were born descendants as the stars of the heaven in multitude and as innumerable as the sand which is on the seashore.
Romans 4 informs us that Abraham believed what God said. “And so shall thy seed be.” Even though Abraham observed his own body being deadened and the deadness of Sarah’s womb when he was about 100 years old, he did not doubt the promise of God in unbelief, but he was strong in the right way of believing, giving glory to God, and being fully convinced that what God has promised He is also able to do.
The angel Gabriel delivered a message to Mary that she would conceive in her womb, and bring forth a Son, and shall call his name Jesus. He shall be called the Son of the Highest.
Mary asked Gabriel, “How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?” He said, “The Holy Ghost [Holy Spirit: God] shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy Thing [child] which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.
And behold, thy cousin Elizabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her, who was called barren. For with God nothing shall be called impossible.”
The Greek words translated “nothing” are “pan rhema,” which means “any word.” Not any word of God is impossible of fulfillment. Mary said, “Be it unto me according to thy word.”
Elizabeth delivered John three months later, and Mary gave birth to Jesus six months after John was born.
“Is anything too hard for the LORD?” Nothing God says is impossible of fulfillment, dearly beloved of God. It may seem humanly impossible, but nothing God says is impossible of fulfillment. It shall be as He has spoken.