Good morning everyone and welcome back to another morning with the masters where we devote

ourselves to the Lord daily with you.

It's just me today folks sweet team baby Mike and neither they're sleep but we are picking

up with day three of our the Christmas story devotional in the Bible app.

There's a link to that in the description of the podcast if you guys want to follow along

with us as well as we're doing the ninth day of our Christmas giveaway which is an

exciting one so stay tuned at the end for that but as always I'm going to read the scripture

then I'm also going to read the Devo.

The scripture is Matthew chapter 1 verses 18 through 25 and honestly I hope you're okay

with this.

I just wanted to get real about something before I read the scripture.

I just looked at today's episode it's episode 356 of year two and I just want to thank

you guys for doing this with us.

It's definitely a journey to do it every single day and we know that you guys are doing

your best to keep up and I just want to encourage you to keep pushing through just like

Tori and I and baby Mike are doing our best as well so thanks for being on this journey

with us all trying to commit ourselves to the Lord daily together.

Okay here's a scripture.

This is how Jesus the Messiah was born.

His mother Mary was engaged to be married to Joseph but before the marriage took place

while she was still a virgin she became pregnant through the power of the Holy Spirit.

Joseph to whom she was engaged was a righteous man and did not want to disgrace her publicly

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