When Baby John Jumps for Joy – blog

Gabriel has appeared to Mary and told her she is going to be giving birth to Jesus the Messiah.  You do know that Christ is not Jesus’s last name but is a title for the one that Israel has waited for over 2000 years.  Four hundred years have passed since God has sent a prophet to speak to Israel. But the waiting is about to be over.

I wonder if Mary had her doubts after Gabriel left on that fateful night. He told her she had found favor with God; the Holy Spirit would fall upon her and the shadow of the Most High God would overshadow her. However, being a 13-year-old girl as the days were passing, she might have started to doubt. So, she goes off to visit her Aunt Elizabeth.

Earlier in Luke 1, we learn about Elizabeth and her husband Zacharias.  They were old and well past the age of bearing children and yet while Zach was offering incense in the Temple, Gabriel appeared to him as well and told Zach that Liz was going to have a baby and to call him John.

Mary goes to see them and when she enters their home Mary calls out her name and as soon as Liz hears Mary’s voice the baby in her womb jumps for joy and Liz is filled with the Spirit and says to Mary;

“Blessed are you among women and blessed is the fruit of your womb! “And how has it happened to me, that the mother of my Lord would come to me? “For behold, when the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby leaped in my womb for joy. “And blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what had been spoken to her by the Lord.”

Aunt Elizabeth was being filled with the Spirit at that moment and so the words she spoke to Mary were from the Spirit and were therefore prophetic.  She proclaims that Mary is the most blessed of all women because of the baby inside of her.  She will be the mother of the Lord.  Mary stayed there with Aunt Liz for 3 months.

Today I want you to notice a very important part of that last sentence in Elizabeth’s prophecy.

“And blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what had been spoken to her by the Lord.”

Liz calls attention to the fact that Mary had the faith to believe what Gabriel had told her.  She believed that Gabriel was real and that God had supernaturally impregnated her with the baby who would end up being the Messiah.  So, when it was all being prophesied to her Mary believed.  Mary had faith to believe God would do what He sent Gabriel to tell her.  That she would give birth to the Messiah even though she was still a virgin.

Faith is always a very important thing when it comes to God doing miracles here on earth.  All of us who have found ourselves entangled in our sexual brokenness want God to do a miracle in our lives.  We have cried out for healing many times but see no change in our behavior.  And since God has not done this miracle for us, our faith has faltered.

I believe that no matter who you are or what you have done or for how long you have done it that God is still going to heal you.  In fact, I know it for certain and I promise you that it will happen.  I know that because of Philippians 1:6;

“For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.”

At the end of your life, God will finish His work and perfect you as you go to heaven. No matter how far you have progressed in this life or how far you have failed to grow … God is going to finish His work and make you perfect.

In the meantime, from today till your life ends you have the Spirit living in you to empower us to not fulfill the desires of the flesh and you can have a community of other believers available every day you need them in one of our Online Support Teams.

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