Nothing impossible

Context gives these seven words their weight. They are the angel’s answer to Mary’s entirely reasonable question — how shall this be? — about the most impossible announcement in history. And as supporting evidence, the angel points to her elderly cousin Elisabeth, six months pregnant after a lifetime of barrenness. Two impossibilities, one explanation: with God.

Notice the phrasing carefully: with God nothing shall be impossible. The promise is not that everything you can imagine will occur, but that nothing God intends is ever blocked. Impossibility, as a category, simply does not apply to Him. Our word “impossible” is a measurement of our resources; it says nothing about His.

Somewhere in your life is a locked situation you stopped praying about years ago, precisely because it is impossible — the person who will never change, the breach that will never mend, the thing too far gone. This verse reopens exactly that file. Pray for the impossible thing again this morning. You are not asking your resources. You are asking His.