Thursday: The Journey 12

"How will this be," Mary asked the angel, "Since I am a virgin?"

Good Morning, my dear brothers and sisters. Today is Thursday and that means it is family day on this line. I do not line things up like this, our Lord God does, but it still amazes me when we talk about a subject like Mary and a baby and it is on family day on the line. A note in from Doug Boyer who 5 weeks ago had a stroke and has been restored by our Lord Jesus... PRAISE GOD. Doug also requests prayers for Allison Speck who loves Jesus, is 19 years old and a tumor has been found on her liver. Pray, warriors, pray... Also, folks, I need your prayers. Today is a very, very busy day, we need to go to Allenberry, then home and start loading the bus with food to go to Harrisburg... This is a major operation, and I am not hitting on all eight cylinders. Maybe 3 or 4 and I need that touch of God today, as I do everyday. Prayers for Donna, Beverly and their family (families).

The Journey 12: Luke 1:34 - "How will this be," Mary asked the angel, "Since I am a virgin?"

35 The angel answered, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the Holy One to be born will be called the Son of God." 36 "Even Elizabeth your relative is going to have a child in her old age, and she who was said to be barren is in her sixth month. 37 For nothing is impossible with God." (NIV)

Yesterday I talked more with the men, today, ladies, I want you to put yourself in the shoes of Mary and see what you might feel like if you knew you were a virgin, you had not laid with a man and all of a sudden you were to find yourself in a motherly way. I am sure over the years people have tried to sell this off to their parents or maybe a boyfriend, but in truth, only one has become in the motherly way without the help of a man. What would go through your mind? What am I going to tell my parents, remember Mary was just a teenager, and what am I going to tell my future husband? Surely he is going to break up with me, you more than likely would be thinking. But Gabriel would try and explain all this to you, yes, again you are in the shoes of Mary. Gabriel would tell you that the Holy Spirit is going to come over you. What faith that would take, ladies, where would you go first, who would you talk to? Maybe you would start by praying, God, is this angel really from You? Then maybe you would confide in your best girlfriend, or someone over the years you knew you could talk to. But would they believe you, or would they spread gossip and talk behind your back? Did you hear about Mary, she is with child and is trying to say that God did it. And then you would need to talk to your parents and to your boyfriend. Some of you on the line might have already been in that position and were not married. I can remember my mother telling me that my brother had to get married. Yes, when I was young and the streets were still dirt if you got "into trouble" which I seem to remember my mother calling it, then you got married... A shotgun wedding. My mother was a gracious lady and always forgiving and welcomed her new daughter-in-law with open arms. And she loved those grandbabies that came out of the marriage, and came and came and came and came... about six if I recall. I can remember my mother telling me later that my brother came to her along with his girlfriend and said to her "Grace is going to have a baby and ran up to his room", letting this girl stand there with my mother. But let me get back on point, think again about it, now that you are over the shock of having a baby through the power of the Holy Spirit, it starts to sink in that you are carrying in your womb the one who will "Save the World" from sin... You are carrying the King of all kings and the Lord of all lords, you are carrying the baby Jesus. Think about it, ladies, what would you say? Today, ladies, our Lord Jesus still comes to you trusting that when you become in that motherly way, regardless, you will take that baby to term and raise them up in the name of the Lord. So many ladies today make a choice and DUMP the child in an abortion... What if Mary and Joseph did this? Think it through, ladies and gentlemen, for God does not make junk when He makes children, each is made in the image of God, for in the image of God He made us all. All God's children are special, all of them, even you and me... Amen.

Dear Father in Heaven, how wonderful You are and how we need You. On this family day we ask that You be with all families and I pray that all families come to Your feet to be saved. Lord, help abortion to be ended, for each day just here in America we are murdering future teachers, truck drivers, factory workers, and shoe salesmen, and so many more, maybe even a president or two. Lord, I pray that people who are given that child raise it in a loving home. Bless all homes today and I pray today for the family of God. Thanks for healing my friend Doug and now we ask the same for Allison. Also today I pray for our outing to the city with all the food on the bus, send some help to load, dear Lord, and bless each piece of food and multiply it... In the name of Jesus, Amen.

Go forth now and share your blessings... tomorrow we look at what Joseph might have felt like.

Love ya dan
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