My Soul Magnifies The Lord (The Magnificat)
OKAY – who here like’s Christmas music?
AND IF – you do, when do you start listening to it?
DO – you have a Christmas playlist?
NOW - this week I went on Spotify, and I found their ‘Best Christmas Playlist’ for 2022 (their top 100).
NOW – I have no idea how they complied their list, but I want to see if you can guess the top ten on their list...
OKAY – so I am going to read (or sing, lol, some of the lyrics) and as soon as you know what they song is, shout out the title...
Spotify
Best Christmas Playlist 2022
#10
I wanna wish you a merry Christmas (3 x)
From the bottom of my heart
(Feliz Navidad)
#9
I can see me now on Christmas morning
Creeping down the stairs
Oh, what joy and what surprise
When I open up my eyes
To see my hippo hero standing there
#8
There'll be parties for hosting
Marshmallows for toasting
And caroling out in the snow
There'll be scary ghost stories
And tales of the glories of
Christmases long, long ago
It's the most wonderful time of the year
#7
I really can't stay (Baby it's cold outside)
I gotta go away (Baby it's cold outside)
#6
Chestnuts roasting on an open fire
Jack Frost nipping at your nose
Yuletide carols being sung by a choir
And folks dressed up like Eskimos
(the Christmas Song)
#5
It's the best time of the year
Now I don't know if there'll be snow
But have a cup of cheer
Have a holly jolly Christmas
#4
Don't cry, snowman, not in front of me
Who'll catch your tears if you can't catch me, darling
If you can't catch me, darling
Don't cry, snowman, don't leave me this way
A puddle of water can't hold me close, baby
Can't hold me close, baby
#3
Take a look at the five and ten, it's glistening once again
With candy canes and silver lanes that glow
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
#2
You will get a sentimental feeling when you hear
Voices singing, let's be jolly
Deck the halls with boughs of holly
Rockin' around the Christmas tree
#1
I don't want a lot for Christmas
There is just one thing I need
I don't care about the presents underneath the Christmas tree
I just want you for my own
More than you could ever know
Make my wish come true
All I want for Christmas is you
OKAY – so that is Spotify’s top ten Christmas songs.
AND – I am sure that you probably have your own top ten or top 100.
On a count of 3... shout out for top 2 Xmas songs
YOU KNOW...
I was thinking this week that of all the holidays that are celebrated, I cannot think of one where songs and music are such a part of it, as they are with Christmas.
LIKE SERIOUSLY...
Could you even imagine celebrating Christmas without music songs... AND – not just those on Spotify’s top 10.
BUT – songs like:
O’ Come All Ye Faithful, Joy to the World,
Hark the Herald Angels Sing, O Holy Night,
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, O Come O Come Emmanuel, Away In The Manger, Silent Night...
AND LISTEN – I think that part of the reason for this is that singing songs of praise may be our best response to the mystery of Christmas.
AND – what a crazy mystery it is, right?
I MEAN... seriously think about it.
Immanuel, God with us.
The Word (God) becoming flesh and dwelling among us.
AND UNDERSTAND B/S – if God didn’t do it, if He didn’t reveal it… We would never have thought it up.
I MEAN – why would an…
• All powerful
• Always existing
• All knowing
• All present
• Creator of absolutely everything God
Do what He did…
• Leave all the splendor and glories of heaven
• Put on human flesh... LIKE – how in the world, was the God (who created everything) reduced first to a mere embryo, and then to a 7 pound baby boy... who entered the muck and mire of this fallen and broken world, in order to pull us out.
NO
I don’t get it, I cannot understand why He would do this for fallen, frail, finite creatures like you and me...
But I am beyond... beyond glad that He did!!!
AGAIN – songs are a major part of Christmas, - and not just in recent years, but ever since that first Christmas 2000 years ago.
UNDERSTAND MGCC – when we look at Luke’s account of the birth of Jesus, we find God’s Christmas Playlist.
A playlist that consists of 4 songs.
NOW THIS MORNING – we will look at the first song.
• ‘My Soul Magnifies The Lord’ – Luke 1:46-55
AND – in the coming weeks we will look at the following songs...
• ‘Praise Be To The Lord’ – Luke 1:68-79
• ‘My Eyes Have Seen Your Salvation’ – Luke 2:29-32
• ‘Glory To God In The Highest’ – Luke 2:14
NOW – there are 2 points in your notes this morning…
The ‘Writer’…. and ‘The Song.’
I. The Writer
QUESTION… have you ever found out something about the person who wrote a particular song… and instantly that song took on a deeper and more powerful meaning…
For example…
The Song, ‘Amazing Grace’ – is probably the most well known of all Christian songs….
I MEAN – who isn’t moved by it’s words…
HOWEVER- it became even more powerful to me when I learned that it was written by a guy named John Newton, an x-slave trader who surrendered his life to Christ.
YOU KNOW – I can almost imagine what he felt as his pen danced across the page writing these words…
Amazing grace how sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me
I once was lost, but now I’m found
Was blind, but now I see
Or the song ‘It is well with my soul’
Written by a guy named Horatio Spafford
• Lost a fortune in the great Chicago fire in 1871
• Around same time his 4 year old son died of scarlet fever
• Thought a vacation was a good idea... so his wife and 4 daughters sailed to England, and he planned to meet them a little later
• The ship was involved in a terrible collision
• His wife and 4 daughters drowned
• He immediately left for England
• When the ship reach the spot, he went on deck and wrote these words..
When peace like a river, attendeth my way,
When sorrow like se billows roll
Whatever my lot, thou hast taught me to say
It is well, it is well with my soul
OKAY…
SO - let’s spend a little time getting to know Mary, before we unpack her song…
TURN IN - your bibles… or OPEN UP your bible app to Luke chapter 1 verse 26… (it will be on the screen as well)
In the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a village in Galilee, to a virgin named Mary.
NOW UNDERSTAND - Nazareth was a small, insignificant town. I MEAN – Gabriel probably had to pull it up Google Maps just to find it…
IT - sat on about ten acres of land. There was a population of around three hundred people. About half of the population would have died at birth. The other half had a life expectancy of perhaps thirty something.
SO - you’ve got this small town—ten acres, three hundred people—insignificant, tiny little town. Located in a country (Israel, that has been oppressed and occupied by foreign armies for centuries)… AND THAT’S - where Gabriel is sent.
She was engaged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of King David.
• NOW - in that time and culture a girl shortly after hitting her teen years would be engaged… (14 years old)
SO – when you think of Mary think of a 14 year old girl, in 8th or 9th grade.
• And Mary is engaged to a guy named Joseph probably 18 or 19. A descendant of who? David.
And why is being a descendent of David important?
BECAUSE – God promised David that the Messiah would come from one of his descendants
NOW UNDERSTAND - this is probably an exciting time for Mary… She’s young. She’s engaged.
AND SHE’S - looking forward and planning for her wedding day.
ANY - of you ladies ever been there, planning your wedding?
SO THAT’S - what Mary is thinking about…
(wedding - dresses, cakes, invitations, venues, flowers)
Counting the days until her wedding
AND - all is fine, all is normal, all is well.
THAT IS UNTIL – Gabriel enters the picture with this remarkable, mind-blowing message.
Gabriel appeared to her and said, “Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is with you.” Mary was greatly troubled at his words and wondered what kind of greeting this might be.
But the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary; you have found favor with God. You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus.
He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over Jacob’s descendants forever; his kingdom will never end.” – Luke 1:26-33
Wow… that is some seriously crazy stuff for a 14 year old girl (or for anyone for that matter) to hear.
I MEAN – ladies, imagine being Mary.
Imagine having a powerful and mighty angel (not some cute greeting card angel) appear as you are trying on your wedding dress…
“Hey Mary, God has chosen you to give birth to His Son and His Kingdom will never end…”
NOW – did you notice that Gabriel made a point of telling Mary, not once, but 2 times… Mary, you have found favor with God!
YOU KNOW - I think that’s a bit surprising…
I MEAN – it even left Mary (confused and disturbed when she first heard it)…
BECAUSE - if there were two words that would describe Mary from a human perspective, the words would not be “highly favored”…
INSTEAD - the words would probably be more along the lines of “completely overlooked.”
I MEAN – after all…
• She is dirt poor, From a small insignificant town
• Engaged to blue collar worker
• And she has, like, zero power or influence.
BUT LISTEN MGCC…
GOD (as He so often does) highly favors someone who our world would completely overlook.
SO – as we study Mary’s life, a question for us, I think, to consider… IS…
• WHAT - was it about Mary that brought God’s favor?
• WHAT - was it that so marked her life that it invited God’s blessing?
AND LISTEN – these are questions that we should want to answer...
BECAUSE - who doesn’t want to…
• Live the kind of life
• Have the kind of family
• Be the kind of church
THAT – moves God to unleash
both His favor and blessings all over our lives.
AGAIN...
WHAT - was it about Mary that brought on the favor the Almighty God?
NOW - there are number of characteristics that we could point to as we study this passage of Scripture…
BUT - I think there are 2 qualities about Mary that rise to the top… AND - unleash the favor of God in her life, more than anything else.
AND – the first is… her humble spirit.
A) A Humble Spirit
UNDERSTAND – as we look at the life of Mary.
AND AS WE – hear her song in a few moments…
WE WILL SEE - a young lady who lived with an awareness of not only how small she was…
BUT – of how huge, mighty and powerful God is!
SO - here’s what I would say.
Humility is one of the qualities that opens up the door to God’s favor in our lives like almost nothing else.
These are the ones I look on with favor: those who are humble and contrite in spirit, and who tremble at My word.
– Isaiah 66:2
QUESTION – have you done any trembling lately?
Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will lift you up.
– James 4:10
AND – believe me when I tell you, the Lord can give us some serious lift!
UNDERSTAND B/S…
WHEN, we humbly take a knee (before The Lord)and say,
• God, I need Your help.
• God, I’ve made a mess of things. I can’t fix it on my own.
• God, my marriage is in a million broken pieces, but God, You are the One who can put it back together.”
• God, I’ve blown it with my kids, but You, God, are the One who can redeem anything.
• God, I’ve made some mistakes in my past. I’m not proud of them. I know everyone has given up on me, but God, I believe that You… I believe that You can put things back together and make my path straight once again.
• God, I can’t do it, I can’t overcome it, I can’t stand up under it - I need Your help.
• God, I’ve got nothing to offer, but whatever I have it is Yours.
LISTEN...
HEAR ME B/S – whenever God encounters a person with that kind of humble spirit…
HE WILL – with great joy, lift up and pour out and unleash His favor!
GET IT?
OKAY - let’s continue on in Luke to find the second quality of Mary that led to God pouring out his favor on her…
Mary asked the angel, “But how can this happen? I am a virgin.” The angel replied, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the baby to be born will be holy, and he will be called the Son of God.
What’s more, your relative Elizabeth has become pregnant in her old age! People used to say she was barren…
YEAH...
People used to say she was too old,
People used to say a lot of hurtful things about her and to her… in order to tear her down, beat her up, discourage and define her.
QUESTION...
What are people saying about you?
What are you saying about you?
UNDERSTAND B/S...
WE - need to get to the place where we stop letting what people (including ourselves) say - define and limit our lives…
People used to say she was barren but she has conceived a son and is now in her sixth month. For nothing is impossible with God.
MGCC - our God can….
UNDERSTAND - nothing is impossible with Him.
YES - our God can..
• create everything out of nothing.
• Rain down manna from heaven
• Walk on water, Part seas
• Move mountains, Raise the dead
• Cause a virgin to give birth to His son
• Move powerfully in the life of anyone no matter how old (Elizabeth) or how young (Mary)!
MGCC – nothing, nothing is impossible for our God, it’s not.
He can, He is able, He is God
AND THAT - is why:
• We are joyful and hopeful,
• We sing and pray
Because our God is a God of the impossible.
A God who can take nobodies from nowhere and do great and amazing things…
Mary responded, “I am the Lord’s servant. May it be to me as you have said.” And then the angel left her.
I love it… I MEAN… - here’s this 14 year old girl… From a simple town with a simple faith,
BUT UNDERSTAND - it’s a sincere faith.
NOW - Mary knows very little.
She’s not been formally educated.
She doesn’t have the bible app on her smart phone (she only has a flip phone).
LIKE - she only has bits and pieces of Scripture that she treasures in her heart.
BUT HERE’S – here’s what she has, she has faith (sure it may only be the size of a mustard seed).
BUT MARY - actually believes what God says.
UNDERSTAND – most of us in this room, have far more information than Mary had, but with far less faith in it.
We think, “I need to learn a lot more,”
AND - maybe we do, but first things first…
• let’s believe what we’ve already been taught, and
• let’s live out, and stand upon, what we already know
(what a life -changing way to live)
AGAIN MARY – knows very little…
BUT SHE - trusts it all. It’s amazing…
She actually believes God, takes him at his word.
AND SO - she responds and says,
“I’m the Lord’s servant…
AND NO - I don’t get it or understand how something so impossible can happen, BUT - I know nothing is impossible for our God... SO - whatever He wants, that’s what I want,
I am His, I belong to Him… I will do whatever he says…
go wherever he calls... I am the Lord’s servant!”
AND SO – what is the second quality that Mary had that unleashed God’s favor in her life?
Mary had...
B) Faith in the God of the impossible
QUESTION – do you have that kind of faith?
FAITH – that there is nothing: too big, too broken,
too far gone or too impossible for Him to do or to overcome.
UNDERSTAND B/S – throughout Scripture whenever men and women had that kind of faith some pretty amazing things happened, LIKE:
• Chains were broken, Seas parted
• Walls crumbled, Giants fell
• Enemies were defeated, Kingdoms were conquered
• Impossible odds were overcome
• Blind eyes were open
• Disease and sickness were cured
• The dead were brought back to life
SO B/S – let me ask again, do you like Mary have a faith in the God of the impossible.
LIKE – what impossible situation are you trusting Him to overcome?
Luke continues…
A few days later Mary hurried to the hill country of Judea, to the town where Zechariah lived. She entered the house and greeted Elizabeth. At the sound of Mary’s greeting, Elizabeth’s baby leaped within her, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.
‘baby’ – brephos….
(breh-fos)
Same word that is used in...
• Luke 2:12 – of Jesus lying in the manger
• Luke 18:15 – where we read of people bringing their babies to Jesus.
• 2 Timothy 3:15 – where Paul writes that Timothy has known the Scripture since infancy.
MGCC – what I am saying is that according to our God and His inspired word... what is inside of a pregnant women is not a choice it is a child..
Elizabeth gave a glad cry and exclaimed to Mary, “God has blessed you above all women, and your child is blessed. Why am I so honored, that the mother of my Lord should visit me? When I heard your greeting, the baby in my womb jumped for joy. You are blessed because you believed that the Lord would do what he said.” - Luke 1:39-45
You are blessed because of what?
OKAY – so that’s the writer
• A young girl, poor
• From a small insignificant town
• In an enemy occupied oppressed country
• With a humble spirit and a faith in the God of the impossible.
• Who believed that the Lord would do what He said
OKAY – now we are ready to unpack Mary’s song, the first song on God’s Christmas Playlist.
The Song
NOW - in your bible or your bible App you may have this heading…
The Magnificat: Mary’s Song of Praise…
Kind of sounds like the name of a cat superhero
Magnificat is a Latin word meaning “to praise, to glorify, to exalt, to enlarge, to magnify, to amplify.”
AND B/S - that’s exactly what Mary does in her song –
she exalts, she glorifies, she enlarges, she amplifies, she magnifies, the Lord…
[let’s stand and take turns reading]
Mary responded, “Oh, how my soul magnifies the Lord.
How my spirit rejoices in God my Savior!
For He took notice of His lowly servant girl,
and from now on all generations will call me blessed.
For the Mighty One is holy,
and He has done great things for me.
He shows mercy from generation to generation
to all who fear Him.
His mighty arm has done tremendous things!
He has scattered the proud and haughty ones.
He has brought down princes from their thrones
and exalted the humble.
He has filled the hungry with good things
and sent the rich away with empty hands.
He has helped his servant Israel
and remembered to be merciful.
For He made this promise to our ancestors,
to Abraham and his children forever.”
- Luke 1:46-55
And then Luke writes…. that Mary stayed with Elizabeth about three months and then went back to her own home.
Q - why do you think she stayed 3 more months?
So that she could be there when Elizabeth gave birth to her son.
NOW – as I studied and reflected on Mary’s Song…
I saw 5 main movements in this song where Mary Magnifies and praises a particular characteristic of the Lord…
Characteristics we all would do well to magnify.
First Mary magnifies…
A) God’s Care
Oh, how my soul magnifies the Lord. How my spirit rejoices in God my Savior! For He took notice of His lowly servant girl,
and from now on all generations will call me blessed.
– Luke 1:46-48
NOW – Mary said that her spirit rejoices…. Why?
BECAUSE – The Lord, her God and Savior took notice of her….
The NIV words it this way...
He has been mindful of the humble state of His servant…
- Luke 1:48
AND LISTEN – that word ‘mindful’ immediately takes me back to those words that Joseph’s ancestor David, spoke 1000 years earlier…
When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them? - Psalm 8:3,4
GOD – when I consider how great you are….
AND THEN – consider the fact that YOU are mindful of me,
I am totally blown away… R U kidding me!
B/S – God is mindful of you.
Need more proof that God is mindful of you…
How precious are your thoughts about me, O God. They cannot be numbered! I can’t even count them; they outnumber the grains of sand! – Psalm 139:17,18
How my spirit rejoices in God my Savior! For he took notice of his lowly servant girl…
UNDERSTAND MGCC – the first song on God’s Christmas Playlist…
Sings the story of God who sees, who cares, who notices, who pays attention…
Who is concerned about us, about you.
GET IT?
AND… DO YOU – know what?
I AM CONVINCED – that this is exactly what God wants to say to a few people in this room…
WHO LIKE MARY - may have feel like God has forgotten them… LIKE – things are really difficult, and you are wondering where He is and why He is not acting and intervening on your behalf.
AND LISTEN – if that is you this morning God wants you to say to you...
“I care, I notice, I am paying attention,
you and your situation,
where you are and what you’ve been through,
what you are facing, matters to me
you matter to me, I am mindful of you
I could never forget you”
Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you! See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are ever before me.
- Isaiah 49:15,16
B/S – you are always on God’s mind, He cares, He is concerned, He is near, He is God...
Get It?
NOW – in the next movement, Mary’s magnifies…
B) God’s Might
For the Mighty One is holy, and He has done great things for me… His mighty arm has done tremendous things!
– Luke 1:49,51
UNDERSTAND MGCC – this God who sees and who cares, also acts.
AND LISTEN – as Gabriel proclaimed ‘nothing is impossible with God!’
I love it…
MARY – says not only ‘is HE’ mighty, not only ‘can HE’ do great and tremendous things… ‘but HE’ – already has done great things for her and for His people!
YES – the good news of Christmas is that… not only is God great… but He is good!
AND LISTEN...
God constantly uses His greatness for our good!
AGAIN MARY SAYS – He ‘has done’ great things for me!
LIKE - ‘what great things?’
I MEAN – think about it, not a lot has really changed in Mary’s life at this point….
• She is still from a small insignificant town
• She is still poor, Her country is still occupied
• And she is about to have (as she begins to show) a very unique – hard to explain (get ready to be gossiped about) pregnancy.
BUT LISTEN – to Mary there was nothing greater…
THAN KNOWING - that her God and Savior, that her Lord is mindful and has taken notice of her.
BECAUSE – she can now fully (in faith), rest in His greatness and goodness, KNOWING – that the God of the impossible hs everything under control!
And btw MGCC we too can rest in
His greatness and goodness.
Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.
– Ephesians 3:20,21
The 3rd movement in Mary’s song magnifies…
C) God’s Mercy
He shows mercy from generation to generation to all who fear him… - Luke 1:50
QUESTION – what is mercy?
Not getting what we deserve.
UNDERSTAND
As Mary, considers the history of her people…
(a people who so often turned away from God and His ways)
AND – as she looks at her own history, she praises God for His mercy… SHE – ‘magnifies Him’ for not treating the nation or her, as they both deserve….
YOU SEE – ‘even though’ they had turned their back on Him again and again and again… God did not abandon His people, but instead showered them with mercy…
NOW - I love what Micah
(you know, the Savior is coming from Bethlehem prophet) says about God and His mercy…
There is no God like you.
You forgive those who are guilty of sin…
You do not stay angry forever but delight to show mercy.
– Micah 7:18
QUESTION – aren’t you glad that He does?
THAT – He delights in showing mercy.
AND UNDERSTAND – it was not just Mary and Israel who needed God’s mercy…
It was me. And it was you.
As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live… But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. - Ephesians 2:1,4,5
NEXT – Mary magnifies….
D) God’s Way
He has scattered the proud and haughty ones. He has brought down princes from their thrones and exalted the humble. He has filled the hungry with good things and sent the rich away with empty hands. – Luke 1:51-53
I love it…
Our God is sooo awesome and sooo unpredictable!
He does not do the things we would expect….
YEAH – I think the words Isaiah penned in 55:8,9 are a huge understatement…
“My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,” says the Lord.
“And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine.”
I MEAN – seriously who but God would do the things that He has done and use the people that he has used?
• Moses a murderer and a child of slaves
• Rahab a prostitute
• Gideon the least member of the smallest clan in the smallest tribe.
• A war orphan named Esther.
• David the youngest and least likely.
• Elizabeth and elderly woman
• Mary a young teenage girl
• Joseph a blue collar carpenter
• Lowly shepherds tending their flocks at night
For just as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so my ways are higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts. – Isaiah 55:8,9
UNDERSTAND MGCC
God is always on the side of:
The humble, the hurting and the hungry.
He cheers on the orphan and the widow.
He’s for the preborn, the elderly, the poor, the disabled, and the least of these...
YES - God often uses the most unlikely of people to help unfold His extraordinary purposes.
AND SO – if you are here today and you think that God could never use you because
NOW – in the final movement of her song Mary magnifies…
E) God’s Promises
He has helped His servant, the people of Israel, remembering to show them mercy as He promised to our ancestors, to Abraham and to his children forever. - Luke 1:54,55
UNDERSTAND…
AS MARY – sings the first song on God’s Christmas Playlist
SHE KNOWS - that the life that is growing inside of her, is the fulfillment of all of God’s promise to His people.
Promises God made to Abraham 2000 years earlier.
YEAH – they had waited a long time…
AND YES – the road got steep and rocky at times…
BUT GOD – did as He always does, He kept His promises!
All of God’s promises have been fulfilled in Christ with a resounding “Yes!” – 2 Corinthians 1:20
UNDERSTAND – the first song on God’s Christmas Playlist, is the good news that God’s promise has been fulfilled…
• The true king has come,
• His kingdom is at hand
And…
• Deliverance
• Freedom, forgiveness, mercy, grace, and…
• Redemption was literally growing inside of a 14 year old girl and would soon be born!
I rejoice in your promise, as if I have found a great treasure.
- Psalm 119:162
YES B/S – Christmas shouts the good news of great joy that God keeps His promises. Like the Promise He has made in...
• Acts 2:38... that if we ‘in faith’ repent and are baptized our sins will be forgiven and we will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit
• John 14:1-3... that are hearts should not be troubled, because He is even now preparing a place for us in the Father’s house and will soon come and get us to take us home.
• Romans 8:18... that are present sufferings are not worth comparing to the forever we will one day experience
• Romans 8:28... that He causes all things to work together for our good, if we love Him and are living according to His purposes
• Galatians 6:9... that if do not become weary in doing good that we will reap a harvest as long as we do not give up.
AMEN?
SO… Mary’s Song (the Magnificat) is about…
Our great and all powerful God who:
• delights in showing mercy
• champions the cause of the weak
• uses the ordinary and humble, those who have a faith in the God of the impossible
• keeps his promise
• is always watchful and mindful, taking notice of us!
God’s Care
God’s Might
God’s Mercy
God’s Way
God’s Promises
Merry, Merry Christmas to us.
