“…that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.” (Matthew 1:20)

Will you please read Matthew 1:18-25 first?

When something is conceived of the Holy Spirit it can take time for the authenticity of this conception to be observed by the minds of men, and then only by revelation. That which is of the Spirit can look so normal that the supernatural component of what is occurring can be lost in the minds of those observing.

Men do not easily recognize that which is conceived by the Holy Spirit because the Holy Spirit works within the natural realm to produce that which is supernatural. It is only by revelation that the supernatural component of his work can be understood or seen.

To many Christ was just a man. They could not see past his physical appearance. Jesus was perfect God inside of a perfect man’s body. That man which was conceived by an act of God looked the same as any other specimen within the species or men, except there was something exceptional about the way this particular specimen operated.

Joseph heard Mary’s story of how the angel came to her to tell her that she would be of child from the Holy Spirit, and that what was in her was no mere man, but the Messiah himself. The story was so strange to Joseph that he had in mind to divorce her quietly. He wanted to separate himself from what was occurring because he could not understand what was being said.

But when the angel of the Lord came to him and revealed the truth of the matter, he could now walk in the freedom of the understanding that was given to him. The authenticity of the story had been verified by supernatural revelation, so that he could now align himself with the move of God that was taking place.

And so it is with many of us that when we observe a thing that is from God we condemn it because we do not see the hand of God operating within it.

The leaders of the Sanhedrin in the day of the early church persecuted Peter and John because they taught the people about Christ in the open air (Acts 5). They threw them into jail and wanted to put them to death because of their testimony of Christ, and would have had not one of their own respected leaders, a Pharisees named Gamaliel, stood up and said to the council, “Therefore, in the present case I advise you: Leave these men alone! Let them go! For if their purpose or activity is of human origin, it will fail. But if it is from God, you will not be able to stop these men; you will only find yourselves fighting against God.” (Acts 5:38-39)

And so it is within our own time that the councils of men aligned themselves against the workings of the Holy Spirit only to be frustrated by the power of God that is exhibited in men and women of God who believe in what the Spirit is doing.

These detractors look at the conception and see only the human element, but fail to see that under the surface is the Holy Spirit working with hearts that are open and available to be used by God to orchestrate his workings within the earth. Those who align themselves with the devil will see these machinations of the Spirit and try to stop them in vain, because that which is of God cannot be stopped, amen?