"How will this be," Mary asked the angel, "since I am a virgin?" The angel answered, "The Holy Spirit will come upon 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. Even Elizabeth your relative is going to have a child in her old age, and she who was said to be barren is in her sixth month. For nothing is impossible with God."
It's not just one miracle here, but two miracles performed by the power of God the Holy Spirit.One for the virgin Mary and another for her relative Elizabeth through whom John tthe Baptist was born. Do you notice something common here about the two people involved? Both of their wombs were not opened before and now God is about to open them through the power of God the Holy Spirit. Remember, in the book; Christformation In You-From Genesis to Revelation-The Big Picture, it has been said that only those who have the promise of Christformation in them will be born out of the power of God the Holy Spirit. The rest will have ordinary births. Here is the best example of this truth. You may ask, like Mary here, "how will this be, I am still a virgin" with full of doubts and suspicion. The answer will be; "Nothing is impossible with God". It's not impossible for full Christformation to occur in you, if you have the promise of God over your life. Even way before this world was ever created, you were promised of the heavenly Father to have full Christformation in you, for the divine nature of Christ to be fully formed in you. There was no way known to man where Christ our Lord could be formed in them. But, now that we can be born again when we believe in Christ, we have a born again spirit that can be filled with Christ. Nothing is impossible with God.
Galatians 4:28-31
Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise. At that time the son born in the ordinary way persecuted the son born by the power of the Spirit. It is the same now. But what does the Scripture say? "Get rid of the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman's son will never share in the inheritance with the free woman's son." Therefore, brothers, we are not children of the slave woman, but of the free woman.
The Lord Jesus Christ is our Life-Giver. He gives us eternal life. For eternal life is only found in Him and in no one else! We can go anywhere to look for eternal life and we will never find it, but in Him alone is life that God had promised. You would have to come to Him eventually, if you have the promise of God over your life. The 'slave woman', the 'free woman' did not refer to Hagar, Mary, Elizabeth or even Sarah. It refers to those who are slaves to the sinful nature of the Devil in them and those who are freed from it's power. We can only be fully freed from it when be believe, love and obey Christ till the end of our Christformation journey on Earth.
When we are children of God's promise, we will be filled with Christ, just like Isaac was filled with God's promise to Abraham. Isaac was a child promised by God to Abraham and Sarah at their old age. Sarah had laughed at the thought of conceiving at that impossible age It may seem impossible to have full Christformation in us, but with God's promise over our lives, nothing will be impossible with God to demonstrate His power through us. Only when you do not have the promise of God over your life, that it will be impossible to have Christformation in you. If you are an ordinary child with no promise of God, everything will seem imposible for you. You will strive in your own strength and when you can't survive the test to show the difference of who has the promise of God over their lives, you will try persecuting those who have the promise of Christformation in them. You will start showing your dissatisfaction and displeasure of God's choice. This will be the time God will move in to demonstrate His power.
Revelation 2:8-11
"To the angel of the church in Smyrna write: These are the words of him who is the First and the Last, who died and came to life again. I know your afflictions and your poverty--yet you are rich! I know the slander of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan. Do not be afraid of what you are about to suffer. I tell you, the devil will put some of you in prison to test you, and you will suffer persecution for ten days. Be faithful, even to the point of death, and I will give you the crown of life. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. He who overcomes will not be hurt at all by the second death.
