No Word is Powerless – The Presidential Prayer Team

Nothing will be impossible with God. – Luke 1:37

Many believers are familiar with the start of the Christmas story, when an angel appears to Mary to tell her that she would become pregnant with God’s Son. The words that the angel spoke to her in Luke 1:37 in particular are very popular – nothing will be impossible with God. As these words served as a comfort for Mary, who was about to embark on a great adventure with God, they also serve as a great comfort to believers today.

Most English translations of Luke 1:37 translate the verse as stated above, “nothing will be impossible with God.” A more literal translation of the Greek written here would say, “for no word from God shall be powerless.” Though slight in its differences, does this translation change the way you view this verse?

It can be easy to hear “nothing is impossible with God” and take that to mean that anything that you can dream of is possible if God wants it to happen. In reality, this verse is instead referring to the power of God’s promises. Whatever He says will undoubtedly happen. His Word is true and reliable, and there is great hope to be found in all the promises He has given.

In your quiet time with God today, listen again to the words of the angel to Mary, “no word from God shall be powerless.” Listen to hear what God may be speaking to your heart. Pray God’s promises over your life, over the nation, and over the world, and trust that He is working each day to fulfill them.

Today’s Verse: Luke 1:37

For nothing will be impossible with God.

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Recommended for further reading: Jeremiah 32:17-22, 27

¹⁷‘Ah, Lord God! It is you who have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm! Nothing is too hard for you. ¹⁸You show steadfast love to thousands, but you repay the guilt of fathers to their children after them, O great and mighty God, whose name is the Lord of hosts, ¹⁹great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are open to all the ways of the children of man, rewarding each one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds. ²⁰You have shown signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, and to this day in Israel and among all mankind, and have made a name for yourself, as at this day. ²¹You brought your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs and wonders, with a strong hand and outstretched arm, and with great terror. ²²And you gave them this land, which you swore to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey.

²⁷“Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh. Is anything too hard for me?