WEBVTT 00:00:00.920 --> 00:00:06.740 So this afternoon we're carrying on a bit like with Mary's interactions with Jesus, 00:00:06.879 --> 00:00:11.000 but we're going right back to the beginning with her and her son. 00:00:11.620 --> 00:00:13.900 And we've seen how she was the mum who was like, 00:00:14.019 --> 00:00:17.100 hey, get Jesus involved in your party. 00:00:18.059 --> 00:00:20.100 See what he can do that you can't do. 00:00:20.100 --> 00:00:24.320 But actually there was a decision that she made years previously 00:00:24.320 --> 00:00:27.339 to go for what God had for her. 00:00:27.339 --> 00:00:32.859 And I'd just love us to journey a bit together this afternoon with how that little girl, 00:00:33.039 --> 00:00:38.019 I mean it's strange to think, isn't it, how young she would have been back in those days and in that culture, 00:00:38.159 --> 00:00:41.399 that this young girl could have been picked by God. 00:00:41.500 --> 00:00:44.340 I mean that flies in the face of God doesn't use women, doesn't it? 00:00:45.740 --> 00:00:46.179 Whoops. 00:00:47.719 --> 00:00:50.980 I hate to bring you this passage, but he picked her. 00:00:52.840 --> 00:00:55.299 You know, to do incredible things in his world. 00:00:55.299 --> 00:00:57.479 That's how Jesus the Saviour came. 00:00:58.099 --> 00:01:00.859 And actually, you know, that should just give us such confidence. 00:01:01.079 --> 00:01:05.079 He can just do whatever he wants to do with whoever we think we are, 00:01:05.200 --> 00:01:06.819 whoever we thought we were. 00:01:07.219 --> 00:01:09.000 God can do these amazing things. 00:01:09.420 --> 00:01:10.979 Anything is possible with God. 00:01:11.400 --> 00:01:17.479 And so here we have this young girl who actually becomes isolated in her society 00:01:17.479 --> 00:01:19.239 because of what God did within her. 00:01:19.280 --> 00:01:21.219 And you know what, sometimes that happens to us. 00:01:21.219 --> 00:01:25.239 Because we feel like we're the mad bonkers ones, like carrying God around with us. 00:01:25.299 --> 00:01:26.939 We're literally like Mary's, you know. 00:01:27.000 --> 00:01:30.000 We're prototypes of the same thing really. 00:01:30.099 --> 00:01:32.799 Not necessarily conveying like babies coming out. 00:01:32.859 --> 00:01:36.180 But you know, we're like, we carry the life of God in us. 00:01:36.879 --> 00:01:39.400 And just like with Mary, it will change our shape. 00:01:39.480 --> 00:01:41.120 It will change how people relate to us. 00:01:41.159 --> 00:01:44.460 It will change what we have to decide and the choices that are set before us. 00:01:44.500 --> 00:01:46.900 Do we get rid of what God's doing in our lives? 00:01:46.900 --> 00:01:48.160 Or do we carry it through? 00:01:48.620 --> 00:01:52.640 Do we take a decision to say, whatever you want, God, I'm going to do this. 00:01:52.680 --> 00:01:55.100 And you know, this young girl, she made those choices. 00:01:56.100 --> 00:01:58.060 And she did that completely isolated. 00:01:58.160 --> 00:01:59.080 And we've got each other. 00:01:59.980 --> 00:02:02.740 And so if she can do it, then we can definitely do it. 00:02:03.300 --> 00:02:07.200 And so we're going to kind of journey a bit with her and put ourselves into her situation. 00:02:07.380 --> 00:02:11.780 Listen to those phrases that I felt the Holy Spirit really go, tell them this. 00:02:11.780 --> 00:02:14.199 So you'll see those come up bold. 00:02:15.020 --> 00:02:18.640 But we'll do a little bit of a journey with her this afternoon. 00:02:18.719 --> 00:02:20.039 But I wanted to introduce you. 00:02:20.080 --> 00:02:23.000 Now, I did confess earlier that I got jealous of my one-year-old niece. 00:02:23.060 --> 00:02:24.740 But this is her when she was born. 00:02:25.360 --> 00:02:26.120 Isn't she gorgeous? 00:02:26.560 --> 00:02:27.520 She's called Sarah. 00:02:27.840 --> 00:02:33.199 And my brother married a French girl, which was quite inconvenient because we have to go to France to see her quite a lot. 00:02:33.379 --> 00:02:34.580 But oh, well, I must go. 00:02:35.240 --> 00:02:39.539 And but I was going, you know, I told you a bit about my context. 00:02:39.539 --> 00:02:46.159 Now, in the context of me feeling like my trust in love was failing, like love never fails and I was going well. 00:02:46.219 --> 00:02:46.819 I think it might. 00:02:47.280 --> 00:02:49.099 And feeling like new things could happen. 00:02:49.180 --> 00:02:50.819 And I was like, no, I don't think they can. 00:02:50.959 --> 00:02:54.500 Everyone's leaving and people are sad and marriages are breaking and la, la, la. 00:02:54.620 --> 00:02:55.459 And I don't know who to trust. 00:02:56.280 --> 00:03:01.340 Into this context, the other thing I was thinking is this sounds really bad, but some of you might relate to it. 00:03:01.379 --> 00:03:03.340 I just thought, oh, my parents are getting old. 00:03:03.659 --> 00:03:06.620 I'm going to end up wiping their bums and then I'm going to just rot away and die. 00:03:06.620 --> 00:03:10.420 Honestly, that's what I thought. 00:03:10.719 --> 00:03:13.319 I thought, if I don't leave this town, that's my fate. 00:03:13.500 --> 00:03:13.860 There we go. 00:03:13.920 --> 00:03:14.939 I've been really honest. 00:03:15.039 --> 00:03:15.719 This is being recorded. 00:03:15.879 --> 00:03:16.560 Sorry, mom and dad. 00:03:16.599 --> 00:03:17.200 I really love you. 00:03:17.280 --> 00:03:22.240 But that's what I was thinking because I'm like the one who stayed in Cheltenham and like, you know, my dad had a heart attack. 00:03:22.300 --> 00:03:23.560 And I was like, I'm going to take time off. 00:03:23.640 --> 00:03:26.040 Let's be there because that's I want to do that for my family. 00:03:26.259 --> 00:03:29.599 But I was thinking if I don't get out of here, that's my fate. 00:03:29.599 --> 00:03:31.739 And I was literally thinking we're all getting old. 00:03:32.099 --> 00:03:33.000 It's all going downhill. 00:03:33.159 --> 00:03:36.979 I had silver glitter coming out of my head, going gray. 00:03:37.340 --> 00:03:40.500 And I was just thinking, oh, no, it's all going down, down, down, down. 00:03:40.579 --> 00:03:42.740 I'm rotting away and there is no hope and I'm going to die. 00:03:43.000 --> 00:03:44.159 That's how I felt. 00:03:44.579 --> 00:03:50.439 But then in that context, my brother and his wife said, we're about to have a baby. 00:03:50.939 --> 00:03:58.460 And honestly, when she was born, I was like, oh, suddenly it doesn't feel like everyone's just getting older and older. 00:03:58.859 --> 00:04:00.719 Suddenly it doesn't feel like we're all just going downhill. 00:04:00.960 --> 00:04:05.120 Suddenly, even though it wasn't my baby, this is how the church works, guys. 00:04:05.199 --> 00:04:09.240 Even though someone else brought the life into the family, it was like it came to me. 00:04:09.900 --> 00:04:12.780 And I have to say, I wasn't that gracious when she was one. 00:04:12.780 --> 00:04:16.659 But when she was first born, we'll reverse a bit. 00:04:16.839 --> 00:04:17.579 I'm going to adapt. 00:04:17.680 --> 00:04:18.879 I'm going to be world's best auntie. 00:04:18.920 --> 00:04:19.680 I'm going for that prize. 00:04:19.680 --> 00:04:25.439 But when she first came, it was literally like I looked at the purity of her face. 00:04:25.519 --> 00:04:30.160 I looked at her bright beady eyes and I just thought, wow, what hope. 00:04:30.959 --> 00:04:33.439 And it was like she was a symbol of hope for my life. 00:04:33.819 --> 00:04:37.560 And it was with that I felt suddenly confident I can move away. 00:04:37.840 --> 00:04:39.019 My parents will be okay. 00:04:39.100 --> 00:04:42.160 We're not all just rotting away and going to pop our clogs and go to heaven. 00:04:42.519 --> 00:04:46.160 We actually, there is hope for this life, which I know it sounds really weird, 00:04:46.160 --> 00:04:49.600 but I wonder if anyone has felt a bit like maybe a different circumstance. 00:04:49.680 --> 00:04:50.959 But we are all getting old. 00:04:51.019 --> 00:04:52.280 That is factual, isn't it? 00:04:52.639 --> 00:04:57.519 But even though the Bible says, even though we waste away inwardly, we're made alive daily. 00:04:57.900 --> 00:05:02.579 And I just felt like almost she was a little picture that came into my life. 00:05:02.620 --> 00:05:05.780 And I thought, actually, that's why Jesus came as a baby. 00:05:06.480 --> 00:05:09.139 You know, when we see these little babies, we see like the innocence. 00:05:09.639 --> 00:05:10.360 And you know what? 00:05:10.360 --> 00:05:14.080 God knew exactly what he was doing, choosing a young woman and choosing a baby. 00:05:14.680 --> 00:05:17.960 Because, you know, I looked at this one-year-old over Christmas, 00:05:18.180 --> 00:05:23.720 feeling like she was annoying me slightly because of the way that we were being told to parent and all of that. 00:05:24.060 --> 00:05:28.080 But she actually, you know, that's what they call the power of the powerless in a baby. 00:05:28.740 --> 00:05:30.500 Everything changes because of a baby. 00:05:31.080 --> 00:05:32.920 You know, we couldn't watch the telly because of the baby. 00:05:32.920 --> 00:05:36.960 We were like, we had to be quiet after a certain time because of the baby. 00:05:37.120 --> 00:05:39.600 All of our mealtimes changed because of the baby. 00:05:39.900 --> 00:05:45.300 I couldn't watch even the queen's speech because of the baby, let alone Poirot. 00:05:46.120 --> 00:05:50.100 So, you know, God knew exactly what he was doing, picking a baby. 00:05:51.439 --> 00:05:54.400 And he knew exactly what he was doing, picking a teenage girl. 00:05:54.920 --> 00:05:57.759 And he knows exactly what he's doing, picking you. 00:05:58.660 --> 00:05:59.980 He knows exactly what he's doing. 00:05:59.980 --> 00:06:01.400 He's not at all confused. 00:06:01.700 --> 00:06:04.180 You might be going, oh, I don't know why you choose me to do this. 00:06:04.300 --> 00:06:05.780 I can't carry you very well. 00:06:05.819 --> 00:06:08.120 I can't be the body of Christ, the hands of Jesus, the eyes of Jesus. 00:06:08.200 --> 00:06:09.140 Can't walk around God. 00:06:09.720 --> 00:06:10.860 God's good news everywhere. 00:06:11.000 --> 00:06:12.020 Don't pick someone else. 00:06:13.120 --> 00:06:14.520 He knows exactly what he's doing. 00:06:15.360 --> 00:06:19.860 And he's not falling off his throne and he's not devoid of his mind in picking this. 00:06:20.000 --> 00:06:21.840 But there's my brother and there's my little Sarah. 00:06:22.540 --> 00:06:24.520 And this is a picture of hope. 00:06:25.800 --> 00:06:28.540 Hoping for families, hope for all of us. 00:06:28.540 --> 00:06:39.780 So let's have a little journey through the way that Luke recorded it in chapter one and kind of see what the Holy Spirit wants to say to you as you sit here today receiving these words. 00:06:40.360 --> 00:06:42.960 So in the sixth month of Elizabeth's pregnancy. 00:06:43.140 --> 00:06:43.640 So you know what? 00:06:43.680 --> 00:06:47.680 We're all carrying life in some form, aren't we? 00:06:47.680 --> 00:06:49.579 And so was Elizabeth. 00:06:49.579 --> 00:07:00.340 In the sixth month of her pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. 00:07:01.100 --> 00:07:03.660 The virgin's name was Mary. 00:07:04.540 --> 00:07:05.840 God knows your name. 00:07:07.220 --> 00:07:09.040 He's picking you, handpicked. 00:07:09.040 --> 00:07:18.660 And the angel went to her and said to this little Mary, greetings you who are highly favoured. 00:07:19.400 --> 00:07:22.140 The Lord is with you. 00:07:24.360 --> 00:07:25.240 And you know what? 00:07:25.280 --> 00:07:28.780 In the scripture, when God had said it then, he says it again. 00:07:29.680 --> 00:07:32.420 If he says it for her, he says it for you. 00:07:32.420 --> 00:07:35.980 And if he did it back then, he can do it again. 00:07:36.500 --> 00:07:40.340 In fact, he can do it even better, more differently. 00:07:40.660 --> 00:07:44.860 But this is kind of a demonstration of our impossible God. 00:07:45.140 --> 00:07:53.759 And he wants to say to you today, I think, you, you who I know the name of, you are highly favoured by God. 00:07:54.740 --> 00:07:57.860 And God himself is with you. 00:07:58.720 --> 00:07:59.700 He is with you. 00:07:59.699 --> 00:08:04.479 But Mary was greatly troubled. 00:08:05.479 --> 00:08:09.259 And you know when God starts to say things that we're like, oh, that's a new one on me. 00:08:10.099 --> 00:08:12.480 It sort of disrupts us, doesn't it? 00:08:13.199 --> 00:08:14.539 It disrupts our minds. 00:08:15.099 --> 00:08:18.959 And she was troubled at his words and she wondered what kind of greeting this might be. 00:08:19.039 --> 00:08:21.659 We're always a bit suspicious of compliments, aren't we? 00:08:22.259 --> 00:08:24.079 We better learn to take them from God. 00:08:25.659 --> 00:08:28.339 Especially our Christians, brothers and sisters as well. 00:08:28.339 --> 00:08:31.299 So she's like, uh-oh, what kind of greeting is this? 00:08:32.500 --> 00:08:33.240 What do you want? 00:08:33.539 --> 00:08:36.199 Oh, just your whole life and I want to put my son in your body. 00:08:36.620 --> 00:08:37.519 Oh, okay, great. 00:08:37.899 --> 00:08:40.039 So in a way she was right to be a bit suspicious. 00:08:40.500 --> 00:08:41.980 Because God had plans. 00:08:42.980 --> 00:08:47.240 But the angel said to her, do not be afraid. 00:08:48.720 --> 00:08:51.480 Do not be afraid. 00:08:51.480 --> 00:08:56.680 Daughters of the Most High God, do not you dare be afraid. 00:08:57.460 --> 00:09:01.259 Because God is up to something and he wants to tag you into his plan. 00:09:02.100 --> 00:09:03.720 So do not be afraid. 00:09:04.440 --> 00:09:06.279 Even if you don't fully know what's coming. 00:09:06.379 --> 00:09:08.000 Mary had no idea what was coming. 00:09:08.000 --> 00:09:13.519 But what was coming was favour with God. 00:09:13.940 --> 00:09:16.000 You have found favour with God. 00:09:16.700 --> 00:09:19.679 You will conceive and give birth to a son. 00:09:20.059 --> 00:09:23.059 And you are to call him Jesus. 00:09:23.539 --> 00:09:26.000 Which means saviour or God saves. 00:09:26.899 --> 00:09:32.279 Inside her, she was walking around a message that was going to scream at the world. 00:09:32.639 --> 00:09:33.000 God saves. 00:09:33.799 --> 00:09:34.840 God can save that. 00:09:34.840 --> 00:09:36.200 God can save you. 00:09:36.500 --> 00:09:38.080 God can save that situation. 00:09:38.620 --> 00:09:38.980 Look. 00:09:40.440 --> 00:09:44.980 And inside you is a message from the Most High God. 00:09:45.080 --> 00:09:45.960 Who knows your name. 00:09:46.060 --> 00:09:47.420 Who thinks you're highly favoured. 00:09:47.780 --> 00:09:48.860 And he's tagged you. 00:09:49.200 --> 00:09:52.000 He's picked you to carry around a message that says, 00:09:52.100 --> 00:09:53.460 I have hope in that situation. 00:09:53.840 --> 00:09:55.019 With God all things are possible. 00:09:55.160 --> 00:09:56.200 God could save that. 00:09:57.340 --> 00:09:58.620 Watch my walk change. 00:09:59.160 --> 00:10:00.480 Watch my life change. 00:10:00.800 --> 00:10:02.940 Actually watch people isolate me a bit. 00:10:02.940 --> 00:10:05.780 Because I'm the only one at the moment still standing and believing it. 00:10:05.820 --> 00:10:07.060 But it's changing me. 00:10:07.480 --> 00:10:08.380 This was Mary. 00:10:09.060 --> 00:10:09.720 And you know what? 00:10:09.780 --> 00:10:10.440 This is us. 00:10:11.120 --> 00:10:11.820 This is us. 00:10:14.440 --> 00:10:19.060 And I love that what she was going to birth, she knew what to call it. 00:10:19.960 --> 00:10:22.160 She kind of got a heads up from the angel. 00:10:22.240 --> 00:10:23.260 That's quite handy, isn't it? 00:10:23.720 --> 00:10:26.500 And some of you sitting there, it's like you're about to give birth. 00:10:26.500 --> 00:10:30.059 There's new things on the horizon. 00:10:30.639 --> 00:10:31.159 And you know what? 00:10:31.200 --> 00:10:34.940 God is perfectly within his power and capabilities to say, 00:10:35.080 --> 00:10:36.200 and that's what it's going to be. 00:10:36.440 --> 00:10:37.299 And we're going to name it. 00:10:37.320 --> 00:10:40.799 My friend got her business name almost like as a download from God. 00:10:41.559 --> 00:10:44.419 Then she was like asking God, oh, I don't know about a logo. 00:10:44.519 --> 00:10:46.379 And she saw in her mind a picture of a crown. 00:10:46.480 --> 00:10:48.080 She makes the most amazing cakes. 00:10:48.080 --> 00:10:53.580 And like every time she makes cakes or gets booked for booking, 00:10:53.680 --> 00:10:56.300 she prays over them, prays like God bless these people. 00:10:56.379 --> 00:10:59.080 And she gets them say things like it's really weird, like, you know, 00:10:59.139 --> 00:10:59.639 meeting you. 00:10:59.700 --> 00:11:01.340 It just changed the atmosphere in our home. 00:11:01.480 --> 00:11:04.080 And oh, I just felt, you know, there was a different kind of presence. 00:11:04.460 --> 00:11:06.520 You know, and she's like, ha ha, it's Jesus. 00:11:08.600 --> 00:11:10.879 Allow me to introduce you to my friend, Jesus. 00:11:12.500 --> 00:11:13.540 He can save you. 00:11:13.680 --> 00:11:14.140 Sorry, I can't. 00:11:14.940 --> 00:11:18.060 Do you notice in worship, who's a kind of a flinger in worship? 00:11:19.000 --> 00:11:19.540 Any flingers? 00:11:20.220 --> 00:11:21.259 Am I the only flinger? 00:11:22.740 --> 00:11:24.040 I think I might be the only flinger. 00:11:24.540 --> 00:11:26.360 I knocked cap a couple of times. 00:11:26.960 --> 00:11:28.720 And I confidently sang the wrong words. 00:11:28.800 --> 00:11:30.320 Possibly heresy, accidentally. 00:11:30.780 --> 00:11:32.100 Just with my confident singing. 00:11:33.980 --> 00:11:36.680 Sometimes I have to rain it down and like hold myself. 00:11:37.820 --> 00:11:39.240 Imagine it's Jesus holding me. 00:11:39.580 --> 00:11:41.400 No, I'm actually trying to keep my arms down. 00:11:41.759 --> 00:11:42.540 I'm so enthusiastic. 00:11:43.020 --> 00:11:44.020 Anyway, moving back. 00:11:45.160 --> 00:11:47.980 And then this is what she was going to birth was going to be. 00:11:48.080 --> 00:11:49.120 He will be great. 00:11:49.460 --> 00:11:51.360 He will be called the Son of the Most High. 00:11:51.460 --> 00:11:53.960 The Lord will give him the throne of his father, David. 00:11:54.220 --> 00:11:56.940 He will reign over Jacob's descendants forever. 00:11:57.259 --> 00:11:58.980 His kingdom will never end. 00:11:59.340 --> 00:12:02.259 You see, God wants to put things in you that make a difference. 00:12:02.259 --> 00:12:05.159 But change things. 00:12:05.360 --> 00:12:07.919 That have kind of like an authority over something. 00:12:08.019 --> 00:12:09.519 There's all these spheres of society. 00:12:09.639 --> 00:12:11.679 It's like the new buzz thing, isn't it, for Christians. 00:12:11.819 --> 00:12:14.379 Like, oh, there's seven spheres of society. 00:12:14.620 --> 00:12:15.460 Cultural mountains. 00:12:15.980 --> 00:12:16.600 And do you know what? 00:12:16.659 --> 00:12:18.259 God wants us to take our stand in them. 00:12:18.319 --> 00:12:20.740 He wants us to have our stand in education system. 00:12:20.840 --> 00:12:22.319 We need to get Christians in there. 00:12:22.620 --> 00:12:25.819 We need to get the mind of Christ and the voice of Christ into schools and education. 00:12:26.159 --> 00:12:27.580 He needs Christians in the government. 00:12:27.759 --> 00:12:28.299 Does he not? 00:12:28.299 --> 00:12:30.879 God, he needs Christians in businesses. 00:12:31.759 --> 00:12:36.139 You know, for such a long time, we thought, oh, if we can influence somewhere, let's influence the church. 00:12:36.259 --> 00:12:37.719 God's like, it's okay, I've got the church. 00:12:37.899 --> 00:12:38.919 Can you please take the world? 00:12:39.019 --> 00:12:39.500 Thank you. 00:12:40.799 --> 00:12:43.639 You know, it's like there's stuff for us to do. 00:12:44.039 --> 00:12:46.699 There's rulership that he gives us and authority he gives us. 00:12:46.740 --> 00:12:51.199 And we don't have to snatch it and strut around like peacocks and shout loud about it. 00:12:51.200 --> 00:12:54.500 But we do have to, like, know what we carry and bring it. 00:12:54.900 --> 00:12:56.259 Bring it and carry it well. 00:12:57.080 --> 00:13:01.240 And know that God is building his kingdom and his kingdom will never end and it can't be shaken. 00:13:02.100 --> 00:13:05.500 So if we start taking the kingdom of God into those places, you know what? 00:13:05.540 --> 00:13:08.020 They are going to get on their faces before Jesus. 00:13:08.019 --> 00:13:15.779 And wouldn't it be amazing if people in medicine and, you know, research and stuff were hearing from God these cures? 00:13:16.039 --> 00:13:19.319 You know, I have family and friends, you know, their insecurity. 00:13:19.519 --> 00:13:21.579 They need to be hearing the voice of God. 00:13:22.439 --> 00:13:26.460 You know, like I love in the Bible how God shows, oh, the enemy's coming from here. 00:13:26.559 --> 00:13:27.279 They had a heads up. 00:13:27.340 --> 00:13:27.919 We need that. 00:13:29.039 --> 00:13:31.100 You know, we need these Christians in different areas. 00:13:31.279 --> 00:13:32.840 Anyway, I've gone really off-piste. 00:13:33.059 --> 00:13:34.759 I've gone all the way over here and I don't know where I'm going. 00:13:34.759 --> 00:13:35.299 Anyway, I'm coming back. 00:13:35.299 --> 00:13:43.219 But God wants to build his kingdom through us for the sake of this world because that's the whole point of Jesus is to save. 00:13:44.000 --> 00:13:49.859 And so there's areas that God gives us authority over and influence over and family life is a key one. 00:13:50.419 --> 00:13:52.559 You know, it's great hearing from Homestuck, wasn't it? 00:13:53.240 --> 00:13:57.219 Anyway, and then Mary asked the question that we are probably now asking. 00:13:57.339 --> 00:13:59.939 Okay, God wants to do that in us, but how can this be? 00:14:00.539 --> 00:14:00.899 How? 00:14:02.599 --> 00:14:04.779 And then she says, because I'm just like this. 00:14:04.779 --> 00:14:06.980 I literally, I have had no sex. 00:14:07.299 --> 00:14:08.199 You don't seem to understand. 00:14:09.100 --> 00:14:11.000 That's normally the way this happens. 00:14:11.779 --> 00:14:13.500 But God has a solution. 00:14:13.679 --> 00:14:16.740 He says the Holy Spirit will come on you. 00:14:16.819 --> 00:14:20.559 The power of the Most High will overshadow you. 00:14:20.919 --> 00:14:25.079 And the Holy One to be born will be called the Son of God. 00:14:25.419 --> 00:14:31.639 And you know today, there is a sense of the presence of God hovering over us, overshadowing us. 00:14:31.639 --> 00:14:38.259 Jay talked earlier in the worship, didn't he, about almost like a breeding and brooding hen over us with wings. 00:14:38.960 --> 00:14:46.159 Nustling us under, incubating us in a really nurturing, maternal way, bringing life. 00:14:46.159 --> 00:14:48.419 That's the job of our Holy Spirit. 00:14:48.419 --> 00:14:51.740 God's Spirit, the Most High God. 00:14:52.419 --> 00:14:54.000 Of course he can do this. 00:14:54.259 --> 00:14:56.699 It sounds, I realize it sounds so strange. 00:14:57.339 --> 00:14:58.399 But this is our God. 00:14:58.500 --> 00:15:03.699 And if we are to be at a conference where we're saying our verse is nothing is impossible with God, 00:15:04.100 --> 00:15:05.199 we better start believing it. 00:15:06.240 --> 00:15:07.480 We better start believing it. 00:15:07.480 --> 00:15:13.500 And I said this earlier, but this is true. 00:15:13.659 --> 00:15:19.159 You know, whoever believes in me, this is Jesus saying this, recorded in John, as Scripture has said. 00:15:19.620 --> 00:15:21.960 You know, whoever believes in Jesus, as Scripture has said. 00:15:22.159 --> 00:15:23.720 As the Bible has described. 00:15:24.100 --> 00:15:26.399 If you believe in him like that. 00:15:26.460 --> 00:15:28.379 If you go, oh yeah, I agree with that. 00:15:28.379 --> 00:15:33.580 Then, living water, rivers of living water will flow from within them. 00:15:33.679 --> 00:15:35.919 Out, right out from us. 00:15:36.500 --> 00:15:39.080 God wants to put something in you that's so powerful. 00:15:39.220 --> 00:15:40.679 Just like he put Jesus into Mary. 00:15:40.820 --> 00:15:41.519 So powerful. 00:15:41.860 --> 00:15:42.860 Brought life out. 00:15:43.980 --> 00:15:45.240 He still does that. 00:15:45.840 --> 00:15:46.840 He still does that. 00:15:48.860 --> 00:15:51.840 And then, the angel says, even Elizabeth. 00:15:52.659 --> 00:15:54.360 And she is old. 00:15:55.740 --> 00:15:57.259 She's an old lady. 00:15:58.240 --> 00:16:00.039 Even she's going to have a child. 00:16:00.299 --> 00:16:01.700 And she's unable to conceive. 00:16:01.799 --> 00:16:02.319 But you know what? 00:16:02.379 --> 00:16:03.620 She's in her sixth month. 00:16:04.299 --> 00:16:07.419 And some of you, your reason is like, I'm sorry. 00:16:07.700 --> 00:16:09.539 I'm just too old and frail. 00:16:09.799 --> 00:16:10.720 God's like, I'm sorry. 00:16:10.879 --> 00:16:11.500 I'm God. 00:16:15.720 --> 00:16:17.299 And there's like me going, I'm sorry. 00:16:17.360 --> 00:16:20.019 Everyone looks like they're dying around me and getting old and decrepit. 00:16:20.220 --> 00:16:22.639 And God's like, I'm going to put a baby in your family. 00:16:22.879 --> 00:16:23.939 And then we'll talk about it. 00:16:23.940 --> 00:16:28.500 And then, you know, this is what the angel says. 00:16:28.660 --> 00:16:31.280 No word from God will ever fail. 00:16:32.220 --> 00:16:35.540 And other translations say nothing is impossible with God. 00:16:36.420 --> 00:16:36.860 Nothing. 00:16:36.860 --> 00:16:39.580 Nothing is impossible with God. 00:16:39.580 --> 00:16:42.560 And no word from God will ever fail. 00:16:43.080 --> 00:16:44.860 I'm talking myself into it. 00:16:44.960 --> 00:16:45.820 You know that, right? 00:16:45.899 --> 00:16:46.620 I've shared enough. 00:16:47.320 --> 00:16:48.759 This is what I'm talking myself into. 00:16:49.460 --> 00:16:51.139 And I'm trying to convince you. 00:16:51.480 --> 00:16:52.940 Please talk yourself into it too. 00:16:53.419 --> 00:16:54.720 Pray yourself into it too. 00:16:55.039 --> 00:16:56.419 Sing yourself into it too. 00:16:56.740 --> 00:16:59.200 We don't sing because we know it's true at the time. 00:16:59.279 --> 00:17:01.740 We sing it to increase our faith that it will be true. 00:17:02.580 --> 00:17:03.460 That's the point. 00:17:04.859 --> 00:17:06.079 And then she says this. 00:17:06.140 --> 00:17:07.140 She makes this decision. 00:17:07.339 --> 00:17:09.819 And this is the decision I'd love us to come to today. 00:17:10.500 --> 00:17:12.240 I'm the Lord's servant. 00:17:13.420 --> 00:17:15.000 Like, I'm not here because of me. 00:17:15.500 --> 00:17:18.519 I'm here because God plonked me here on this earth in a particular space. 00:17:18.660 --> 00:17:23.759 I'm somehow in this westernized world that I live in with the family I have and the neighborhood I have. 00:17:23.759 --> 00:17:26.559 With the skills I have, knowing the people I know. 00:17:27.379 --> 00:17:29.259 But we're servants of God, really. 00:17:31.440 --> 00:17:36.039 And so she says, may your word to me be fulfilled. 00:17:36.279 --> 00:17:41.160 Other translations say, let it be to me according to your word. 00:17:41.859 --> 00:17:44.420 Now, we could live our lives according to our words. 00:17:45.240 --> 00:17:46.200 Might be okay. 00:17:46.859 --> 00:17:50.000 We could live our lives according to the words and opinions of others. 00:17:50.000 --> 00:17:52.619 Again, might be okay but might be a bit average. 00:17:52.799 --> 00:17:56.839 Might be even quite dreadful if we all went by the opinions of others. 00:17:56.940 --> 00:18:01.440 But if we do this according to God's word. 00:18:03.480 --> 00:18:04.900 According to God's word. 00:18:05.220 --> 00:18:07.460 May it be to me according to God's word. 00:18:08.240 --> 00:18:08.420 Yeah? 00:18:09.180 --> 00:18:10.200 Do you want to do that too? 00:18:10.559 --> 00:18:11.079 I do. 00:18:11.920 --> 00:18:14.200 Because I think it might be a bit rubbish without God's word. 00:18:14.720 --> 00:18:16.839 I'd rather trust in the most high God. 00:18:16.839 --> 00:18:22.240 The middle verse in the Bible says it's better to trust in God than to trust in man. 00:18:22.319 --> 00:18:26.359 It's better to trust in God than to put your trust in princes, leaders, you know. 00:18:27.259 --> 00:18:27.919 Even them. 00:18:29.259 --> 00:18:30.500 Put our trust in God. 00:18:31.079 --> 00:18:34.339 Let our lives be completely according to God's word. 00:18:34.419 --> 00:18:35.240 And then I love this. 00:18:35.539 --> 00:18:36.720 And then the angel left her. 00:18:38.159 --> 00:18:38.599 Bye! 00:18:39.879 --> 00:18:40.579 Good luck! 00:18:40.579 --> 00:18:40.599 Good luck! 00:18:40.599 --> 00:18:40.619 Good luck! 00:18:40.619 --> 00:18:40.859 Good luck! 00:18:46.839 --> 00:18:49.759 And then this is a bit of a challenge I think from James. 00:18:50.480 --> 00:18:53.659 He said get rid of all the filth and the evil in our lives. 00:18:53.759 --> 00:18:55.720 This is serious stuff. 00:18:56.220 --> 00:18:58.619 You know we get a lot of mess and nonsense in our lives. 00:18:58.679 --> 00:19:00.519 And make some such stupid decisions. 00:19:00.659 --> 00:19:02.699 Honestly I could write a book of my most stupid decisions. 00:19:03.279 --> 00:19:07.619 But then humbly accept the word God has planted in your hearts. 00:19:07.919 --> 00:19:10.779 It has the power to save your souls. 00:19:12.500 --> 00:19:14.399 Like this is serious. 00:19:14.400 --> 00:19:18.180 We have to take in what God says. 00:19:18.720 --> 00:19:20.420 Because it's his saving power. 00:19:21.820 --> 00:19:24.880 Imagine if she'd be like, well thank you very much for your kind offer. 00:19:24.920 --> 00:19:26.540 But I'm kind of a teenager right now. 00:19:26.600 --> 00:19:27.640 I've got stuff to do. 00:19:28.300 --> 00:19:29.400 I fancy this guy. 00:19:29.480 --> 00:19:30.320 We're going to get hitched. 00:19:30.960 --> 00:19:33.640 God's like, um, I know but I need to send a saviour. 00:19:33.960 --> 00:19:34.519 We've got a plan. 00:19:35.780 --> 00:19:38.300 She actually said, you know, accept. 00:19:38.780 --> 00:19:39.320 I accept. 00:19:39.500 --> 00:19:40.080 I accept. 00:19:40.600 --> 00:19:41.259 I accept. 00:19:41.360 --> 00:19:42.380 I accept what you say. 00:19:42.440 --> 00:19:43.540 I accept that word. 00:19:43.539 --> 00:19:44.879 And you know what? 00:19:45.299 --> 00:19:47.279 Because she did, our souls are saved. 00:19:48.319 --> 00:19:49.359 Like hell is lighter. 00:19:50.920 --> 00:19:52.200 Heaven is more populated. 00:19:53.440 --> 00:19:54.399 This is serious. 00:19:55.079 --> 00:19:57.299 Because people are screwing their lives up out there. 00:19:58.039 --> 00:19:59.200 And we carry Jesus. 00:19:59.899 --> 00:20:02.000 And everywhere we go, we walk Jesus. 00:20:02.240 --> 00:20:04.819 And everything we touch, we touch with the hands of Jesus. 00:20:04.980 --> 00:20:06.680 We are now the body of Christ. 00:20:06.920 --> 00:20:08.440 We're inhabited by Jesus. 00:20:08.440 --> 00:20:10.420 Our eyes are his eyes. 00:20:10.660 --> 00:20:11.820 Our hands are his hands. 00:20:11.880 --> 00:20:12.860 Our feet are his. 00:20:12.960 --> 00:20:13.279 Our mind. 00:20:13.299 --> 00:20:14.740 We have the mind of Christ. 00:20:15.460 --> 00:20:17.779 He didn't give us, like, a spirit of fear. 00:20:17.840 --> 00:20:20.059 He gave us power and love and a sound mind. 00:20:20.100 --> 00:20:21.200 Because it's his mind. 00:20:22.460 --> 00:20:23.340 It's his mind. 00:20:23.400 --> 00:20:24.420 Your head is his head. 00:20:25.420 --> 00:20:26.500 Your mouth is his mouth. 00:20:26.559 --> 00:20:28.720 Like, we need this roar of the lion again. 00:20:29.339 --> 00:20:31.140 We're like, oh, the nice lamb of Jesus. 00:20:31.279 --> 00:20:33.039 And we're all lying on the floor like martyrs. 00:20:33.559 --> 00:20:34.759 Like, great for a season. 00:20:34.880 --> 00:20:36.200 But get up on your feet and roar. 00:20:38.339 --> 00:20:40.240 Because this is serious stuff. 00:20:40.839 --> 00:20:42.180 It's saving stuff. 00:20:42.240 --> 00:20:42.980 And you know what? 00:20:43.140 --> 00:20:44.940 More than ever, lives need saving. 00:20:45.080 --> 00:20:49.279 I have never walked through so much nonsense that I have walked through when I walked through Stokescroft. 00:20:50.299 --> 00:20:52.180 And I'm completely used to it now. 00:20:52.259 --> 00:20:55.320 I'm used to someone lying on the floor, drugged out of their head, mumbling. 00:20:56.259 --> 00:20:57.279 It's not acceptable. 00:20:58.340 --> 00:20:59.940 You need the saving power of God. 00:20:59.940 --> 00:21:03.440 I walk past people and they're cut all up their arms. 00:21:03.820 --> 00:21:08.360 It's not acceptable to hurt what God has made and thinks is precious. 00:21:10.279 --> 00:21:11.500 It's not acceptable. 00:21:12.019 --> 00:21:14.620 You need the power of God and the word of God. 00:21:14.940 --> 00:21:16.940 And the saving of God. 00:21:18.820 --> 00:21:25.120 And you know, the verse comes from this, from today, came from this passage where, you know, 00:21:25.200 --> 00:21:31.140 he was saying it's really, really difficult when you have so much stuff to remember who God is. 00:21:31.940 --> 00:21:34.539 It's hard for that rich person to get through the eye of a needle. 00:21:36.519 --> 00:21:37.640 So many camels. 00:21:38.059 --> 00:21:38.920 So many bags. 00:21:40.180 --> 00:21:42.740 Oh, I'm sorry, God, but I've got a lot of stuff. 00:21:42.740 --> 00:21:46.640 Like, we forget how powerful God is. 00:21:47.620 --> 00:21:52.920 And that's exactly why he said to those people who have loads of stuff, could fix things in other ways. 00:21:53.000 --> 00:21:54.900 No, it's Jesus is the only saviour. 00:21:57.039 --> 00:21:58.539 God is a God of impossible. 00:21:58.539 --> 00:22:06.000 Saving power is for everybody. 00:22:06.480 --> 00:22:10.839 But it's tricky when you think you can do it on your own and you've got lots of stuff and people can bail you out. 00:22:11.059 --> 00:22:12.920 You forget you actually need a saviour. 00:22:13.659 --> 00:22:14.180 And you know what? 00:22:14.200 --> 00:22:15.180 I want to remind you today. 00:22:15.420 --> 00:22:16.440 You need a saviour. 00:22:16.440 --> 00:22:19.620 Every day we need the mercy of God. 00:22:20.380 --> 00:22:24.019 Every day we kind of need saving, don't we, from something in some way. 00:22:24.360 --> 00:22:26.120 It's what I was saying about my old housemate. 00:22:26.240 --> 00:22:27.460 You know, we don't just have faith. 00:22:27.559 --> 00:22:29.019 We practice our faith. 00:22:30.160 --> 00:22:31.340 We have to practice it. 00:22:31.440 --> 00:22:36.799 You know, with this situation, Jesus was saying, it is completely impossible. 00:22:37.980 --> 00:22:39.640 But with God, all things are possible. 00:22:40.759 --> 00:22:42.279 With God, all things are possible. 00:22:42.279 --> 00:22:49.759 Even those people with loads of stuff who do not look like they need Jesus, they actually really do. 00:22:53.519 --> 00:22:59.240 And so Mary, having made this decision to say, okay, I agree, I'm going to carry what you put in me, God. 00:22:59.700 --> 00:23:01.220 Thanks, angel, for the heads up. 00:23:01.660 --> 00:23:03.039 I'd better sort this out with my partner. 00:23:03.180 --> 00:23:03.980 This could get tricky. 00:23:05.379 --> 00:23:06.420 She gets ready. 00:23:07.019 --> 00:23:10.500 And she hurries to a town in the hill country of Judea. 00:23:10.500 --> 00:23:13.859 She entered Zechariah's home and she greeted Elizabeth. 00:23:14.500 --> 00:23:15.079 And you know what? 00:23:15.160 --> 00:23:19.299 Sometimes when we start to think, oh, okay, I think I've got something brewing that God's put within me. 00:23:19.500 --> 00:23:20.660 I'm not quite sure. 00:23:20.940 --> 00:23:21.740 Do you know what you need to do? 00:23:21.799 --> 00:23:25.819 You need to get yourself to a place where you know other people are happy to carry things to. 00:23:26.660 --> 00:23:30.259 Don't get yourself to the place where everyone goes, oh, no, don't do that, what Jesus told you. 00:23:30.920 --> 00:23:33.220 Remove those people in the nicest possible way. 00:23:33.819 --> 00:23:36.099 Do not go to their house in that moment. 00:23:36.099 --> 00:23:39.379 And she greets Elizabeth. 00:23:39.559 --> 00:23:44.099 And then when Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the baby leaped in her womb. 00:23:44.439 --> 00:23:50.559 Because what you carry from God is going to have a bounce-off effect in the life of someone else if you say yes. 00:23:51.599 --> 00:23:53.019 And that's what today is. 00:23:53.659 --> 00:23:57.279 Like, we've had loads of chit-chat over lunch and things. 00:23:57.279 --> 00:24:02.339 And it's like you can see God has done something in someone else and you go, oh, that causes me. 00:24:02.460 --> 00:24:04.319 That causes a reaction in me as well. 00:24:05.000 --> 00:24:06.480 Because I want to carry that too. 00:24:07.160 --> 00:24:09.519 Or I want to, like, honor what God's put in me too. 00:24:09.559 --> 00:24:12.859 Or I want to believe that word to be true for me and I'm going to stand with you. 00:24:13.519 --> 00:24:14.700 And that's what she did. 00:24:15.639 --> 00:24:17.099 So she went to that place. 00:24:17.200 --> 00:24:18.700 And the baby leaped. 00:24:19.379 --> 00:24:22.559 And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. 00:24:22.559 --> 00:24:25.460 And all they did was basically say, hi. 00:24:27.119 --> 00:24:28.119 Sorry, that was really high. 00:24:28.460 --> 00:24:28.899 Hi. 00:24:31.299 --> 00:24:33.740 That's all they did was greet each other. 00:24:34.059 --> 00:24:38.799 And all we're doing today is we're sat shoulder to shoulder with our sisters in the God squad. 00:24:40.179 --> 00:24:42.700 All of us carrying different things from God. 00:24:45.099 --> 00:24:47.819 And there will be a rising of what God's put in us. 00:24:47.819 --> 00:24:52.099 There will be a leaping of the life that God's put within us because of this day. 00:24:52.559 --> 00:24:59.720 And I pray that you as well, as Elizabeth, will be filled with the Holy Spirit. 00:25:01.519 --> 00:25:05.619 Because our lives, we're not by might or by power and our own strength. 00:25:05.679 --> 00:25:07.759 It's by the power of the Spirit of God. 00:25:09.039 --> 00:25:12.619 So let's all be praying and expecting that that's what God wants to do. 00:25:12.619 --> 00:25:20.440 And then in a loud voice, she exclaimed, blessed are you among women and blessed is the child you'll bear. 00:25:20.440 --> 00:25:22.360 None of this comparison nonsense. 00:25:23.900 --> 00:25:26.640 Like, wow, look what God's doing in you as well. 00:25:26.820 --> 00:25:27.840 That is awesome. 00:25:29.000 --> 00:25:30.080 Look what we're carrying. 00:25:30.299 --> 00:25:31.279 You're carrying that one. 00:25:31.340 --> 00:25:32.080 I'm carrying this one. 00:25:32.160 --> 00:25:33.200 What's yours going to be called? 00:25:33.580 --> 00:25:34.480 Let's go. 00:25:37.480 --> 00:25:39.320 And then there's this real humility. 00:25:39.500 --> 00:25:43.019 But why am I so favored that the mother of my Lord should come to me? 00:25:43.980 --> 00:25:45.720 She's like, gosh, you're carrying this. 00:25:45.799 --> 00:25:48.220 You're carrying Jesus in such an amazing way. 00:25:48.220 --> 00:25:50.100 Why did you come to my house? 00:25:51.019 --> 00:25:52.640 Why did you come to this place? 00:25:55.339 --> 00:26:01.299 And then she explains, you know, as soon as the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy. 00:26:01.740 --> 00:26:03.779 Oh, blessed are you. 00:26:04.039 --> 00:26:07.500 Because you've believed what God would do in you. 00:26:07.579 --> 00:26:10.860 You've believed that God is going to fulfill his promises. 00:26:11.480 --> 00:26:12.140 Isn't that amazing? 00:26:12.140 --> 00:26:20.140 And I want to encourage you, please celebrate with your sisters when they've said their yeses to Jesus in the most hard of times. 00:26:21.700 --> 00:26:23.400 In the most fearful of times. 00:26:23.460 --> 00:26:23.900 You know what? 00:26:23.960 --> 00:26:26.840 She ended up carrying this baby right through a genocide. 00:26:27.980 --> 00:26:29.540 Like, literal mass murder. 00:26:30.500 --> 00:26:32.320 She had friends who walked out on her. 00:26:33.860 --> 00:26:35.340 She had people who sneered at her. 00:26:35.339 --> 00:26:40.220 She had to go on her own to try and avoid being, like, all of them being murdered. 00:26:42.539 --> 00:26:43.659 But she did this. 00:26:43.759 --> 00:26:44.699 She chose this. 00:26:44.980 --> 00:26:46.740 And if she did it, we can do it, right? 00:26:47.439 --> 00:26:51.099 Because I don't think we're quite in that place of persecution. 00:26:53.279 --> 00:26:54.339 We might get there. 00:26:54.759 --> 00:26:56.159 We might need to decide today. 00:26:57.819 --> 00:27:00.500 You know, people around the world, they're losing their heads for their faith. 00:27:00.500 --> 00:27:02.319 Because they're like, I'm going to carry Jesus in you. 00:27:02.420 --> 00:27:03.259 I'm not going to stop me. 00:27:04.200 --> 00:27:05.480 I'm not going to renounce Jesus. 00:27:05.819 --> 00:27:08.380 You know, I remember reading those amazing books. 00:27:08.559 --> 00:27:09.619 Some of you might have remembered them. 00:27:09.720 --> 00:27:12.000 You know, like Jesus Freaks, where a little girl was shot. 00:27:12.299 --> 00:27:15.779 Because she would not say that she'd leave her faith in Jesus. 00:27:16.619 --> 00:27:18.019 Like, where's all those kids nowadays? 00:27:19.779 --> 00:27:21.880 Like, we've got to get back up on our feet, haven't we? 00:27:22.539 --> 00:27:25.339 Get some confidence that our faith is not going to fail us. 00:27:25.799 --> 00:27:27.740 And be prepared to say, yeah, I'm going for God. 00:27:27.740 --> 00:27:28.400 He's saving. 00:27:28.400 --> 00:27:31.660 You can do whatever you like to my body now. 00:27:31.700 --> 00:27:33.640 But I'm in Jesus' army. 00:27:35.460 --> 00:27:38.180 And let's just remind ourselves of some of these truths. 00:27:38.320 --> 00:27:41.560 These are the kind of things we need to take hold of that are true. 00:27:42.440 --> 00:27:44.240 And so we might feel things were impossible. 00:27:44.460 --> 00:27:48.019 But God's word says, remember, like, take hold of these words. 00:27:48.120 --> 00:27:49.240 It has the power to say, so. 00:27:49.840 --> 00:27:50.820 That James verse. 00:27:51.140 --> 00:27:53.519 God says, with me, all things are possible. 00:27:54.380 --> 00:27:55.780 We might feel exhausted. 00:27:55.779 --> 00:27:58.519 God's word says, wait on me. 00:27:58.599 --> 00:27:59.940 I'll renew your strength. 00:28:00.180 --> 00:28:03.019 We might feel unloved or an unlovable person. 00:28:03.119 --> 00:28:06.039 But God says, I've loved you with an everlasting love. 00:28:06.460 --> 00:28:08.119 We might feel we can't go on. 00:28:08.180 --> 00:28:10.799 But God says, my grace is sufficient for you. 00:28:11.039 --> 00:28:13.339 My power is made perfect in your weakness. 00:28:14.079 --> 00:28:15.799 We might feel we don't know what to do. 00:28:15.940 --> 00:28:18.619 God would say to us today, I will direct you. 00:28:19.039 --> 00:28:20.759 We might feel we can't do something. 00:28:20.859 --> 00:28:21.599 It's overwhelming. 00:28:21.819 --> 00:28:25.779 God says, you can do all things through Christ who gives you strength. 00:28:26.639 --> 00:28:28.439 We might feel something's not worth it. 00:28:28.519 --> 00:28:31.639 God might want to say to us today, just keep on going. 00:28:32.119 --> 00:28:33.699 We might not feel smart enough. 00:28:33.799 --> 00:28:34.659 God says, you know what? 00:28:34.719 --> 00:28:35.599 I'll give you wisdom. 00:28:35.699 --> 00:28:36.839 It's one of my gifts. 00:28:37.919 --> 00:28:41.259 We might feel we can't forgive ourselves or we're weighed down with shame. 00:28:41.680 --> 00:28:46.039 God would say to us today through Paul in the Ephesians, you can forgive yourself. 00:28:46.180 --> 00:28:47.299 I have forgiven you. 00:28:48.240 --> 00:28:50.680 We might feel we're missing something, missing out. 00:28:50.779 --> 00:28:51.879 People call it FOMO. 00:28:52.220 --> 00:28:54.740 God says, I will supply all your needs. 00:28:55.180 --> 00:28:56.240 We might feel afraid. 00:28:56.339 --> 00:29:00.900 And God says, I did not give you a spirit of fear, but a power and love and a sound mind. 00:29:01.379 --> 00:29:03.059 We might feel we can't handle something. 00:29:03.160 --> 00:29:04.140 God says, give it to me. 00:29:04.379 --> 00:29:05.579 I'll carry it for you. 00:29:05.579 --> 00:29:06.920 You cast all those burdens. 00:29:07.960 --> 00:29:09.680 We might feel we don't have enough faith. 00:29:09.680 --> 00:29:12.080 God says, I'll give you faith. 00:29:12.279 --> 00:29:13.940 We might feel all on our own. 00:29:14.039 --> 00:29:15.460 God says, I'll never leave you. 00:29:15.539 --> 00:29:16.880 I will never forsake you. 00:29:17.120 --> 00:29:18.019 We might feel ugly. 00:29:18.140 --> 00:29:21.000 And God says, you are fearfully and wonderfully made. 00:29:21.240 --> 00:29:22.740 Those are my ones I needed. 00:29:23.580 --> 00:29:24.680 I need to take a hold. 00:29:25.720 --> 00:29:26.960 You might need to find yours. 00:29:27.380 --> 00:29:28.860 Or one of those might be yours. 00:29:30.820 --> 00:29:35.539 But we have to choose to say, may it be to me according to your word. 00:29:36.680 --> 00:29:37.580 That's his word. 00:29:38.019 --> 00:29:39.000 How are you doing on that? 00:29:39.680 --> 00:29:41.519 How are you doing on that? 00:29:45.140 --> 00:29:49.740 So let's just remember how Mary did this and what happened. 00:29:49.880 --> 00:29:55.480 You know, the greeting reached her ears and the womb, the baby in the womb leaped. 00:29:56.480 --> 00:29:57.680 I'm bringing you a greeting. 00:29:58.980 --> 00:29:59.720 How's your innards? 00:30:01.380 --> 00:30:02.960 How's the core of you? 00:30:03.680 --> 00:30:05.060 The soul of you? 00:30:05.059 --> 00:30:14.759 And there's a blessing to those who believe that God is going to fulfill his word to you today, in this lifetime. 00:30:14.759 --> 00:30:17.000 Not just when you pop your clogs in glory. 00:30:18.019 --> 00:30:19.640 Goodness of God in the land of the living. 00:30:20.039 --> 00:30:23.519 I'm not a prosperity person, but I've read this in the Bible. 00:30:24.160 --> 00:30:25.200 I'm changing my mind. 00:30:25.200 --> 00:30:28.200 I'm changing my mind on it. 00:30:35.559 --> 00:30:36.640 So I'd love us to pray. 00:30:38.160 --> 00:30:41.440 I'd love us to remember some words from God. 00:30:41.440 --> 00:30:46.980 I'd love us to agree and say, God, what do you want to put in me? 00:30:47.180 --> 00:30:48.539 What do you want me to carry? 00:30:48.940 --> 00:30:50.240 I don't want to abort it. 00:30:50.600 --> 00:30:51.779 I want to carry it well. 00:30:51.860 --> 00:30:53.779 And you know, I've seen you pregnant people. 00:30:54.440 --> 00:30:55.799 You walk really funny. 00:30:55.799 --> 00:30:59.639 Like penguins, in fact. 00:31:02.759 --> 00:31:04.559 Like, it changes your shape. 00:31:05.779 --> 00:31:06.700 And you know what? 00:31:06.740 --> 00:31:10.379 When God puts his life in you, you should walk different. 00:31:10.980 --> 00:31:12.299 It should change your shape. 00:31:15.940 --> 00:31:17.559 It should change your routine. 00:31:19.839 --> 00:31:24.240 It might annoy you, like it annoyed me, with my little niece. 00:31:24.240 --> 00:31:26.259 But it's life. 00:31:27.039 --> 00:31:28.220 It's new life. 00:31:29.039 --> 00:31:32.120 And it's conclusive proof that nothing is impossible with God. 00:31:33.519 --> 00:31:35.339 Including you. 00:31:36.319 --> 00:31:37.620 And what you're to carry. 00:31:37.980 --> 00:31:39.299 And you're to do in his kingdom. 00:31:39.480 --> 00:31:42.240 And this isn't a, like, get up on your feet and do more stuff talk. 00:31:42.500 --> 00:31:46.539 This is a, what has God put in you that he wants to name today? 00:31:46.720 --> 00:31:47.859 And say, just that. 00:31:48.440 --> 00:31:49.420 Just carry it. 00:31:49.740 --> 00:31:51.700 Just walk me into that situation. 00:31:51.859 --> 00:31:52.859 Just say my words. 00:31:52.859 --> 00:31:56.799 It's actually really, his yoke's easy and burden's light. 00:31:57.379 --> 00:31:58.519 Mary, remember, didn't do anything. 00:31:58.619 --> 00:31:59.740 She just allowed it to grow. 00:32:00.740 --> 00:32:01.619 And didn't get rid of it. 00:32:03.879 --> 00:32:05.539 Actually, I'm sure labor was quite painful. 00:32:05.799 --> 00:32:07.059 But that's beside the point. 00:32:08.479 --> 00:32:09.459 You know what I mean. 00:32:10.519 --> 00:32:13.519 And so there's an agreement that God's looking for from us today. 00:32:14.519 --> 00:32:15.740 There's like a little yes. 00:32:16.279 --> 00:32:17.839 That might be like a, yes. 00:32:18.719 --> 00:32:19.699 Might be a lamb, yes. 00:32:19.700 --> 00:32:21.279 Or it might be a lion, yes. 00:32:21.860 --> 00:32:23.759 Either one, God's going to take it. 00:32:24.759 --> 00:32:26.400 He'll take it and he'll hear it. 00:32:26.400 --> 00:32:27.220 But there there... 00:32:27.220 --> 00:32:28.840 There's a lot that he's like, I love your spirit. 00:32:28.840 --> 00:32:29.360 Alright. 00:32:30.240 --> 00:32:30.880 And this is a good world. 00:32:30.880 --> 00:32:32.060 The Yankee Mensch, it's a good art neighbourhood. 00:32:32.060 --> 00:32:32.980 What is that? 00:32:33.019 --> 00:32:33.700 So I think Bhikanda Si Na ko ch values it in person.