Have a Mary Christmas

It's Christmas Eve morning. I have lots to do today. I went to church last night with my daughter, Leah, at Northway Christian Community, because she's on staff there, and that was the only service she'd be able to 'sit' through. Tonight I'm looking forward to going to the candlelight service at Allison Park Church with Bruce and Samantha. So this morning, before the busy-ness begins, I took time to listen to a broadcast of Jack Hayford (The Church on the Way). He gave a message which he called "Have a Mary Christmas", in which he draws a parallel of her situation to any situation in which we need Him to do something beyond what we can do ourselves.

Hayford has written a small book called The Mary Miracle, which I recommend. This broadcast message sums up the message of the book. He speaks of the dynamic that occurs when God gives a word, a promise, to us, and we ask, 'How can this be?' In Luke 1:37 (For with God nothing is impossible), the full meaning of the word impossible is that 'no word of God is absent of the power needed to fulfill it'. Hayford says that when God gives you a word, it is conceived in you, it grows within you, and it is delivered through you. When you are pregnant with a promise, you will be stretched as the promise grows within you, ...and it will change the way you walk.

Here is the link to the broadcast which you can watch online (Oneplace.com, Spirit Formed, Sat. Dec. 23, 2006). I'm sorry, but I couldn't find it as a podcast. I hope you get a chance to watch it (30 minutes), if not today, then sometime soon... and I, too, wish you a Mary Christmas.