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Birthing a God Thing!

Life is full of shifts, twists, turns, flips, flops, failure, fatigue, but also fruitions, and fruit.

One of the features that helps gets us through any human circumstance is our willingness to expect that through all of the wash of life, that we are going to be well!

We are in a posture of expectation.

Unfortunately some Christians are like the typical inscription on a grave in Paul’s day, “I was not, I became, I am not, I care not”.

But we have learned that as Christians God expects us to expect that he is going to do marvelous things for us!

Let’s Read and look at it verse by verse and glean some golden nuggets for life.

Some Keys to Birthing a God Thing:

1. God comes where you are VS 26-28.

God went to the most unlikely area and chose the most unlikely girl to birth the savior of the world.

No hindrances can block a destiny!

Nazareth was considered the ghetto.

They believe that Nazareth had rude unlearned persons there.

The Jews also believed that they possessed weak morals.

Your uncontrollable elements do not affect God’s ability to invade your environmental realm of

We are often trying to escape our Nazareths!

The only person who can hinder destiny is the person who is supposed to walk it out!

2. Agitation is a part of the equation.

VS 29-33

Agitation, uneasiness, apprehension, an inner struggle and the like are all feelings you will experience when God is about to birth something out of you.

She was certainly surprised, because there was nothing unique about her.

She faced the difficulty of a tarnished reputation.

Mary was pregnant out of wedlock.

But do you think they believed that story in the little town of Nazareth?

Juicy gossip is a hot item in small towns.

It was such a hot item, that 30 years later when Jesus was debating some of his critics, they saw he was winning the argument and decided to throw in a jab at Jesus by saying, "We are not illegitimate children."

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For instance; An engaged woman could not be divorced w/o a "bill" of divorcement; if suspected of unfaithfulness she could be divorced or even put to death, if her fiancé died she was considered as a widow and a child born during the engagement was considered illegitimate).

Therefore, as this "unique" pregnancy became known Mary (a young teenage girl) faced many troubling possibilities; rejection by Joseph, the task of raising her child alone (in a culture hostile to women), in addition she jeopardized her reputation in Nazareth should any of her neighbors find out and she even risked her very life should she be accused of unfaithfulness against Joseph.

All of this no doubt troubled Mary.

Not to mention the fact that Mary could have felt insecure, unworthy and insufficient for this great task of being the mother of God the Son, the savior of the world

3. Expectation: The Holy Ghost will do it!

VS 34-35

Mary knew what would happen to her, she had heard how, but she had no previous experience!

It’s one thing to read about it.

It’s even better to hear how it feels from those who have gone through it.

But it’s better to have experienced it!

Let’s take it a step further, she was different in that her child was a god-man child.

Now one on earth could tell her how to handle this!

When you’re going through something brand new that it out of this world, you can either quit, fret, or trust!

Her question in verse 34 was not an evidence of unbelief; rather it was feeling for faith!

She was posturing herself for believing!

She knew she had to believe the promise, although she didn’t understand the performance.

Gabriel further explained that this would be a miracle, the work of the Holy Spirit of God.

The Holy Ghost who would “overshadow” her prepared this body that would be in her.

This was the same technique used by God to enter the holy of holies in the Jewish tabernacle and temple.

( “Then the cloud covered [to plump, fill up the hollows, to cover and conceal] the Tent of Meeting…”).

When God sends a Holy Ghost blessing, he’ll plump up and cover you up!

Mary’s Expectation Part 2

Last week we began a study on a season in Mary’s life when she was given a promise from God to be the mother of the long awaited messiah.

We pulled some golden nuggets from her experience that enabled her to wait with expectation for the fulfillment of the promise.

Let’s briefly review last week’s golden nuggets we gleaned from Mary’s experience of waiting in expectation:

1. Location: God comes where you are! Vs. 26-28

2. Agitation: is a part of the equation Vs. 29-33

3. Expectation: The Holy Ghost will do it Vs.

34-35

Let’s look at another golden nugget for waiting with expectation

4. Articulation: You prophesy it!

VS 38 Note-when a prophetic utterance is pronounced over you, your response matters.

You must receive it and release it into your life.

You can respond by saying, “I receive that” or “May it be to me as you have said” or “Be it unto me according to thy word”.

If Mary hadn’t received the promise, it would not have come to past through her! God doesn’t force any blessing on you.

Power Point-Prov 18:21

“Words kill, words give life; they’re either poison or fruit—you choose.”

The Message

“Words can bring death or life!

Talk too much, and you will eat everything you say.”

CEV

Two realms of the prophetic:

1. Speaking to create (God said, let there be light and there was light.)

The Apostle James gives a teaching on this part of the prophetic.

The tongue can create and he uses illustrations in .

Verse 6 “…sets the whole course of his life on fire,..”

Course-(literally) wheel, (figuratively) a circuit of effects, cycle, orb, circle.

2. Speaking to reveal what exist in a hidden or invisible realm.

( Elisha reveals the enemy’s secret plan w/o being in the enemy’s presence.

In Elisha spoke what he saw in the invisible/spiritual realm. 2 kings 3:17 Elisha could see in two dimensions.

The Natural and Spiritual.

It was like looking at two television monitors from two different perspectives.

His spiritual had an internal monitor that projected to him the spiritual dimension.)

Mary wasn’t speaking to create she was speaking to bring into existence what was already created!

“It is written: “I believed therefore I have spoken.”

With that same spirit of faith we also believe and therefore speak,” NIV

Mary’s Expectation Part 3 ()

A few weeks ago, we began a study on a season in Mary’s life when she was given a promise from God to be the mother of the long awaited messiah.

We pulled some golden nuggets from her experience that enabled her to wait with expectation for the fulfillment of the promise.

Let’s briefly review last week’s nuggets for waiting with expectation:

1. God comes where you are! Vs. 26-28

2. Agitation is a part of the equation Vs. 29-33

3. The Holy Ghost will do it Vs.

34-35

4. Prophesy it Vs 38

Today I’m going to look at another nugget for “Birthing a God Thing”

Unification - Form “Holy Communions”

The Unification

Form “Holy Communions”

Background

Mary responded to Gabriel’s announcement with faith – yet God knew that there would probably come a million questions and doubts once she didn’t have an angel standing in front of her.

Who, in all the world, could this young teenage girl go to?

Who could understand?

Who would believe her when she told them?

What would she do?

That’s when she thought, “Elizabeth!