According to the account, the angel Gabriel was then sent to Nazareth in Galilee to her relative Mary, a virgin, betrothed to a man called Joseph, and informed her that she would conceive by the Holy Ghost and bring forth a son to be called Jesus.

Both Zechariah and Elizabeth would have been over 60 when this story took place, because people didn’t think you could have children after the age of 60.

Joseph brought his family to Qumran, the home of Mary’s beloved Aunt Elizabeth and 7-year-old John. Joseph then went ahead to Nazareth to re-establish his carpentry business. Poor families of Israel seldom had means to attend the grand Passover festivals at Jerusalem as Joseph’s family did, traveling from Galilee.

The journey from Nazareth to Hebron is about 130 kilometres (81 mi) in a direct line, probably up to half as far again by road, depending on the route taken. Elizabeth was in the sixth month before Mary came (Luke 1:36). Mary stayed three months, and most scholars hold she stayed for the birth of John.

We need divine visitation to bring the wisdom, power, favour, and blessing of heaven upon our efforts. Divine visitation brings heaven down and overrules the powers of the enemy at work in our situation, opening the floodgates of heaven to bring down blessings that money cannot buy, nor human influence guarantee.

For days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment around you, surround you and close you in on every side, and level you, and your children within you, to the ground; and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not know the time of your visitation.”

1 : an instance of visiting: such as. a : an official visit (as for inspection) b : wake entry 2 sense 3. c : temporary custody of a child granted to a noncustodial parent visitation rights.

Daniel 10:1-12 Prayer and fasting is one sure way also in provoking God’s visitation. Praise is a powerful secret to secure divine visitation. The bible speaks of God inhabiting the praises of Israel [Psalm 22:3].

Leviticus 18:25. And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.

Divine intervention is the interference of a deity in human life, popularly extended to any miraculous-seeming turn of events.

Narrative. The Gospel of Mark (10:46–52) tells of the cure of a blind beggar named Bartimaeus (literally “Son of Timaeus”). He is one of the few recipients of healing whose names evangelists let us know.

Jesus, Son of David

9 Good lessons you can learn from blind Bartimaeus (which you can apply in your life right now)

• Bartimaeus had information that Jesus was passing by.
• Bartimaeus used the information on Jesus presence to his advantage.
• Bartimaeus had a revelation of who Jesus is.
• Bartimaeus showed courage in the midst of intimidation.

Jesus was asleep on a cushion in the stern, and the disciples woke him and asked, “Teacher, don’t you care if we drown?” The Gospel of Mark then states that: He woke up and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” Then the wind ceased, and there was a dead calm. He said to them, “Why are you afraid?

During the course of His ministry, Jesus performed more than 40 miracles, including healing the sick, changing the natural elements of nature and even raising people from the dead.