Your feelings about a situation do not change God’s power over that situation. God is not limited by feelings. God is not limited by chances or odds. God is not limited by timelines or conditions. If God speaks it, it will happen. Done. Deal.

Your circumstances may not be telling you the truth. There could be sooooo much more happening than what you see. There may be an act of God Almighty happening in places you cannot yet see. You may not feel it yet, but your feelings do not limit the power of God.

Mary was a young teenage girl living in the tiny, forgotten town of Nazareth. Nazareth was nothing. It was miles away from a road and didn’t have a good source of water. No one important had ever come from Nazareth, and no one there had ever done anything great. This town had never been mentioned before.

I come from a small town like that. A small town where everyone knows who you are and what you’re doing. It’s the kind of town where you don’t see examples of anyone ever leaving or doing great things. So, I never dreamed of leaving. The jobs available in my small town were the jobs I imagined having. My mama worked at the only factory in town, so I assumed I would work at that same factory. The thought that God would have something different for me was completely foreign. I was a no one with nothing, and there was absolutely nothing special about me.

That’s what happens in small towns. You only know what you know, and you simply don’t know much. Nazareth was a town of only a few hundred people. Mary growing up in Nazareth meant she was a humble, small town girl, who likely never considered herself to be anyone special. But just because you don’t feel special doesn’t mean God doesn’t consider you special. Just because you never expected God to do something special for you doesn’t mean God isn’t already working in the unseen in special ways for you.

In Luke chapter 1, we’re unexpectedly introduced to Mary, living in her tiny country village. Verse 26-33, “God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth to a virgin named Mary. She was engaged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of King David. Gabriel appeared to her and said, ‘Greetings favored woman! The Lord is with you!’ Confused and disturbed, Mary tried to think what the angel could mean. ‘Don’t be afraid, Mary,’ the angel told her, ‘for you have found favor with God! You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you will name him Jesus. He will be very great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his ancestor David. And he will reign over Israel forever; his Kingdom will never end.'”

Mary was not expecting this. Her life was simple and uneventful. She likely spent her days doing laundry, sweeping dirt floors, helping her mother cook meals, training for her upcoming opportunity to have a house of her own once she married Joseph. She had never been told she was favored before. She had never been singled out and chosen. She had never dared to dream of anything different or bigger for her life.

Yet, here was this angel telling her the most unimaginable things. Telling her she was chosen to be a mother to a future King that would reign forever. But this didn’t make sense to Mary. How could this happen? She was a virgin, awaiting marriage to Joseph.

And what the angel is telling her is, “That’s why I’m here – to tell you that your limited circumstances are not revealing the truth to you, your conditions are not true, and what you feel doesn’t matter.”

You think you’re a nobody from nowhere with a very certain and limited future ahead of you, but God sent me to tell you there’s something happening that you cannot imagine!!!!

Yes, that’s what the angel was telling Mary. And that’s what I’m here to tell you today.

You may feel like a nobody – you may come from nothing – you may have never done anything great in your entire life – but God has so much more for you. You have been chosen for more! There are things happening in the unseen that you have not dared to imagine yet.

Why you? Because of God! God chose you! Ephesians 1:4, “Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes.” You see yourself as the girl that never quite seems to get it right – the girl who starts but always stops – the girl who gets in her head and gets stuck – the girl who says she will, but then she won’t – the girl who secretly struggles and feels flawed. BUT GOD SEES SOMETHING DIFFERENT IN YOU! God sees you without fault. Holy. Perfect for his good plans and unlimited power.

God sees the girl he has chosen for his blessings and favor. God sees the girl his power can work perfectly in. Why? Because you have areas of weakness. It’s not your perfection God is looking for – it’s your surrendered weakness. God says in 2 Corinthians 12:9, “My grace is all you need. My power works best in weakness.”

All this time you felt like everything you couldn’t do and everything you could never be was your limitation – but God says that’s the perfect place for his power to work best! Girl, he chooses YOU!

You don’t have to be known by a single other person to be known by God. You don’t have to be considered special in any other way, for God to see there’s something special in you. And you don’t have to see what God is doing for God to be doing something! God’s power is not limited to your sight or your understanding.

Mary also knows Isaiah 7:14, “The virgin will conceive a child! She will give birth to a son and will call him Immanuel (which means ‘God is with us’).” And because she knows God’s word, she knows not only is it possible, but God has chosen her and his word will not fail!

If you know God’s word, my sister, you know God can do impossible things. He can show up in your personal circumstances and turn it all around. He can heal, he can restore, he can open doors, he can tear down walls, he can part seas, he can break chains, he can take down giants, he can move mountains, he can bring about victories. And that’s exactly what he does for ordinary people no one else even knows or sees.

He chose Mary when no one would have chosen her. He chose her as the mother to bare the savior of the world. He did it in impossible ways, foretold thousands of years before. And he found her in a tiny, forgotten village of a couple hundred people.

What you need to know is, God knows exactly where you are! He knows how to get to you. He knows how to show up in your impossible circumstances. He knows exactly how to bless you. Nothing can hide you and nothing can stop him.

Your circumstances may not be telling you the truth. There could be sooooo much more happening than what you see. There may be an act of God Almighty happening in places you cannot yet see. You may not feel it yet, but your feelings do not limit the power of God.

Mary woke up that morning like every other morning, assuming her life would unfold exactly as planned. But there was something so much more happening than what she knew and what she saw. You woke up this morning feeling like your life is quite predictable, maybe even boring and disappointing. But my sister, you don’t see what God is doing! You don’t feel it yet.

Am I saying you’re going to have a miraculous pregnancy? No (unless that’s what you’ve been praying for, and maybe!). What I’m saying is you have no idea of how God wants to use your life. You have no idea of what God wants to do for you. You’re not even aware of the doors God is opening, the impossible situations he is making possible, the future circumstances he is aligning just for you.

Why would he do that? Because he sees you. He knows you. And he CHOOSES YOU!

You’ve always been chosen. You’ve always been set apart. There are blessings and favor here just for you.

You may feel like a nobody – you may come from nothing – you may have never done anything great in your entire life – but God has so much more for you. You have been chosen for more! There are things happening in the unseen that you have not dared to imagine yet.

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