Luk 1:57-66

Now the time had come for Elizabeth to give birth, and she gave birth to a son.

Her neighbors and her relatives heard that the Lord had displayed His great mercy toward her; and they were rejoicing with her.

And it happened that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child,
and they were going to call him Zacharias, after his father.

But his mother answered and said, “No indeed; but he shall be called John.”

And they said to her, “There is no one among your relatives who is called by that name.”

And they made signs to his father, as to what he wanted him called.

And he asked for a tablet and wrote as follows,
“His name is John.”
And they were all astonished.

And at once his mouth was opened and his tongue loosed,
and he began to speak in praise of God.

Fear came on all those living around them;
and all these matters were being talked about in all the hill country of Judea.

All who heard them kept them in mind, saying,
“What then will this child turn out to be?”
For the hand of the Lord was certainly with him.

Zacharias was deaf and dumb due to his unbelief when the angel appeared.

Now, Zacharias was “bucking” cultural tradition.

He did what the angel said to do.
Name the child “John”.

When he did, his hearing returned and his tongue was set loose!

He praised God.

The same will happen to us.

Many are bound by traditions that quench the flow of the Spirit.

Unbelief reigns among Believers.
Think on that.

What if we simply declared the truth of the Word?
What if we simply believed?
What might the Lord do?

He would break forth in prophetic truth within us!
He would bring forth praise through us.

Such matters would be spoken throughout our communities…to the praise of the glory of His grace.

Selah!

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