Here's Nancy Lee DeMoss.

You may be in a very obscure place and thinking my life can't really make any difference

here.

But the fact is when you surrender your life, then he takes those little fishes and loaves of bread

and that little boys lunch.

He breaks them, he distributes them, and he causes a life in his hands to bless a multitude.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Tuesday, December 23, 2014.

The Christmas story tells us a lot about surrender.

God the son surrendered to the perfect will of the father,

and a young woman surrendered to God's plan and gave birth under incredible circumstances.

We can learn a lot about faith and surrender this Christmas,

and Nancy will show us why. I am so glad that God has given us, in His Word, examples of women that can be positive role models for people like me. And in Mary of Nazareth, I find a great illustration of the kind of woman

that God uses to accomplish his purposes in this world. And for many years, my life has been

very challenged and blessed by the characteristics out of the life of this special woman.

We're looking at those characteristics, and we've seen that God

chose this woman for a task that was humanly impossible. She was a virgin, but God said,

you're going to have a child. And she understandably said to the angel, how can this be?

And the angel explained that it was the power of God that was going to come upon her and enable her to do the task for which God had raised her up.

And so we've realized that not only Mary, but we also have been chosen by God for a task of taking the life of Christ into our homes, our churches, our communities, and into this world.

It's a task that's impossible if the power of the Holy Spirit is not upon us.

We want to continue today looking at some further characteristics out of the life of this great

woman of God.

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